Improvements in Toilet or other Tables.
Year: 1897

page_text: Improvements in Toilet or other Tables.
WILLIAM STEWART and JOHN WILSON POLLOCK, both of Langlands Road,
Govan, N.B., Cabinet-Makers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows: —
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This invention has for its object the adaptation to a toilet or other table of reflex
mirrors, which form the insides of doors of fixed-jewel-boxes, the said doors or
mirrors being hinged, and swinging outwards, at pleasure, in such a way as to
enable a person seated before the table to see reflected in a centre mirror a side or
back view of the head or other part of the body.
The invention consists of two square, oblong, or other shaped jewel-boxes, fitted
in the usual way on either side of the centre mirror of a toilet or other table, and
having opening doors, fitted on the inside with silvered plate glass, forming mirrors
when the doors are open. These doors, instead of being hinged to the jewel-boxes
in the ordinary way, are fastened by a reversible hinge to moveable arms, wooden
or otherwise, which form ledges or galleries across each end of the table the out-
side ends of these arms or galleries being in turn hinged to pillars at the front
corners of the table.. The doors can be used to give access to the interior of the
jewel-boxes, in the same way as if they were only hinged to the jewel-boxes, the
arms or galleries occupying their normal position on either side of the table; but
when they are required for use as reflex mirrors; the arms by which they are
attached to the front pillars allow them to be swung out a considerable distance
in front of the table, so that they stand out on either side of and behind the person
using the table.
The essential features of the invention are the moveable jewel-box doors, having
mirrors inside, in combination with the moveable arms or galleries at the sides of
the table, with reversible hinges, which enable them to be used as reflex mirrors;
and the fact that the table has the appearance of an ordinary toilet or other table
when they are not so used.

page_text: in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
This invention has for its object the adaptation to a toilet or other table of reflex
mirrors which form the inside of doors of fixed jewel-boxes, the said doors or
mirrors being hinged and swinging outwards at pleasure, in such a way as to enable
a person seated before the table to see reflected in a centre mirror a side or back
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 showing the jewel-box doors closed, and the glass sides thereof
turned inwards into the jewel-boxes, and Figure 2 a like view with the doors swung
out from the jewel-boxes and toilet table, and in position for use as reflex mirrors.
The invention consists of two square, oblong, or other shaped jewel-boxes A, A,
fitted in the usual way on either side of the centre mirror of a toilet or other table,
and having opening doors B, B, fitted on the inside with silvered plate glass, forming
mirrors when the doors are open.
These doors instead of being hinged to the jewel-boxes A, A, in the ordinary
way, are fastened by reversible hinges to moveable arms C, C, wooden or otherwise,
which form ledges or galleries across each end of the table; the outside end of these
arms or galleries being in turn hinged to pillars D, D, at the front corners of the
table.
The doors can be used to give access to the interior of the jewel-boxes in the
same way as if they were only hinged to the jewel-boxes--the arms or galleries
occupying their normal position on either side of the table,but when they are
required for use as reflex mirrors, the arms by which they are attached to the front
pillars allow them to be swung out a considerable distance in front of the table,
so that they stand out on either side of, and behind, the person using the table,
as shown in Figure 2.
The essential features of the invention are the moveable jewelbox doors, having
mirrors inside; in combination with the moveable arms or galleries at the side of
the table, with reversible hinges, which enable them to be used as reflex mirrors,
and the fact that the table has the appearance of an ordinary toilet or other table
when they are not so used.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:
The combination of moveable jewel-box doors, having mirrors inside, with move-
able side arms hinged to front pillars, adapted for toilet and other purposes, sub-
stantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this Seventh day of September Eighteen hundred and ninety eight.