IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING DINING OR OTHER TABLES
Year: 1800

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
GILLOW, of Oxford Street, in the County of Middlesex, Cabinet Maker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, dated at Westminster,
the First day of May, in the fortieth year of His reign, did give & grant
unto me, the said Richard Gillow, my exors, admors, and assigns, His especial
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Richard
Gillow, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, during the term of years therein
expressed, should make, use, exercise, and vend, my Invention therein men-
tioned, to wit, "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING DINING OR OTHER
TABLES," within that part of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of
Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in all His Majesty's
Colonies and Plantations abroad, in such manner as to me, the said Richard
Gillow, should seem meet; to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said license,
powers, privileges, and advantages therein granted or mentioned to be granted
unto me, the said Richard Gillow, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, for and
during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years therein expressed; in
which said Letters Patent there is, among other things, contained a proviso
.that if L, the said Richard Gillow, should not particularly describe and ascertain

page_text: the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the
same to be inrolled in the High Court of Chancery within one calendar
month next 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, as in and by the said Letters
Patent, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Richard Gillow, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, as follows,
that is to say:-
My method, for which I have obtained His Majesty's Letters Patent for
improving the construction of dining and other tables, consists in supporting
one or more leaf or leaves, or flap or flaps of tables, by means of sliders con-
structed of wood or metal, or other substance, which run in diverse dovetail T
or square, or cilinder, or other groves, either with or without wheels or rollers;
which sliders, being attached to one or more dining table or tables, supported
upon frames and legs, or upon pillar and claws, or pillars and claws, and which
sliders being drawn out from either end or side of the said table to any length
which may be found. convenient,. one or more leaf or leaves may be laid
thereon, and the table extended without an increase of legs or pillars and
claws; and by taking away one or more leaf or leaves, and by forceing one or
more of the sliders to retire, the table, maybe reduced or lessened with ease
and facility: For the purpose of constructing long and extensive dining tables,
my plan and Invention is, to attach to two or more, dining or other tables: or
ends; of tables the above constructed sliders, and fastening the most exten-
sive sliders to each other by means of wood or metal forks, or other fasteners,
and extending for making 'the said. tableşi recede from each other, and forcing
the said sliders to slide and extend from each other, leaves, or flaps, or boards
being laid thereon.. The said tables may be enlarged as far as convenient,
and the said leaves being taken away; and the said tables.or.ends advanced
towards each other, the sliders retire, and the table.may be reduced with ease
and facility. Further, for constructing still more extensive.tablés, any number
of dining tables or ends or centers of "tables having the above sliders attached
to them; and' the most extensive sliders of such tables being respectively
-attached to each other by metal forks or other fasteners, the said sliders being
made to slide from their respective tables to any extent wanted; and leaves; or
flaps, or boards being laid thereon, the tables may be enlarged.to any extent
with the addition of very few legs or pillars and claws, the above. Invention

page_text: being calculated to reduce the number of legs and pillars and claws in the
construction of dining or other tables, and to facilitate and render easy their
enlargement and reduction in size.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto 'set my hand and seal, the Thirteenth
day of May, in the fortieth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord
George the Third, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and
Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, &c., and in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred.
Inrolled the Thirty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred.