CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO BEDSTEADS AND VARIOUS OTHER THINGS
Year: 1811

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPП
BASTONE, of Bridgewater, in the County of Somerset, Cabinet Maker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-fourth day of
July, in the fifty-first year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said Joseph
Bastone, my exors, admors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said Joseph Bastone, my exors, adiñors,
and assigns, during the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE
TO BEDSTEADS AND VARIOUS OTHER THINGS;" in which said Letters Patent there
is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Joseph Bastone, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two calendar
months after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the
same, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Joseph Bastone, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by the Drawings
hereunto annexed, and the following description thereof, that is to say:
Fig. 1 represents half of the joint to be fixed to the sides, head, and foot
pieces of a bedstead, or any other article to be fastened or framed together.
A, A, A, A, is a flat-plate; B, a square mortice hole; C, a tenon.
car on each side of plate A, A, &c., to fasten the plate more firmly to the
D is an

page_text: better. S is screw holes to
side. It may be at top and bottom, if thought better.
fasten it to the side by screws.
Fig. 2nd is the other part of the joint, to be fixed to bed post or any other
piece of a frame. a, a, a, a, is a flat metal plate. B is a projecting hook or
tenon, the head of which is of the size to fit and pass into the square mortice
hole B, in Fig. 1st; m, a projecting piece or staple; C, a mortice hole of the
size to receive the tenon C, in Fig. 1st.
Fig. 3rd is the joint as in use. A, A, is the side or edge of the flat plate in
Fig. 1st. D is ears at the sides of the flat plate A, A, A, A, in Fig. 1st, as
fixed to bed sides, &c., or any other aforesaid side or end E. a, a, is the
side or edge of flat metal plate, in Fig. 2nd, as fixed to bed post or any other
aforesaid piece F. b the projecting tenon or hook in Fig. 2nd, passed into
the square mortice hole B, Fig. 1st, and is slided, into mortice hole c, in pro-
jecting piece or staple m, in Fig. 2nd, which has completely and firmly
fastened the bed post to the side, &c. of bedstead. With the principle of this
joint any two pieces of wood or metal of any size in any position or for any
purpose may be firmly framed together. This joint may also be varied in size
and in the position of the hooks or mortice, and there may be as many hooks
and mortices in each as may be deemed expedient, according to the use it is
applied to. The shape of the joint may also be straight or curved as may be
found necessary, and may be made of any metal, composition or compositions
of metals or of woods, as circumstances may require.
With the
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Bastone, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twentieth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and eleven.