IMPROVEMENTS IN STUFFING OR PADDING COUCHES, CUSHIONS, BEDDING, CHAIRS, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Jay and George Smith, both of No. 246,
Regent Street, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN STUFFING OR PADDING COUCHES, CUSHIONS, BEDDING,
CHAIRS, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES."
Sealed the 23rd January 1857, and dated the 25th July 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Jay and George
Smith at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition,
on the 25th July 1856.
We, SAMUEL JAY and GEORGE SMITH, both of No. 246, Regent St., in
the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN STUFFING OR PADDING COUCHES, CUSHIONS, BEDDING, CHAIRS,
AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
These improvements consist principally in substituting tubes or spheres of
any soft material or substance filled or inflated with atmospheric air, in lieu of
springs, horsehair, water, wool, and other methods at present practised for
stuffing or padding couches, cushions, beds, chairs, and such like articles.
I am aware of air having heretofore been employed for the above pur-
poses; this Invention does not, therefore, consist in the use of air, except
when the vessels containing the same are arranged distinct and separate from
each other, as regards any communication between them, for the purpose of
rendering articles stuffed or padded with atmospheric air more durable; for,

page_text: by these improvements, should one of such several air vessels be injured and
rendered useless, it would not be to the detriment of the remaining ones;
whereas by the use of large vessels for containing the air, if one part sustained
an injury the whole would suffer, and thereby be rendered useless.
The aforesaid inflated objects or vessels may either be attached to each
other, as regards any communication with the interior thereof,, by filling a
long bladder or tube with air, and then tieing the same tightly at certain dis-
tances asunder; or said objects or vessels may be formed detached and separate,
so as to constitute cells or air vessels distinct and separate from each other;
and said inflated objects we propose to use for stuffing or padding couches,
cushions, bedding, chairs, and other similar articles in lieu of the ordinary
stuffing, as above stated.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Jay and George Smith in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 24th, January 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, SAMUEL
JAY and GEORGE SMITH, both of No. 246, Regent Street, in the County of
Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Samuel Jay and George Smith, Her special licence that we, the said
Samuel Jay and George Smith, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as we, the said Samuel Jay and George Smith, 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 ex-
pressed, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN STUFFING OR PADDING
COUCHES, CUSHIONS, BEDDING, CHAIRS, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLEE," upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said Samuel Jay and George Smith,
our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our or
their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us or them,
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

page_text: 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 Samuel Jay and George Smith,
do hereby declare the nature of the 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, that is to say:-
Our improvements consist principally in substituting tubes, spheres, or other
shapes of any suitable material or substance, filled or inflated with air or
other elastic fluid, in lieu of metallic springs, horsehair, water, wool, and
other methods at present practised for stuffing or padding couches, cushions,
beds, chairs, and such like articles. We are aware of air having heretofore been
employed for the above purposes; we desire it, therefore, to be understood that
our Invention does not consist. in the use of air, except when the vessels
employed for containing the same are arranged distinctly and separately from
each other, as regards any communication between them, for the purpose of
rendering articles stuffed or padded with air, &c., more durable than hereto-
fore; as by our said improvements, should one of such several air vessels be
injured and rendered useless, it would not be to the detriment of the remaining
ones; whereas by the use of large vessels for containing air, if one part
sustained an injury the whole would suffer, and thereby be rendered useless.
The aforesaid inflated objects or vessels may either be attached to each
other, as regards any communication with the interior thereof, by filling a long
bladder or tube with air, and then tieing the same tightly at certain distances
asunder; or said objects or vessels may be formed detached and separate, so
as to constitute cells or air vessels distinct and separate from each other;
and said inflated objects we propose to use for stuffing or padding couches,
cushions, bedding, chairs, and other similar articles, in lieu of the ordinary
stuffing, as above stated.
We
And we would here remark that as regards the material of which the tubes,
spheres, &c., are to be made, we have found india-rubber answer well for that
purpose. We do not, however, intend to limit or confine ourselves to the use
of the above material, as other materials capable of being rendered air-tight,
such as the intestines of animals, have also been found to answer well.
therefore reserve to ourselves the right to use any material suitable for the
purposes of our said Invention, and the arranging and disposing of separate
inflated objects or vessels made therefrom in whatever manner we think fit,
and by which we can produce an elastic cushion or seat, in lieu of and as a
substitute for the methods heretofore practised of stuffing or padding couches,
cushions, bedding, chairs, and other similar articles.

page_text: And we hereby declare our Invention to consist in, and we claim, the use
and employment of distinct and separate inflated objects as a stuffing or
padding for couches, cushions, bedding, chairs, and other similar articles, by
whatever means such said inflated objects may be produced, as above stated.
In witness whereof, we, the said Samuel Jay and George Smith, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-third day of January,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Witness;
(L.B.)
SAMUEL JAY.
GEORGE SMITH. (L.B.)
BENJ BROWNE,
Clerk to Alex Prince & Comp',
Patent Office, 4, Trafalgar Square, Charing Cross.