NEW-INVENTED BEDSTEAD, CALCULATED AND CONTRIVED FOR THE GENERAL EASE AND CONVENIENCE OF ALL HIS MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS WHO MAY BE INCLINED OR DESIROUS TO MAKE USE OF THE SAME
Year: 1772

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
GALE, of the Parish of Saint Mary-le-Strand, in the County of Middlesex,
Cabinet Maker and Upholder, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the First day of February, in the twelfth year. of His said Majesty's
reign, did give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Gale, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, His special licence, full power, sole priviledge
and authority, that I, the said Thomas Gale, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by mine or their
deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Thomas
Gale, my executors, administrators, and assigns, shall at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times hereafter during the term
of years therein expressed, make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of
His Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of
Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my "NEW-INVENTED BEDSTEAD,
CALCULATED AND CONTRIVED FOR THE GENERAL EASE AND CONVENIENCE OF ALL HIS
MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS WHO MAY BE INCLINED OR DESIROUS TO MAKE USE OF THE SAME;
in which said recited Letters Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the
said Thomas Gale, by writing under my hand and seal; to cause a particular
description of the nature of my said Invention to be inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within four calendar months after the date of the

page_text: said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto
had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Gale, do hereby declare that my said Invention is composed and per-
formed in the manner and according to the description thereof in the Plan,
Model, or Form hereunto annexed (that is to say) :-
A Description of the Bedstead.-No. 1 represents the front, the profile of do
is compleat when made. 2 is the tester supported by the bracket 3. 4 is
a rack joined to 3; at either end a roller. 5 is a small cog fixed with a large
wheel 6. On a spindle 7 is a brass grove which receives the roller of 4, and
moves between the cog 5 and the grove 7. 8 is the pennion of the works in
a small frame. 9 is the handle fitted to the center of 8, which commands the
whole machinery and moves the tester, rod, and curtain with care and safety
to any position from the perpendicular to the horizontal lines. 10 is. the
curtain. 11 is the bed, blankets, &c. 12, the inside end for the machinery.
In witness whereof, I, 'the said Thomas. Gale, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twentieth day of May, in the twelfth year of
.our Sovereign Lord George the Third, and in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and seventy-two.
Signed and sealed ((being first 'duly
stampt) in the presence of
A
THOMAS GALE. (L.S.) 2
EDWP PITT.
BENJ
PEARCE.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that the Twentieth day of May, in the year 2
above written, the said Thomas Gale came before the said Lord the King in
His Chancery, and acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every
thing therein contained and specified, in form above written. And also the
said Instrument aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the Statute
made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen William and 3
Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the said Twentieth day of May in the year last above written.