CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS ON BEDSTEADS, AND IN MANUFACTURING OR FORMING ARTICLES TO BE APPLIED TO OR USED IN VARIOUS WAYS WITH BEDSTEADS FROM A MATERIAL OR MATERIAL HITHERTO UNUSED FOR SUCH PURPOSES,
Year: 1827

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
BREIDENBACH, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Thomas Breidenbach, did, by my Petition, humbly
represent unto His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth, that I
had, after much labour, study, and expence, found out and invented" CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS ON BEDSTEADS, AND IN MANUFACTURING OR FORMING ARTICLES TO BE
APPLIED TO OR USED IN VARIOUS WAYS WITH BEDSTEADS FROM A MATERIAL OR
MATERIAL HITHERTO UNUSED FOR SUCH PURPOSES," which Invention I believed
would be of much benefit and utility, that I was the first and true Inventor of
such improvements, and that the same had never been made or used by any
person or persons, to the best of my knowledge and belief, and I most humbly
prayed His Majesty would be graciously pleased to grant unto me, my exors,
admors, and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent under His Great Seal of Great
Britain, for the sole working, using, exercising, and selling of my said Invention,
and for all other benefit and advantage thereof within England and Wales and
the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of fourteen years, according
to the statute in that case made and provided; His said Majesty, being
willing to give encouragement to all arts and inventions that might be for the
public good, was graciously pleased to condescend to my request, and therefore,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster the Thirteenth day of August in the eighth year of His reign,
of His especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, did, for Himself,

page_text: His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Breiden-
bach, my exors, adñññors, and assigns, and every of us, by myself and themselves,
or by mine and our deputy or deputies, servants, or agents, or such others as
I, the said Thomas Breidenbach, my exors, adññors, or assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend my said Invention within that part of His
Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, His
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to
me, the said Thomas Breidenbach, my exors, adññors, and assigns, or any of us,
should in mine or our discretions seem meet, and that I, the said Thomas
Breidenbach, my exors, admors, and assigns, should and lawfully might have
and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time
to time coming, growing, accruing, and arising by reason of the said
Invention for and during the term of years therein mentioned; to have, hold,
exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, privileges, and advantages therein-
before granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said Thomas
Breidenbach; my exors; adiñors, and assigns, for and during and until the full
end and term of fourteen years from the day of the said presents next and
immediately ensuing, and fully to be complete and ended, according to the
statute in such case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent is
contained a proviso that if I, the said Thomas Breidenbach, should not par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent,
and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly
cease, determine, and become void, anything therein-before contained to tho
contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as in and by the said Letters
Patent, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Breidenbach, in compliance
with the said proviso, do hereby describe and declare that the nature. of my
said Invention consists in the use and application of worked or woven metal
wire, wherewith I do make and form what I call sackings, testers, bed enclo-
sures, hangings, and coverings, and either whole or in part or parts, and of the
form or forms as may be most convenient; and I also make what I call head and
foot ornaments, in lieu of what in metallic bedsteads are commonly called head
and foot rails. The elasticity of the material for the purpose of sackings I
consider as an improvement; but my chief object and principal improvement,

page_text: in using and applying worked or woven metal wire as aforesaid, is to prevent.
the harbouring of vermin; and by making or forming with the said material
inclosures or coverings for the beds it keeps them free from the annoyance
of mosquitoes and other insects, and also secures them from the intrusion of
venemous reptiles in those countries where such danger is to be apprehended.
And as the woven metal wire is pliable, and can be cut into any form and
shape, and sewed together with metal wire, and can also be either sewed,
nailed, or clipped to any tube, rod, lath, or strip, so the aforesaid material may
be used and applied, and I do use and apply the same, in any way and manner
as may be most convenient for the purposes aforesaid; and as the sewing with
metal wire forms a seam which acts as a hinge, so in this way I do connect
together two or more pannels made of woven metal wire, which may
alternately be folded one upon the other, or be extended all round the
bedstead, either whole or in separate parts, and thus form what I call an
enclosure, without, however, confining myself to such mode only. And when,
instead of woven metal wire, I use and apply worked metal wire, either for all
or any of the purposes herein mentioned, for bedsteads, I have the said material
worked in a frame or frames, or in a pannel or pannels, and of such form or
forms as I may want, and these I connect together in the same way and
manner as worked metal wire usually is.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Breidenbach, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eighth day of February, in the ninth year
of the reign of His said most Excellent Majesty King Coo
year of our Lord 1828, the aforesaid Thomas Breidenbach came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to
the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Eleventh day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.