AN IMPROVEMENT IN STOOLS OR SEATS."
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Hatchwell, of Newton Abbot, in the County
of Devon, Upholsterer, &c., and Samuel Banfill Hatchwell, of London,
in the County of Middlesex, Upholsterer, &c., for the Invention of "AN
IMPROVEMENT IN STOOLS OR SEATS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Hatchwell and
Samuel Banfill Hatchwell at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 22nd February 1861.
We, HENRY HATCHWELL, of Newton Abbot, in the County of Devon,
Upholsterer, &c., and SAMUEL BANFILL HATCHWELL, of London, in the County
of Middlesex, Upholsterer, &c., do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN STOOLS OR SEATS," to be as follows:-
Our Invention consists in making stools or seats in such manner that they
may be used for sitting or kneeling upon on one side, and for resting the feet
upon on the other, for which purpose we stuff and cover the side for kneeling
and sitting on with leather, velvet, or other stuff generally used for seats, while
we leave the other side uncovered, or cover it simply with carpet, oilcloth, or
other like material without stuffing; and we connect the seat so stuffed and
covered by axles or trunnions to side frames, to enable the stuffed or plain
side of the seat to be turned uppermost as required; we secure the seat in

page_text: the position desired by means of a spring clip. Instead of being formed with
two sides only, the seat may be made with three, four, or more sides, capable
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Hatchwell and Samuel Banfill Hatchwell in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 22nd August 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, HENRY
HATCHWELL, of Newton Abbot, in the County of Devon, Upholsterer, &c.,
and SAMUEL BANFILL HATCHWELL, of London, in the County of Middlesex,
Upholsterer, &c., send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto us, the said Henry Hatchwell and Samuel Banfill Hatchwell, Her special
licence that we, the said Henry Hatchwell and Samuel Banfill Hatchwell, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Henry
Hatchwell and Samuel Banfill Hatchwell, our 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 Inven-
tion for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN STOOLS OR SEATS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said Henry Hatchwell and Samuel Banfill Hatchwell, or
one of us, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under our, or their, or one of our 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 we, the said Henry Hatchwell and Samuel Banfill
Hatchwell, our, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to
the Drawing hereunto annexed, that is to say :-
Our Invention consists in making stools or seats in such manner that they may

page_text: be used for sitting or kneeling upon on one side, and for resting the feet upon
on the other, for which purpose we stuff and cover the side for kneeling and
sitting upon with leather, velvet, or other stuff generally used for seats, while
we leave the other side uncovered, or cover it simply with carpet, oilcloth, or
other like material without stuffing, and we connect the seat so stuffed and
covered by axles or trunnions to side frames, to enable the stuffed or plain side
of the seat to be turned uppermost as required; we secure the seat in the
position desired by means of a spring clip. Instead of being formed with two
sides only, the seat may be made with three, four, or more sides, capable of
being revolved, so as to present the required side uppermost.
The accompanying Drawing illustrates a stool or seat with two sides con-
structed according to our Invention.
The stool or seat proper a is connected by axles or trunnions at 6 to side
frames c, round which axles or trunnions it is free to turn as required in the
direction of the arrows, it is stopped and prevented from turning in the
opposite direction by the spring clips d, d, which are bevilled on one side to
allow of their moving in one direction, and flat on the other to allow of their
resting on ledges formed in the side frames.
And having now described the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we do not confine our-
selves to the construction of stools or seats with two sides only, as for some
purposes we make them with three, four, or more sides; and that we claim
the construction of seats with two or more sides, capable of being turned or
revolved to bring the particular side desired to the top, substantially in manner
herein-before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Banfill Hatchwell, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of August, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-one.
S. B. HATCHWELL. (L.S.)