IMPROVE- NENTS IN TABLES AND DRAWERS OR OTHER SLIDING RECEPTACLES
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Norman, of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Cabinet Maker, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
Sealed the 9th December 1862, and dated the 30th. July 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Norman at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 30th
July 1862.
I, WILLIAM NORMAN, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Cabinet
5 Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
NENTS IN TABLES AND DRAWERS OR OTHER SLIDING RECEPTACLES," to be as
follows:-
My Invention consists in the adaptation of metal bars to the framework of
sliding tables, which bars are embraced by metal clips carried by a separate
framing; these bars and clips therefore constitute mutual guides so, as to
allow of an expansion of the table which is carried by the said framing, and I
adopt the same method of construction for drawers, shelves, or other such
sliding receptacles.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Norman in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
28th January 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, 1, WILLIAM
NORMAN, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Cabinet Maker, send
greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Norman, Her special license, that I, the said William Norman,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Norman, my 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 for "IMPROVEMENTS IN TABLES
AND DRAWERS OR OTHER SUCH SLIDING RECEPTACLES," upon the condition, amongst
others, that I, the said William Norman, by an. instrument in writing 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 date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said, William Norman, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement and accompanying Drawings (that is to say):-
My Invention consists in the adaptation of 'motal bars to the framework of
sliding tables, which bars are embraced by metal clips carried by a separate
framing; these bars and clips therefore constitute mutual guides so as to
allow of an expansion of the table, which is carried by the said framing, and I
adopt a similar method of construction for drawers, shelves, and other such
sliding receptacles.
In the accompanying Drawing, Fig. 1 represents in plan view a table con-
structed according to my Invention as it would appear when expanded or
drawn out ready for the leaves; Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof; Fig. 3 is a
detached view upon an enlarged scale of part of one of the sliders shewing a
metal bar, and Fig. 4 is a cross section thereof; Fig. 5 is a view of another
slider, shewing one of the metal clips which slides upon the bar, and Fig. 6 is.
a cross section thereof; Fig. 7 is a plan view, also upon an enlarged scale, of
three sliders combined, corresponding to the arrangement in Fig. 1; and Fig. 8
is an end view.
The outside wood sliders are shewn at "a, to which are affixed metal
bars b, c, these bars carry metal clips d, e, which extend over metal bars f, g,
carried by the middle sliders h, to which sliders are attached metal clips i, j,

page_text: embracing the metal bars b, c; the woodwork is grooved out, as shewn in the
Drawing (Figs. 4 and 6), in order to admit the ends of the clips, but the
object of this is merely to admit of the sliders being brought closer together
than they otherwise could be. Supposing it desired to close the tables shewn
in Fig. 1, the two ends being pressed together will cause the clips d, e, to run
upon the bars f. 9, and the clips i, j, upon the bars b, c. In like manner the
other end of the table will be closed by the running of clips d, e, upon bars
f, g, and of the clips *,, upon bars 6*, *, the whole of the bearings
being upon metal surfaces which are not liable to the expansion and con-
traction consequent upon the employment of wood.
I have in the above description alluded to a table with three sliders, but a
less or greater number may be employed and disposed according to any usual
arrangement; and although my Invention is intended to obviate the necessity
for screws for working the sliders, such screws may nevertheless be employed
if desired.
The next part of my Invention is shewn at Figs. 9 and 10, the former of
which represents a cross section of a drawer or sliding shelf constructed.
according to my improvement, and the latter a horizontal section thereof.
To the sides of the drawer or shelf are attached metal bars 1, situato
within metal clips m, m, fixed to the carcase n, which clips therefore carry
the whole weight. In this instance the said clips are caused to extend over
part of the thickness only of the bars 1, 1; and I would here remark that this
form may also be used as applied to tables, or the clips described in connexion
with tables may be adapted to drawers or other such sliding receptacles.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it to be understood
that I claim as secured to me under the above in part recited Letters Patent,
and for the purposes above set forth, the use of the metal bars and clips or
equivalent apparatus constituting sliders, substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Norman, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of December, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-two.
WILLIAM NORMAN. (L.S.)