MAKING LIBRARY STEPS TO BE CONTAINED IN WRITING TABLES, LIBRARY TABLES, AND DINING TABLES, WITH OR WITHOUT HANDRAILS, AND WITH OR WITHOUT DESKS ON THE TOP, AND ALSO IN CARD TABLES, BREAKFAST TABLES, AND LADY'S DRESSING TABLES, OR IN ANY OTHER TABLES, AND IN CHAIRS OR STOOLS
Year: 1774

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
CAMPBELL, of the Parish of Saint Giles in the Fields, in the County of
Middlesex, Cabinet Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent, under. the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Eleventh day of November, in the fifteenth year of His
reign, give and grant unto the said Robert Campbell, His special licence, full
power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said Robert Campbell, during
the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise and vend, within that part of Great Britain called England, the
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of
"MAKING LIBRARY STEPS TO BE CONTAINED IN WRITING TABLES, LIBRARY TABLES,
AND DINING TABLES, WITH OR WITHOUT HANDRAILS, AND WITH OR WITHOUT DESKS
ON THE TOP, AND ALSO IN CARD TABLES, BREAKFAST TABLES, AND LADY'S DRESSING
TABLES, OR IN ANY OTHER TABLES, AND IN CHAIRS OR STOOLS;" in which said
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Robert
Campbell, under my hand and seal, to describe and ascertain the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause
the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four
months next after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by
the same, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in pursuance of and in compliance with the said
proviso, I, the said Robert Campbell, do hereby declare that the nature of
my said Invention of Library Steps to be contained in Writing Tables, Library
Tables, and Dining Tables, and with or without Handrails, and with or

page_text: Inrolled the Eleventh day of March, in the year last above said.

page_text: NT. Is the large steps with a handrail and desk but may be made withour (nem me
up which moves on a center or hinge, I the desk on the top of the frame F the lower flight hinged to a slide that goes into the fame like a drawer & the frame and the doted lines shew the hand
rail when down on the top and the steps when in their place
N2. Is a pair of steps having both flights hinged together and the upper flight hung to the top A standing ind ways. B the Upper Hight D the hinge that hangs both flights ( the flap and hinges that
forms a landing by which the whole are hung to the top and secured by an iron hasp below..
3. Is a pair hinged together and pulls out as a Drawer and the upper flight turns over and stands on the top with a back foot A the shong hinge which rangs both together B the hinge
that hangs the under flight to a slide that guides the whole out and in.
ways
4. Is a pair hinged to the frame the top standing end. I a stay A hinged which falls down and goes into the frame B the upper flight C, the under flight D the Grawer I a flat board
that joins with the upp? step and fixt with an iron fastning below.
5 Is a table with only one flight to pull out as a draw in any tuble or dressing table chest drawers...
6 Is a pair in a strol & the Top standing edgeways B a stay C the under step that pulls out
7 Is another in a stool the top stunding endways with a broad landing and a stay in the
8 Is a pair in a Chair A the bottom standing edgeways B the first stop and a false bottom hinged to the buck having ye steps hinged to ye front of it which iises up and makes room for them
either to turn up or down.
manner as N°4
1.