A FURNITURE CASTOR TO BE USED UPON THE FEET OF TABLES, SEATS, AND ALL DESCRIPTIONS OF FURNITURE OR OTHER THINGS
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Suter, of 65, Fenchurch Street, in the City of
London, for the Invention of "A FURNITURE CASTOR TO BE USED UPON THE
FEET OF TABLES, SEATS, AND ALL DESCRIPTIONS OF FURNITURE OR OTHER
THINGS."
Sealed the 8th September 1859, and dated the 31st May 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Suter at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 31st May
1859.
I, ALFRED SUTER, of 65, Fenchurch Street, in the City of London, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A FURNITURE CASTOR TO
BE USED UPON THE FEET OF TABLES, SEATS, AND ALL DESCRIPTIONS OF FURNITURE OR
OTHER THINGS," to be as follows:-
The moveable part of the castor is one or two wheels or half spheres
divided, if two wheels by a piece of metal or hard substance, through which
the axle of the wheels pass and act; a pin is placed in the centre of the disc
or upper part of the case in which the wheels are partly enclosed, this pin
slips into a hole made partly through the substance that divides the wheels a
short distance from the axle hole, but contrawise or verticle. This arrange-
ment of parts allows the wheels to act freely upon the floor, and the friction
being upon the point of the pin enables them to rotate round the pin in any
direction the piece of furniture may be pushed. The space required for this

page_text: motion to act being only one-fourth in excess of the diameter of the wheels,
enables it to be concealed in a case screwed or otherwise fastened to a socket
to fit on to the legs of furniture, or attached in any other mode suitable to the
article upon which it is to be used.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alfred Suter in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 26th
November 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
SUTER, of 65, Fenchurch Street, in the City of London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine; in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Alfred Suter, Her special licence that I, the said Alfred Suter, my
'executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Alfred
Suter, 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 "A FURNITURE CASTOR TO BE USED
UPON THE FEET OF TABLES, SEATS, AND ALL DESCRIPTIONS OF FURNITURE OR OTHER
THINGS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Alfred Suter, 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 Alfred Suter, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
The moveable part of the castor is composed of one or two wheels or half
spheres divided, if two wheels by a piece of metal or other hard substance
through which the axle to which the wheel or wheels are attached pass and
act. A pin is placed in the center of the disc or upper part of the case in

page_text: which the wheels are nearly enclosed, which pin slips into a hole made partly
through the piece that divides the wheels very near the axle hole, but contra-
wise or verticle. This arrangement of parts permits the wheels or wheels to
act freely upon the floor, and the only friction (except that on the floor) being
upon the point of the pin enables them to rotate round the pin freely in any
direction the piece of furniture or other article may be pushed; or the pin
may pass quite through the center piece, the friction then being upon the
upper part of the center piece instead of upon the point of the pin. The
space required for this motion to act in being only about one-fourth in excess
of the diameter of the wheels, enables them to be concealed in a case screwed
or otherwise fastened to a socket or plate to fit on or attached to the legs or
feet of furniture or other things, or in any other way that may be suitable to
the article upon which they are to be used.
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