A NEW OR IMPROVED SMOKING AND READING CHAIR
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Sothcott of Queens Road Bayswater in the County
of Middlesex for an Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED SMOKING AND
READING CHAIR,"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Sothcott at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 16th December 1881.
JOSEPH SOTHCOTT, of Queens Road, Bayswater in the County of Middlesex.
"A NEW OR IMPROVED SMOKING AND READING CHAIR."
This Invention relates to a new or improved smoking and reading chair.
According to my Invention one arm of the chair is provided with a flap having
underneath a binged strutt so that on raising the flap the strutt is dragged over a
side rail of the chair and a recess in the strutt falls onto the rail and so locks and
holds the flap in position. This flap is provided with different utensils fixed
thereto for tobacco, cigars, pipelights, ash, and any other purpose desired and these
may be either raised or flush on top with the level of the flap.
The other arm is provided with an elbow centred near the back of the arm and
having secured to its other or outer end a pedestal and reading desk so that same
may be drawn to the front of the sitter to any desired position and raised or
lowered according to the wish of the reader.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent and of
an Order of the Lord Chancellor filed by the said Joseph Sothcott in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 15th July 1882.
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JOSEPH SOTпCOTT of Queens Road Bayswater in the County of Middlesex
"A NEW OR IMPROVED SMOKING AND READING CHAIR."
This Invention relates to a new or improved smoking and reading chair.
According to my Invention I combine in one an arm chair and a flap table
constructed to receive and hold a tobacco box match box ash tray and friction tablet
for the striking of matches and an inkstand. Also a reading stand and reading
lamp, a drawer underneath for pipes, cigars, pens, pencils, and other articles, a
spittoon and a paper rack.
I will now proceed to describe iny Invention more particularly with the aid of
the accompanying Drawings. A is the flap table supported, when in a raised
condition, by strut B which is provided near its extremity with a notch to take
onto and rest on a rail of the chair. The flap is perforated with apertures (circular
or of other form to receive severally the tobacco box C, match box D, and ash
-box-E, in such manner that they are-let-in-flush with the surface of the¯tāble, so
as to leave a level surface of table on which to write or for other purpose.
The
friction tablet F is preferably affixed to the surface. The glass G is also received
in a circular opening.
Beneath the sent of the chair is the drawer H for pipes, cigars &c. and beneath
this a blotting pad and envelope and stationery case which slides in and out, on
Buitable guides.
. On the arm of the chair is a reading desk I on either a single or double elbow
joint and capable of adjustment as to either height or angle in both horizontal
and vertical planes-a candle lamp. J is also attached on a swivel joint and capable
of adjustment as to height. At the lower part of one side of the chair a spittoon K
is affixed, also on a swivel joint, so that it may readily be folded in under the
chair or turned out when wanted for use. Also a newspaper rack is affixed
to the back of the chair (not shewn in the Drawings) in any convenient position.
I claim as my Invention to be secured by the hereinbefore in part recited Letters
Patent the combination of chair, flap-table, counter-sunk articles such as tobacco
box, match box, and ash box, together with the other articles herein before previously
described.
In witness whereof I the said Joseph Sothcott have hereunto set my hand
and seal this Fifteenth day of July in the year of our Lord One thousand