DINING AND OTHER TABLES ON AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION
Year: 1800

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
MARSHALL, of Gerrard Street, in the Parish of Saint Ann, Soho, in the County
of Middlesex, Cabinet Maker and Upholder, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-ninth day of April, in the fortieth year of His reign,
give and grant unto me, the said John Marshall, His especial licence, that I,
the said John Marshall, during the term of years therein mentioned, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "DINING AND OTHER TABLES
ON AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained
a proviso, obliging me, the said John Marshall, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month
after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same (rela-
tion being thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that, in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Marshall, do hereby declare, that my said Invention of dining and other
tables on an improved construction is described in the Drawings and descrip-
tion thereof hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Marshall, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred.
JOHN MARSHALL. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Thirtieth day of April, in the
fortieth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, the said
John Marshall came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and
acknowledged the instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein con-
tained and specified, in form above written. And also the instrument aforesaid
was stamped according to the tenor of the several Statutes made in the sixth.
year of the reign of the late King and Queen William and Mary of England,
and so forth, and in the seventeenth, twenty-third, and thirty-seventh years of
the reign of His present Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the day and year last above written.

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top drawn out from the block B in order to support a circular flap as shown at e
Fig D by
which a round table is formed. The maner of fixing the top on the block B is by forming
rabet with strong pieces of beech seruved on each side of the block - On the underside of the
top are screwed similar piecs to cause the top to Act as a drawer by pushing it forward
to the transverse frame H. where it stops by means of a grove cut in the block near to
B. The brackets n. n. are then turned to o o after which the Circular flap & Fig D falls
down to a perpendicular dirction as at Fig D. which is the same Table under a different-
point of view to shew the flap in its place not in Fig: A. The whole Machinery to be
made of wood iron or brase. Fig: I, is the same table in three pieces any of which may
be taken away and replaced at pleasure. The manner of fixing the square pieces in the
centre is shown at Dig O. s. s. are iron hooks and on the underside of the top are groves
and plates to receive them which in the most simple way secure the top to the f
O. Or the middle piece may be fixed by iron bolts passing through cross rails
This Table tho' only supports? by one pillar
one pillar may be extended to any length, by
of the sliding frame M party of Iron which frame being repeated as is evident they
may be and connecting therwith temporary stays in ornamental wood or icon they
may thus be brought to any size with firmness and strength. This Design is but fourteen
feet in length and may be made sufficiently shong without any stay, but if thought
requisite they may be applied as at tt. Fig N. This Table also
any length with the same sliding frame varying from Fig M only in
in having common
legs with castors to run the frame out by - It may also be reduced to a circular table
the
may
frame
Fig M
Meons.
be increased to
by bringing round ends on to the Cinke frame and fixing them as shewn at Fig 0. Fig. P.
This Table
may
be
•very conveniently made in eight pieces and will dine thirty. persons
By taking away the two middle pieces. twenty five may be accommodated - It is
constructed on the same principles as Fiġ ♫ and may be reduced to a Table of Four
prices which brings the two pillars together and are then secured with Brass Shaps and
buttons - The prices §. I. are supported by the sliding frames as at M. and the circular
ends by brackets as represented by the same Fia: