AN IMPROVED COMBINED CHAIR AND TABLE. FOR CHILDREN
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to David Dubbin, of Lewisham, in the County of
Kent, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED COMBINED CHAIR AND TABLE.
FOR CHILDREN:"
Sealed the 7th May 1875, and dated the 10th November 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said David Dubbin at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
10th November 1874.
I, DAVID DUBBIN, of Lewisham, in the County of Kent, do hereby
5 declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED COMBINED
CHAIR AND TABLE FOR CHILDREN," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in constructing an improved combined chair
and table for children by means of which the child can amuse itself and
which will be found much more convenient than combined chairs and
tables as at present made.
The following is an example of my said Invention:-On a platform
resting on casters or wheels. I crect two standards, across which is placed

page_text: an adjustable bar or bracket which may be lowered or heightened when
required. On the said bar or bracket is placed and held a cross piece
which may oscillate thereon, having at one end a chair and at the other
a spring connected to the platform aforesaid in order to keep it in a
horizontal position.
In front of the aforesaid chair and on the platform is placed a box
which serves to keep the toys together, and also as a rest for the feet of
the child when sitting in the chair. Through the top of this box passes
a standard on which is fixed a small table in such a way that it can be
turned on one side when required. The said standard may be carried
above the table in order that toys, such as a windmill for example,
shall be attached thereto. When required the seat instead of being
suspended by the spring can be made a fixture in any suitable way.
By means of the above arrangement of spring chair and box a child
may rock itself up
and down whilst sitting, and the whole can be easily
wheeled about and be perfectly noiseless if on india-rubber casters.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said David Dubbin in the Great Scal Patent Office on
the 10th May 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DAVID
DUBBIN, of Lewisham, in the County of Kent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said David Dubbin, Her special
licence that I, the said David Dubbin, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said David Dubbin, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED
COMBINED CHAIR AND TABLE FOR CHILDREN," upon the condition (amongst

page_text: others) that 1, the said David Dubbin, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in-writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
others) that 1, the said David Dubbin, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said David Dubbin, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be. particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, that is to say :-
This Invention consists in constructing an improved combined chair
and table for children by means of which the child can amuse itself and
which will be found much more convenient than combined chairs and
tables as at present made.
The following is an example of my said Invention:-On a platform
resting on casters or wheels I erect two standards, across which is placed
an adjustable bar, or bracket which may be lowered or heightened when
required. On the said bar or bracket is placed and held a cross piece
which may oscillate thereon having at one end a chair and at the other
a spring connected to the platform aforesaid in order to keep it in a
horizontal position.
In front of the aforesaid chair and on the platform is placed a box
which serves to keep the toys together, and also as a rest for the feet of
the child when sitting in the chair. Through the top of this box passes
a standard on which is fixed a small table in such a way that it can be
turned on one side when required. The said standard may be carried
above the table in order that toys, such as a windmill for example, shall
be attached thereto. When required, the seat instead of being-suspended
by the spring can be made a fixture in any suitable way.
By means of the above arrangement of spring chair and box, a child
'may rock itself up and down whilst sitting, and the whole can be easily
wheeled about and be perfectly noiseless if on india-rubber casters.
And in order to explain my said Invention more fully, I now proceed
to describe the means by which it may be carried into practical effect,
reference being had to the illustrative Sheet of Drawing accompanying

page_text: these Presents, and to the numeral figures and letters of reference
marked thereon respectively as follows:-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is an elevation, and Figure 2 a top view of a combined chair
and table for children constructed according to my said Invention. In
each of the said Figures similar letters of reference are used to denote
corresponding parts.
A is a platform resting on casters B; 0, 0¹; are two standards
erected on the platform A, and united by a bar or bracket D; on which
is placed the cross piece E which may oscillate thereon; it has at one
end a chair F and at the other a spring G connected with the platform A.
The tension of this spring may be adjusted by placing it in different
parts of the groove H. In front of the chair F is a table K fixed to a
pole or standard L held upright by passing one end of it through a
box M intended to receive toys. A windmill N or other suitable toy
may be placed at the end Ŏ of the pole so as to amuse the child.
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Having now described and set forth the nature and object of this
Invention for "An Improved Combined Chair and Table for Children,"
I would remark in conclusion that I hereby declare my Invention to
consist in, and I claim the construction of an improved combined chair
and table for children, substantially as described and represented.
In witness whereof, I, the said David Dubbin, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eighth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
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