A Combination Writing, Reading, Drawing, and Music Cabinet.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 18th June, 1890-Accepted. 29th Nov., 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Combination Writing, Reading, Drawing, and Music Cabinet.
GEORGE AGAR 3B Flowergate, Whitby, Yorkshire Cabinet Maker, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
It is an invention which combines in one pedestal the following articies of furniture
in wood namely writing desk Fig. 2, reading or drawing stand and music stand
Fig. 3 with accommodation for books and papers. The front of pedestal Fig. 1 opens
by a door with lock and hinges in the ordinary way. On each side a flap is hinged
to turn up as a side table supported by a slide drawn out from underneath. The top
of the cabinet when shut up Fig. 1 is level and in requiring it for use as a desk it is
drawn forward and as it comes forward it draws up out of a well behind (by means
of a catgut string on each side passing over a pulley) the case C containing paper,
pens and ink which when drawn sufficiently high is stopped by a wood spring and
the top is then adjusted to a gentle slope for writing Fig. 2.
If the cabinet be required for reading, drawing or music the top is drawn a little
more forward and is set up to the position for that purpose by a stay A binged to it
underneath.
The portable bookholder B is then taken from one of the drawers and fixed to the
top by means of two wood or iron pins and the cabinet is then in a position to be
used by a person as a reading, drawing or music stand Fig. 3 with the side flaps up
or down at pleasure for books that may be required.
Figuro 4 accompanying this explanation is a section of end in Figure 1 (first
sheet of drawings) showing the top drawn out and elevated by the stay A forming the
reading, drawing or music stand Fig. 3. The gentler slope at E represents the
writing desk, Figure 2. The pitch of top may be altered as needed, as the foot of
stay A works in a rack on the slide H which travels in a groove in the moulding M
across the end. The catgut string is shewn by a dotted line passing over the pulley F
one end being attached to slide H and the other end to a lead weight to keep it
stretched out and also to pull against the case bottom at L when it is to be drawn up.
There is enough length of slack of catgut to allow the top to be drawn forward from J
to K before it pulls at the case C in order to admit the case rising out of the well and
not coming into collision with the slides H. The case C is shewn drawn up and
stopped by wood catch at X which springs out when drawn up to its place and also
when in the well and shut up as in Figure 1.
In order to close the cabinet the catch X must be pressed in by the thumb and the
case will then drop freely. The slide H to which the front moulding is attached and
the top hinged at M' is pushed in and the top let down.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
The novelty and utility of the invention combining and acting in itself as
(1) Writing desk.