IMPROVEMENTS ARDIGANS
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Tylor, of the Firm of Tylor, Sons, &
Gilkes, of Queen Street, Cheapside, in the City of London, and of
Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Metallic Bedstead Manu-
facturers, and William Richard Martin, in the employ of the said
Firm, at Queen Street aforesaid, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
ARDIGANS
"
ealed the 14th December 1875, and dated the 19th June 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Tylor and
William Richard Martin at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 19th June 1875.
We, HENRY TYLOR, of the Firm of Tylor, Sons, and Gilkes, of Queen
Street, Cheapside, in the City of London, and of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Metallic Bedstead Manufacturers, and WILLIAM
RICHARD MARTIN, in the employ of the said Firm, at Queen Street
aforesaid, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN AND ADDITIONS TO METALLIC BEDSTEADS," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to improvements in and additions to metallic
bedsteads, and consists in constructing or forming the foot portion of a

page_text: bedstead with a screen or false foot piece, such screen being arranged
a short distance from the foot proper to establish a space or clearence
between them, into which space the counterpane and other coverings
of the bed can fall.
In carrying our Invention into practice we cast or otherwise attach
to the lower part of the foot legs by sockets or connections a foot screen
of the full width of the bedstead, or of a greater or less width, as desired,
and of such a height as may be desirable, a space being left between
the foot proper and the screen for a portion of a counterpane or other
coverlid to fall into, and present a neat appearance round the foot of
the bedstead from the regularity and equal depth of the fringe or edging
at the sides and bottom instead of the corners being puckered up to
lodge against the foot posts.
We purpose to so arrange the sockets that one castor will carry cach
corner of the bedstead and screen foot piece.-
The legs of the foot proper may spring from the lower ends of the
screen, and brackets may be used to give rigidity between them, the
brackets being preferably of an ornamental character, and carried well
forward, where they are attached to the side rails. Rods or bars may be
carried from the foot rail to the screen.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry Tylor and William Richard Martin in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 18th December 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, HENRY
TYLOR, of the Firm of Tylor, Sons, and Gilkes, of Queen Strect, 2
Cheapside, in the City of London, and of Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Iron Bedstead Manufacturers, and WILLIAM RICHARD
MARTIN, in the employ of the said Henry Tylor, at Queen Street afore-
said, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her a
Letters Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said Henry Tylor and William

page_text: Richard Martin, Her special license that we, the said Henry Tylor
and William Richard Martin, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others, as we, the said Henry Tylor and William Richard
Martin, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there.
after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Inven.
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND ADDITIONS TO METALLIC BEDSTEADS," upon
the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Henry Tylor and
William Richard Martin, our executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Henry Tylor and William Richard
Martin, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference
being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, that is to say :-
This Invention relates to improvements in and additions to metallic
bedsteads, and consists in constructing or forming the foot portion of a
bedstead with a screen or false foot piece, such screen being arranged
a short distance from the foot proper to establish a space or clearance
between them, into which space the counterpane and other covering
of the bed can fall.
In carrying our Invention into practice we cast or otherwise attach
to the lower part of the foot legs by sockets or connection a foot screen
of the full width of the bedstead, and of such a height as may be
desirable, a space being left between the foot proper and the screen
for a portion of a counterpane or other coverlid to fall into, and present
a neat appearance round the foot of the bedstead from the regularity
and equal depth of the fringe or edging at the sides and bottom.
instead of the corners being puckered up to lodge against the foot
posts.

page_text: We purpose to so arrange the sockets that one castor will carry each
corner of the bedstead screen foot piece.
In some cases we form the dovetail sockets on the corner pieces
of the foot rails, and arrange the dovetail pins to fit the sockets
on the end pieces of the side rails; but this order may be reversed.
Double sockets or dovetail pins can be cast or formed upon the
-angle joints for the connection of the side rails and the end rails.
The legs of the foot proper may spring from the lower ends of the
screen, and brackets may be used to give rigidity between them, the
brackets being preferably of an ornamental character, and carried well
forward, where they are attached to the side rails. Rods or bars may be
carried from the foot rail to the screen.
Our Invention will be well understood by reference to the accom-
panying Sheet of Drawings, in which,—
Figure 1 shows a perspective view of metal bedstead composed of
side rails a, a, head rails b, with upper part c of the usual height and
formation as part thereof; d is the foot rail with the legs e, e, stopped
short at the points f, f. The bottoms of the legs e, e, have socket
pieces 9, 9, abutting from them into which are chilled, in the casting
process or otherwise, the uprights h, h, of a screen, which is thus
arranged at a distance from the bedstead proper to give a clearance
between them for the coverlid to fall into from over the foot of the bed,
dispensing with the puckering up of the bed clothes at the foot corners,
as is now the case.
Figure 2 is a part perspective view of a bedstead with the screen
supported by brackets i, i, attached to the under side of the side rails,
and have the castors j, j, upon them to support the foot portion of the
bedstead, and also the screen, the lower parts of whose stems h, h,
with the brackets or branches j, j, are chilled or otherwise fixed into the
cast sockets J, I.
Figure 3 represents cast sockets g, g, on the bottom ends of the foot
legs e, e, the sockets having holes in them for the reception of pintles
k, k, on the lower ends of the stems h, h. The leg sockets may however
have pins upon them on to which other sockets of the hollow stems
themselves can be dropped over and be retained in position.
Figure 1 shows a part perspective view of a bedstead with a screen

page_text: at the foot, the screen having at the lower part of each stem a socket
from which is a projecting screw pin to pass through the socket piece
of the foot legs, and have nuts 1, 1, put over to screw up and fasten
the screen into close contact at that part; each of these socket pieces
has a castor attached.
Figure 5 represents a screen hooked on to the foot rail of a bedstead
by strap hooks m, m, which spring from the lower part of the screen.
The screen stems have projecting sockets or lugs n, n, to rest against
and steady the screen when affixed.
Figure 6 shows a double dovetail holed socket piece g with a castor j
attached. This socket piece receives the bottom ends of the foot leg e
and screen leg which are dropped into their respective holes as in the
Figure.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we claim as our
improvements in and additions to bedsteads,-
Making the foot portion of a bedstead so that it may have a screen
at a distance therefrom, and yet form part of such bedstead, as
and for the purposes set forth and shown in the annexed Sheet of
Drawings.
Secondly. Fitting a screen or a false foot on or to the foot portion
of a bedstead and at a distance therefrom by cast sockets, hooks,
or other attachments, permanently or temporarily, as and for the
purpose set forth.
In witness whereof, we, the said Henry Tylor and William Richard
Martin, have hereunto set our hands and scals, this Seventeenth
day of December, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
fivc.
HENRY TYLOR. (L.S.)
W. R. MARTIN. (L.S.)