Improvements in Toilet or other Tables.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION,
Improvements in Toilet or other Tables.
WILLIAM STEWART and JOHN WILSON POLLOCK, Langlands Road Govan, N.B.
Cabinet-makers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object the adaptation to a toilet or other table of Reflex
Mirrors fitted to, and in combination with movable jewel boxes, so as to enable
a person seated in front of a toilet table to see reflected a back or side view of
the head, or other part of the body. The invention consists of two flat jewel
boxes (which may be oval, oblong, or any other shape) one at each end of the
table, and fixed on the top of, or under the top of the table, and pivoted at the end
of, or under the jewel box to the table. The mirrors, which form the lids of the
boxes, are connected to them by means of double-jointed or compound hinges,
which enable them to be raised in the ordinary way, or to move obliquely to either
side. The boxes swing on the pivots out from the table, and the lids or mirrors
being raised, and moved in any position required, give the reflection that is
wanted. When not in use the lids or mirrors are shut down, and the boxes are
swung round into their position on the table, and the mirrors are thus invisible,
and do not in the least obscure the light.
The essential features of the invention are the movable jewel boxes, combined
with the reflex mirrors, and the mirrors being invisible when not in use; the whole
giving novelty, and great facility and variety of movement, with the best results.
Dated this Seventeenth day of December 1896.
WM. STEWART,
J. WILSON POLLOCK.
Improvements in Toilet or other Tables.
WILLIAM STEWART and JOHN WILSON POLLOCK, Langlands Road Govan, N.B.
Cabinet-makers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:-
This invention has for its object the adaptation to a toilet or other table, of reflex
mirrors fitted to and in combination with, movable jewel-boxes, so as to enable
a person seated in front of a toilet-table to see reflected a back or side view of the
head, or other part of the body.
As illustrated by the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 being the perspective
view of a toilet-table, shewing the jewel-boxes swung out from the table and in

page_text: position for use as reflex mirrors, and Figure 2 a like view, with the jewel-boxes
closed, and swung back on top of table.
The invention consists of two flat jewel-boxes A, A, (which may be oyal, oblong,
or any other shape) one at each end of the table, and pivoted at the end of, or
under, the jewel-box to the table.
The mirrors B, B, which for the lids of the boxes, are connected to them by
means of double-jointed or compound hinges, C, C, which enable them to be raised
in the ordinary way, or to move obliquely to either side.
The boxes swing on the pivots D, I, out from the table, and the lids or mirrors
being raised and moved in any position required, give the reflection that is
"wanted.
When not in use, the lids or mirrors are shut down, and the boxes are swung
round into their position on the table, and the mirrors are thus invisible, and do
not in the least obscure the light.
The essential features of the invention are the movable jewel-boxes, combined
with the reflex mirrors, and the mirrors being invisible when not in use, the whole
giving novelty, and great facility and variety of movement,-with the best results.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said in-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:-
The combination with movable jewel-boxes of adjustable mirrors, adapted for
toilet and similar Tables substantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this Fifteenth day of September 1897.
WM. STEWART.
J. WILSON POLLOCK.