An Improved Method of Connecting or Attaching the Pillars or Posts to the Corners or Angle Blocks in Metallic Bedsteads and Cots.
Year: 1899

page_text: An Improved Method of Connecting or Attaching the Pillars or Posts
to the Corners or Angle Blocks in Metallic Bedsteads and Cots.
We, HOYLAND & SMITH, LTD., of Soho Works, Western Road, Spring Hill, in
the City of Birmingham, Bedstead Manufacturers, and FREDERICK CHARLES
RANDALL, Manager of Works, residing at 374, Rotton Park Road, in the City
of Birmingham, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention is an improved method of connecting or attaching the pillars
or posts to the corners or angle blocks in metallic bedsteads and cots, its chief
object being to obtain a pillar or post perfectly plain in appearance in contra-
distinction to the usual construction where the said pillar or post is surrounded
or embraced by a corner or angle.
The method according to this invention is as follows:-A hole is drilled or
otherwise formed through the plain tubular post or pillar level with the ordi-
nary elevation of the main angular or tubular frame bars of the bedstead, and
is suitably tapped or screw threaded; the said hole being approximately three-
quarters of an inch in diameter. Within the interior of the tubular post is
loosely fitted a block or short metal piece to constitute a locking nut, the said
block or piece having a horizontal screw threaded hole through it to come coin-
cident with the tapped hole in the post, and conforming to the curved section
of a part of the interior of the pillar so as to nicely fit it. The cross section
of the block or nut is preferably semicircular. The one end of a screw threaded
bolt, of the same size and pitch as the holes in the post and nut, engages both
these latter and is screwed into them, through into the interior of the post,
until the said end impinges against the opposite face of the bore of the post
and causes the said nut lock the bolt firmly in position upon the said post or
pillar and make it practically a rigid part thereof. A part of the said bolt,
having a head or enlargement upon it, projects from the side of the post, which
said post is now placed within suitable stocks or moulds to form the corner or
angle block, and molton iron is run into the said stocks or moulds around the
projecting part of the screw bolt, the metal of the said corner or angle block
when formed extending up the said bolt just sufficient to slight embrace the
post at the point where the said bolt projects from it; it being clearly under-
stood that the corner or angle block does not in any way surround the post.
The screw bolt is thus chilled within the angle or corner and the post thereby
becomes attached to the said corner as if it were a rigid part thereof.
The essential feature in the method described is the projecting part, such as
the bolt's head-end, upon the post and the chilling of the same within the
corner or angle block so that the said post or block becomes a rigid part, and

page_text: this without the block or corner in any way surrounding the post to interfere
with its plain appearance.
Dated this 28th day of September 1899.
An Improved Method of Connecting or Attaching the Pillars or Posts
to the Corners or Angle Blocks in Metallic Bedsteads and Cots.
We, HOYLAND & SMITH, LTD., of Soho Works, Western Road, Spring Hill, in
the City of Birmingham, Bedstead Manufacturers, and FREDERICK CHARLES
RANDALL, Manager of Works, residing at 374, Rotton Park Road, in the City
of Birmingham, 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 comprises the hereinafter described improved method of con-
necting or attaching the pillars or posts to the corners or angle blocks in metallic
bedsteads and cots. The said improved method is one which will make an
extremely rigid and effective connection or attachment, and this in such a manner
that the pillar or post is left perfectly plain in appearance in contradistinction
to the usual method of attachment or connection where the said pillar or post
is surrounded or embraced by a corner or angle, the result of the method as
aforesaid being to enable a bedstead to be rigidly put together according to
what is known as the "Chippendale" design.
The invention is illustrated or shown carried into effect in the accompanying
sheet of drawings in one form in Figs. 1 and 2 and in another form in Fig. 3.
Fig. 1 shows a sectional plan and Fig. 2 a vertical section of the manner in
which the connection or attachment of the pillar or post to a corner block or
angle is made according to this invention. A hole a² is drilled or otherwise
formed through the side of the plain tubular pillar or post a level with the
ordinary elevation of the main angle or tubular framing of the bedstead, the
said hole being in Figs. 1 and 2 left plain, but in Fig. 3 tapped or screw-
threaded. Within the interior as of the tubular post a is loosely fitted a block
or short metal piece e to constitute a locking nut, the said block or piece having
a horizontally-disposed screw-threaded hole through it, to come coincident
with the plain or screw-threaded hole in the post, and conforming to the
curved section of a part of the interior a² of the pillar, so as to nicely fit it.
The cross section of the block or nut is preferably semi-circular as shown.
The one end of a screw-threaded bolt of the same size as the holes a², c³,
engages the said block or nut in Figs. 1 and 2 and the said block or nut and
pillar or post in Fig. 3, and is screwed into it, or them, through into the interior.
of the post until the said end impinges against the opposite face at of the bore
of the post and causes the said nut to lock, by a clamping action, the bolt d
firmly in position upon the said post or pillar and make it practically a rigid
part thereof.
A part of the said bolt, preferably having a head or enlarge-
ment upon it as shown, projects from the side of the post when the said bolt
becomes a rigid part with the pillar.
The said post is now placed in suitable stocks or moulds to form the corner or
angle block c and molten iron is run into the stocks around the projecting part
of the bolt d so as to cover the said bolt and tightly embrace the post a at the

page_text: point where the said bolt projects from it; it being however clearly understood
that the said corner or block e does not in any way sufficiently embrace the post
or pillar to interfere with its external plain appearance. The part of the
screw bolt d is thus chilled within the angle or corner e, thereby attaching the
corner to the post as if they were one rigid part.
The essential feature in the method described is the provision of the project-
ing part, such as the bolt's head end, on the post or pillar, and the chilling of
the same within the corner or angle block, or the casting round the said bolt's
end a corner or angle block so that the pillar or corner become a rigid part,
and this without the block or corner in any way surrounding the post so as to
interfere with its plain appearance.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that
what we claim is:-
First. In metallic bedsteads and cots, connecting or attaching a pillar or post
to the corner or angle block by rigidly connecting to the said pillar or post a
projecting part such as d², and subsequently casting around the said projecting
part the corner block or angle, substantially as described.
Second. In metallic bedsteads and cots, connecting or attaching a pillar or
post to the corner or angle block by rigidly attaching to the said pillar or post
in the manner and by the means described and set forth a projecting part such
as, and subsequently casting around or upon the said projecting part the
angle or corner block.
Third. The particular method herein described and shown for connecting the
pillars or posts and corners or angle blocks in metallic bedsteads and cots."
Dated this 27th day of June 1900.
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
11, Burlington Chambers, New Street, Birmingham,
Also at Liverpool, London and Manchester,
Patent Agents for the Applicant.