IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SCHOOL FURNITURE. AND APPLICABLE TO OTHER USES
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Meuce Hammer, of 108, St. Martin's
Lane, Charing Cross, London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE CONSTRUCTION OF SCHOOL FURNITURE. AND APPLICABLE TO OTHER USES.”
"
Sealed the 11th August 1871, and dated the 17th February 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Meuce Hammer
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 17th February 1871.
I, GEORGE MEUCE HAMMER, of 108, St. Martin's Lane, Charing
Cross, London, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SCHOOL FURNITURE, AND APPLICABLE TO
OTHER USES," to be as follows :—
The construction of a combined desk and seat or table and seat in which
the seat shall be capable of being thrown back when required to enable
persons to pass between it and the desk or table, and for this purpose I
intend to fit the seat standard, whether of wood or metal, with a centre
joint or hinge placed at the base or part of the way up the said standard.
A modification of the Invention consists in placing the said centre

page_text: joint or hinge farther back than the back edge of the seat in order to
allow the seat to be thrown yet farther back.
The Invention is also applicable to hospitals and other places.
EXPLANATION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 shews the centre joint or hinge placed at the bottom of the
seat standard which is made of wood; Fig. 2 shews the same with a
metal standard; Fig. 3 shews the centre joint or hinge part of the way
up the seat standard; Fig. 4 shews the centre joint or hinge placed
farther back than the back edge of the seat. The dotted lines in each
case shew the seat thrown back.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Meuce Hammer in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 12th August 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
MEUCE HAMMER, of 108, St. Martin's Lane, Charing Cross, London,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said George Meuce Hammer, Her special
licence that I, the said George Meuce Hammer, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George Meuce Hammer,
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 "Im-
PROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SCHOOL FURNITURE, AND APPLICABLE TO OTHER
USES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George Meuce
Hammer, 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

page_text: 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 George Meuce Hammer, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
The standard which supports the seat whether made of wood or metal
is fitted with a centre pin joint or hinge to enable the seat to be thrown
back from the desk and thus to make room
for persons to pass between
the desk and seat. The said centre pin joint or hinge being placed
either at the base of the seat standard, see Figs. 1 and 2, or part of the
A modification of the Invention consists in
way up it, Figs. 3 and 4.
placing the said centre pin joint or hinge farther back than the back
edge of the seat Figs. 2 and 4, in order to allow a yet wider space between
the desk and seat when the latter is thrown back.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Meuce Hammer, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of August, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
GEORGE MEUCE HAMMER.
(L.S.)