MAKING DINING AND OTHER TABLES ON AN ENTIRE NEW PRINCIPLE, WHICH, BESIDES OTHER ADVANTAGES, WILL SAVE A GREAT PORTION OF THE ROOM OR SPACE OCCUPIED BY TABLES OF THE PRESENT MAKE, AND WHICH PRINCIPLE IS APPLICABLE IN THE MANUFACTURING OF DUMB WAITERS, AND VARIOUS OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1802

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
WALKER, of Union Street, Berners Street, in the County of Middlesex,
Cabinet Maker, 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
Sixth day of November, One thousand eight hundred and two, in the forty-
third 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 Robert Walker, my exors, admors, and assigns, especial licence, full
power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said Robert Walker, my
exors, admors, and assigns, and every of them, by myself or themselves, or by
my or their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the
said Robert Walker, my exors, adñiors, and 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 DINING AND OTHER
TABLES ON AN ENTIRE NEW PRINCIPLE, WHICH, BESIDES OTHER ADVANTAGES, WILL
SAVE A GREAT PORTION OF THE ROOM OR SPACE OCCUPIED BY TABLES OF THE PRESENT
MAKE, AND WHICH PRINCIPLE IS APPLICABLE IN THE MANUFACTURING OF DUMB
WAITERS, AND VARIOUS OTHER PURPOSES," and that I, the said Robert Walker,
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 terin

page_text: 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 Robert Walker, should particularly describe and ascer-
tain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, by an instrument under my hand and seal, and cause the same
to be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar
month next after the date of the said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto
had, will more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said. Robert Walker, in pursuance of the
said proviso in the said Letters Patent, do hereby describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, which is to construct dining, loo, card, pembroke,
and all other tables, dumb waiters, &c., standing upon pillars and claws, on an
entire new principle, whereby the great inconvenience of the claws, which take
up so much room, is removed by the turning of the claws close together in the
exact space of the diameter of the pillar, which in general is five inches, by an
action of the brackets upon the claws, which, when turned out to support the
flap the claw turns with it, and when let down shuts back into its place; the
usefulness of which will fully appear in standing in little room, as in recesses,
windows, under sideboards, packing, &c., as will appear in the following
explanations of the respective Drawings above given, viz*:-
F, Fig. 1, the construction of the frame when the flaps are up, and the
brackets and claws extended; B, the bracket, which turns out the claw C by
an iron centre which passes through the pillar, having a cross head at the top,
with a paralel opening, in which the pin on the plate of the bracket works in,
and at the bottom is square and fitted into the plate, screwed on the bottom of
the claw C; O, the bracket which turns out the claw H by an iron centre,
which passes through the pillar on one side of the other centre pin, and acts
at the top in the same manner as the other, and at the bottom with a cross
head and a projecting pin which works in the plate that is screwed on the
bottom of the claw H; A and N, the two other brackets which support the
top without any action upon the claws; E and D, the two fixed claws
standing opposite to each other; M, a fixed rail that the top is screwed to; R,
the brass rim round P, the pillar, which the top of claws slide in, the claws
having an iron plate with a shoulder screwed on the inside.
T, Fig. 2, the top upon the frame; F, Fig. 1, the flaps down, standing in
six inches and of an inch space; T, Fig. 3, one flap up and one claw
turned out, which forms an half round, or clyntic table, which may be used in
the middle or close to the side of the room; T, Fig. 4, with both flaps up,

page_text: made to shift with strap hinges; S, Fig. 5, a square table made to shift with
strap hinges; T and S, with flaps shifted; flap 1, Fig. 4, joined to bed 2,
Fig. 6; and flap 2, Fig. 5, on bed 1, Fig. 7, forming, when joined, a set of
tables ten feet long by any width, and standing, when down, in thirteen inches
space. Fig. 3, three square, and one round table, with three additional
flaps, forming a complete set of dining tables 26 feet 9 inches long, joined
together with brass fastenings, possessing every advantage as to strength and
elegance, and will, when let down, stand in the space of a single table made
on the most approved principle in present use.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Walker, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of November, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and two.
Sealed and delivered, being first duly
stampt, in the presence of
RP OAKLEY,
ROBT WALKER. (L.S.)
New London Street.
T...
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Second day of December, in the
year of our Lord 1802, the aforesaid Robert Walker 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.