SECURING GREATER ACCOMMODATION AND FACILITY IN THE USE OF SCHOOL DESKS, TABLES, AND SEATS, WHICH PURPOSES." ALSO APPLICABLE FOR
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William James Cowlman and Alfred Doe, of
New Windsor, in the County of Berks, for the Invention of
"SECURING GREATER ACCOMMODATION AND FACILITY IN THE USE OF SCHOOL
DESKS, TABLES, AND SEATS, WHICH
PURPOSES."
IS ALSO
APPLICABLE FOR
OTHER
Sealed the 9th October 1869, and dated the 15th April 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William James Cowlman
and Alfred Doe at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 15th April 1869.
We, WILLIAM JAMES COWLMAN and ALFRED DOE, of New Windsor,
in the County of Berks, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "SECURING GREATER ACCOMMODATION AND FACILITY IN THE USE OF
SCHOOL DESKS, TABLES, AND SEATS, WHICH IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER PURPOSES,"
to be as follows:-
The advantages claimed for this Invention are, that by a simple but
original arrangement of its parts and movements it combines compactly
and conveniently in one a seat and sloping desk, a scat and level table,

page_text: and a seat with back, that as a desk or table it gives facility of ingress
and egress without the necessity of stepping over the seat, and that it
thus accomplishes a very desirable object. The parts forming the seat
and desk are each separately supported on ornamental standards rising
from a common footing. On the top of the desk standard is a rule joint
supporting an arm. This arm is divided into two parts working together
by a joint. The end of the short arm terminates in a plate, which is
fastened to the desk board. The action of the joints and arm forms a
level table, and by inserting a pin in the first-named joint the same
forms a sloping desk. When the desk is turned over backwards it falls
upon and forms a back to the seat, and the arms then resemble and serve
the same purpose as the arms of a chair.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William James Cowlman and Alfred Doe in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 15th October 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
JAMES COWLMAN and ALFRED DOE, of New Windsor, in the County of
Berks, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-second
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto us, the said William James Cowlman and Alfred Doe, Her
special licence that we, the said William James Cowlman and Alfred
Doe, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we,
the said William James Cowlman and Alfred Doe, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, 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 of "SECURING GREATER
ACCOMMODATION AND FACILITY IN THE USE OF SCHOOL DESKS, TABLES, AND SEATS,
WHICH IS ALSO APPLICABLE FOR OTHER PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said William James Cowlman and Alfred Doe, our
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or

page_text: their, or one of their hands and seals, 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
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said William James Cowlman and
Alfred Doe, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The advantages claimed for this Invention are, that by a simple but
original arrangement of its parts and movements it combines compactly
and conveniently in one a seat and sloping desk, a seat and level table,
and a seat with back, that as a desk or table it gives facility of ingress
and egress without the necessity of stepping over the seat, and that it
thus accomplishes a very desirable object. The parts forming the seat
and desk are each separately supported on ornamental iron standards
rising from a common footing. On the top of the desk standard is a
rule joint supporting an arm. This arm is divided into two parts working
together by a rule joint. The end of the short part of the arm ter-
minates in a plate, which is fastened to the desk board. The action of
the joints and arms forms a level table, and by the inserting of a pin in
the first-named joint the same forms a sloping desk. When the desk is
turned over backwards it falls upon and forms a back to the seat, and
the arms then resemble and serve the same purpose as the arms of
a chair.
In witness whereof, we, the said William James Cowlman and
Alfred Doe, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Fifteenth
day of October, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-nine.