A METAL DOVETAIL JOINT, APPLICABLE TO PORTABLE AND OTHER FURNITURE, AND ANY KIND OF FRAMEWORK REQUIRING STRENGTH AND DURABILITY, AND TO MANY OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES
Year: 1813

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I JOHN
BENNETT, of the Parish of Saint Michael, in the City of Bristol, Cabinet
Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, in and by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Seventh day of April last, for Himself, His heirs and
successors, did give and grant unto me, the said John Bennett, His special
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said John Bennett,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by myself, and
themselves, or by my and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such
others as I, the said John Bennett, my executors, administrators, or assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term of years therein unexpired, should and lawfully
might make use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A METAL DOVETAIL JOINT, APPLICABLE
TO PORTABLE AND OTHER FURNITURE, AND ANY KIND OF FRAMEWORK REQUIRING
STRENGTH AND DURABILITY, AND TO MANY OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES;" in which said
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said John
Bennett, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to
describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner

page_text: the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery with two calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the
same, reference being thereto had, will more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Bennett, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, by the Plan or Drawing in
the margin of these Presents, and the following description thereof (that is
to say)-
A complete metal dovetail joint, consisting of two pieces of metal, one with
the male part of the dovetail, taper three ways, attached to a plate, which plate
is to be screwed or otherwise fastened to any post, leg, stile, or any piece of
framework; the other plate contains the female part of the dovetail to be fixed
as may be required, to railing or any kind of framework with plates and screws,
or any other method which may be most convenient; by which two pieces
of wood or other substances may be joined or fixed together and again seperated
without drawing any screws or nails or making use of
any tools.
In witness whereof, I have hereto set my hand and seal, the Eighteenth
day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
thirteen.
REFERENCES TO THE DRAWINGS.
-Fig. 1 represents a metal, plate with the pin part of a dovetail attached,
taper each way...
Fig. 2 represents the socket part of the metal dovetail joint.
Fig. 1 may be fixed to any post, leg, stile,, or any upright or other part of
framework or partition, as represented by Fig. 3,; to be screwed on with
screws.
Fig. 2 represents, the socket part of the metal dovetail to be fixed to any,
rail or horizontal, part of any kind of framework, either as represented by,
Fig. 4, or with side plates;, or any other method, as all kinds of. framework
vary in form, the fixing the pin or socket part of, the dovetail must, be varied,
as may be found necessary.
Fig. 5 represents two pieces of timber made fast, by the two parts of the
above joints which by pressure becomes the closer united..
A represents a square mortice to receive the, base lath when made use..of
for a bedstead; a, a, are two holes for rivets to rivet through the side, as
represented in Figures 4 and 5.

page_text: xtraordinary in Chancer
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Eighteenth day of May, in
the year above mentioned, the aforesaid John Bennett came before our Lord
the King in his Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification 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.