IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF BEDSTEADS, BOTH IN METAL AND WOOD
Year: 1842

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL. COME, .I, BENJAMIN
Cooк, junior, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Brass Founder,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing. dáte at
Westminster, the Twenty-third day of May, in the fifth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and' grant unto me; the
said Benjamin Cook, Her especial license, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said Benjamin Cook, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, and such others as I, the said Benjamin Cook;, my executors,
administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times during the term of years therein mentioned,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF BEDSTEADS, BOTH IN METAL AND WOOD;" in which
said Letters Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Benjamin
Cook, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to
describe, and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed; and to cause the same to be inrolled in Her
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and
by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Benjamin Cook, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,

page_text: and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly de-
scribed and ascertained in and by the following description thereof, that
is to say :-
My Improvements in the Construction of Bedsteads, both in Metal and
Wood, consist in coating or casing the shafts or pillars, and other parts of the
framing of bedsteads, with paper, pasteboard, papier mache, or other similar
composition, or attaching to such framing figures or devices of a similar
material, and afterwards ornamenting the external surfaces of the same by
painting, japanning, gilding, silvering, varnishing, and otherwise decorating
them.
In carrying this my Invention into effect I tako tho metallic or wooden
shafts, rods, or frames, (which have previously been formed, fitted, and jointed
together to constitute a bodstead), and cover or decorate these, or such parts
as may be required, with the materials above stated, by any of the known or
-convenient modes of attachment.
As the modes of manufacturing papier mache and other similar composition
are well known, and also the means of forming such compositions into forms
or figures and ornamenting the same are commonly practiced, it it unneces-
sary for me to state more, than I claim the Invention of decorating bedsteads
with suitable ornaments, as above said, by means of such materials, which has
never before been done, to the best of my knowledge and belief, in this
.Kingdom.
In witness whereof, I, the said Benjamin Cook, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of November, One thousand eight