CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF DINING AND OTHER TABLES
Year: 1810

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
STEWART, of the Parish of Saint Martin-in-the-Fields, in the County of Middle-
sex, Cabinet Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third
did, by His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-
second day of May, in the fiftieth year of His reign, give and grant unto me,
the said Charles Stewart, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His
especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said
Charles Stewart, my executors, administrators, and assigns, during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF DINING
AND OTHER TABLES," within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said Charles Stewart, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should in my discretion seem meet; in which said
Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that if I, the said Charles Stewart
should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent,
and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly

page_text: cease, determine, and become void, as in and by the said recited Letters Patent,
relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Charles Stewart, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, is particularly described and
ascertained in the Drawing hereunto annexed, and the following description
thereof, and references thereto (that is to say) :-
Fig. 1 represents the top view of the frame of a table in its most extended
state. a, the outer frame; b, a frame sliding in (a), to which A is attached by
the centre (o) to the rail (), fixed in the frame (b), which frame rests on
another frame (d), likewise sliding in (a), and supported by two legs at (f.).
In the rail (k) there is a circular groove at (1), in which the quadrant fastened
on A moves; c, a frame, similar to (6), resting on the sliding frame (e), which is
also supported by the other two legs at (9, 9); h, a moving rail, to be screwed
or fastened to B, and attached by a centro to the rail (i), which is fixed in the
frame (c). In order to counterpoise the effect of the lever or slide at the
extremities of the frames (b) and (c), tongues are fixed at the other ends, which
slide in grooves in the inner sides of the other frames, or vice versa. Fig. 2 is
n front view of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is the frame in its most compact state. The
frames b, c, d, e, are slidden into the frame (a), and the rail () covers the
moving rail (h), except that part which is screwed or fastened to the top Bat
Pi the centre (o) comes exactly over the axis of the moving rail (h). Fig. 4
is the under side of the folding top, jointed or hinged at (n, n), the leaf B
folding upon the leaf A, which is divided parallel to (n, n), and kept together
by two forks or otherwise at (m, m), this being attached to the rail (k) by the
centre (o), and (p) being screwed or fixed to the moving rail (h), it is evident
that the whole top in its folded state will revolve on the centre (o) one quarter
of a circle, which, when in the position of the dotted line, Fig. 4, will cover
the whole of the framework, Fig. 3. The moving rail (h) at that time
will be in the position of Fig. 3; but when the top is brought into the
situation of Fig. 4 unfolded, and the forks (m, m,) withdrawn, the table may
be extended to any intermediate length between that and Fig. 1. The inter-
stice between A and B may be filled up by detached leaves, which may be
kept together by forks or otherwise.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Stewart, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and teu.
CHARLES (L.S.) STEWART.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-first day of July, in the
fiftieth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, the said
Charles Stewart came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and
acknowledged the instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein con-
tained and specified, in form above written. And also the instrument afore-
said was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made in the forty-eighth
year of His said Majesty's reign.
Twenty first day of July. One thousand eight hundred and ten.