IMPROVEMENTS IN HAT AND UMBRELLA STANDS
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Aizlewood, of Bath's Foundry, Rotherham,
in the County of York, Stove Grate Manufacturer, for the Invention
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Sealed the 13th November 1857, and dated the 15th May 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Aizlewood at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
15th May 1857.
I, JOSEPH AIZLEWOOD, of Bath's Foundry, Rotherham, in the County of
York, Stove Grate Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN HAT AND UMBRELLA STANDS," to be as
follows:-
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My improvements consist in introducing into hat stands and umbrella
stands, or into articles of furniture being a combination of the hat and
umbrella stand, mirrors or glass, such mirror or glass forming an integrant
part of the design. This combination of the hall mirror with the hat and
umbrella stand affords considerable scope for variety of design and the applica-
tion of ornament.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Aizlewood in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
14th November 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
AIZLEWOOD, of Bath's Foundry, Rotherham, in the County of York, Stove
Grate Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Joseph Aizlewood, Her special licence that I, the said Joseph
Aizlewood, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said Joseph Aizlewood, 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 HAT AND UMBRELLA STANDS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Joseph Aizlewood, 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 Inven-
tion, 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 Joseph Aizlewood, 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, reference being had to the annexed Drawing, and to the letters
marked thereon, that is to say :-
My said Invention consists in introducing into hat stands and umbrella
stands, or into articles of furniture being a combination of the hat and
umbrella stand, mirrors or glass, such mirrors or glass forming an integrant
part of the design. This combination of the hall mirror with the hat and
umbrella stand affords considerable scope for variety of design and the appli-
cation of ornament.
The accompanying Drawing exhibits a design for a hat and umbrella stand
combined, in which a mirror or glass is introduced in the manner contemplated
by my Invention. A is the part serving as umbrella stand; B, the hat stand;

page_text: and C, the mirror or glass, which in this instance is placed in the centre of the
hat stand B.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be carried into
effect, I would observe, that I do not confine or restrict myself to the design or
combination set forth, and delineated in the Drawing hereunto annexed; but
what I consider novel and original, and therefore claim as the Invention to be
secured to me by the above in part recited Letters Patent, is, the introduc-
tion of a mirror or mirrors or glass into or in combination with hat stands
and umbrella stands, or hat and umbrella stands combined.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Aizlewood, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eleventh day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
5 Witness,
T. F. CASKIN,
Sheffield.
JOSEPH AIZLEWOOD. (L.S.)