AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF IRON AND OTHER METALLIC BEDSTEADS BY THE APPLICATION OF WOODEN LATHS INSTEAD OF SACKING OR IRON LATH BOTTOMS.
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Allen, of Clifton, Bristol, Ironmonger, for
the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF IRON AND
OTHER METALLIC BEDSTEADS BY THE APPLICATION OF WOODEN LATHS INSTEAD OF
SACKING OR IRON LATH BOTTOMS.
"
Sealed the 13th July 1866, and dated the 17th January 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Allen at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
17th January 1866.
I, THOMAS ALLEN, of Clifton, Bristol, Ironmonger, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
IRON AND OTHER METALLIC BEDSTEADS BY THE APPLICATION OF WOODEN LATHS
INSTEAD OF SACKING OR IRON LATH BOTTOMS," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of a series of wooden laths placed in a longi-
tudinal and horizontal position. For this purpose a projecting piece of
material is secured underneath by screw pins or otherwise, and fixed to
tubes or any other shaped iron or other metal for the support of the afore-
said wooden laths. In order and for other purposes where the said laths
are required to be secured in their position a piece of iron is fitted over
the top of the said laths, and made with pins passing through or between
the said laths, with nuts and screws underneath or otherwise, or by any
other suitable instrument.

page_text: For the better explanation of my Invention I have annexed a Drawing
of the same, with references thereon to this my Provisional Specification.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Allen in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 17th July 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
ALLEN, of Clifton, Bristol, Ironmonger, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the twenty-ninth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Thomas Allen, Her special licence that I, the said
Thomas Allen, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Thomas Allen, 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 AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF IRON AND OTHER METALLIC BED-
STEADS BY THE APPLICATION OF WOODEN LATHS INSTEAD OF SACKING OR IRON LATH
BOTTOMS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas
Allen, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or 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 I, the said Thomas Allen, 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:
This Invention consists of a series of wooden laths placed in a longi-
tudinal and horizontal position. For this purpose a projecting piece of
material is secured underneath by screw pins or otherwise, and fixed to
tubes or any other shaped iron or other metal for the support of the afore-
said wooden laths. In order and for other purposes where the said laths

page_text: are required to be secured in their position a piece of iron is fitted over
the top of the said laths, and made with pins passing through or between
the said laths, with nuts and screws underneath, or otherwise by any other
suitable instrument.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Allen, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Seventeenth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
THOMAS ALLEN. (L.S.)

page_text: Trame, B. the wooden, talks. C.C. shows projecting plate or support
C. shows projecting plate for scewing over laths. DD.pin with
unts & scrow