AN IMPROVED METHOD OF RAISING AND FIXING AT ANY HEIGHT DESIRED MUSIC STOOLS, CHAIRS, OR SEATS
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENI to Henri Charles Rene Joubert, Upholsterer, of 18
Maddox Street, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "AN
IMPROVED METHOD OF RAISING AND FIXING AT ANY HEIGHT DESIRED MUSIC
STOOLS, CHAIRS, OR SEATS."
Sealed the 21st April 1863, in pursuance of an Order of the Lord Chancellor,
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henri Charles Rene
Joubert at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 27th October 1862.
.
I, HENRI CHARLES RENE JOUBERT, Upholsterer, of 18 Maddox Street,
in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF RAISING AND FIXING AT ANY HEIGHT DESIRED MUSIC
STOOLS, CHAIRS OR SEATS," to be, as follows:--
I make; thé, music stools,, chairs, or seats in two parts in the manner of the
ordinary music stools; underneath the upper part or seat, marked A in the
Drawing, I fix saw tooth racks which racks pass through sockets fixed to the
lower; frame: marked: B; in the interior of the lower frame I fix a parallel
.with a spring marked C, which forms a catch to each rack, one of the sides of
which. parallel passes through the side of the frame, at the end of which
is a 'knob, which knob being pressed closes the parallel, and releases the
rocka

page_text: SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
and of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, by the said Henri Charles
Rene Joubert in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 11th May 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRI
CHARLES RENE JOUBERT, Upholsterer of 18, Maddox Street, in the, County of
Middlesex, send greeting.
1
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-six year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
I, the said Henri Charles Rene Joubert, Her special licence that I, the said
Henri Charles Rene Joubert, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Henri Charles Rene Joubert, 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 "AN IMPROVED METHOD FOR RAISING AND FIXING AT ANY HEIGHT REQUIRED
MUSIC STOOLS, CHAIRS, OR OTHER SEATS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Henri Charles Rene Joubert, my executors
or adminis-
trators, 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 Henri Charles Rene Joubert, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
I make the music stools, chairs, or other seats in like manner to the
ordinary music stools, viz., in two parts; to the upper part or frame marked A
.I fix verticle saw tooth racks, which racks pass through the lower part of the
stool, chair, or seat marked B; to the bottom board inside the frame of the
lower I fix a parallel marked C, the sides of which catch in the teeth of
the racks, with a spring marked D to keep the parallel open, so as to press

page_text: against the racks; the end of one of the sides of the parallel passes through
the side of the frame, at the end of which is a knob marked E, so that by
pressing the knob it closes the parallel, thereby releasing the racks; the
spring marked F in the upper part is to raise the seat so as to release the first
notch, it being square.
H. C. R. JOUBERT. (L.S.)