AN IMPROVED FORM OR BENCH WITH BACK TO FOLD SO AS TO OCCUPY ONLY A FEW INCHES IN THICKNESS
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Page Widnall, of Grantchester, Cam-
bridgeshire, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED FORM OR BENCH WITH
BACK TO FOLD SO AS TO OCCUPY ONLY A FEW INCHES IN THICKNESS."
Sealed the 5th July 1867, and dated the 11th January 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Page Widnall at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
11th January 1867.
I, SAMUEL PAGE WIDNALL, of Grantchester, Cambridgeshire, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED FORM OR BENCH WITH
BACK TO FOLD SO AS TO OCCUPY ONLY A FEW INCHES IN THICKNESS," to be as
follows:-
A bench of wood forming a seat (marked a in the accompanying Diagram)
supported by metal standards (6); to the upper part of these standards the
back is fixed (c) by passing through metal sockets (S), and is prevented from
slipping out accidentally by notches cut in the standards for that purpose
(T, Fig. 4, enlarged). Two tie rods (d) are secured to the strengthening
piece (e) under the seat by bolts or screws, and by hooking on to the bottom

page_text: of the standards keep the seat firm when set up. By removing the back rail
(which keys the whole together) the standards will fold under the seat, as
shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 3 is an end view.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Page Widnall in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 6th July 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
PAGE WIDNALL, of Grantchester, in the County of Cambridge, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
ine, the said Samuel Page Widnall, Her special licence that I, the said
Samuel Page Widnall, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Samuel Page Widnall, 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 FORM OR BENCH WITH BACK TO FOLD SO AS TO OCCUPY ONLY A
FEW INCHES IN THICKNESS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Samuel Page Widuall, 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 Samuel Page Widnall, 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
A bench of wood (a) is supported at both ends by metal standards (b);
under the seat is a strengthening pièce (c), on which a tie rod (d) is fixed to
retain the lower part of the standards in place; the whole is kept secure by
the back rail (e), by removing which the whole may be folded, as shown in

page_text: Fig. 2. Fig. 3 is an end view, and Fig. 4 an enlarged view of the top of
the standard and socket, showing the catch to prevent the rail slipping off.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Page Widnall, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of June, in the year of
our Lord 1867.
SAMUEL PAGE WIDNALL. (L.S.)