Improved Method of Attaching Castors to Metallic Bedsteads.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Nov., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 7th Aug., 1896-Accepted, 7th Nov., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Method of Attaching Castors to Metallic Bedsteads.
I, THOMAS KENDRICK, of Summer Works, Summer Lane, Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Bedstead Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to provide a means for attaching the castors to
metallic bedsteads in a way whereby certain objections and difficulties inseparable
from the ordinary method of attachment are entirely overcome. By the term
ordinary method of attachment I mean the fixing of the castor to the foot of the
pillar of the bedstead by rivetting. This process is not only attended by considerable
danger to the vases and other elevated portions of the bedstead, but also presents
an all-but insuperable barrier to the successful removal and replacement, of a
damaged castor. My invention renders the process of castoring absolutely, free
from danger to the bedstead, and makes the removal of a damaged castor a perfectly
easy and simple matter.
I accomplish my object as follows :—
I cast a peg into the foot plug of the bedstead pillar similar to the ordinary
castor peg except that it has a hole drilled, punched or drifted. and tapped at the
end over which the castor is to be passed. When the castor has been passed over the
peg into position, a small washer or disc, preferrably of iron, and having an apperture
in centre, is placed on the end of the peg and secured in that position by a. small
screw, preferrably of brass, which is passed through the central apperture of the
disc or washer, and engages in the tapped hole in the castor peg. The castor is
thus readily secured in its place, and may as readily be removed by means of an
ordinary screw-driver. In some cases, I dispense with the disc or washer, .and
employ a screw with a head of greater diameter than that of the bore of the castor
horn.
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No special construction of castor is needed, and only the ordinary form..of
wrought iron castor peg is employed.
Dated this 6th day of November 1895.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Method of Attaching Castors to Metallic Bedsteads.
I, THOMAS KENDRICK, of Summer Works, Summer Lane, Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Bedstead Manufacturer 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:-
The object of my invention is to provide a means for attaching the castors to
metallic bedsteads in a way whereby certain objections and difficulties inseparable
from the ordinary method of attachment are entirely overcome. By the term
ordinary method of attachment, I mean the fixing of the castor to the foot of the
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page_text: pillar of the bedstead by rivetting. This process is not only attended by considerable
danger to the vases and other elevated portions of the bedstead, but also presents
an all-but insuperable barrier to the successful removal and replacement of a
damaged castor. My invention renders the process of castoring absolutely free
from danger to the bedstead, and makes the removal of a damaged castor a perfectly
easy and simple matter.
I accomplish my object as follows :-
I cast a peg into the foot plug of the bedstead pillar similar to the ordinary
castor peg except that it has a hole drilled, punched or drifted, and tapped at the
end over which the castor is to be passed. When the castor has been passed over
the peg into position, a small washer or disc, preferrably of iron, and having an
apperture in centre, is placed on the end of the peg and secured in that position by
a small screw, preferrably of brass, which is passed through the central apperture
of the disc or washer, and engages in the tapped hole in the castor peg. The
castor is thus readily secured in its place, and may as readily be removed by means
of an ordinary screw-driver.
In some cases, I dispense with the disc or washer, and employ a screw with a
head of great diameter than that of the bore of the castor-horn.
No special construction of castor is needed, and only the ordinary form of wrought
iron castor-peg is employed.
I will now describe, with reference to the accompanying drawings, the manner
in which my invention is to be performed.
In Fig. 1 is shewn the first part of my invention. A. is a portion of a bedstead
pillar B. is the foot mount or casting: C. is the castor peg: D. is a disc or
washer, having a central perforation, shewn in elevation at D and in plan at D¹.
The castor peg is drilled and tapped from the bottom in a vertical direction, as
shewn at E, and I provide a screw, F, which after passing through the apperture
or perforation in the disc, (D, D',) engages in the tapped hole, E, and so secures the
castor which has previously been placed in its position upon the castor-peg.
Figs. 2 and 3 refer to the second part of my invention. A. is a portion of a
bedstead pillar, B the foot mount or casting, and C the castor-peg, which is
identical in every particular with that shewn in Fig. 1. In this form of my inven-
tion I dispense with the disc shewn in Fig. 1 at D. D' and substitute a screw
having a head of sufficient diameter to retain the castor when placed upon the
castor peg. The details of the parts, separated and partly in section, are shewn
in Fig. 2, and the combination of parts, with the position of the castor indicated in
dotted lines at G is shewn in Fig. 3.
The same letters of reference apply to the corresponding parts in Figs. 1, 2,
and 3.
It is to be understood that I do not limit myself to the precise form or proportion
of the parts shewn in the accompanying drawings, as, for example, in that part of
my invention shewn in Figs. 2 and 3,-when preferred I may reverse the male and
female portions of the screwed parts and make the fixed portion of the castor-peg
shorter, the remainder of its length being provided by the removable portion taking
the form of a tapped socket. In all cases, the said removable portions (whether
screws or sockets) are provided with nicked screw heads, so that to affix or remove
the castor, an ordinary screw-driver is all that is necessary, no nuts, keys, spanners
or wrenches being employed, the object of my invention being to facilitate and
simplify the attachment, removal, and replacement of the castor, and to avoid the
objections incident to the old method of rivetting.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :
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1st. The construction of a castor peg having a drilled, punched or drifted and
tapped hole at end, to receive a screw for the purpose and in the manner herein set
forth and specified

page_text: 2nd. The application in connection with the castor-peg specially prepared as
above, of a disc or washer having a central perforation for the purpose and in the
imanner herein set forth and specified.
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THOMAS KENDRICK.