Improvements in Castors for Furniture.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 28th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 2nd Dec., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Castors for Furniture.
WALTER HENRY GABRIEL, 5 & 6 A. B. Row, Birmingham Gentleman, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention, is to produce upon the flat plate of the horn-piece, a
perfect receptacle, for the puminel of the pivot, to work therein without any
additional bearings being fitted, or fixed, in the receptacle, as casting parts, or
over-lapping, when a round ring, or hole, is made on the plate, for the purpose of
holding any such analogous parts fixed therein.
In carrying out my improvements in castors for furniture, I cut from a sheet of
brass a narrow, strip, or blank, the middle portion of the blank being straight & the
end portions slightly curved. On the middle of the blank, I form in the centre
thereof, a receptacle, to receive any shaped pattern pummel on the pivot, that may
be required, this receptacle is mad deep, & about the same thickness of metal
throughout, by being annealed as many times as may be required. While passing
through the processes (if required) to get the desired form in stamping, or pressure
of dies, or drawing by tools, or spun in a lathe, or worked in a machine, etc. etc.
The horn-piece afterwards is made in the ordonary way, with the different parts
required for a castor for furniture.
Dated this 3rd day of March 1893.
JOHN
BENNETT,
1, Cherry Street, Birmingham, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Castors for Furniture.
I, WALTER HENRY GABRIEL, of 5 and 6 A. B. Row, Birmingham, Gentleman
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 relates to improvements in castors for furniture, bedsteads and
other similar articles.
The object of my invention is to produce from sheet steel, iron, brass or other
suitable metal, a blank which I afterwards form or fashion into a horn piece with a
perfect receptacle for the pummel of the pivot, to work therein, the said body
or frame being produced either by a stamping or a drawing through process or by
other suitable means.
I will describe my invention in reference to the accompanying drawings, the
same letters of reference indicating similar parts throughout.
Figure 1 represents a metallic blank having two curved ends A. A.
Figure 2 shows the same blank with the middle portion cupped into the form.
shown at B. by suitable tools.
Figure 3 shows the same blank after being operated on by other tools, which
produce the cup shaped receptacle D for the pummel E of the pivot and shown in
section at Figure 5.
Figures 4, 5, 6 and 7 show the blank bent by means of suitable tools into the horn
piece C, C, which are afterwards pierced or drilled for the axle of the wheel
or roller F when placed in position as shown in Figures 4, 5, 6 and 7.
Figure 7 shows a complete castor for ordinary furniture provided with the
pivot G, the pummel bearing E shown separately at Figure 74 which is connected

page_text: to the body of the castor by rivetting the end of the pummel at H over the end of
the cup shaped receptacle D.
Figures 8, 9 and 10 represent a castor used for bedsteads produced from a blank
Figure 11, the curved ends A. A. being longer than those used for ordinary
furniture castors, forming the horn piece C. C. The cup shaped receptacle D being
made conical for the reception of a taper pin or peg commonly used on bedsteads to
form the pivot bearing instead of the pummel shaped pivot.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :
1. The improvements in castors for furniture, bedsteads and the like, the body of
which is made from sheet steel, iron, brass or other metal, substantially as described
and illustrated in the drawings and for the purpose set forth.
2. In the body or frame of a castor made from sheet steel, iron, brass, or the horn
piece C. C. the cup or conical shaped receptacle D forming a pummel or pivoted
bearing substantially as described and illustrated in the drawings and for the
purpose set forth.
Dated this 26th day of October 1893.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.