A NEW TABLE APPARATUS TO PROMOTE THE EASE, COMPORT, AND 'ECONOMY OF PERSONS AT SEA OR ON NAUTICAL EXCURSIONS
Year: 1827

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we; HUGH
EVANS, of Great Surrey Street, in the County of Surrey, a Lieutenant in His
Majesty's Royal Marine Corps, and WILLIAM ROBERT WALE KING, of 66,
Snow Hill, in the City of London, Tin Plate Worker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Twelfth day of June, in the eighth year of His reign,
did, for Himself, His beirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
Hugh Evans and William Robert Wale King, our executors, adiñors, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Hugh Evans and William Robert Wale
King, our exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and
also in all His said Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, our Invention
of "A NEW TABLE APPARATUS TO PROMOTE THE EASE, COMPORT, AND 'ECONOMY
OF PERSONS AT SEA OR ON NAUTICAL EXCURSIONS;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso, obliging us, the said Hugh Evans and William
Robert Wale King, by an instrument in writing under our hands and
seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us, particularly to describe and
ascertain the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is
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page_text: to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same,
reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
Hugh Evans and William Robert Wale King, do hereby declare that the
nature of our said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to bo
performed, are particularly described and ascertained in and by the Drawing
hereunto annexed, and the following description thereof (that is to say) :-
Our said new table apparatus for nautical purposes consists of a. cylindrical
metal ring A, Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, to which is hinged or jointed a screw clamp
B, by means of which it can be firmly affixed to.a table C, as shewn in Figs.
2 and 3. There are also hinged to the ring A the two rings D and E, which
serve when opened out or extended and resting against their stops, as shewn
in Figs. 1 and 3, to hold or retain the glass tumbler F and decanter G,
shewn in Fig. 3; likewise the forked spring H, which opens and receives
within it the stem of a wine glass, shewn at I in Fig. 3, and retains it securely
in use. Besides these three branches D, E, and H, there are also two others
J and K, which are bent in such a manner as to retain the table knife L, the
spoon M, and fork N, and the silver fork O in their places, as shewn in
Fig. 3.
And lastly, the plate, soup dish, &c. P is securely held in the ring A,
as shewn in Fig. 3, either between the four raised parts Q, Q, Q, Q, one of
which is jointed to a separate arm R, or upon and within the ring itself, and
thus by retaining the several parts of the table apparatus in their places in
case of a sudden lurch or other shock happening, as is frequently the case in
storms at sea, the ease, comfort, and economy of persons on nautical excursions
are promoted. This apparatus, when not in use, is rendered exceedingly
portable by the parts B, D, E, H, J, K, and R, being folded or turned within
side of the ring A, as shewn in Fig. 4, the screw clamp B turning up
underneath into the ring, and the other parts turning down within it, when it
may either be laid aside in that state, or enclosed in a box or case made for
the purpose.
We have thus given a complete example of one method of carrying our
said Invention into effect, but we do not mean or intend hereby to limit
ourselves to this particular form or construction of it, but to vary and accom-
modate it to other parts of the table service at sea, for instance, it will be
very easy to adapt it to the use of the breakfast table or tea table by merely
changing the forms or sizes of the branches or even encreasing the number, if
necessary. Neither do we intend to limit ourselves to the employment of any

page_text: particular material or materials in the construction of our said nautical table
apparatus, but to employ any or either of such materials as may be fit and
proper for the purpose.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Robert Wale King, have herc-
unto set my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.