A METHOD OF INCLOSING A SEAT IN A PORTABLE STOOL STICK, WHICH SEAT MIGHT BE APPLIED TO OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES
Year: 1813

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, JOHN THACKRAY,
of Arthur Street, Windmill Street, in the said County of Middlesex, Cabinet
Maker, sends greeting.
WHEREAS by the King's most Excellent Majesty's Letters Patent under
the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing
date at Westminster, the Twenty-second day of May, in the fifty-third year
of His said Majesty's reign, after reciting that the said John Thackray had,
by his Petition, humbly represented unto His Majesty that he had invented
"A METHOD OF INCLOSING A SEAT IN A PORTABLE STOOL STICK, WHICH SEAT
MIGHT BE APPLIED TO OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES," that he was the first and true
Inventor thereof, and that the same had never been made or used by any
other person or persons, to the best of his knowledge and belief; the
Petitioner therefore most humbly prayed that His Majesty would be graciously
pleased to grant unto him, his exors, adñors, and assigns, His Royal Letters
Patent for the sole use, benefit, and advantage of his said Invention, within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of fourteen
years according to the Statute in that case made and provided: And that His
Majesty, being willing to give encouragement to all arts and inventions which
might be for the public good, was graciously pleased to condescend to the
Petitioner's request; after which recitals His Majesty by His said Letters
Patent made known and of His special grace, certain knowledge, and mere
motion, for Himself, His heirs and successors, did give and grant unto the said
John Thackray, his exors, admors, and assigns, His Majesty's special licence,

page_text: full power, sole privilege and authority, that he, the said John Thackray, his
exors, adñors, and assigns, and every of them, by himself and themselves, or
by his and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as he,
the said John Thackray, his exors, adiñors, or 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 his said Invention, within that part of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland called England, the Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to the said John Thackray,
his exors, admors, and assigns, or any of them, should in his or their discretions
seem meet, and that he, the said John Thackray, his exors, admors, and
assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole benefit, com-
modity, and advantage from time to time coming, growing, accruing, and
arising by reason of the said Invention for and during the term of years
therein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers,
privileges, and advantages therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted
unto the said John Thackray, his exors, adiiors, and assigns, for and during
and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of the reciting
Presents next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be complete and ended
according to the Statute in such case made and provided, under and subject to
certain clauses and provisoes therein mentioned and contained, and amongst
others to a proviso, that if the said John Thackray should not particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of his said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, by an instrument in writing under his hand and
seal, and cause the same to be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of
the reciting Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent and all liberties
and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine,
and become void, any thing therein-before contained to the contrary thereof,
in anywise notwithstanding, as in and by the said Letters Patent, reference
thereto being had, will more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Thackray, in compliance with the
said proviso, that my said Invention is described in manner following (that is
to say)-
Take and make a portable tripod stick of a proper length, stayed in each 3
limb, if necessary, with brass, iron, or other metal or metals, and working
upon a triangular rivet or centre, forming itself, when shut up, into an
apparent one-round stick, each limb being properly stopped or stayed in its
place by means of a brass or other stop, if necessary, and stayed with cord of

page_text: any description at the bottom part, passing, when open, through and being
fastened to each of the opening legs. Then, to begin the enclosure, take
woollen, linen, silk, leather, or any kind of fabric fit for the purpose, cut it to
the proper size of a seat appropriate to the said tripod stick, binding, staying,
and strengthening it all round with silk, woollen, flaxen, or any kind of ferret,
or otherwise with leather, or any other kind of material most elastic, pliant, and
durable; then strongly ferrel with brass, iron, tin, copper, silver, gold, or any
other metal, metals, or materials, the three ends of the above-described tripod,
and securely fasten under such ferrels, by means of pegging, riveting, screwing,
glueing, or otherwise, the sharp angle points or ends of such seat; and then,
by means of a small lifting whalebone, wood, brass, steel, or other kind of rib
or ribs, hinged or otherwise fastened to any or the whole of the limbs of the above
tripod, cause the said seat to rise up into the form of a cone, and then have
fitted on or over the same a leather, tin, wood, paper, or any kind of metal
painted or japanned tube, so as to appear like and to form part of an apparent
walking stick, contrived out of the said tripod stick; and the said enclosure
united or joined together will then be complete.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Second
day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
thirteen.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Seventh day of July, in the
year of our Lord 1813, the aforesaid John Thackray came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, 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 purpose.
Inrolled the Seventh day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and thirteen.