Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 7th June, 1886
Complete Left, 9th Feb., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 11th Mar., 1887.
I HENRY SEPTIMUS WHITEHOUSE of the firm of John Whitehouse and Sons of
Green Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick Manufacturers do hereby
declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
My invention has reference to that part of castors for furniture called the horn and
consists in making the parts of the horn and connecting them together in the manner
hereinafter described.
I cut from sheet brass or iron or other ductile metal or alloy a narrow strip or
blank the middle portion of the blank being straight and the end portions slightly
curved. The extreme ends of the curved portions are semi-circular in outline and
are pierced with holes for the pin of the castor bowl or roller to pass through. Where
the curved parts set in pairs of shoulders are formed for the purposes hereinafter
described. The blank thus made is bent at its middle into a semi-circular figure the
curved ends of the blank being thereby brought parallel to one another. In the
semi-circular bend of the horn thus made a socket is fitted and fixed. This socket
which is made by casting has a conical seat at top the said scat being made in a
horizontal plate cast in one piece with the socket. This plate has a nearly semi-
circular figure or a figure nearly corresponding to that of the semicircular bend in the
horn. On the exterior of the socket and on opposite sides are lugs or bearing pieces.
The socket is dropped into the semi circular bend of the horn and its plate supported
on the upper edges of the horn the straight edge of the said plate taking a bearing
against the upper pair of shoulders on the said horn. When the socket is in its place
it is steadied and its proper position preserved by the lugs described and a portion of
the socket bearing against the inside of the semi-circular bend of the horn. The space
between the bottom of the socket and the semi circular bend in the horn is covered by
a washer or bottom plate having the same figure as the top plate of the socket the
said washer seating itself on the lower edges of the horn the straight edge of the

page_text: washer bearing against the lower pair of shoulders on the horn. The lower end of
the socket passes through a hole in the washer and by riveting or expanding the
projecting bottom of the socket on the washer the socket and the washer or bottom
plate are secured to the horn. The peg at the bottom of the leg or pillar of the
article of furniture passes through and works in the socket a conical part of the peg
seating itself in the conical seat at the top of the socket.
The peg is rivetted on the underside of the socket in the horn in the ordinary way.
By attaching a socket of the ordinary kind to the castor described it is converted
into a socket castor.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION
Improvements in the Manufacture of Castors for Furniture.
I HENRY SEPTIMUS WHITEHOUSE of the firm of John Whitehouse and Sons, of
Green Street, Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Manufacturers do hereby
declare the nature of my Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention has reference to that part of castors for furniture called the horn and
consists in making the parts of the horn and connecting them together in the
manner hereinafter described.
I cut from sheet brass or iron or other ductile metal or alloy a narrow strip or
blank the middle portion of the blank being straight and the end portions slightly
curved. The extreme ends of the curved portions are semi circular in outline and are
pierced with holes for the pin of the castor bowl or roller to pass through. Where
the curved parts set in pairs of shoulders are formed for the purposes herein after
described. The blank thus made is bent at its middle into a semi circular figure the
curved ends of the blank boing thereby brought parallel to one another. In the
semi circular bend of the horn thus made a socket is fitted and fixed. This socket
which is made either by casting or of sheet metal has a conical scat at top, the said
seat being made in a horizontal plate cast in one piece with the socket. This plate
has a nearly semi circular figure or a figure nearly corresponding to that of the semi
circular bend in the horn. On the exterior of the socket and on opposite sides are
lugs or bearing pieces. The socket is dropped into the semi circular bend of the horn
and its plate supported on the upper edges of the horn the straight edge of the said
plate taking a bearing against the upper pair of shoulders on the said horn. When
the socket is in its place it is steadied and its proper position preserved by the lugs
described and a portion of the socket bearing against the inside of the semi circular
bend of the horn. The space between the bottom of the socket and the semi-circular
bend in the horn is covered by a washer or bottom plate having the same figure as the
top plate of the socket, the said washer seating itself on the lower edges of the horn,
the straight edge of the washer bearing against the lower pair of shoulders on the
horn. The lower end of the socket passes through a hole in the washer or bottom
plate and by riveting or expanding the projecting bottom of the socket on the washer
the socket and the washer or bottom plate are secured to the horn. The peg at the
bottom of the leg or pillar of the article of furniture passes through and works in the
socket, a conical part of the peg seating itself in the conient seat at the top of the
socket.
The peg is rivetted on the underside of the socket in the horn in the ordinary way.
By attaching a socket of the ordinary kind to the castor described it is converted
into a socket castor.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in side elevation; Figure 2
partly in side elevation and partly in vertical section and Figure 3 in front elevation,
a plate castor the horn of which is made according to my invention.

page_text: The other Figures represent the horn blank and parts of the horn and castor as
herein after described.
In the said Figures 1, 2 and 3, the curved arms of the horn carrying the bowl or
roller c are marked a, a the semi circular bend of the horn is marked a and the
socket and its plate are marked dd. The washer or bottom fixing plate is marked
and the peg of the castor is marked e.
In making the hora and connecting the parts together I proceed as follows; I cut
out at a press or stamp from sheet brass or iron or other ductile metal or alloy a blank
of the kind represented in Figure 4, the middle part a² being straight, and the end
portions a, a curved. The ends of the curved parts or arms a, a of the horn are
pierced at for the pin of the castor bowl to pass through. On the straight part a² of
the horn blank are shoulders y. y. By bending the straight part a² of the blank
Figure at its middle into a semi circular figure, the curved ends or arms a, a of the
blank are brought parallel to one another as represented in plan in Figuro 5 and
front elevation in Figure and constitute the arms a, a of the horn of the castor
represented in Figures 1. 2 and 3. The said arms a, a are connected together by the
seini circular bend or band a².
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The socket, 2 to be fitted to and fixed in the bend as of the horn thus made is
represented in elevation and section in Figure 7 and plan in Figure 8. The said
socket has a plate at its top of the shape best seen in Figure 8, that is, it has a
shape nearly corresponding to that of the semi circular bend in the horn. In the
plate of the socket is a conical seat for the conical or hemi-spherical part on the
castor peg e to work in (see Figure 2) and on opposite sides of the socket plate are
lugs or bearing pieces dd. When the socket is fitted in the semi circular bend a
of the horn, the plate of the said socket is supported on the upper edges of the
said horn, the shoulders, on the said plate taking a bearing against the pair
of shoulders, on the said horn as represented in side elevation in Figure 9 and
plan in Figure 11. The socket is connected to the horn by means of the lower fixing
plate (shown separately in Figure 12). The said plate fits upon the projecting
bottom of the socket d and its shoulders abut against the arms a, a of the horn.
By riveting or expanding the projecting bottom of the socket upon the underside of
the plate das represented in section in Figure 10 the horn and its socket and plates
are connected together. The lower part of the peg e (shown separately in Figure 13)
is passed through the socket and rivetted upon the concave washer (shown
separately in Figure 14) and the castor is complete, the hemi spherical or conical
part of the pege seating itself on the conical scat d' at the top of the socket as seen
in Figure 2. The peg e carries the usual screw which is driven into the leg of the
furniture and also carries the plate which is screwed to the said leg.
By substituting a socket for the screw and plate represented on the peg, a socket
castor is formed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention and
the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as my
invention―
The improvements in the manufacture of the horns of castors for furniture herein
before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing; that is to say, making
the horn and socket in the manner described and illustrated and connecting them
together by riveting or expanding the bottom of the socket upon a shouldered washer
or hottom plate substantially as described and illustrated.
HENRY SEPTIMUS WHITEHOUSE.