THE BETTER AND MORE COMMODIOUS MANUFACTURE OF ALL KINDS OF EASY
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Wilson, of 50, Lower Woodbridge Street,
Clerkenwell, Chair and Cabinet Maker, for the Invention of "THE
BETTER AND MORE COMMODIOUS MANUFACTURE OF ALL KINDS OF EASY,
"
Sealed the 5th May 1863, and dated the 6th March 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Wilson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 6th
March 1863.
I, ALFRED WILSON, of 50, Lower Woodbridge Street, Clerkenwell, Chair
and Cabinet Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"THE BETTER AND MORE COMMODIOUS MANUFACTURE OP ALL KINDS OF EASY,
LOUNGING, AND INVALID CHAIRS, SEATS, OR SETTLES," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in the application of hammered steel or other
accumulative springs placed or fixed in such parts or positions as shall best
suit the form or fashion of all and every chair, seat, or settle that may be desired
or sought to be made accumulative or self-recovering, as my Drawings I think
will fully illustrate and explain.
Letters A, A, are two accumulative springs fixed in position, supporting a chair
with moveable elbows and back, ready to receive weight or pressure; B, is a
spring shown in action, resisting weight or pressure, as fixed under the stump or
support of a chair with moveable elbow and back; C is a spring at rest, with the
stump of the elbow of a chair supported upon the back of it ready for action;

page_text: D is a spring fixed to the moveable back of a chair without elbows, and kept
in position by a resisting rail under the seat; E, E, two springs fixed to the
moveable back of a chair without elbows; the back legs give or form the
resisting surface; F is a spring screwed upon a piece of wood, showing the
very simple means required in fixing.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alfred Wilson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 24th
August 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, J, ALFRED
WILSON, of Lower Woodbridge Street, Clerkenwell, Chair and Cabinet Maker,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Alfred Wilson, Her special licence that I, the said Alfred
Wilson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Alfred Wilson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 "THE
BETTER AND MORE COMODIOUS MANUFACTURE OF ALL KINDS OF EASY, LOUNGING,
AND INVALID CHAIRS, CHAISE, VELOCIPEDES, SEATS, OR SETTLES," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Alfred Wilson, 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 Alfred Wilson, 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):-
This Invention consists in the application of hammered or tempered steel,

page_text: iron, vulcanized india-rubber, or any other kind of accumulative spring or
springs that may be placed or fixed in or upon such parts or positions as may
be best suited to the forms and fashions of the various chairs, chaises, seats,
or settles that may be desired or sought to be accumulative, elastic, self-acting,
and self-recovering, as my Drawings, I think will very clearly show and
illustrate, lettered as follows:-
A, A, are two accumulative springs fixed in position, supporting a chair with
moveable elbows and back ready to receive weight or pressure; B is a spring
shown in action, resisting weight or pressure, as fixed under the stumps or
supports of a chair with moveable elbows and back; C is a spring at rest,
with the stump of the elbow of a chair supported upon the back of it ready
for action; D is a spring fixed to the moveable back of a chair without elbows,
and kept in position by a resisting rail under the seat; E, E, are two springs
fixed to the moveable back of a chair without elbows, the back legs giving the
resisting power; F is a spring screwed upon a piece of wood, shewing the very
simple means required in fixing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Wilson, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the Twenty-fourth day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
ALFRED WILSON. (L.8.)