Improvements Connected with Corner Pillars and Legs of Cot Bedsteads.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Nov., 1886.
Complete Left, 8th Aug., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 9th Sept., 1887.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements Connected with Corner Pillars and Legs of
Cot Bedsteads.
I HORATIO MYER of Vauxhall Walk, Surrey, Iron Bedstead Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is, to make the corner pillars of iron or brass cot
bedsteads in two pieces and to screw them together for attachment said screw passing
through the boss which connects the side and end rails. The screw is preferably of
wrought metal attached to the leg in the casting process, or to a shoulder piece cast
on a wrought tubular leg, the nut for the screw being in the upper end similarly fixed
in position in the upper end or in a shoulder cast thereto.
I am aware that legs and upper corners have been made in separate pieces but there
has been no sound method of attaching them rigidly together. Now, by my invention
the parts are so arranged that the corner pillars where great strength is required are
rigidly attached to give solidity to the cot as a structure.
Dated this 10th day of November 1886
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said H. Myer.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements Connected with Corner Pillars and Legs of
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Cot Bedsteads.
I, HORATIO MYER, of Vauxhall Walk, Surrey, Iron 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 this invention is to make the corner pillars of iron or brass cots,
bedsteads, such as I show on the annexed drawings Figure 1 in two pieces A, B, see
Figure 2 and to screw them together for attachment, said screw (passing through
the boss D which connects the side and end rails E, F. The screw Cis, preferably of
wrought metal attached to the leg A in the casting process, or to a shoulder piece G
cast on a wrought tubular leg A, see Figure 3, the nut H for the screw C being in
the upper end B, similarly fixed in position in the upper end or in a shoulder cast
thereto.
I am aware that legs and upper corners have been made in separate pieces but there
has been no sound method of attaching them rigidly together. Now by my invention,
the parts are so arranged that the corner pillars A, B, where great strength is required
are rigidly attached to give solidity to the cot bedstead as a structure.
The screw pin C may be threaded for the whole of its length, or a part of said pin
may be plain and the plain part may be of round, or oval shape, or angular, the hole in
boss D being shaped to correspond.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is
1. The particular method of preparing corner pillars and legs of a metal cot,
bedstead, as described and shown for the purpose explained.
2. The means or method of securing the corner pillar and leg of a metal cot,
bedstead, as described.
1395
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said H. Myer.