IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SUSPENDING LOOKING. GLASSES IN FRAMES.
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Beall, of Effingham Place, Cheshunt, Herts,.
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SUSPENDING LOOKING.
GLASSES IN FRAMES.".
Sealed the 5th May 1854, and dated the 20th February 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Beall at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 20th
February 1854.
I, JAMES BEALL, of Ettingham Place, Cheshunt, Herts, do hereby declare
the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SUSPENDING
LOOKING GLASSES IN FRAMES," to be as follows:-
This Invention is applicable to swing looking glasses where it is desired they
should be retained at any angle in their frames, and the improvements consist
of causing the axis of a swing looking glass to pass from side to side of the
glass and through the pillars or uprights in which the glass swings. On one
end of the axis is fixed a handle, and the other end of the axis is formed with a
male screw, on which a handle screws in such manner as to press against the
pillar or upright on that side, and at the same time to cause the other handle
to press on the other upright, and also so as to cause the two uprights or
pillars to press against the two sides of the frame of the looking glass or
against washers placed between those parts, and thus to offer such a degree
of friction as to retain the looking glass at any desired angle.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Beall in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 18th
August 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
BEALL, of Effingham Place, Cheshunt, Herts, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said James Beall, Her special licence that I, the said James Beall, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said James
Beall, 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 APPARATUS FOR
SUSPENDING LOOKING GLASSES IN FRAMES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said James Beall, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, 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 Beall, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof (that is to say):-
This Invention is applicable to swing looking glasses where it is desired they
should be retained at any angle in their frames; and the improvements consist
of causing the axis of a swing looking glass to pass from side to side of the
glass and through the pillars or uprights in which the glass swings. On one
end of the axis is fixed a handle, and the
a male screw, on which a handle screws in
pillar or upright on that side, and at the
to press on the other upright, and also
pillars to press against the two sides of the frame of the looking glass or
against washers placed between those parts, and thus to offer such a degree of
friction as to retain the looking glass at any desired angle.
other end of the axis is formed with
such manner as to press against the
same time to cause the other handle
so as to cause the two uprights or

page_text: Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed to
describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shows a back view of a looking glass with my improvements
applied thereto; Figure 2 shows a section thereof. a, a, are the two uprights
in which the frame of the looking glass is bung; b is the axis on which the
looking glass frame swings, and more or less friction is caused between the
inner surfaces of the uprights and the outer surfaces of the side frames,
according to the degree to which the handle or knob c, at one end of the axis b
is screwed up and caused to press on the upright on that side. The axis b is
shewn to pass through the side frames, but in place thereof it may pass at the
back and be attached to the frames by metal straps fixed thereto. In place of
the axis having a screw and nut at one end, and a fixed handle or knob
at the other end, the axis may be made in two parts and screwed together,
as shewn at Figure 3.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that the form of the handles
or knobs may be varied, and such is also the case with regard to the looking
glass frame and stand, to neither of which separately do I make any claim as
of my Invention. But what I claim is, the suspending looking glasses in
frames by means of axes passing from side to side, as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Beall, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Fifteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
Witness,
JNO. ALCOCK.
JAMES BEALL. (L.S.)