IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO READING, LOUNGING, AND OTHER CHAIRS
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Ellisdon, of Liverpool, in the County of Lan-
caster, Designer and Cabinet Maker, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
Sealed the 5th January 1855, and dated the 7th July 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Ellisdon at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 7th
July 1854.
I, JOSEPII ELLISDON, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Designer and
Cabinet Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO READING, LOUNGING, AND OTHER CHAIRS," to be
as follows (that is to say):-
To construct a chair according to this Invention, the seat and back and arms,
when arms are required, are formed together, and are mounted upon the lower
portion, the legs and framing, in such a way that the upper portion of the
chair can rotate horizontally upon a pivot or friction rollers, whilst the lower
portion is stationary. When a reading desk is added, it is stationary, and
fixed to the lower framing of the chair.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Ellisdon in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 6th
January 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
ELLISDON, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Designer and Cabinet
Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Joseph Ellisdon, Her special licence that I, the said Joseph Ellisdon, 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, and the Channel Islands, and the
Isle of Man, and Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO READING, LOUNGING,
AND OTHER CHAIRS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Joseph
Ellisdon, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particu-
larly 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 calender months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters. Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Ellisdon, do hereby declare the
nature of my 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 (that is to say):-
In constructing a chair according to my Invention, I form the seat and back
and arms, when arms are required, together, so as to form one piece, which I
mount upon the lower portion of the chair, which consist of a stout frame,
supported by and attached to legs of a suitable hight. The upper and lower
portions of the chair I connect together in such a way that the upper portion
is free to rotate horizontally upon a pivot or friction rollers, or a pivot and
friction rollers, which are supported and work upon the top of the frame of
the legs.
Figure 1 in the annexed Drawings is a perspective view of a reading
chair constructed according to my Invention; the parts marked A. A, A,
represents the upper portion of the chair, which is formed in one piece,

page_text: and consisting of the seat and back, which are mounted upon (B, B, B,)
the lower portion, which consist of a stout framing, mounted upon suitable
legs.
Figure 2 is a perspective view of the lower portion (B, B, B,) of the chair,
having a reading desk or desks attached to the frame, upon which the upper
portion (A, A, A,) rotates.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same inay be performed, what I claim is, the construction of chairs as
herein-before described.
In witness thereof, I, the said Joseph Ellisdon, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifth day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand cight hundred and fifty-five.
Witness,
WILLIAM WALKER.
JOSEPH (L.s.) ELLISDON.