Specification of John Henry Lock : bed tables for invalids, &c.

  • Lock, John Henry.
Date:
1872
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of John Henry Lock : bed tables for invalids, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Provisional Lock's ImpTOVCMCTits lu JBed Tables for Invalids, ^c, a bedstead, and to the ends of the arms the table or supporting surface is attached or connected. One of the arms has a quadrant and pin attached thereto in order to adjust the angle or position of the table or surface when in use for reading or other purposes. There are projections on the lever arms which act as stops to keep the table in proper position, 5 When out of use the table falls to the foot of the bed as a footboard. The lever arms which carry the table or supporting surface may be telescopic or capable of elongation if required, so as to adjust the position of table over the bed. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, 10 filed by the said John Henry Lock in the Great Seal Patent OflS.ce on the 14th September 1872. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, John Henry Lock, of Kensington, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Yictoria, by Her 15 Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said John Henry Lock, Her special licence that I, the said John Henry Lock, my executors, administrators, and 20 assigns, or such others as I, the said John Henry Lock, 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 25 Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for Improvements in Bed Tables and Book Supports for Invalids and others,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Henry Lock, 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 30 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