IMPROVEMENTS IN SUSPENDING OR HANGING LOOKING GLASSES AND OTHER ARTICLES REQUIRING LIKE MOVEMENTS
Year: 1843

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
FREDERICK BIELEFELD, of Wellington Street North, Strand, in the County of
Middlesex, Papier Maché Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-sixth day of January, in the sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Charles Frederick Bielefeld, Her especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said Charles Frederick Bielefeld, my exors,
admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles Frederick Bielefeld, my
exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
time and at all times during the term of years therein mentioned, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SUSPENDING
OR HANGING LOOKING GLASSES AND OTHER ARTICLES REQUIRING LIKE MOVEMENTS;" in
in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said Charles
Frederick Bielefeld, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled
in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent,
as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at
large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Charles Frederick Bielefeld, do hereby declare that the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully
described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference
being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters
marked thereon (that is to say):-
In suspending or hanging looking glasses moveable whilst so suspended
or hung, it has been usual to employ a screw on either side of the frame
of a glass, by which the glass is enabled to assume a vertical position
or be more or less inclined to the horizon by revolving on the screws
as occasion may require; the fixed frame in which a looking glass is
suspended, as heretofore practised, coming on either side of the frame of the
glass. Now, the object of my Invention is to dispense with the side frames
between and on which glasses are hung or suspended, and to apply pillars
behind the glasses, and generally within which are upright slides; and on the
upper part of such sliding uprights the frames in which the glasses are set are
attached by pin joints, by which the necessary inclination or upright or
horizontal position can be obtained; and by the turning of the sliding uprights
in the hollow pillars the looking glasses can be turned towards the right or
left hand.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figures 1, 2, and 3, show back perspective views of three varieties of looking
glasses; and I would state that the shape of the frame on which a glass is set may
be varied according to taste, and such is also the case in respect to the hollow
pillar and stand. In each of the Figures a is the pillar and stand; b is the
sliding upright, which sliding upright is to be suitably arranged in respect to
the pillar a, that the upright may be securely retained in any required position
or degree of elevation; this may be accomplished in various ways, and I have
shown each glass to have a different means of retaining the glass to any height
to which it may be raised. In Figure 1, the sliding upright is retained when
raised by means of a screw d; and in order to prevent injury to the surface of
the sliding upright, a curved metal shield may be introduced between the screw
and the sliding upright. In Figure 2 the sliding upright is retained in its
place by sliding stiffly in the hollow pillar, and there may be woollen cloth
affixed round the lower part of the sliding upright, and also leather at the
interior of the upper part of the hollow pillar; and in Figure 3 the sliding
upright is retained in its place by having a coiled spring e affixed to or around
the lower end of the sliding upright. And in order to facilitate the raising a

page_text: glass when the same is considerable in weight, I form or affix a rack f on the
sliding upright, and employ a cog-wheel g to raise the same, as is shown; and
where the glass is not of considerable weight it may be raised by hand, as in
Figures 1 and 2, I would state that the mode of raising and of retaining the
sliding upright in its raised position may be varied; h is a pin joint, by which
the frame of a glass is connected to the upper end of a pillar, when the pillar is
made of the proper height, or to the sliding stem, as is shown, the joint moving
stiffly by the axis, being a screw or otherwise, so as to retain the glass at any
desired inclination.
Having thus described my improvements on looking glasses, I would remark
that the other articles to which the improvements are applicable are fire-
screens; and the only difference in this case would be, that the frame where the
glass is set or fixed would be suitably formed for a fire-screen; in other respects
the various parts would be arranged as above described. I would remark that
what I claim is the mode of suspending or hanging looking glasses and fire-
screens by causing them to be connected by moveable joints' h at the back to
pillars or to sliding uprights, such uprights sliding within hollow pillars as
above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Frederick Bielefeld, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-three.
CHARLES FREDERICK (L.s.) BIELEFELD.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-fifth day of July, in the
year of our Lord 1843, the aforesaid Charles Frederick Bielefeld came before
our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to
the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Twenty-sixth day of July, in the year of our Lord One