IMPROVEMENTS IN COMBINING CERTAIN ARTICLES OF FURNITURE, SUCH AS WARDROBES, CABINETS, WASHSTANDS, LOOKING-GLASSES, RACKS, SHELVES, AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Weldhen, late of New York, United States
of America, at present residing at Camden Town, in the County of
Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN COMBINING CERTAIN
ARTICLES OF FURNITURE, SUCH AS WARDROBES, CABINETS, WASHSTANDS,
LOOKING-GLASSES, RACKS, SHELVES, AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES." -A com-
munication from abroad by Ambrose E. Barnes, of New York,
United States of America.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Weldhen at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
1st June 1875.
I, ALFRED WELDHEN, late of New York, United States of America,
at present residing at Camden Town, in the County of Middlesex, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
COMBINING CERTAIN ARTICLES OF FURNITURE, SUCH AS WARDROBES, CABINETS,
WASHSTANDS, LOOKING-GLASSES, RACKS, SHELVES, AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES," to
be as follows:-
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This Invention relates to improved arrangements for combining

page_text: different articles of furniture into one piece applicable to various uses,
whereby great convenience is afforded to the user, considerable economy
in the cost and space occupied by such combined articles being effected.
For this purpose, according to one part of these improvements, a ward-
robe, bureau, or chest of drawers, washstand, dressing table, looking-
glass, towel rack, and book shelves are all combined in one article of
furniture, as represented in the annexed Drawing.
The wood or other material employed for forming one end of the
bureau or chest of drawers is extended above the top of the same, which
extension, together with that portion that forms said side or end of:
bureau, also forms the side of the wardrobe. This feature of construc-
tion constitutes an important part of this Invention; the back of the
bureau is also extended upwards, and serves as a frame for supporting a
looking glass, as shown.
The method of constructing, arranging, and combining the various :
articles of furniture may be considerably varied without departing from
the nature of this Invention, as for example, the washstand, dressing
table, drawers, and looking-glass may form the central part of a ward-
robe, or be arranged on each side or end thereof.
If desired a portable folding or other bed, table, and seat, may be
combined with the several parts previously described, and be capable of
being detached therefrom if required.
Articles of furniture constructed in accordance with this Invention are
very useful and advantageous for hotels, boarding houses, schools, and
other similar establishments.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Alfred Weldhen in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 1st December 1875.
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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
WELDHEN, late of New York, United States of America, at present
residing at Camden Town, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of June, in the year of our

page_text: Lord One thousand cight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Alfred Weldhen, Her special license
that I, the said Alfred Weldhen, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Alfred Weldhen, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN COMBINING
CERTAIN ARTICLES OF FURNITURE, SUCH AS WARDROBES, CABINETS, WASHSTANDS,`
LOOKING-GLASSES, RACKS, SHELVES, AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES," a communica-
tion to me from abroad by Ambrose E. Barnes, of New York, United
States of America, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Alfred Weldhen, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly 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 Alfred Weldhen, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention relates to improved arrangements for combining
different articles of furniture into one piece, applicable to various uses,
whereby great convenience is afforded to the user, considerable economy
in the cost and space occupied by such combined articles being effected.
For this purpose, according to one part of these improvements, a ward-
robe, bureau, or chest of drawers, washstand, dressing-table, looking-
glass, towel rack, and book shelves are all combined in one article of
furniture, as represented in the annexed Drawing, which shows one
method of carrying this Invention into practice, the same being capable
of great variation, both with regard to combination and design.
The wood or other material employed for forming one end of the
bureau or chest of drawers A is extended above the top of the same,
which extension, together with that portion that forms said side or end

page_text: of bureau also forms the side B¹ of the wardrobo B. This feature of
construction constitutes an important part of this Invention; the back
of the bureau A is also extended upwards, and serves as a frame C¹ for
supporting a looking-glass C, as shown; D are shelves for books or
other articles; and E is a towel rack or holder.
The method of constructing, arranging, and combining the various
articles of furniture may be considerably varied without departing from
the nature of this Invention, as for example, the washstand, dressing
table, drawers, and looking-glass may form the central part of a ward-
robe, or be arranged on each side or end thereof.
If desired a portable folding or other bed, table, and seat, may be
combined with the several parts previously described, and be capable of
being detached therefrom if required.
Articles of furniture constructed in accordance with this Invention are
very useful and advantageous for hotels, boarding houses, schools, and
other similar establishments.
Having thus described the nature of the Invention, and the manner
of carrying the same in practice, what I claim is, the improved combi-
nation of certain articles of furniture, substantially in the manner and
for the purposes herein-before described and represented in the Drawing
hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Weldhen, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of November, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.