A PORTABLE FOLDING BEDSTEAD
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Emes, of 110, Great Russell Street, Blooms-
bury, and 123, New Bond Street, Oxford Street, London, both in the
County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "A PORTABLE FOLDING
BEDSTEAD."
Sealed the 25th January 1859, and dated the 27th July 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Emes at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 27th
July 1858.
I, JOHN EMES, of 110, Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, and 123, New
Bond Street, Oxford Street, London, both in the County of Middlesex,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A PORTABLE FOLDING
BEDSTEAD," to be as follows:-
The said bedstead to be made of iron, brass, or any other description of
metal, or by a combination of wood and metal, and to be so arranged as to
be used as a house bedstead in any of their various forms to which it would
apply, or by folding up so as to be deposited in one or two trunks as occasion
may require; such trunks being at same time also in use for the ordinary
purposes of travelling. The bedstead, while attached to the two trunks, on
being seperated by the removal of two nuts or screws, forms into two seats
or chairs; the bottoms of said bedsteads being of iron bands or canvas, or
both.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Emes in the Great Seal Patent Office, on the 26th
January 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
EMES, of 110, Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, and 123, New Bond Street,
Oxford Street, London, both in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent. Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said John Emes, Her special licence that I, the said John Emes, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Emes,
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 "A PORTABLE FOLDING BEDSTEAD,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Emes, 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 John Emes, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, that is to say:
My Invention consists in certain peculiar arrangements and combinations
of parts by means of which I am enabled to form either a bedstead, an easy
chair, or a couch, and also by so disposing the various parts that I can fold up.
the whole, so as to render it easily transportable and, to occupy the smallest
possible space.
In order to render my. Invention more, clear and intelligible, the accom-
panying Drawings are appended to show the form, disposition, and arrange-
ment of the various parts, all of which may, however, be modified both in form
and size; and also other well-known equivalent arrangements may be in some
cases substituted for those shown in the Drawings.

page_text: Figure 1 is a drawing of the bedstead in full. Figure 2 shews a portion
of it, forming an easy chair. Figure 3 shews another portion, forming either
a couch or chair; and Figure 4 shews the one half of the bedstead folded, and
a trunk to contain the bed clothes or other articles. It will be seen from
Figure 1, that the bedstead consists of two symetrical portions, which when
joined by the forked rod, forms the whole. Each half is composed so as to
fold into four pieces, viz., the head, and the three parts of which the bottom
is formed. It will be seen that the several parts turn or rotate on hinges or
joints. A springing band or bolt on each side holds each portion rigid when
in the horizontal position, and acts as a tie-bar when the said portion is
vertical, as shewn in Fig. 2.
Having now described my Invention, and how the same is constructed, I
wish it understood that what I claim as new and wish secured by the before
in part recited Letters Patent is, the combination, arrangement, and disposition
of parts described in this Specification and the Drawings appended thereto,
by means of which I form a bedstead possessing the properties and advantages
before named.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Emes, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twentieth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
Witness,
Cus FRED. VASSEROT, Patent Agent,
45, Essex Street, Strand.
JOHN EMES. (L.S.)