NEW-INVENTED ART OF MAKING BEDSTEADS BY PUTTING THEM TOGETHER WITHOUT SCREWS AND NUTTS, AND EFFECTUALLY PREVENTING VERMIN FROM HARBOURING IN THEM
Year: 1785

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, THOMAS
WALDRON, of Catherine Street, in the Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields,
in the Liberty of Westminster, Upholder, sends greeting.
WHEREAS the King's most Excellent Majesty, by His Letters Patent
under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Fourth day of
June, One thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, gave and granted unto
the said Thomas Waldron, his exors, adiñors, and assigns, His especial
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that he, the said Thomas
Waldron, his exors, admors, and assigns, by himself or themselves, or by
his or their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such other person
or persons as he, the said Thomas Waldron, should at any time and no other,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term of years therein
and herein-after expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend his "NEW-INVENTED ART OF MAKING BEDSTEADS BY PUTTING THEM
TOGETHER WITHOUT SCREWS AND NUTTS, AND EFFECTUALLY PREVENTING VERMIN
FROM HARBOURING IN THEM," within that part of Great Britain called England,
the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner
as to him, the said Thomas Waldron, his exors, admors, and assigns, or any
of them, should in their discretion seem meet, and that he, the said Thomas
Waldron, his exors, admors, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and
enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time to time
coming, accruing, and arising by reason of the said new Invention, for and
during the term of years therein and herein-after mentioned; to have and to

page_text: hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence powers, privileges, and advantages
berein-before mentioned to be granted unto the said Thomas Waldron, his
exors, adññiors, and assigns, of the sole use, exercise, and vending of his said
Art of making Bedsteads by putting them together without Screws and Nutts,
and effectually preventing Vermin from Harbouring in them, for and during
and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of the said
Letters Patent next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and
ended, according to the Statute in that case made and provided; His Majesty
in such Letters Patent thereby strictly commanding all and every person or
persons, bodies politick and coporate, and all other His Majesty's subjects
whomsoever, of what estate, quality, degree, name, or condition soever, they
being within that part of His Majesty's said Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, that
neither they, or any of them, at any time during the continuance of the said
term of fourteen years thereby granted, either directly or indirectly, do make,
use, or put in practice the said Invention, or any part of the same, so attained
unto the said Thomas Waldron, his exors, adñiors, and assigns, as aforesaid,
or in anywise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same, or make or cause
to be made any addition thereunto or subtraction from the same, whereby to
pretend himself or themselves the inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors
thereof, without the licence, consent, or agreement of the said Thomas Wal-
dron, his exors, adiñors, and assigns, in writing under his or their hands or
seals first had and obtained in that behalf, upon such pains or penalties as
can or
may be justly inflicted on such offender and offenders for their contempt
of His Majesty's said Royal command, and further to be answerable to the
said Thomas Waldron, his exors, adiñors, and assigns, according to law, for
his or their damages occasioned thereby; in which said Letters Patent is
contained a proviso that if the said Thomas Waldron, his exors, adiñors, and
assigns, or any other person or persons which shall or may at any time
hereafter, during the continuance of the said grant, have or claim any right,
title, or interest at law or in equity, of, in, or to the power, privilege, and
authority of the sole use and benefit of the said Invention, should make any
transfer or assignment, or any pretended transfer or assignment, of the said
liberty or privilege, or any share or shares of the benefits or profits thereof, to
or for any number of persons exceeding the number of five; and also that
if the said Thomas Waldron should not particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of his said Art of making Bedsteads by putting them together without
Screws and Nuts, and effectually preventing Vermin from Harbouring in them,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in

page_text: writing under his hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His.
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and
immediately after the date of the said Royal Letters Patent, that then
the said Letters Patent, & all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby
granted, should cease, determine, and become void, anything therein contained
to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Waldron, in pursuance of
and in compliance with the said proviso in the said recited Royal Letters
Patent contained, do, by this present Instrument, declare that the nature of.
my said Invention is described in the Plans and Drawings hereunto annexed,
aud is as follows (that is to say) :-
· Figure 1 represents a bedstead with four posts, folding lath bottom, head
board, teaster lath and curtain rod.'
Figure 2 represents a piece of brass or iron work that is fixed to each
inner side of the posts.
Figure 3 represents another piece of brass or iron work that is fixed to.
each end of the rails, which by sliding down the inner sides of the posts rest"
upon the projecting part of Figure 2. Thus the posts and rails of Figure 1,
or any other bedstead, may be confined to each other, and which is more fully
explained by Figure 4, which is a plan of their conjunction.
Figure 5 represents a folding teaster lath, with two brass or iron mortices
at the foot and brass or iron sockets along the edges of sides and foot.
Figure 6 represents a brass or iron curtain rod with two oblong tenon's (the
ends of which move round on a center), fitted to the mortices in the teaster
lath, which when through rise above, and being turned to cross the mortice on
the top, confine the lath and rod together.
Figure 7 represents a piece of wood cut and lined with brass or iron upon
the edge that is fixed to the inside of each head post to receive and confine the
bottom edge of the head board, the top edge being confined by bolts at each
end to shoot into the same side of the posts. The edges of the lath bottom,
the rebates that support it, and each end of the head board, is lined with
brass.
Figure 8 represents a brass or iron pin with a plate on the top to fix to
fascias, which by going down the sockets in the teaster lath support them.
Figure 9 represents a press in which is a bed-frame made upon the same
principle as Figure 1.
Figure 10 and 11 represents pieces of brass work that being fixed to the
edges of the end which is in two parts (as described by the line across) by
sliding on connects them together. The top of the press is confined by sliding

page_text: on the upper edges of the ends by means of brass work, the same as Figure 10.
and 11.
Figure 12 represents a brass or iron tenon (the end turns on a center),
several of which are fixed on the back edges of the ends of the press, which,
by passing through brass or iron mortices in the back of the press, and being
turned to cross the mortices on the outside, confines the back and ends
together.
Bedsteads constructed upon the above-mentioned principles are put up and;
taken down with the greatest ease and speed, the usual receptacles for bugs in
bedsteads on the common principle are avoided, and every connecting part 1
being lined with brass or iron effectually prevents their harbouring therein.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Waldron, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of June, in the year of our:
Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty-five.