IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TUBULAR RODS AND RINGS FOR FURNI- TURE
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Uriah Scott, of 155, Grove Street, Camden
Town, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TUBULAR RODS AND RINGS FOR FURNI-
TURE"
Sealed the 24th June 1853, and dated the 26th April 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Uriah Scott at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 26th April 1853.
I, URIAH SCOTT, of 155, Grove Street, Camden Town, in the County
of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TUBULAR RODS AND RINGS FOR
FURNITURE" to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to deaden the sound consequent on
using hollow metal rods and hollow metal rings, and consists of filling
or partly filling the interior with sand, or other powder or granular
matter, or fluid, tending to prevent vibration of air, and inclosing and
retaining such sand, matter, or fluid, within the tubes and rings.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said 'Uriah Scott, in the Great Seal Patent Office,
on the 21st October 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
URIAH SCOTT, of 155, Grove Street, Camden Town, in the County of
Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the sixteenth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Uriah Scott, Her special licence that I, the said
Uriah Scott, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Uriah Scott, 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 King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man,
an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TUBULAR RODS
AND RINGS FOR FURNITURE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Uriah Scott, 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 Uriah Scott, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed,. to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof (that is to say :)
The object of this Invention-is to deaden the sound consequent on
using hollow metal rods and hollow metal rings, and consists of filling
or partly filling the interior with sand or other powder, or granular
matter, or fluid, tending to prevent vibration of air, and inclosing
and retaining such sand or-matter-within-the-tubes and rings.

page_text: Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, I will proceed to
describe the means of performing the same.
Hollow metal rods to be used for curtains and other articles of
furniture, and also metal rings which are to move on rods, in place of
being left hollow as heretofore, are according to my Invention to be
filled, so as to exclude air; and such filling may be sand, sawdust, or
other powder or granular matter, or even water. I, however, prefer
dry powder for the purpose; and in making tubular rods, I close one
end, by soldering or otherwise fixing a closed end thereto; I then fill
the tube with sand, sawdust, or other matters as above-mentioned, and
then close the other end by soldering or otherwise fixing a closed end
thereto; and in making rings by bending tubes into that form, I use
like fillings, and close the ends, so as to shut in such filling, in place of
closing the ends when the rings are empty. By these means, metal
tubes made into furniture rods and rings have the sound materially
deadened, and are consequently rendered more useful.
In witness whereof, I, the said Uriah Scott, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
URIAH SCOTT. (L.S.)
Witness, A. CARPMAEL.