A METHOD OF APPLYING AND ARRANGING CERTAIN ARTICLES, PARTS, OR PIECES OF CABINET WORK, UPHOLDSTERY, AND OTHER ARTICLES COMMONLY OR FREQUENTLY APPLIED TO BEDSTEADS AND HANGINGS, AND ALSO OTHERS NOT HITHERTO SO APPLIED
Year: 1831

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SARAH
GUPPY, of Farway House, Clifton, near Bristol, Widow, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-seventh day of October, in the second year of His
reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Sarah Guppy, His especial licence, that I, the said Sarah Guppy, my
exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Sarah Guppy, my
exors, admors, 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, my Invention of "A METHOD OF
APPLYING AND ARRANGING CERTAIN ARTICLES, PARTS, OR PIECES OF CABINET
WORK, UPHOLDSTERY, AND OTHER ARTICLES COMMONLY OR FREQUENTLY APPLIED
TO BEDSTEADS AND HANGINGS, AND ALSO OTHERS NOT HITHERTO SO APPLIED;" in
which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Sarah
Guppy, 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 enrolled in His
said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and
by the same, rejerenee being thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, 1, the said
Sarah Guppy, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention to consist,
first, in the arrangement of turned and other pieces or parts of pillars, capitals,
and pediments, and framework hollowed for the purpose, upon metal posts of
bedsteads, as also in the application of a drawing tester vallance to the upper
part of the bed hanging; and, secondly, in the arrangement and applica-
tion of drawers or cases to the lower part of the bedstead, in such manner as
to form, when drawn out or partly drawn out, steps to ascend to or descend
from the bed, thereby preventing dust and flew from collecting under the bed;
and, thirdly, in the applying or arranging of a set of springs and rollers, to be
used for exercise when in bed.
And in further compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Sarah Guppy,
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 to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to say:―
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 represents the manner in which my pieces are arranged on the
metal bed post to resemble a wooden one, as also the mode of putting the side
and end frames to their places. Figure 2 is a section of a bed post, with all
the different pieces to their places thereon. Figure 3 is a side view in per-
spective of a bedstead and hangings fitted up and arranged on my patent
principle. A, B, is a platform, on which the posts and frames of the bedstead
rest; C, D, are two drawers furnished with sliding cover tops, one of which is
shewn partly open at E. These drawers when drawn out as here shewn, form
steps for ascent to and descent from the bed, the sliding top E being closed to
complete the lower step. F, G, are two similar drawers, shewn in their
closed position, and it is only necessary here to state that there is a back to
these drawers at the other side of the bed or (where there are drawers on
both sides,) in the centre between them, against which the sliding covers to
the drawers act, so that as the drawers are shut the covers necessarily close,
and thus, whenever the drawer is pulled out, the covers are sure to be over,
and the steps complete. H, H, H, H, H, represent the drawing tester
vallance at the upper part of the bed, for the purposes of ventilation. I is a
board or rod placed across the top frame of the bedstead, furnished with two
´pullies or rollers r, r, over which I pass the string, cord, or ribbon J, J, fur-
nished with the two handles K, K, and these 1 purpose should be worked by
the two hands of the person in bed pulling each alternately up and down for
exercise. Figures 4 and 5 are separate views of these parts.

page_text: Now whereas, I claim as my Invention the platform and drawers for bed-
steps, forming as it were the foundation of the bedstead; the mode of ar-
ranging the pieces to form the wooden posts; the drawing tester vallance to
restrict or increase ventilation; and the cords, rollers, and handles for taking
exercise in bed; and such my Invention 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, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, I do hereby
declare this to be my Specification of the same, and that I do verily believe
that 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 Patent contained; wherefore I do hereby claim to maintain exclusive
right and privilege to my said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Sarah Guppy, have hereunto set my
hand seal, this Twenty-fourth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named Sarah Guppy, in the
presence of
SARAH (L.S.) GUPPY.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named Sarah Guppy, in the
presence of
Jo' BLOWER,
SARAH (L.S.) GUPPY.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-fourth day of December,
in the year of our Lord 1831, the aforesaid Sarah Guppy came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.