IMPROVEMENTS IN FOLDING FURNITURE AND HINGES AND FASTENERS FOR THE SAME
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Jackson, of Pimlico, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FOLDING FURNITURE AND
HINGES AND FASTENERS FOR THE SAME."
Sealed the 12th June 1877, and dated the 20th April 1877.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said William Jackson at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th April 1877.
"IM-
WILLIAM JACKSON, of Pimlico, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman.
PROVEMENTS IN FOLDING FURNITURE AND HINGES AND FASTENERS FOR THE SAME."
The improvements refer more particularly to camp or other furniture which is
intended to be folded and packed for travelling purposes, and consist in constructing
such furniture that it may more conveniently than heretofore form or become part
of the case in which such folding furniture may be enveloped and carried, and also
form a receptacle or receptacles for holding various matters, by or through the use
of improved hinges and fasteners next to be described.
The improved hinges or joints are two, one being so constructed that it can only
be in a flat or open position, or a closed and rectangular position, and is to be
recessed in the wood or other material with which it is to be employed; the other
a T joint or piece of metal in which are hinged pieces of wood or other convenient
material so shaped and placed that they butt one piece against the other, or against
a butting piece, and form a knee or knee joints.
The improved fasteners are two, one being of metal furnished with a latch
working on or in a spring catch, so that on the latch being depressed it is caught
and held by the spring catch and thus fastened, the latch being on one piece or side
of the table or seat forming the box or case, and the catch on the other or corre-
sponding side or piece. The other fastener is of leather and has two ways through
it for straps, one at right angles to the other, and allows of the sliding or moving of
both or either strap inserted in it, but nevertheless always preserves the position of
the straps at right angles one to the other.
The accompanying Drawing will illustrate how the improvements can be per-
formed; in all the Figures like letters represent like parts.
Figure 1 is a side view; Figure 2, end view; and Figure 3, top plan of a table
formed as shown and fitted with the improved hinges, shown full size in

page_text: Figures 11, 12, and 13; the top of the table is in two pieces, A and B, made to fold
at right angles and form half the sides of the case, as shown in Figure 8, the other
balf being formed by a corresponding table not shown; the table has folding
legs D with struts E hinged thereto; both legs and struts unship and pack within
the case.
Figs. 4, 5, and 6, are respectively front, side, and top view of a stool of which
there are two serving to form the ends C of the case when adjusted as in Figure 8,
and are fitted with the improved fasteners shown full size in Figures 9 and 10.
Figure 7 is side view of a bedstead fitted with the improved T joint shown full
size in Figures 14 and 15.
Figures 16 and 17 are plan and elevation of the two-way guide or strap fastener
conveniently made of leather.
The respective positions of the hinges, catches, joints, and fasteners are indicated
by the same Figures that refer to the detailed Drawings of such.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Jackson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of April, in the year of our Lord,
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.
W. JACKSON. (L.S.)