AN IMPROVED SO-CALLED BED TABLE.
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Stanislas Antoine Baron, of Paris, in the Empire of
France, Gentleman, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED SO-CALLED BED
TABLE.'"
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Sealed the 15th November 1864, and dated the 16th September 1864.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Stanislas Antoine Baron, at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Pétition and Decla-
ration, on the 16th September 1864, pursuant to the 9th Section of the
Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852. -
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, STANISLAS
ANTOINE BARON, of Paris, in the Empire of France, Gentleman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "AN IMPROVED SO CALLED
"BED TABLE," and have petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto me, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for the
same, and have made solemn Declaration that. I am the true and first Inventor
thereof.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Stanislas Antoine Baron, do hereby
declare that the following Complete Specification under my hand and seal
fully describes and ascertains the nature of the Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, reference being had to the accompanying
Drawings, and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to say :-
My Invention consists in a table intended for carrying all the objects of
which a person in bed may be in want. This table is composed of a foot

page_text: placed on casters, made of metal or wood, with a curved rod or column carrying
a tablette provided with one or more drawers, and represented in the annexed
Drawing; Fig. 1 of which shows the table in elevation; Fig. 2, a column or
wooden rod, which may be adapted to the foot; and Fig. 3, a plan view of the
table.
In these Figures, A is the tablette or table top; B, a drawer; C, socket
or boss, which may receive the end of the rod K, Fig. 2; D, batten or support
. of the table top fixed to the curved rod E, made of wood or metal and sliding
in the leg or column F; E, curved rod supporting the table top; F, leg of
table made of wood or metal; G, claw or foot made of wood or metal; HI,
casters; I, spring trigger by means of which the height of the rod E is regu-
lated; J, holes in the rods; K, wooden rod, which may be adapted to the
foot F. The rod E slides in the leg and may be fixed at any convenient
height by means of a rack with stop or pressure screw I; the front claw of the
foot is made to draw out or push in, in order to maintain the equilibre of the
table.
My table is specially intended to facilitate the repasts of persons who are
in bed, and may also be used for reading or writing in bed or other work.
Having thus described the nature of my said improvements, and the manner
in which the same are to be executed, I claim as my Invention the improved
table by means of which any objects which may be required in bed are placed
within the reach of persons who are therein, composed of a moveable curved
rod, supporting a moveable table top, and which may, when necessary, be
transformed in an ordinary ladies' work-table, substantially as above described
and represented in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Stanislas Antoine Baron, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Seventh day of September, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
STANISTAN A RADON
STANIST AS A RADON
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