THE MANUFACTURE OF A PORTABLE DOUBLE-ACTION FOLDING CHAIR
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Morgan, of No. 2, Spencer Street,
Shoreditch, in the County of Middlesex, for an Invention for
Sealed the 12th September 1853, and dated the 15th March 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Morgan
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 15th March 1853.
I, WILLIAM MORGAN, of No. 2, Spencer Street, Shoreditch, in the
County of Middlesex, Chair Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "THE MANUFACTURE OF A PORTABLE DOUBLE-ACTION
FOLDING CHAIR" to be as follows:-
That the same presents the appearance of an ordinary chair, whilst
the seat is moveable, and the seat frame is hinged so as to fold down
and rest upon the back legs; the front legs being hinged also, so as to
fold up on the outside of the back legs in a parallel line with them. The

page_text: chair, when arranged for use, is fastened at the seat by two tension rods,
fitted into the back rails, which pass through the seat frames into two
nuts in the front rail. These rods are screwed up by means of a very
simple key; the screw holes being hidden from view by a slip rail.
The chair, complete for use, the frame as folded, and the application
of the tension rods, together with the slip rail, are also described in the
drawing annexed hereto, and marked A.
The principle may also be adapted for the making of elbow chairs.
and the easly lounge chair, in both which cases the elbows would be
fastened by means of thumb screws running through the back legs into
the elbows, and through the side rails into the stumps of the elbows, as
described in the drawing annexed, marked B.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Morgan, in the Great Seal Patent
Office, on the 15th September 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I.
WILLIAM MORGAN, of No. 2, Spencer Street, Shoreditch, in the County
of Middlesex, Chair Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the sixteenth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said William Morgan, Her special licence that I.
the said William Morgan, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said William Morgan, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein ex-
pressed, 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 "THE MANUFACTURE OF A
PORTABLE DOUBLE-ACTION FOLDING CHAIR," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said William Morgan, by an instrument in writing

page_text: under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, 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 dlate
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Morgan, 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 (that is to say):
That the same presents the appearance of an ordinary chair, whilst
the seat is moveable, and the scat frame is hinged (with either fixed or
loose hinges) so as to fold down and rest upon the back legs; the front
part being hinged also, so as to fold up on the outside of the back
legs in a parallel line with them. Where the loose hinges are used,
the front, the seat frame, and the back parts can be separated from
cach other for the better means of packing. The chair, when arranged
for use, is fastened at the seat by two tension rods fitted into the back
rails, which pass through the scat frame into two nuts in the front
part. The rods are screwed up by means of a very simple key; the
screw holes being hidden from view by a slip rail. In applying the
principle for the making of elbow chairs and the easy lounge chairs,
the elbows would be fastened by means of thumb screws passing through
the back legs into the elbows, and through the side rails into the
stumps of the elbows; all which are respectively and more particularly
shewn in the drawing hereunto annexed, marked A.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Morgan, have heretofore
set my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of September, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
WILLIAM MORGAN. (L.S.)