A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF FRAMING TOGETHER CHAIRS AND SOFFAS OF EVERY KIND AND SORT WHAT-.. SOEVER, AND WHICH INVENTION IS INTENDED TO BE APPLIED TO EVERY DESCRIPTION. OP HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, AND TO ANY OTHER THING WHATSOEVER
Year: 1800

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
ELWICK, of Wakefield, in the West Riding of the County of York, Upholder,.
Cabinet and Chair Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date, at.
Westminster, the
day of June, in the fortieth year of His reign,
give and grant unto me, the said John Elwick, His especial licence, that I,
the said John Elwick, during the term of years therein mentioned, should
and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and
the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED
METHOD OF FRAMING TOGETHER CHAIRS AND SOFFAS OF EVERY KIND AND SORT WHAT-..
SOEVER, AND WHICH INVENTION IS INTENDED TO BE APPLIED TO EVERY DESCRIPTION.
OP HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, AND TO ANY OTHER THING WHATSOEVER;" in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the, said John
Elwick, 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 inrolled in His Majesty's High Court
of Chancery within one calendar month after the date of the said recited
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Elwick, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described in the
above Drawings and description' thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Elwick, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred.

page_text: The INVENTION, which the underwritten Instrument requires to be described,
or an Improved Method by John Elwick, of Wakefield, in the County of
York, Upholsterer, &c.; and is as follows:-
It consists of making, framing, and putting together chairs and sofas of
every kind whatsoever; and also for making; framing, and so forth, of all
other kinds of household furniture, and also of all other such thing and things
to which the said Invention may hereafter be practicably applied, or in any
way used. This Invention is principally useful and convenient for package for
exportation, and consists of three parts, as relating to rails with screws
applied in different ways, as shewn and explained in Figures 1, 2, and 3,
in the annexed Drawing. All these rails may be used together, or each sepa-
rately, and the two latter either together or singly, & are intended to be used
as additional rails to that in Figure 1, for framing any of the before-mentioned
things when more strength and substance is required.
In Figure 1, A represents the back part of a light chair, fast-framed together,
B is the back seat rail; D is the front stretching rail, ch is to be either
fast-framed or put together with screw ends, the same as F, F, which are
one or more stretching rails to each side, to be made of any form, one end
of which is cut into a right-hand screw, and the other into a left-hand screw;
9, g, are holes bored in the back legs, and tapped with either a right or left
hand screw tap, to suit either ends of the rails which may be screwed into
them; h, h, are holes tapped the reverse way to g, g, so that introducing the
ends F, F, of the rails between the front and back legs, and turning them
round, both ends screw up at the same time into g, g, and h, h; G is a. loose
seat fast-framed together, to be worked over with cane or other matters; C is
a dovetail slide, made on the back edge of the back rail of G, which slides
sideway, and is fastened in a dovetail groove, made in the inside edge of the
back rail B. Near M, M, are two holes underneath the seat, and fit upon
the two pins N, N, which complete the framing of the chair or a very
small light sofa, &c. &c.
In Figure 2, A is the leg or legs and rail of either chair, sofa, or table, or of
The bottom edge of the rail
any other thing which B is to be framed to.
near to C is to be either two small tenons or one large tenon, or one or
more tenons, or a dovetail rest fixed into F, and let into B, to fix the bottom
edge in its place. D, D, are two braces, the ends of which are made bevel-
wise, and are to drive into the top and bottom edges of A and B, a little
wedgwise, to make a close joint before the screws are screwed into F, F.
E, E, are two holes in both ends of the rails [B, B, each of which holes

page_text: contains a screw made of wood; on the heads thereof, near to E, E, each has
a metal hoop with holes bored through the four quarters; into those holes is
to be introduced an iron instrument, (or one made of any other material fit
for the purpose), a little crooked near the point, so that in each hole the
instrument will turn the screw round a quarter of a circle, till it is screwed
far enough into the legs F, F. The hole G is to shew that when the screws
can be applied with more effect, and worked more conveniently through similar
holes, made in the top and bottom edges of B, that the holes E, E, are then
not to be used, but holes and screws are to be placed where C, G, is situated
in lieu thereof.
Figure 3 is constructed in the same way in every respect as Fig. 2,
except in having no holes for screws in B but what are bored .through the
outside of the legs C, C, which screws of wood are screwed through the
outside thereof into the rail ends B, B, and cut off close, and a block or cap