A Combined Fire Screen and Tea Table.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Dec.,. 1888
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Aug., 1889-Accepted, 12th Oct., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Combined Fire Screen and Tea Table.
I FREDERICK HENRY JENNINGS, of 230 Camberwell New Road, Surrey, S.E.,
basket manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
In carrying out this invention I employ an upright or centre pedestal that is made
to connect at bottom with suitable feet by means of thread and nut to fasten same
together when in position, or in place of which any other known means may be
employed. The said upright or pedestal is made by preference of wood having
a hole bored down the centre from end to end, a rod carrying a swing joint is so
arranged to fit into the bore and slide up and down at will, the swing joint is made to
fit into opening at top of pedestal, to this swing joint is fixed a skeleton frame to
which is fastened the basket work, screen, or table.
Suitable portable shelves are made to slide up and down pedestal and when in uso
to rest on top of feet or stand, when the combination is used as a fire screen, these
shelves are brought up and secured to the table top or screen.
When the combination is required to be used as a fire screen, the swing joint is
drawn out of hole in pedestal and the table top forms the screen which can be raised
or lowered at pleasure being kept in position by a set screw in pedestal.
When the combination is required to be used as a table the swing joint is pressed
down into centre hole at top of pedestal, and the shelves are brought down on to the
feet or stand, thus forming an ordinary basket table and with under shelves.
In place of using wood and basket work with metal feet and skeleton frame in the
manufacture of this combination, I may employ other inaterials but profor using
above, and in place of using what is known in the trade as a pedestal table, I may
employ a table with three or four legs such as now used in the basket trade, in which
case, 1 should use the combination table top and screen but prefer to use the
combination as previously described.
Dated this 6th day of December 1888.
FREDERIC PRINCE,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Combined Fire Screen and Tea-table.
1, FREDERICK HENRY JENNINGS, of 230 Camberwell New Road, Surrey, S.E.
Basket Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to he performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to a table capable of being used at the same time as a Fire
screen and a table, or as a double table without applying the screen.
To enable my invention to be properly understood I will proceed to describe the
same with aid of the accompanying drawings.

page_text: A is the table top proper having connected to the underside a stem B, preferably a
wooden scrow, which is pivotted to a rod C, passing down pedestal D, and held by a
set screw E. F, a fixed circular shelf or second table top; G the legs.
When the table is to be used as a table and a fire screen, the top A, is unscrewed
out of pedestal D, and turned down as at figure 3, the rod C, enabling the top A to be
lifted as high as desired and turned in any direction when it is secured by the
set screw E, the shelf F, being then used as the table. This arrangement of table is
particularly suitable for ladies rooms for use as an afternoon tea table.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of this Invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :--
1. A double table consisting of the top A having an attached stem B, pivotted to a
rod C, pedestal D, set screw E, lower shelf F, and legs G, all as and for the purposes
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
2. In a table the combination with the top A of the attached stem B, pivotted to a
rod C, and a pedestal D, to hold stem and rod.
11: 30 d day of Aument 1000
FREDERIC PRINCE,
No. 1, Quality Court, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for Applicant.