AN IMPROVED STAND OR REST FOR PIANOFORTES OR OTHER MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS." REST FOR PIANOFORTES OR OTHER MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jabez Church, of Upper Kennington Lane, Vauxhall,
in the County of Surry, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED STAND OR
REST FOR PIANOFORTES OR OTHER MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS."
REST FOR PIANOFORTES OR OTHER MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS."
Sealed the 13th December 1861, and dated the 22nd June 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jabez Church at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 22nd
June 1861.
I, JABEZ CHURCH, of Upper Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, in the County of
Surry, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
STAND OR REST FOR PIANOFORTES OR OTHER MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS," to be as
follows:-
My improvement consists in enclosing in a box of wood or any other suitable
material a spiral spring, or any other form of spring made of tempered steel,
or any other suitable metal, upon which spring a cover rests, so that the
castors or feet of a pianoforte or other musical instruments may stand. This
apparatus may also be made applicable as a stand or rest for organs or other
musical instruments.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Jabez Church in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
21st December 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JABEZ
CHURCH, of Upper Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, in the County of Surry, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Jabez Church, Her special licence that I, the said Jabez Church,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Jabez
Church, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter 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 STAND OR
REST FOR PIANOFORTES OR OTHER MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Jabez Church, 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 Jabez Church, do hereby declare the
nature of the 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:-
This improvement has for its object to increase the sounds of piano and
other musical instruments, such as harps, double bass, and others requiring to
rest on the floor or other stand, and consists in a stand made of wood, or any
other suitable material, into which stand I place a spiral or any other form of
spring made of steel, suitably tempered, or any other convenient metal, and
upon this spring I place a cover made of brass, or any other suitable metal or
material suitably formed for the castor or leg of the piano or other instrument
to rest on, and which, for convenience, I fix firmly by means of a screw and
nut, or any other convenient means. These rests can then be placed one under
each leg or castor of the piano, harp, or other musical instruments, as above

page_text: mentioned. I must observe that the spring must be made of the desired
guage, so as to bear the weight of the instrument required to stand thereon.
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The annexed Drawings show in Fig. 1 the stand; Fig. 2, a top view;
Fig. 3, a sectional view, in which is shown the spring a, the cover b, and the
screw c and nut d; Fig. 4 is the spring a, shown as disengaged from the
stand; Fig. 5 is a top view of the cover, and Fig. 6, a sectional view of
the same.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of the said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be carried into
effect, I would observe in conclusion that I do not confine or restrict myself
to any particular form or shape, either of spring, stand, or cover, or means of
fastening, as they may be varied without deviating from the main features of
the Invention, and therefore wish it to be understood that what I claim as my
Invention, consists in the use of a metal spring placed and adapted for use in
manner as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jabez Church, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twentieth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
Witness,
GEO. WHITE.
J. CHURCH. (L.S.)