AN IMPROVED FRAMEWORK FOR BEDSTEADS AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1825

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
JONES TOMLINSON, of the City of Bristol, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Twenty-sixth day of November, in the sixth year of His
reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Richard Jones Tomlinson, His especial licence that I, the said Richard
Jones Tomlinson, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Richard Jones Tomlinson, my exors, adñiors, or assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term
of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and
also in all His said Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, my Invention
of "AN IMPROVED FRAMEWORK FOR BEDSTEADS AND OTHER PURPOSES;" in which
said Letters Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Richard Jones
Tomlinson, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to
describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in His said
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by
the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear..
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Richard Jones Tomlinson, do hereby declare the nature of iny said Invention

page_text: to consist in a metal framework for bedsteads, sofas, and other the like purposes,
so constructed of arches and abutments that the sacking or other supports for
the weight intended to be put upon it has no effect in drawing the sides or
ends of the framework together so as to force it out of shape; and in further
compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Richard Jones Tomlinson, do
hereby describe the manner in which my said Invention is to be performed
by the following description thereof, reference being had to the Drawing
annexed and the Figures marked thereon (that is to say) :-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
A is an
purpose of
S, S, arc
Fig. 1 is a plan of my said framework as applied to a bedstead, shewing the
manner in which the said arches and their abutments are contrived.
arched or curved bar of iron thickened at each end r, r, for the
receiving the screws that draw the head and side frames together.
the heads of the said screws. B, B, B, is what I call the tension bar, and
forms the abutments for the arched bar A. It will be seen that the ends of
the tension bar B are rivetted into the arched bar A at X, X, and it follows
therefore that before the arched bar could be made to collapse or be forced
inwards the tension bar must brake, which it would not do with any weight
that the sacking could support. Now it is evident that in order to give effect
to this arrangement it is the arched bar that must be acted upon by the
sacking, but for the convenience of lacing the sacking it will be seen that I
fasten it to the tension bar, and then transfer the pull to the arched bar by
means of the brackets or cross bars marked C.
Fig. 2 is a plan of my Invention, where instead of sacking a metal frame-
work made of iron hooping is substituted for sacking, such constituting also a
part of my said improved framework. Those parts which are similar to
Fig. 1 are lettered in a similar way, and the additional letters have reference to
the parts not before explained. The parts marked D are thin iron hoops
fastened at their centres to the long hoof E. The cross hoops D are turned at
their ends, as shown in Fig. 3, the short or end ones being less turned, as
shewn at Fig. 4. Theso cross hoops rest on, and their turned ends catch
round, the side tension bars, while the long hoop E is fixed to the end arched
bars by means of the screws G, G. Fig. 6 is an end elevation, and Fig. 7 a
side elevation of Fig. 2.
Fig. 8 is a section of my said Invention as applied to a bedstead, shewing
the manner of fastening the cross hoops to the long hoop, and shewing also
the brackets from tho arched bar to the tension bar.
Now whereas my said framework when applied to bedsteads is capable of being

page_text: fitted with posts and other ordinary appendages, but which form no part of my said
Invention, and the same remark applies to its application to sofas and other the
like purposes. But such a framework as is herein-before described for the pur-
poses aforesaid being, to the best of my knowledge and belief, entirely new, and
never before used within that part of His said Majesty's United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland called England, His said Dominion of Wales, or Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, nor in any of His said Majesty's Colonies or Plantations
abroad, I do hereby declare this to be my Specification of the same, and that
I do verily believe this my said Specification doth comply in all respects, fully
and without reserve or disguise, with the proviso in the said herein-before in
part recited Letters contained; wherefore I hereby claim to maintain
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exclusive right and privilege to my said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Jones Tomlinson, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of December, in the your
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty-five.