Improvements in the Junctions or Corner Pieces of Cornice Poles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Aug., 1895-Accepted, 14th Sept., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Junctions or Corner Pieces of Cornice Poles.
We, FRANCIS SKETT, of 66 Bordesley Green Road, Birmingham, Brass
Finisher, and JAMES GEORGE HALL, of Wrottesley Street, Birmingham,
Manufacturer, and both in the County of Warwick, do hereby declare the nature
of our said 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 for its object improvements in the junctions or corner pieces
of cornice poles, which are simple in construction, very strong, and neat in
appearance.
In order that our invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried
into practical effect, we have appended hereunto a double sized sheet of drawings
upon which we have illustrated an example of our invention sufficient to enable
others to apply it to the various conditions and circumstances which are met with
in every day practice.
Figure 1, is an exterior plan of one side A of the junction piece showing a
portion of the cornice pole P attached thereto.
Figure 2, is an exterior plan of the other side B of the junction piece also
showing a portion of the cornice pole P attached thereto.
Figure 3, is an exterior plan showing the two sides A and B brought together
thus forming the complete junction with the screws fastening them together.
Figure 4, is an elevation of the junction as seen at Figure 3 in plan.
Figure 5 is a horizontal sectional plan on the line 1-2 Figure 4.
Figure 6 is a general view with the junction pieces A. and B bent to an angle
with a broken off piece of pole P. P. attached to each junction piece.
We have shown the junction piece A at Figure 5 as made in one casting as
also B though we do not confine ourselves to the particular mode of manufacture as
they may be made from stampings or partly stampings and partly castings. The
part A has a blank end with the boss at which secures the shank end of the
screw S; that is to say, S may be laid in the mould and the metal run round it thus
securing it in position, and the shank of S may be roughed for the purpose in
the well known way or the end may be made sufficiently thick not to require the
boss a¹ and this applies to b¹ of the other end B. The two curved wings a¹ and a
forms a part of A and the recess a³ serves to clean out the core from the parts
after the castings are made, but they may on the other hand be made solid but we
prefer them solid. The pivot holes as may be surrounded by internal bosses a
unless the metal is made sufficiently thick to carry a thread for the junction screws 6º.
The top and bottom of A carries the recesses a into which the projections 6 of B
exactly fit so as to form a knuckle joint and thus the strain upon the screws 6' is
somewhat relieved. The action is exceedingly simple and is as follows:-The
screw pins are placed at the extremes of the joint so as to reduce the liability
of the joint to deflect under vertical strain and the knuckle action is upon these
pins and upon the projection 62 and socket pieces a and the wings a' and a² merely
fill up or stop the gaps when the joint is in a such like position as that shown by
Figure 6. These joints may be made of any desired size and to any design or
configuration so far as the ornamentation is concerned. The ends of the junction
pieces A and B may be united to the poles P by the screws S run into wood or
other plugs Was is well understood.

page_text: 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 :-
The improved junction or corner pieces consisting essentially of the two
parts A and B united together at their most distant extremities with suitable
connections S to couple them to the poles P substantially as & for the purpose
herein set forth and shown upon the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 13th day of August 1895.
GEORGE BARKER,
77 Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent.