IMPROVEMENTS IN STANDS OR TABLES. ESPECIALLY APPLICABLE FOR SEWING MACHINES." ESPECIALLY APPLICABLE FOR SEWING MACHINES
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Blomfield, of Colchester, in the County
of Essex, Managing Partner of the Britannia Sewing Machine
Company, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN STANDS OR TABLES.
ESPECIALLY APPLICABLE FOR SEWING MACHINES."
ESPECIALLY APPLICABLE FOR SEWING MACHINES."
Sealed the 29th December 1868, and dated the 30th June 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Blomfield at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 30th June 1868.
I, JOSEPH BLOMFIELD, of Colchester, in the County of Essex,
Managing Partner of the Britannia Sewing Machine Company, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
STANDS OR TABLES, ESPECIALLY APPLICABLE FOR SEWING MACHINES," to be as
follows:-
This Invention consists in constructing stands or tables so as to be
specially applicable for sewing machines, though they may be found

page_text: useful for other purposes. Such stands or tables should be made in
metal, and they are to have three or more legs; their rims or tops
should be circular, or approximately circular, and a segment of a rim or
top should be firmly affixed or be in one piece with each leg, and such
segments are to be lapped and bolted together. In the rim and other
parts glass may be inserted with a view to increased ornamental effect.
The legs might if desired be brought together in the centre, and be
secured by means of branching parts, on to which caps are fitted at top
and bottom of such parts, screw bolts & nuts being used to tighten or
draw these caps together, thus fastening the legs in position. The
working parts of the sewing machines, such as fly wheels and the like,
may be suitably connected to the legs or other part of the table or
stand; and although I have only alluded to circular and approximately
circular forms of rinis other forms might be adopted when found
desireable.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph Blomfield in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 30th December 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
BLOMFIELD, of Colchester, in the County of Essex, Managing Partner
of the Brittania Sewing Machine Company, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-second
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Joseph Blomfield, Her special licence that I, the
said Joseph Blomfield, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Joseph Blomfield, 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 STANDS OR TABLES,
ESPECIALLY APPLICABLE FOR SEWING MACHINES," upon the condition (amongst

page_text: others) that I, the said Joseph Blomfield, 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 Joseph Blomfield, 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 :-
This Invention consists in constructing stands or tables so as to be
specially applicable for sewing machines, though they may also be found
useful for other purposes. Such stands or tables should be made in
metal, and they are to have three or more legs. Their rims or tops
should be circular, or approximately circular, and a segment of a rim or
top should be firmly affixed or be in one piece with each leg, and the
segments are to be lapped and bolted together. In the rim and other
parts glass may be inserted with the view to increase ornamental
effect. The legs can if desired be brought together in the centre, and
be secured by means of branching parts, on to which caps are fitted at
top and bottom of such parts, screw bolts or nuts being used to tighten
or draw these caps together, thus fastening the legs in position. The
working parts of the sewing machines, such as fly wheel and the like,
may be suitably connected to the legs or other part of the table or
stand; and although I have only alluded to circular and approximately
circular forms of rim other forms might be adopted when found
desirable, and the stand may be made with a desk top, as hereafter
described with reference to the accompanying Drawing, into which desk
the parts of the machine after detachment be packed when it is desired
to remove the machine out of the way, and this arrangement will be
found to answer well where a stand for a hand sewing machine is
required.
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Fig. 1, an elevation of a table or stand constructed according to my
Invention, having a segment of the rim or top in one piece with each

page_text: leg; Fig. 2, elevation of a leg detached from table; Fig. 3, plan of
table showing one leg detached; Fig. 4, brace or tie more securely
fastening the legs together; it may also carry fly wheel and drum in the
case of the stand being used for a sewing machine; Fig. 5, elevation of
a table constructed according to my Invention, having the legs secured
at centre with caps holding projections on the legs; Fig. 6, elevation of
leg detached from table, and caps and screw bolt and nut for holding
them together. a, a, caps; b, bolt; c, legs; d, projections. These
letters refer to Figs. 5 and 6.
In Fig. 7, part side view of a tripod stand (showing leg broken) to
illustrate the arrangement of mechanism for giving motion to the sewing
machine. In this Fig., A represents the balance wheel placed hori-
zontally in the centre of a table, to which is attached or cast on with
balance wheel a circular plate or friction disc B, on the face of which
leather, india-rubber, or other suitable gripping substance is fixed. It
will be seen by this arrangement the driving wheel of a sewing machine
shown at C, and resting on rim of disc B will have sufficient gripping
power or friction to drive any sewing machine. D and E, E, E, are the
treadles, connecting rod, and lever working in the ordinary ball-and-
socket joints F, F, by which means the balance wheel is put in motion.
Figs. 8 and 9 are side views of a sewing machine, writing desk, or
other useful box to be used as the top of the table or stand, but it may
be used for a hand sewing machine, as indicated by the Drawing. Fig. 8
represents the desk closed with side out to show the position of the
hand sewing machine when not in use. Fig. 9 shows the desk open to
be used either as a writing desk or sewing machine,. the whole forming a
compact and neat arrangement when closed. When the writing desk
forms the top of the stand or table provided with the treadle machine
above described it must be mounted on short legs or knobs to raise its
bottom above the wheel C; or it may with the same object be made open
at the bottom.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I
hereby declare that I claim, the "Improvements in Stands or Tables
especially applicable for Sewing Machines" herein described, it being.
understood that I do not claim the constituent parts per sc and apart

page_text: from the general arrangements of construction as regards such stands or
tables, as herein-before set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Blomfield, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of December, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
eight.
Witness,
JOSEPH BLOMFIELD. (L.S.)
ALEX. P. WRIGHT,
Secretary to the
Inventors' Patent Right Association, Limited,
Patentee's Agents,
21, Cockspur Street, Charing Cross.