Inven- tion of "DINING, CARD, PEMBROKE, AND OTHER TABLES UPON AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION
Year: 1803

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LAVER
OLIVER, of Bury Saint Edmunds, in the County of Suffolk, Upholder and
Cabinet Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Third day of August,
in the forty-third year of His reign, give and grant to me, the said Laver
Oliver, His especial licence that I, the said Laver Oliver, during the term of
years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend,
within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my. Inven-
tion of "DINING, CARD, PEMBROKE, AND OTHER TABLES UPON AN IMPROVED
CONSTRUCTION;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso
obliging me, the said Laver Oliver, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled
in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the
said Laver Oliver, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described
in the annexed Drawings, and the following description thereof (that is to
say):
Drawing No. 1 is a card table on pillar and claws, the pillar and claw
being in the centre. A, the inside of the frame. b, b, the cross rail to receive
the centre bolt for the top to swing by with stops. C, the centre bolt, with
plate to screw upon the top. D is the cross plate to be used in lieu of the
centre square plate. e is the spring bolt and plate to keep the top in it's place
when turned either way. f is a quadrant plate for the spring bolt to strike
upon the top of the table. A crank spring, wheel spring, or thumb spring may
be used for the same purpose, and they may be made of iron, steel, brass,
copper, or any other kind of metal or composition of metal, and made portable
with claws or legs, with or without castors, and the claws fixed or made to
take off the pillar at pleasure. Loo and pembroke tables are made on the
same construction. G is the frame of the table, two inches and a half deep
(more or less), with a bottom to ditto, munton and two pannels. The pillars
are made to screw on the blocks or fixed in wood, iron, steel, copper, or any
metal or composition of metal whatsoever.
Drawing No. 2 are dining tables on pillar and claws, the framing two inches
and a half (more or less) deep, the tops to swing round with a centre bolt and
plate screwed to the top, and a rail across the frame to receive the bolt for
that use only, and the pillar and claws fixed in the centre of the table, every
plate, &c. to be upon the same construction as in the Drawing No. 1, with the
addition of lopers with square or round corners, with feet or claws, with or
without castors, and may be made with or without a bottom to the frame, and
for conveniency of carriage may be made portable, and by additional claws or
fleet may be made of different sizes, to dine four to twenty-four, or any number
of persons required. The plates, spring bolts, and fork fastenings with
springs, may be made of iron, steel, brass, copper, or any other metal or
composition of metal. The pillars may be made to screw on the blocks, or
may be fixed in wood, iron, steel, copper, brass, or any other metal or com-
position of metal.
In witness whereof, I, the said Laver Oliver, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and three.
LAVER OLIVER. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-seventh day
of August, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Laver Oliver came
before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specifica-
tion aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute in that case made and provided.
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