CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SEVERAL PARTS OF TABLES, AND OF VARIOUS OTHER ARTICLES OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE WHICH STAND UPON OR ARE SUPPORTED BY LEGS OR FEET
Year: 1805

page_text: BROWN'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
BROWN, of the Parish of Saint Botolph, Bishopsgate, in the City of London,
Cabinet Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of His United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-sixth day of
November, in the forty-sixth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the
said Richard Brown, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, His especial licence, that
that I, the said Richard Brown, my exors, admors, and assigns, should and
lawfully might, during the term of years therein mentioned, make, use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SEVERAL
PARTS OF TABLES, AND OF VARIOUS OTHER ARTICLES OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
WHICH STAND UPON OR ARE SUPPORTED BY LEGS OR FEET;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said Richard Brown, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular descrip-
tion 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, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said.proviso, I, the said
Richard Brown, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said In-
vention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, as follows, that
is to say:-
In dining and other tables, or furniture of similar description and use, I do
construct, connect, and join together my top rails, or frameing, or bed, or that

page_text: which immediately supports the platforms, boards, or leaves of the same, by
whatsoever name or nanies such rails, or framing, or bed may be known or
denominated, in such a manner as that the same may be disposed or folded up in
a small space when not required to be used; and I do declare that the annexed
Drawings and descriptions do sufficiently exhibit and explain the same.
Fig. 1 represents the upper, surface of frame when shut up or folded
together; Fig. 2 represents the upper surface of table frame when the said
frame is extended. A to B, extending division of table frame, the construc-
tion and manner of operation of which must be obvious on inspecting the
Drawings, and which may be repeated to any desired number or length. The
pieces of which these extending divisions are composed are connected together
by means of joints; C and D, the advancing rails to which the blocks G, H, I, K,
are fixed; G, H, I, K, blocks to which the end flaps are hinged and from
which the said flaps aro suspended when the brackets L, M, N, O, are put
back against the advancing rails; P, Q, R, S, vacancies made in the brackets
L, M, N, O, to receive the blocks G, H, I, K, when the said brackets are put
back against the said advancing rail. The ends-flaps being connected with the
advancing rails by means of the blocks and hinges, may be moved forward or
backward-with the said advancing rails, and when the said end flaps are raised
up, they may be supported by the brackets turned forward from the advancing
rails for that purpose. To the piece. marked T a leaf or board may be fas-
tened, and legs and other support or supports. may be fixed.. It is also evident,
that legs or other supports may be fixed to the advancing rails, to. the brackets,
or to other parts of the frame...
And I do further declare that the joints in the said frameing, and the
methods of connecting the picces together, may be made and adapted accord-
ing to any well known and good form; and that the number and disposition.
of the pieces; as well as the materials of the joints themselves, whether of wood,
metal, or other fit. substance, and the form and situation of the legs, are sus-
ceptible of considerable variations, according to the uses and purposes to which.
the frames are to be applied, or the judgment of the maker, or the taste or
choice of the buyer.
"Fig. 3 represents the framework of a table, in perspective, of a different
structure from that of Fig. 1 and 2, still retaining the same general characters
which distinguish my said improvement, as before described. When the
boards of the table are all respectively laid in their places upon the expanded
frame, and key-bolted, forked, or otherwise sufficiently well and firmly secured
in their respective situations, they constitute one piece, which gives steadiness
and firmness to the whole structure.

page_text: And I do hereby further declare that another of the improvements which
constitute part of my said Invention is exhibited and explained in the annexed.
Drawings, Fig. 4 and 5, of an instrument for connecting together two brackets:
placed on the opposite sides of a block or frame, so that if either of them be moved
outwards on one side, the others shall move outwards on the opposite side at the.
same time, and if either be moved inwards, the other shall move inwards at the
same time. Fig. 4 represents the surface of the block or frame, with the brackets:
when put back against its opposite sides. A is the connecting instrument,
made of iron, or brass, or of any other suitable material or materials, jointed at
B and C; D is a centre pin fixed in the block, on which the instrument is
moved; E and F are pins, fixed to the brackets, on which pins the ends of
the instrument move. It is obvious from Fig. 4 and 5 that when the handle
is drawn out the connecting instrument will alter its form, as in Fig. 5, and
both brackets will be carried out together. It is also evident that legs or
supports being fixed to the brackets will be moved backward or forward with
them, and that legs or supports may be fixed to the block or frame in various
situations, according to the purposes to which the said block or frame may be
applied.
And I do hereby further declare that another of the improvements which
constitute part of my said Invention is exhibed and explained in the annexed
Drawings, Figs. 6 and 7, which represent an instrument for connecting
together two brackets, placed in the situation shewn by Fig. 6, so that if either
of them be moved forward, the other shall move forward at the same time, and
if either be moved back, the other must necessarily go back at the same time.
Fig. 6, A is the lower surface of a card table frame; B, C, are the two
brackets; D is the joint on which the two brackets move; E is the connecting
instrument, made of iron, or brass, or of any suitable material or materials;
and I are pins fixed in the brackets; F and G are pins fixed in card table
frame for the purpose of guiding the connecting instrument in a strait direction
when the said connecting instrument is moved forward or backward. Fig. 7
shews the situation of the connecting instrument E, and of the bracket B when
the other bracket C is moved forward. It is obvious that the connecting instru-
ments before described, Figs. 4, 5, 6, and 7, may be applied to the brackets of
various articles of household furniture, and that legs or supports may be fixed
to the said brackets if required.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Brown, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and five.
RICH BROWN. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-third day of De-
cember, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and five, the
aforesaid Richard Brown came before our said Lord the King in Ilis
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 Statute made
for that purpore.
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