IMPROVEMENTS IN METAL BEDSTEADS
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles lles, of Peel Works, Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN METAL BEDSTEADS."
Sealed the 28th December 1853, and dated the 2nd November 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Iles at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 2nd November 1853.
I, CHARLES ILES, of Peel Works, Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN METAL BEDSTEADS" to be as follows:-
This Invention is applicable to metal bedsteads where the posts are
hollow or tubular, and the improvements consist of fixing one or more
discs or partitions of metal in a hollow or tubular post, each such disc
having a hole through it, to receive a rod which is passed into the
tubular post to fix the side and end rails, which may either be of flat
or angle iron or other metal. The side and end rails are made with
ends which will enter openings made for them respectively through the

page_text: tubular or hollow posts, and in each of the rails there is a hole for the
passage of the rod in the post. By these arrangements, when the ends
of the rails have been passed into a tubular or hollow post, and the rod
passed down through the holes in the discs, and in ends of the rails, the
rails will be drawn into the post, and all parts will be keyed or fastened
tightly together.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Iles in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 2nd May 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, T,
CHARLES ILES, of Peel Works, Birmingham, in the County of War-
wick, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Second day of November, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the seven-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Charles Iles, Her special licence that I,
the said Charles Iles, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others. as I, the said Charles Iles, 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 METAL BEDSTEADS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles Iles,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should par-
ticularly 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Iles, 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):
This Invention is applicable to metal bedsteads, where the posts are
hollow or tubular, and the improvements consist of fixing one or more
discs or partitions of metal in. a hollow or tubular post, each such disc
having a hole through it to receive a rod which is past into the
tubular post to fix the side and end rails, which may either be of flat or
angle iron or other metal. The side and end rails are made with ends
which will enter openings made for them respectively through the
tubular or hollow posts, and in each of the rails there is a hole for the
passage of the rod in the post. By these arrangements, when the ends
of the rails have been passed into a tubular or hollow post, and the rod
passed down through the holes in the discs and in ends of the rails,
the rails will be drawn into the post, and all parts will be keyed or
fastened tightly together.
And in order that my Invention may be more fully understood, and
readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the manner of
performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1, shows a plan, and Figure 2, a vertical section of parts of a
bedpost, and side and end rails of a metal bedstead, constructed accord-
ing to my Invention and Figure 3, shows separate views of the end of
a rail.
a, a, is the tubular pillar or post having an enlargement formed.
upon it at a', in which are formed recesses or openings a² for the ends
of the rails b, b, to enter into. The ends of the rails b, b, have holes or
slots 6' to receive the end of the rod c, which is passed down the post
and through the ends of the rails so as to key and fasten the ends of
the rails firmly within the post; the rods c, are guided within the posts
by passing through holes in the discs or partitions a fixed in the hollow
or tubular posts. Figure 4, shows a vertical section of another
arrangement of parts, in which the rod c, which secures the ends of the

page_text: rails to the post, is passed through and withdrawn from the ends of the
rails by turning the loose collar a*, having a pin which passes through
a horizontal slot in the hollow or tabular post a, and enters a spiral slot
in the inner tube cx, to which the rod or key c is fixed so as to raise
and lower the rod c, when the collar a is turned in one or the other
direction.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner
of performing the same, I would have it understood that I do not con-
fine myself to the precise details herein described, so long as the
peculiar character of my Invention be retained. But what I claim is, the
combination of the side and end rails with the posts of bedsteads by
means of rods and parts herein described.
In witness whercof, I, the said Charles Iles, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Second day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four..
Witness,
J. G. TONGUE.
CHARLES ILES. (L.S.)