Elastic Ball Feet for Metallic Bedsteads and Furniture of Every Description.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Nov., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 29th Mar. 1893-Accepted, 13th May, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Elastic Ball Feet for Metallic Bedsteads and Furniture of Every
Description.
CHARLES MASLEN 11 Dyers Buildings Holborn London E.C. Merchant &
Commission Agent do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
In the bottom of the legs of any article of furniture or of separate cups or
sockets for fitting on same I have cast or turned a segmental hollow in depth
exceeding the half of the required circle into which I force a solid rubber or elastic
ball of the requisite diameter.
CHARLES MASLEN.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Elastic Ball Feet for Metallic Bedsteads and Furniture of Every
Description.
I, CHARLES MASLEN of 11 Dyer's Buildings, Holborn, in the County of
London, Merchant and Commission Agent, 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 bedsteads and other furniture legs and has for its
object to provide elastic feet therefor in a novel and simple manner and form.
Hitherto it has been proposed to apply elastic bodies of various forms to the
bottom of furniture legs in various ways but such attempts have mostly been either
clumsy or too expensive and having other drawbacks.
Now my present invention consists in the special form of the elastic bodies
(i.e. feet) and the special form and arrangement of the bottom of the furniture
legs-or of separate shoes or cups therefor-to receive and securely hold therein
such elastic bodies which latter according to my invention are formed spherical or
approximately spherical and the sockets to receive same are of corresponding
shape and of a greater depth than half the diameter of the elastic balls they are
formed to receive and hold so that the edge of such socket will be rather less in
diameter than the greatest diameter of the said ball consequently forming a slightly
overhanging edge or dovetail which (upon the elastic ball being forced into the said
socket) will thereby serve to securely hold said elastic ball in position either with
or without the use of cement or adhesive material inside such socket.
And in order that my particular invention may be clearly understood and readily
carried into practice will proceed to further describe same by way of example
with reference to the drawings hereunto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 shows the lower part of the leg a of a metal bedstead having a socket a
cast therein of a shape and size corresponding with that part of the elastic ball
which such socket is formed to receive and hold-thus the widest part of such ball b
being of greater diameter than the edge c of said socket therefore when the elastic
ball has been forced past the edge cinto said socket it will be thereby securely
maintained and held in the desired position.
The provision of this socket cast or formed in the bottom of each leg of
bedsteads or other furniture-ready to receive therein elastic ball feet according

page_text: to my invention-will not injuriously affect such furniture should same at any
time be used or required for use without the elastic insertions or feet therein.
Another advantage gained by my improvements is that the elastic feet can be
readily replaced or renewed whenever desired.
Fig. 2 shows a separate cup or shoe d having the upper socket e to receive the
furniture leg therein and the elastic ball b held in socket d' by the edge c (either
with or without cementitious material) as before described.
My improvements may be applied to all kinds of furniture either metal or
otherwise.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A spherical or approximately spherical shaped elastic body as an elastic foot
for bedsteads and other furniture in combination and acting in conjunction with a
socket or recess cast or formed in such furniture of a size and form to correspond
with the elastic body to be held therein the depth of such socket being greater
than half the diameter of said elastic body substantially in the manner and for the
purposes hereinbefore set forth.
2. In elastic feet for bedsteads and other furniture-a spherically shaped elastic
body such as b in combination and acting in conjunction with a correspondingly
shaped socket such as a' and edge c thereof substantially in the manner and for
the purposes herein before described and illustrated in the drawings hereunto
annexed.
Dated this 29th day of March 1893
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.