Improved Appliances for Fixing Posts and Rails and other like Structures.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Nov., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 16th Aug., 1899-Accepted, 16th Nov., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Appliances for Fixing Posts and Rails and other like
Structures.
JOHN COLE, Coach Builder, 22, Avenue Terrace, Turnham Green, London, W.,
and WILLIAM NEVILLE COLE, as above, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
Improved appliances for fixing posts and rails, and other like structures.
The object of this invention is the fixing of posts and rails and other like
structures without mortising.
The novelty of this invention consists of an improved appliance or appliances,
casted or moulded of iron or brass or other like metal and bolted or nailed on
the sides of the posts.
1st. It is made in sizes suitable for general rails and has a socket like
appearance.
2nd. It is made so that the rails can be made fast or can be taken out and
put together with ease.
3rd. It is made so that it can be adapted to close or park fencing.
4th. It is made so that the socket or part of it will be upon the bevel which
will allow the rails to be turned upward & upon reversing to the other side of
the post, will allow the rails to go downward.
5th. Others will be made so that they can be adapted to shores or shields in
sewer work and for buildings-The general idea throughout is to save the labour
of mortising and to strengthen the post or plate. And in sewer work to prevent
the timber from falling upon workmen below.
Referring to the description in Paragraph 1st. This is made with a socket
of suitable size to project about 1 in. or 2 in. more or less casted or moulded in
iron or other like material having a flange at the top and bottom with a hole
at each end to receive the bolt or screw or other fastening countersunk or other-
wise, and in the centre or some convenient part of the projection called the socket
there will be a hole through both sides intended for the fastening of the rail,
with a bolt or screw, and are specially adapted for enclosing small plots of
building land.
Referring to the description in Paragraph 2nd. This is made and intended to
be fixed the same as the aforesaid with the exception, that the top end of the
socket is open which will allow the rail to be taken out, or put together again
without displacing the pales or other like fixtures that may be upon them.
Referring to the description in Paragraph 3rd. This also will be made and is
intended to be fixed as the foregoing No. 1 & No. 2 the special feature in this is,
that it can be adapted to close or park fencing, as the centre hole in the socket
will receive the bolt or screw or other fastening for the first pale next to the
post.
Referring to the description in Paragraph 4th. This also is made and intended
to be fixed, the same as No. 1 with the exception that both ends of the socket are

page_text: upon the bevel. This kind of appliance can be used, when the ground is hilly,
as by changing it from one side of the post to the other it can be used in going
up or down a hill and can be used with either of the foregoing No. 1 & 2.:
Referring to the description in Paragraph 5th. These also are made and intended
to be fixed the same as the foregoing with the exception that the socket instead
of being square cornered, will be made of a half round shape, and in convenient
sizes so that odd ends of scaffold poles, can be used, as shores or shields, from
side to side to prevent the earth from side slip or falling in, as in deep sewer
and cemetery work, the projections before described will prevent the timber also
from falling upon workmen below.
Dated this 15th day of October 1898.
JOHN COLE.
WILLIAM NEVILLE COLE.
Improved Appliances for Fixing Posts and Rails and other like
Structures.
We, JOHN COLE and WILLIAM NEVILLE COLE, both of 22, Avenue Terrace,
Turnham Green, London, W., Coachbuilders, 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:
Improved appliances for fixing posts and rails and other like structures.
The object of this invention is the fixing of posts and rails and other like
structures without mortising. The novelty of this invention consists of an
improved appliance or appliances, casted or moulded of iron or brass or other like
metal, and bolted or nailed on the sides of the posts. First, it is made in sizes
suitable for general rails and has a socket like appearance. Second, it is made
so that the rails can be made fast or; can be taken out and put together with ease.
Third, it is made so that it can be adapted to close or park fencing. Fourth, it
is made so that the socket or part of it will be upon the level which will allow
the rails to be. turned upward and upon reversing to the other side of the
post,, will allow the rails to go downward. Fifth, others will be made so that
they can be adapted to shores or shields in sewer work and for buildings. The
general idea throughout is to save the labour of mortising, and to strengthen
the post or plate and in sewer work to prevent the timber from falling upon
workmen below.
For purposes of illustration we will now refer to the annexed drawings in
which:
Figure 1, is a side elevation shewing our invention.
Figure 2, view of modified arrangement of socket piece.
Figure 3, view of further modified arrangement.
Figure 4, view of still further modified arrangement.
Referring to Figure 1 in this case the socket a receives the end of the rail or
bar b, which is secured thereon through the medium of the bolt or pin
c or other
convenient arrangement. The socket piece a is attached to the post e in any con-
venient manner such as by the bolts d. The socket a¹ is set at an angle as shewn,
for the purpose of enabling this arrangement to be employed on hilly or inclined
surfaces, and it will be seen that by attaching the socket a to the piece e in the
position as shewn, the rails will be set at the desired angle, and by reversing the
position of the socket a¹ upon the next post this will be in a position to receive
the end of the rail or bars at the required angle.

page_text: In Figure 2, the top of the socket piece is opened for the purpose of facilitating,
a removal when required of the rod or bar which may be held therein, c being"
apertures for the reception of a locking bolt or pin, and f apertures for the passage
of a bolt or the like for securing the socket piece to the required support. In
Figure 3, the socket piece is shaped as shewn, and is provided with the apertures g
for the purpose of enabling the ends of rails or other material employed at what
is known as park fencing, to be connected, f being apertures for securing the
socket piece to the desired support or post. In Figure 4, this form of socket is
provided with a semicircular curved support h, and also the apertures f for the
purpose of securing the socket to the required support, this form of socket is
convenient for use with scaffold poles and such like, and employed for the purpose
of shores, struts, and shields, or from side to side of an excavation, such as a
sewer or cemetery work, such as grave digging, as these socket pieces can be
readily fixed to the required uprights, and the shores or shields supported thereon,
thus preventing the falling in of the earth, or, what is known as bratticing.
The socket pieces may be fixed to the bars preventing the falling in of the earth,
and the props or shores such as scaffold poles carried thereon, thus preventing the
accidental falling or displacement of the props or shores.
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. In appliances for fixing posts and rails and other like structures, the socket
pieces, substantially as described and illustrated herein, and for the purpose
set forth.
2. In appliances for fixing posts and rails and other like structures, a socket
piece consisting of a base for attachment to the required object, and a socket
carried upon said base, and set at the required angle relatively thereto for the
reception of a rod or bar, apertures for securing said rod or bar therein, said socket
being open at one or other of its sides when desired, and having a configuration
suitable for the reception of the required section of rod or bar, said socket piece
being secured to the desired surface or support in any convenient manner, sub-
stantially as described and illustrated herein and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 16th day of August 1899.
E. EATON,
Agent for Applicant.