Improvements in Elastic Tips, Buffers, or Pads for Chair Legs and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Feb., 1897-Accepted, 10th Apr.,
1897
Improvements in Elastic Tips, Buffers, or Pads for Chair Legs and
the like.
We, ALFRED HENRY BARTON of 67 Cunbury Avenue in the City and
County of Southampton, Engineer and WILLIAM BEAVIS of 83 High Street
also in the City and County of Southampton, Coal Merchant, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
This invention for improvements in elastic tips buffers or pads for chair legs
and the like has for its object to provide a device which, properly modified to suit
varying circumstances, shall be applicable for the ends of chair and table legs,
crutches, walking sticks and the like and consists essentially of a tip or pad of
elastic material, such as india rubber, secured to or forming part of a suitable
socket by which it is secured to the furniture or other article to which it is
applied.
The accompanying sheet of drawings illustrates a few forms of a device
constructed according to this invention.
Figs. 1 and 2 represent front and side elevations of an elastic tip or buffer
suitable for the ends of chair or table legs and in which a disc a of elastic
material is mounted on a pin & in lugs c projecting from a socket d which is secured
to the leg in the ordinary manner.
The disc is not intended to rotate when moved
about as are the discs of ordinary castors, but only to be turned by hand to
present a fresh point for wear.
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Fig. 3 is a vertical section of an arrangement consisting of a thimble or cup
shaped tipe of elastic material secured to a socket f by a threaded ferrule
having a taper bore corresponding with the taper end h of the socket. A spring i
is inserted under compression in a housing in the bottom of socket and presses
against a button m fitting in the end of the cup e thereby increasing the resistance
of the tip to deformation when in use.
Fig. 4 is a vertical section of a device similar to that shown in Fig. 3 except
that a plain taper ferrule n is substituted for the tureaded one therein shown.
Fig. 5 shows an elevation of an elastic tip suitable for walking sticks, umbrellas
and the like in which a tip o of solid elastic material is cemented, screwed or
otherwise secured in the socket p, the upper part of which is hollowed to fit the
end of the stick to which it is secured in the ordinary manner.
Fig. 6 shows a sectional elevation of a tip or pad formed from one piece of
elastic material, the upper part q forming the socket for attachment to the stick
crutch or the like, while lower part forms a hollow pneumatic ball or bulb r ; it is
secured by means of pins or cement in the ordinary well known manner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. A tip or pad of elastic material secured to or forming part of a suitable

page_text: socket arranged and constructed substantially as described and for the purpose
set forth.
2. The arrangement and construction of elastic tips, buffers, pads and the like,
substantially as described with reference to the annexed drawings.
Dated this 16th day of February 1897.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE.