IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF MAHOGANY AND OTHER WOOD CHAIRS
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Reilly, of the New Globe Mahogany
Chair and Cabinet Works, Barrack Street, Hulme, in the County of
Lancaster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF MAHOGANY AND OTHER WOOD CHAIRS."
Sealed the 15th August 1871, and dated the 16th February 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Reilly at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
16th February 1871.
I, JAMES REILLY, of the New Globe Mahogany Chair and Cabinet
Works, Barrack Street, Hulme, in the County of Lancaster, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF MAHOGANY AND OTHER WOOD CHAIRS," to be as follows :—
One object of this Invention is to enable chairs to be manufactured
of different patterns, so as not to require so large stocks as are at present
necessary; and another object is to make chairs economically by using
bolts with their heads outside.

page_text: In the first case I form holes near the corners of the side rails of the
horizontal frame for the seat, into which holes are dowelled other rails,
so that cushions of a smaller size can be used, but when these rails are
not added to the frame the larger cushions are placed on the frame as
usual. These additional rails are straight or curved of any required
shape to suit the frame of the chair, and from a stock of frames chairs
can be either made with the larger cushions, or by using the additional
rails with smaller ones, and thus chairs of different qualities and cost
can be altered to any required extent.
For fastening the back of the chair to the front or body I use bolts
the nuts of which are let into the body, and the screws passed into
them from the outside, the heads being made of ornamental or plain
shapes, and having a triangular, square, or other shaped hole in the
middle, so that the screw can be screwed up by a key; or there are two
or more holes to which the key is fitted for the same purpose.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Reilly in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 16th August 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
REILLY, of the New Globe Mahogany Chair and Cabinet Works, Barrack
Street, Hulme, in the County of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of February, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said James Reilly, Her special licence that
I, the said James Reilly, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said James Reilly, 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 THE MANUFACTURE
OF MAHOGANY AND OTHER WOOD CHAIRS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said James Reilly, my executors or administrators,

page_text: 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 James Reilly, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the Figures on the accom-
panying Sheet of Drawings, and to the letters of reference marked
thereon, that is to say :--
One object of this Invention is to enable chairs to be manufactured
of different patterns by the addition of certain parts, so as not to require
such large stocks as are at present necessary; and another object is
to make chairs economically by using screws and bolts in improved
positions.
In the first case I form holes near the corners of the side rails of the
horizontal frame for the seat, the holes being for the reception of dowels
fixed to other rails intended to be glued to the tops of the side rails
when the smaller sized chair seat is required, but when these rails are
not added the larger seat is placed on the frame as usual. These
additional rails are straight or curved, of any desired shape to suit the
seat frame of the chair; and from a stock of chair frames and separate
corresponding side rails chairs of different qualities and cost can be
made to any required extent. The additional rails may be glued to the
side rails without dowels, and similar rails may also be used at the back
and front of the seat frame; and I may remark that these rails are not
only to be applied to chair frames bolted together but also to those made
in the ordinary manner.
For fastening the back of the chair to the seat frame I use bolts the
nuts of which are let into the side rails at the top, side, or bottom, and
the screws pass into them from the outside, the heads being either
notched or perforated, so that they can be turned by a driver or key;
but when desired I use screws without heads, and employ two nuts for
each screw.
To fasten the backs of spoonback, balustrade, or similar chairs to the
seat frames I use headed screws and nuts, and place the nuts in the

page_text: parts firmly together, as all such improvements are herein described
and illustrated in the accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Reilly, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of August One thousand eight
hundred and seventy-one.
JAMES REILLY. (L.S.)