AN IMPROVEMENT IN WARD- ROBES, OR OTHER PIECES OF FURNITURE OR FITTINGS WITH GLASS SILVERED DOORS OR PANELS USED FOR TOILET PURPOSES
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Matthew Ker, of No. 14, Camden Street, Saint
Pancras, Middlesex, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN WARD-
ROBES, OR OTHER PIECES OF FURNITURE OR FITTINGS WITH GLASS SILVERED
DOORS OR PANELS USED FOR TOILET PURPOSES."
Sealed the 23rd June 1868, and dated the 29th December 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Matthew Ker at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
29th December 1862.
I, MATTHEW KER, of No. 14, Camden Street, Saint Pancras, Middlesex, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN
WARDROBES, OR OTHER PIECES OF FURNITURE OR FITTINGS WITH GLASS SILVERED
DOORS OR PANELS USED FOR TOILET PURPOSES," to be as follows, that is
to say:―
This Invention consists in the addition of a looking glass to a wardrobe or
other piece of furniture or fitting, having glass silvered panels or doors used
for toilet purposes, in such a manner that it can be adjusted so as to reflect in
the glass panel or door the back of any person looking in it. This is effected
by cutting the frieze of the cornice or the framing over the glass and inserting
sliding frames or other extending arrangement with a glass frame attached to
them by centres; these frames and glass will be concealed behind the frieze

page_text: or framing when closed, and when drawn out will extend to the requisite
distance behind the observer, with the glass at the end, which can then be
adjusted to the proper angle. Either metal or wood or a combination of
both may be used in the construction, and the whole may be added to a
wardrobe or other suitable piece of furniture or fitting already made, as well 5
as to new, either in the manner before described, or as an addition above or
below the cornice or framing.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Matthew Ker in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 26th
June 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MATTHEW
KER, of Number Fourteen, Camden Street, Saint Pancras, in the County of
Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by. Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the. Twenty-ninth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs, and successors, give and. grant unto
me, the said Matthew Ker, Her special licence, that I, the said Matthew
Ker, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Matthew Ker, 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, exer-
cise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel, Islands, and, Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN
WARDROBES, OR OTHER, PIECES OF FURNITURE OR FITTINGS WITH GLASS, SILVERED
DOORS, OR PANELS USED FOR TOILET PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst
others), that I, the said Matthew Ker, my executors or administrators, 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 Matthew Ker, 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:

page_text: This Invention consists in the addition of a looking glass to a wardrobe or
other piece of furniture or fitting having a glass silvered door or panel, in
such a manner as that it can be drawn out and adjusted so as to reflect in the
glass door or panel the back of any person looking in it. This is effected by
cutting the frieze of the cornice over the door or panel and inserting sliding
frames or other extending arrangements with a glass frame hung to them
on centres. These frames or extending arrangements when closed will be
entirely concealed behind the frieze, and when drawn out will extend the
requisite distance behind the observer with the glass frame at the end of
them, which can then be adjusted to the proper angle to cast the reflection of
the observer into the glass door or panel when he is standing between it and
the moveable glass frame. Cords and pullies can also be applied to the
extending apparatus, by means of which it can be drawn out and closed
without being touched itself by the hand.
The cord can be extended to any convenient part of the wardrobe or fitting,
from which the apparatus may then be drawn out or closed.
Having now set forth the nature of the Invention for "An Improvement in
Wardrobes, or other Pieces of Furniture or Fittings with Glass Silvered
Doors.or Panels used for Toilet Purposes," and having explained the manner
of carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that under the
above in part recited Letters Patent I claim, the insertion of sliding frames or
other extending arrangements having a looking glass attached on centres in a
frieze over the glass door or panel of a wardrobe, or other piece of furniture
or fitting, which when closed, shall be concealed from sight, but which can be
drawn out either by hand or cords to the necessary distance to cast the
reflection of the back of an observer into the glass door or panel when he is
standing between it and the moveable looking glass, so that the observer can
see such reflection.
In witness whereof, I, the said Matthew Ker, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
Witness,
THOMAS PEGRAM,
22, Cardington Street.
MATTHEW KER. (L.S.)