A TRAVELLING TRUNK, Box, OR CASE, WHICH MAY BE CONVERTED INTO A WRITING OR OTHER TABLE, WITH FOLDING FEET, AND A SEAT WITH FOLDING FEET, WHICH IS COMPRIZED IN THE SAME SPACE AS A COMMON TRUNK, AND IS PECULIARLY ADAPTED FOR CAMPS OR SHIPS
Year: 1785

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, PHILIP DAY,
of Cateaton Street, London, Trunk Maker, sends grecting.
WHEREAS the said Philip Day did, by his petition, humbly represent unto
His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that he had
invented and found out "A TRAVELLING TRUNK, Box, OR CASE, WHICH MAY BE
CONVERTED INTO A WRITING OR OTHER TABLE, WITH FOLDING FEET, AND A SEAT WITH
FOLDING FEET, WHICH IS COMPRIZED IN THE SAME SPACE AS A COMMON TRUNK, AND IS
PECULIARLY ADAPTED FOR CAMPS OR SHIPS," and as he was the sole Inventor, he
therefore most humbly prayed His said Majesty that he would be graciously
pleased to grant unto him, his executors, administrators, and assigns, His
Majesty's Royal Letters Patent, under His Great Seal of Great Britain, for
the sole making and vending the said travelling trunk, box, or case, and
exercising his said Invention within that part of Great Britain called England,
the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of
fourteen years, and His said Majesty, being willing to give encouragement to
all arts and inventions which might be for the public good, was graciously
pleased to condescend to his request, and, therefore, by His Royal Letters
Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Fourth day of April, in the twenty-
fifth year of His reign, of His especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere
motion, for Himself, His heirs and successors, did give and grant unto the
said Philip Day, his executors, administrators, and assigns, his especial licence,
full power, sole priviledge and authority, that he, the said Philip Day, his
executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by himself and
themselves, or by his and their deputy or deputies, servants, or agents, or such

page_text: others as he, the said Philip Day,, his, executors, administrators, or assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term of years therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend his said Invention within that
part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as
to him, the said Philip Day, his executors, administrators, and assigns, or any
of them, should, in his or their discretion, seem, meet; and that the said
Philip Day, his executors, administrators, and assigus, should and lawfully
might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage
from time to time coming, growing, accruing, and arising, by reason of the
said Invention, for and during the term of years therein mentioned, to have,
hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages
therein-before granted, or mentioned to be granted, unto him, the said Philip
Day, his executors, administrators, and assigns, for, 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
form of the Statute in such case, made and provided; in which said Letters
Patent is contained a provisoe that if the said Philip Day should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of his said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under his hand and
scal, and cause the same to be inrolled in. His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within one calendar month next after the date of the said Letters
Patent, then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatso-
ever thereby granted, should. utterly cease, determine, and become void, any
thing herein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise, notwith-
standing, as in and by the said Letters Patent, reference being thereunto had,
may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, he, the said
Philip Day, doth hereby describe and ascertain the nature of his said Invention,
and how the same is made and formed, as follows (that is to say):-
The trunk is made in the common form of trunks or travelling cases,
heretofore made, in the lid of which is contained a folding flap, fitted to the
same and fastened therein by a turnbuckle or latch, and which flap, when
taken and extended on the top of the said trunk, forms a table or writing
desk, and is fixed or fastened to the top of the said trunk by studs which go
into two iron squares or plates at the one end and by a hasp at the other end.
The top of the said trunk, table, or desk may be elevated or put upon a slope,
to make it convenient for writing, by a small piece of wood fixed and fastened

page_text: on the inside and middle thereof by screws, and turns up and down as occasion
requires. There are two feet to the said trunk, and which are fixed thereto
by screws and hinges, and fold together, and, when so folded together, form a
false bottom to the said trunk, but which, when out, elevate the trunk and
from part of the table or desk, and which feet are kept extended and firm by
a cross bar of wood, which goes into a groove in each foot. The said trunk
will contain four boxes or trunks, and which have also folding feet, made in
-like manner as the feet of the trunk or travelling case, and to be extended in
like manner,
and each of which, when extended, forms a stool or seat.
In witness whereof, the said Philip Day hath hereunto set his hand and
seal, the Thirtieth day of April, in the twenty-fifth year of the reign of
our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the Grace of God of Great
Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and so
forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and