IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES OF FURNITURE BY UTILIZING CERTAIN PARTS OF THE CEDAR TREE IN SUCH MANUFACTURE WHICH HAVE HERETOFORE BEEN CON- SIDERED AND TREATED AS WASTE
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jacques Guillaume Remy, of the City of Brussels,
in the Kingdom of Belgium, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES OF FURNITURE BY UTILIZING CERTAIN PARTS OF
THE CEDAR TREE IN SUCH MANUFACTURE WHICH HAVE HERETOFORE BEEN CON-
SIDERED AND TREATED AS WASTE."
Sealed the 7th February 1862, and dated the 13th August 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jacques Guillaume Remy
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 13th August 1861.
I, JACQUES GUILLAUME REMY, of the City of Brussels, in the Kingdom of
Belgium, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES OF FURNITURE BY UTILIZING CERTAIN
PARTS OF THE CEDAR TREE IN SUCH MANUFACTURE WHICH HAVE HERETOPORE BEEN
CONSIDERED AND TREATED AS WASTE," to be as follows:-
The Havannah cedar tree usually employed in the manufacture of cigar
boxes has a portion of its trunk (called "forks") knotty and rugged; these parts
are rejected as unfit for any other use than firewood, for which purpose they
are usually sold. Now the object and intention of this Invention is to render
these refuse parts useful in and for the manufacture of articles of furniture by
preparing said refuse parts in the following manner, that is to say:-I first saw
the "forks" into veneers, and then glue them together for the purpose of giving
to them consistency and hardness, which such parts are naturally deficient in.

page_text: The wood thus treated, when polished, presents a more brilliant appearance
than the most costly mahogany, and has the advantage of neither degenerating
in appearance, cracking, or requiring to be re-polished occasionally, which is
the case with the finest specimens of knotted mahogany. Furniture made of the
knotty parts of the Havannah cedar prepared as above described will improve
in brilliancy of appearance and value the older it gets.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Jacques Guillaume Remy in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 13th February 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JACQUES
GUILLAUME REMY, of the City of Brussels, in the Kingdom of Belgium, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Jacques Guillaume Remy, Her special licence that I, the said Jacques
Guillaume Remy, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
1, the said Jacques Guillaume Remy, 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 THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES OF FURNITURE BY
UTILIZING CERTAIN PARTS OF THE CEDAR TREE IN SUCH MANUFACTURE WHICH HAVE
HERETOFORE BEEN CONSIDERED AND TREATED AS WASTE," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Jacques Guillaume Remy, 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 Jacques Guillaume Remy, 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, that is to say :-

page_text: The Havannah cedar tree usually employed in the manufacture of cigar
boxes has a portion of its trunk (called" forks") knotty and rugged; these
parts are rejected as unfit for any other use than firewood, for which purpose
they are usually sold. Now the object and intention of this Invention is to
render these refuse parts useful in and for the manufacture of articles of
furniture by preparing said refuse parts in the following manner, that is to
say I first saw the "forks" into veneers and then glue them together for
the purpose of giving to them consistency and hardness which such parts are
naturally deficient in. The wood thus treated, when polished, presents a more
brilliant appearance than the most costly mahogany, and has the advantage of
neither degenerating in appearance, cracking, or requiring to be re-polished
occasionally, which is the case with the finest specimens of knotted mahogany.
Furniture made of the knotty parts of the Havannah cedar prepared as
above described will improve in brilliancy of appearance and value the older
it gets.
Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of my said
Invention of "Improvements in the Manufacture of Articles of Furniture by
utilizing certain Parts of the Cedar Tree in such Manufacture which have
heretofore been considered and treated as Waste," together with the best
means I am acquainted with for carrying the same into practical effect, I
hereby declare my Invention to consist in utilizing certain parts of the cedar
tree in the manufacture of articles of furniture as above stated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jacques Guillaume Remy, have hereunto
set my band and seal, this Twelfth day of February, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
JACQUES GUILLAUME KEMY. (L.S.)