INVENTION AND IMPROVED METHOD OF MAKING CHAIES, SOFAS, STOOLS, BENCHES &C., &c., ADAPTED FOR ROOMS OR CARRIAGES,. WITH BACKS AND SEATES, OR CUSHIONS FIXED IN SUCH A MANNER AS INSTANTLY TO CHANGE ANY SHEW TWO DIFFERENT SURFACES IN ONE SEAT, OR CUSHION, OR BACK, IN A MORE SECURE AND USEFUL MANNER THAN ANY HITHERTO 'ASCERTAINED; AND ALSO PRESERVING COVERS ON A. NEW CONSTRUCTION, WHEREBY SEVERAL DIFFERENT SURFACES MAY BE INTRODUCED AND USED IN
Year: 1798

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ANTHONY
GEORGE ECKHARDT, of Hans Place, in the Parish of Saint Luke, Chelsea,
in the County of Middlesex, Esquire, Member of the Society of Harlem and
Fellow of the Royal Society of England, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty, in and by His certain Letters Patent
under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster,
the Sixteenth day of January, One thousand seven hundred and ninety-
eight, in the thirty-eighth year of His reign, did, of His especial grace,.
certain knowledge, and meer motion, for Himself, His heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Anthony George Eckhardt, my exors,.
adiors, and assigns, especial licence,, full power, sole privilege and authority,
that I, the said Anthony George Eckhardt, my exors, adñiors, and assigns,
and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by my and their deputy
or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Anthony
George Eckhardt, my exors, adññors, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, my "INVENTION AND IMPROVED METHOD OF MAKING
CHAIES, SOFAS, STOOLS, BENCHES, &C., &c., ADAPTED FOR ROOMS OR CARRIAGES,.
WITH BACKS AND SEATES, OR CUSHIONS FIXED IN SUCH A MANNER AS INSTANTLY
TO CHANGE ANY SHEW TWO DIFFERENT SURFACES IN ONE SEAT, OR CUSHION,
OR BACK, IN A MORE SECURE AND USEFUL MANNER THAN ANY HITHERTO
'ASCERTAINED; AND ALSO PRESERVING COVERS ON A. NEW CONSTRUCTION, WHEREBY
SEVERAL DIFFERENT SURFACES MAY BE INTRODUCED AND USED IN ONE SEAT,
BACK, OR CUSHION, AND SUCH SEATS OR CUSHIONS MAY BE EXECUTED IN SILK,
LINEN, LEATHER, HAIR, CLOTH, OR OTHERWISE, SO THAT WHEN ONE SURFACE IS USED.

page_text: THE OTHER OR OTHERS IS OR ARE PRESERVED;" and that I, the said Anthony George
Eckhardt, my exors, adñiors, and assigns,, should and lawfully might have
and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time
to time coming, growing, and arising by reason of the said Invention, for
and during the term of fourteen years therein mentioned, within that part
of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso
that the same should be void unless I, the said Anthony George Eckhardt,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, by an instrument in
writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and
immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent (relation being
thereunto had, will more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Anthony George Eckhardt, in pur-
suance of the said proviso in the said Letters Patent, do hereby describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention; and in what manner; the
the same is to be performed, as follows
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3. The object of the Invention is, as, before mentioned, to, construct in the
first place chairs,.sophas, stools,; benches, &c. that the, cushions, or backs may
be adapted in such a manner as to change and shew two different surfaces.in
one, seat, or back in a more useful manner than any other hitherto ascertained;
and in the second case to adapt to, those chairs,,sophas, stools, benches; &c.,
or to the ordinary or common chairs, sofas, stools, and benches, preserving
covers, on a new constructions, whereby also several different surfaces may
be introduced and.. used in one seat or back, so that when one surface is
used the other or others is or are preserved.
With respect to the first case, to obtain the double surface, in one and the
same seat or back of chairs, sofas, benches, &c. my. Invention consists in
having constructed a double instead of a single seat or cushion with, two
different surfaces to turn round by means of a peyot fixed so that when one
is fixt, uppermost the other be reversed or undermost, as is represented by
Figure 1 and 2, and the position of such seats or cushions to be fixed by, two
pins or stays fixed to such frames, or may also be performed without peyots, as
is represented by Figure 3, by proper rabids, so and in that manner that both
cushions may fit exactly the inside frame. or rabid of the seat or back of
the chair, sofa, &c., &c. And also such seats or cushions may be con-
structed in another manner; namely, to make the seat, cushion, and back
the same size, and to make, those two cushions to swing round on an axis.in
such a manner that when one fits the inside of the frame of the seat the

page_text: other may fit the inside of the back frame; and so vice versa, as is represented
by Figure 8, A, B, representing one double seat or cushion, and C, B, the
other; E, F, the inside frame of the seat, and G, H, that of the back, so as
to make fit A, B, or C; D, the inside of the frame of the seat, or that of G, H,
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With respect to the second case, to adapt to those double seats or cushions,
or to the ordinary cushions of chairs, sofas, ; and "benches in general, covering
frames, my mode consists in having, constructed; a frame, which might be
made of iron, brass, or any other metal or substance, and either elastic or
otherwise, to fit tight round those cushions, seats, or backs, that to the
inside thereof may be fixed silk, cloth, linen, cotton, or leather, or any other
substance convenient for covering of chairs, that when put on the cushion,
seat, or back of the chairs, &c. will cover such seat or cushion, and thereby
not only the surfaces of such seats or cushions are preserved from being worn
or soiled, but such preserving frames, by making them of double cloth stuff or
other material, will have two different surfaces, and are constructed so as to
make use of either side, and thereby introduce 4 or 6 different surfaces in one
seat or cushion, as expressed in Figures 5, 6, and 7. A, B, in Figure 5,
represents the cushion; C, D, E, represents the frame in Figure 6; and
F, G, in Figure 7, represents the cover of the frame; and such preserving
frames may also be fixed to turn on an axis to make it swing in such a manner
that the same frame may fit the cushion of the seat and that of the back, so
that by uncovering the surface of the back to cover that of the seat, and
so vice versa, as is represented by Figures 9 and 10; in both, A representing
the cushion of the seat, and B that of the back, and C, D, the pre-
serving frames, Figure 10, and C, C, Figure 9, or D, the axis or pevot
on which the preserving frame moves or swings round.. All which con-
stuctions must be well secured by a pin or pins, or spring lock, markt in
those Figures by P. These applications may be executed with some deviations.
according to circumstances.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the
Forcteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and ninety-eight.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fourteenth day of February,
in the year of our Lord 1798, the aforesaid Anthony George Eckhardt 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
stampt according to the tenor. of the Statutes made for that purpose..
Inrolled the Fourteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord One-
thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight...