CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF BED- STEADS
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Françoise Honorine Felicie Bertrand de Sivray,
widow of Joseph François Louie, of Paris, in the Empire of France, for
the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF BED-
STEADS."
Sealed the 7th May 1858, and dated the 12th November 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said. Françoise Honorine
Felicie Bertrand de Sivray at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with her Petition, on the 12th November 1857.
I, FRANÇOISE HONORINE FELICIE BERTRAND DE SIVRAY, widow of Joseph
François Louic, of Paris, in the Empire of France, do hereby declare the
nature of my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF
BEDSTEADS," to be as follows, that is to say:-
My Invention consists in constructing a table in such a manner as to be
convertible into a bedstead. For this purpose the top of the table is made
to slide in a groove, and is then turned' on a hinge to form the head of
the bedstead. Inside the framing of the table is a hinged iron frame pro-
vided with legs, and which frame may be unfolded to give a suitable length

page_text: to the bedstead. To the inside of this frame and the table is fastened, by
india-rubber cords or other material material, the canvass, on which is laid the
mattrass, blankets, sheets, to form the bed. The end frame of the table is
provided with hinges, and is let down when the bed is made.
The whole of the parts forming the bed may be folded up so as to farm a
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Françoise Honorine Félicie Bertrand de Sivray in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 10th May 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FRANÇOISE
HONORINE FÉLICIE BERTRAND DE SIVRAY,, widow of Joseph François Louic, of
Paris, in the Empire of France, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Françoise Honorine Félicie Bertrand de Sivray, Her special licence
that I, the said Françoise Honorine Félicie Bertrand de Sivray, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Françoise Honorine
Felicie Bertrand de Sivray, 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
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF BEDSTEADS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Françoise Honorine Felicie Bertrand de
Sivray, 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 Françoise Honorine Felicie Berdrand de
Sivray, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to. be particularly described and ascer-

page_text: tained in and by the following statement, reference being had to the figures of
the annexed Drawings, and to the letters marked thereon (that is to say):-
My Invention consists in the construction of a bedstead which forms a
table when folded up. Figure 1 of the annexed Drawing is a perspective
view, on a small scale, of the table, containing the bedstead folded up;
Figure 2 shews, in perspective, the table when opened and forming a bed-
stead; Figure 3 is a plan of the top of the table; and Figure 4 is a per-
spective view of the table with the top raised up and one of the sides removed,
in order to shew the bedstead in the position when folded up.
a, a, Fig. 2, top of-the-table, forming the head of the bedstead. The top of
the table has fixed to it, at its under surface, an iron bar b, b, which has a slot
at each end to receive the guide c¹, c', fixed to the 'table in the grooves b¹, b¹,
Figures 2 and 3. c, c, sides of the table or bedstead when the top of the table
is removed, and containing the iron frame d, d, d, d, which moves on the
pivots e.
This frame is folded in the interior of the table, as shewn in
Fig. 4. To the iron frame are adapted two moveable legs k, k, working on
the pivots i, i, when the bedstead is unfolded, as shewn in Figure 2. 1, 1, 1, iron
plates fixed internally at the lower part of the sides of the table, these plates
are provided with staples or rings o, through which pass the india-rubber or
other cords n, n, n, for supporting the canvas m, m. The frame d, d, is also
provided with rings 0, 0, and cords for supporting the canvas m, m, in the
frame. At the part q the canvass is cut out, to allow the moveable frame r, r,
which supports the end of the table 8, 8, s, s, to be seen. This canvass is in
one piece, and folds upon itself when the bedstead is closed up, and also
encloses the matress, sheets, and blankets, as shewn in Figure 4.
the table, which is lowered down when the bedstead is opened; this end of the
table is supported by the frame r, r, r, r, moving on the pivots x, x. The
frame r, r, has two hinges, to which is fixed the end of the table.
$, s, end of
Figure 3 represents the top of the table, with a groove t, t, t, t, made in the
thickness of the wood, for the purpose of receiving the iron bar b, b¹, Figure 2.
The top of the table is provided with hinges u, u, hinged to the iron bar b, b.
The form and dimensions of this table bedstead may vary; the materials for
its construction may also vary, and it may be ornamented so as to forin an
elegant piece of furniture.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner of
putting it into execution, I would have it understood that I do not confine
myself to the precise details of construction or form above laid down, as these
may be modified indefinitely without departing from the principle of the

page_text: Invention; but what I claim is, the construction of an article of furniture
which may be employed at will as a table or bed, substantially as above
described and represented in the Figures of the Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Françoise Honorine Felicie Bertrand de
Sivray, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day
of April, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
F. H. F. BERTRAND DE SIVRAY. (L.S.)
Vve LOUIC.