AN IMPROVEMENT IN CHAIR BEDSTEADS
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Tylor, of the firm of Tylor and Pace, of
Queen Street, in the City of London, Manufacturers, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVEMENT IN CHAIR BEDSTEADS."
Sealed the 6th October 1854, and dated the 11th May 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Tylor at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 11th May
1854.
I, HENRY TYLOR, of the firm of Tylor and Pace, of Queen Street, in the
City of London, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN CHAIR BEDSTEADS" to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in constructing chair bedsteads in such manner that
those parts of the bedstead which form the legs or supports for one end thereof
shall, when the chair bedstead is to be used as a chair, fold over and form the
supports for or hold up that part which becomes the back of the chair.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Tylor in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 11th
November 1854.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Henry Tylor, Iler special licence that I, the said Henry Tylor,
my exccutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry
Tylor, 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT IN CHAIR BED-
STEADS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry Tylor, by
an instrument in writing under my hand and seal; 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 Henry Tylor, do hereby declare thie
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 thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
that is to say
My Invention consists in constructing chair bedsteads in such manner that
those parts of the bedstead which form the legs or supports for one end thereof
shall, when the chair bedstead is to be used as a chair, fold over and form the
supports for or hold up that part which becomes the back of the chair. "In
the Drawings hereunto annexed I have represented the manner in which I
carry this my Invention into effect. Similar parts are marked with similar
letters of reference. Figure 1 is a side elevation of the chair bedstead in the
form of a chair; Figure 2, a similar view of the same, opened out to form a
bedstead; and Figure 3, a plan of the same. The chair bedstead-is-composed
of three principal portions or rectangular frames, hinged together in the usual
The centre frame B is furnished with four legs or supports a, a, a, a,
provided with castors b, b. D, D, are metal laths fitted to each of the frames
A, B, C, and are for supporting the mattrasses or cushions, which may for
convenience be separated into three, one to fit each frame. The frame A has
hinged to it the two frames E and F. The frame E forms, when the chair is
opened out, a support for one end of the bedstead. The frame F is turned up,
manner.

page_text: in the manner shewn in Figure 2, to form a head piece to the bedstead. The
frame C has rivetted or otherwise connected to it the legs G, which serve as
legs when the chair bedstead is opened out, and support the other end of the
bedstead; but when used as a chair, then these legs act as supports to the
frame A, which becomes the back of the chair by the links or rings c, c, being
passed over the ends of the legs G, as represented in Figure 1. Instead of
rings or links the legs may be attached to the back by hooks, screws, or other
suitable means. When it is desired to change this chair bedstead from the
bedstead to the chair form, the frame C is folded over in the direction of the
dotted lines, Figure 2, and the frame A raised up also in the direction of
the dotted lines, and the links c are passed over the legs G. The frame E is
folded down within the frame A, and the frame F folded over, so as to come
in the same line with the back A, as shewn in Figure 1. The reverse action
is observed when transforming the chair into the bedstead.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is, the so
constructing of chair bedsteads that those parts which form the legs or
supports for one end thereof shall, when the chair bedstead is to be used as a
chair, fold over and form the supports for or hold up that part which becomes
the back of the chair, in the manner herein-before described and represented
in the Drawings hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Tylor, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Ninth day. of November, One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-four.
HENRY TYLOR. (L.S.)