Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Apr., 1886.
Complete Left, 29th Dec., 1886.
Complete Accepted, 1st Feb., 1887.
We EDWARD LAWSON of the firm of R. L. Crosbie and Company of No. 36 Charlotte
Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick Metallic Bedstead Manufacturers and
RICHARD GEORGE HODGETTS of No. 61 Coventry Road Birmingham aforesaid Manager
of Works do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
Our invention has reference principally to the manufacture of brass bedsteads of
the kind called French end brass bedsteads and consists of the improvements herein
after described in making or building up the pillars of the said French end brass
bedsteads but our improvements may also be applied to the making or building up of
the loose pillars of ordinary brass bedsteads.
We will describe our invention as applied to the pillars of a French end brass
bedstead.
In the ordinary method of manufacture the pillar is made of a brass cased tube
that is a thin brass tube drawn upon an inner tube or foundation of iron the pillar
being covered with brass from end to end. Upon this covered tube brass tubular
mounts are fixed at the required places to give an ornamental appearance to the pillar.
In making the pillars of a French end brass bedstead according to our invention
we proceed as follows:-We make the pillars of iron tubes and we cast the corner
blocks upon the said iron tubes and upon the end angle bar so as to connect the said
corner blocks and pillars together in the ordinary way. We next coat or cover the
iron tubes or pillars of the French end with brass by the use of short pieces of brass
tubing and brass tubular mounts. In covering with brass that part of the pillar
situated above the corner block we use by preference two pieces of brass tubing or
brass cased tubing of such lengths that when the said pieces of tubing are fixed in
their places portions of the iron tube or foundation of the pillar are left uncovered at
those parts where the brass mounts are to be fixed that is the iron tube is left uncovered
for a short distance say two inches above the corner block and for a length of say
four inches about the middle of the tube and for a length of say one inch at the top
of the tube.

page_text: These uncovered parts are afterwards covered or concealed by the mounts. In
covering with brass the leg of the pillar we use a piece of brass tubing or brass cased
tubing of such a length that when it is fixed in its place on the leg the iron tube near
the corner block and also a portion near the bottom where the castor is to be fitted are
left uncovered say for about two inches and over these uncovered parts the brass
mounts are fixed.
The pieces of brass tubing described having been arranged and fixed at the proper
places on the iron tube or foundation of the pillar the required brass mounts are by a
sliding motion arranged over the uncovered parts of the pillar and the said mounts
fixed in their places by pins or otherwise. Or the pieces of brass tubing and the
brass mounts may be fixed in their places on the iron tube or foundation by the same
pins or fastenings.
By the use of short pieces of tubing and tubular brass mounts arranged and fixed
in the manner described upon the pillar the said pillar is completely covered with
brass.
By our invention economy in the production of the brass pillars or brass covered
pillars of bedsteads is effected and facility in the finishing of the several brass coating
parts is secured as all the said brass covering or coating parts can be finished before
they are applied to the pillar.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Brass Bedsteads.
We EDWARD LAWSON of the firm of R. L. Crosbie and Company of No. 36 Charlotte
Street, Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Metallic Bedstead Manufacturers and
RICHARD GEORGE HODGETTS of No. 61 Coventry Road Birmingham aforesaid Manager
of Works do hereby declare the nature of our Invention and in what manner the same
is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
Our invention has reference principally to the manufacture of brass bedsteads of
the kind called French end brass bedsteads and consists of the improvements herein
after described in making or building up the pillars of the said French end brass
bedsteads but our improvements may also be applied to the making or building up of
the loose pillars of ordinary brass bedsteads.
We will describe our invention as applied to the pillars of a French end brass
bedstead.
In the ordinary method of manufacture the pillar is made of a brass cased tube, that
is, a thin brass tube drawn upon an inner tube or foundation of iron the pillar being
covered with brass from end to end. Upon this covered tube brass tubular mounts
are fixed at the required places to give an ornamental appearance to the pillar.

page_text: In making the pillars of a French end brass bedstead according to our invention we
proceed as follows:-We make the pillars of iron tubes and we cast the corner blocks
upon the said iron tubes and upon the end angle bar so as to connect the said corner
blocks and pillars together in the ordinary way. We next coat or cover the iron tubes
or pillars of the French end with brass by the use of short pieces of brass tubing and
brass tubular mounts. In covering with brass that part of the pillar situated above
the corner block we use by preference two pieces of brass tubing or brass cased tubing
of such lengths that when the said pieces of tubing are fixed in their places, portions
of the iron tube or foundation of the pillar are left uncovered at those parts where
the brass mounts are to be fixed, that is, the iron tube is left uncovered for a short
distance, say, two inches, above the corner block and for a length of, say, four inches
above the middle of the tube and for a length of, say, one inch at top of the tube but
we do not limit ourselves to any particular length of the uncovered parts of the iron
tube or foundation of the pillar. These uncovered parts are afterwards covered or
concealed by the mounts. In covering with brass the leg of the pillar we use a piece
of brass tubing or brass cased tubing of such a length that when it is fixed in its
place on the leg, the iron tube near the corner block and also a portion near the bottom
where the castor is to be fitted are left uncovered, say, for about two inches and over
these uncovered parts the brass mounts are fixed.
The pieces of brass tubing described having been arranged and fixed at the proper
places on the iron tube or foundation of the pillar the required brass mounts are by
a sliding motion arranged over the uncovered parts of the pillar and the said mounts
fixed in their places by pins or otherwise. Or the pieces of brass tubing and the
brass mounts may be fixed in their places on the iron tube or foundation by the same
pins or fastenings.
By the use of short pieces of tubing and tubular brass mounts arranged and fixed
in the manner described upon the pillar the said pillar is completely covered with
brass.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in section and Figure 2 in
elevation the pillar of a French end brass bedstead constructed according to our
invention; Figure 3 represents the bedstead pillar with the whole of the brass tubular
mounts removed excepting the top one, the mounts which are removed from the pillar
Figure 3 being represented detached in Figure 4; Figure 5 represents the pieces of
brass tubing or brass cased tubing which we use for covering portions of the bedstead
pillar.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of the
drawing.
a is the iron tube constituting the foundation of the pillar and bis the corner block
cast thereon, the corner blocks of two pillars of the kind represented having cast in
them as usual the angle bar of the French end. The angle bar is marked c. The
corner block having been cast upon the iron foundation a of the pillar, two lengths or
pieces of brass tubing represented in Figure 5 and marked d, e are fixed upon the
foundation a above the corner block in the positions represented in Figure 3 the
fixing of the lengths or pieces of brass tubing d, e being effected by screws or
other fastenings. By the fixing of the pieces of tubing d, e upon the iron tube or
foundation a above the corner block b, the said iron tube a is left uncovered at its top
for a short distance as shown at i (see Figure 1) and for a short distance about the
middle of the tube as shown at hand for a short distance above the corner block as
shown at g. The middle part of the leg of the foundation tube a is next covered with
the length or piece of brass tubing as represented in Figure 1, the said piece of
tubing being fixed in its place by screws or other fastenings. The leg part of the
foundation tube is thus left uncovered for a short distance below the corner block as
shown at k and for a short distance above the bottom end of the tube, where the castor
is to be fixed, as shown at Figure 1. The uncovered portions of the iron tube or
foundation a are next covered by the brass tubular mounts m, n, p, 4 and r which are
passed onto the tube from its ends by a sliding motion. That is to say, the top
uncovered part i of the tube or foundation a is covered by the brass mount m; the

page_text: uncovered part by the brass mount n; the uncovered part g by the brass mount p
and the uncovered parts k, 1 of the leg by the brass mounts q, r as illustrated in
Figures 1 and 2. The tubular brass mounts are fixed in their places on the iron tube
or foundation a by screws or other fastenings. Or the pieces of brass tubing de and
the mounts m, n, p may he fixed in their places on the iron tube or foundation a by
the same pins or fastenings. The piece of brass tubing and the mounts q. " may also
be fixed by the same pins or fastenings.
By fixing the short pieces or lengths of brass tubing and brass tubular mounts
upon the iron foundation a in the manner described and represented, the said iron
foundation is completely covered with brass and the pillar thus made is finished by
fixing the terminal knob or ornaments upon the top and a castor on the bottom and
covering the corner block b with the ordinary brass mount.
The lengths or pieces of tubing which we use for partly covering the iron tube or
foundation of the pillar may either consist of solid brass tubing or of brass cased
tubing.
We do not limit ourselves to the use of two pieces or lengths of brass tubing above
the corner block b as when more than three mounts are required on that part of the
pillar, three or more shorter pieces of tubing than those represented at d, e are used
so as to leave the required number of uncovered parts on the iron tube or foundation a
to be afterwards covered by brass tubular mounts.
By our invention economy in the production of the brass pillars or brass covered
pillars of bedsteads is effected and facility in the finishing of the several brass coating
parts is secured as all the said brass covering or coating parts can be finished before
they are applied to the pillar.
Although our invention is particularly applicable to the making or building up of
the pillars of French end brass bedsteads yet it may also be applied to the ordinary
loose pillars of brass bedsteads.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our invention and
the manner in which the same is to be performed we declare that we claim as our
invention of "Improvements in the manufacture of brass bedsteads
"
Making or building up the pillars of French end brass bedsteads and the loose pillars
of ordinary brass bedsteads by covering portions of the iron tubes or foundations of
which the said pillars are made with lengths or pieces of brass tubing or brass cased
tubing, the parts of the said iron tubes or foundations left uncovered by the said
lengths or pieces of brass tubing or brass cased tubing, being covered and concealed
by tubular brass mounts substantially as and for the purpose herein before described
and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.