IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF EASY CHAIRS,. SEATS FOR RAILWAY AND OTHER CARRIAGES, AND OTHER KINDS OF SEATS AND MATTRESSES
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Auguste Fournier, Upholsterer,. of 18, Maddox.
Street, in the County of Middlesex, and 5, Rue de Seze, Paris, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF EASY CHAIRS,.
SEATS FOR RAILWAY AND OTHER CARRIAGES, AND OTHER KINDS OF SEATS AND
MATTRESSES."
Sealed the 23rd December 1862, and dated the 22nd July 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Auguste Fournier at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on. the
22nd July 1862.
I, AUGUSTE FOURNIER, Upholsterer, of 18, Maddox Street, in the County
of Middlesex, and 5, Rue de Seze, Paris, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF EASY CHAIRS,
SEATS FOR RAILWAY AND OTHER CARRIAGES, AND OTHER KINDS. OF SEATS AND.
MATTRESSES," to be as follows:-
I place bands of vulcanized india-rubber across the frame of the chair or
other seat or mattrass, vertically and horizontally, interlacing them and fixing
them to the framework, making by this means an elastic foundation; after-
which the chair, or other seat or mattress,. is stuffed in the ordinary manner,

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Auguste Fournier in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
22nd January 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, AUGUSTE
FOURNIER, Upholsterer, of 18, Maddox Street, in the County of Middlesex,
and 5, Rue do Seze, Paris, send greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of July, in the year of our 1
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Auguste Fournier, Her special licence, that I, the said Auguste
Fournier, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Auguste Fournier, my 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 Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF EASY CHAIRS, SEATS FOR RAILWAY AND
OTHER CARRIAGES, AND OTHER KINDS OF SEATS AND MATTRESSES," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said Augustė Fournier, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one
of 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 I, the said Auguste Fournier, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
I place instead of the ordinary webbing bands of vulcanized india-rubber
across the frame of the chair or other seat or mattress, vertically and hori-
zontally interlacing them, and fixing them to the framework, making by this

page_text: means an elastic foundation; after which the chair, or other seat or mattress,
is stuffed in the ordinary manner, and in this way I also construct the backs
of chairs where they are stuffed or padded.
In witness whereof, I, the said Auguste Fournier, have hereunto set my