AN IMPROVED TABLE STAND FOR THE SUPPORT OF GLASSES AND OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Pierre Ernest Chevalier, of 29, Boulevart St. Martin,
Paris, in the Empire of France, Manufacturer, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVED TABLE STAND FOR THE SUPPORT OF GLASSES AND OTHER
ARTICLES."
Sealed the 13th November 1860, and dated the 23rd May 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Pierre Ernest Chevalier at
the Office of the. Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
23rd May 1860.
I, PIERRE ERNEST CHEVALIER, of 29, Boulevart St. Martin, Paris, in the
Empire, of France, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVED TABLE STAND FOR THE SUPPORT OF GLASSES AND OTHER
ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists of an improved frame or stand to be placed on dining
or other tables for containing within a small space the different articles used
by each person at table, such as the salt cellar, pepper castor, and mustard
pot, glasses, & other articles. This improved stand unites in facilitating the use
of the said articles and in ornamenting the table, it is also modified so as to
contain receptacles for knives, tooth picks, cigars and matches, wine glasses
and other similar table requisites.
My Invention consists therefore in placing the cruets and other articles
above the level of the table either in one or several horizontal planes. I make
these stands either of wood, glass, cardboard, or of any metal or alloy, in fact of
all solid materials which will serve for the purpose.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Pierre Ernest Chevalier, in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 21st November 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PIERRE
ERNEST CHEVALIER, of 29, Boulevart St. Martin, Paris, in the Empire
of France, Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of Her reign,
did for Herself, Her beirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Pierre Ernest Chevalier, Her special licence that I, the said Pierre Ernest
Chevalier, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Pierre Ernest Chevalier, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at anytime agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 TABLE
STAND FOR THE SUPPORT OF GLASSES AND OTHER ARTICLES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Pierre Ernest Chevalier, my executors or
administrators, 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 Pierre Ernest Chevalier, 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, reference being had to the annexed Drawing, that is to say:-
My Invention consists of what I call a table stand to be placed beside each
person on a dining table for the support within a small space of the different
glasses and also of other articles, such as salt cellar, pepper caster, mustard
pot, and others. This table stand at the same time it proves an ornament
for the table, facilitates the use of the said objects, and it may be modified
so as to have receptacles for knives, tooth picks, cigars, matches, and other
similar table requisites.
In the annexed Drawing I have represented a table stand of my Invention,
where Fig. 1 shows the plan, and Fig. 2 the elevation, similar letters of reference

page_text: indicate the like parts in the two Figures. a, plates bound together by means
of ornaments of various diversified forms; b, glasses of various sizes resting on
plates a for the use of each person; c, three vessels to be disposed longi-
tudinally, and serving as salt cellar, pepper caster, and mustard pot; d, tooth
pick holder consisting of one of the ornamental designs; e, knife rest or holder
arranged at the base of the stand, but which may be more suitably placed;
f, cigar holder at the back part of the stand and beside the match holder g.
The glasses instead of being raised on several stories as shown, may be disposed
on the same plane with a gallery all round.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, I desire it to be
distinctly understood that I do not confine myself to the precise details nor
to the strict form of the apparatus herein described, as such may be varied
or modified without departing from the principle thereof; but I claim as
new and of my Invention, the table stand above described, by which the various
glasses are held above the level of the table, (or may stand on the same plane
with a gallery round) whatever may be the form of the said apparatus or stand
whether it be made of wood, pasteboard, or any other suitable substance or
metal.
In witness whereof, I, the said Pierre Ernest Chevalier, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of November, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
P. E. CHEVALIER. (L.S.)