Improvements in Corrugated Sheet Metal Posts or Columns.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Jan., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 11th Sept., 1894-Accepted, 24th Nov., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Corrugated Sheet Metal Posts or Columns.
GEORGE HENRY DENTON No. 10 Stanley Street North Shields County of
Northumberland Foreman Galvanizing Works do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be follows:-
My invention has for its object to provide for easy transport, & facility of erection
of posts or columns, consisting of corrugated conical cylinders, of desired lengths,
made from sheet metal, rolled or pressed to the taper required to step into each
other, provided with spigot & faucit ends, or studs, or rivets fixed near each end
to form a landing for each other, the whole being braced together by a bolt from
crown to base plate.
Fig. A in drawing shews one length of corrugated conical or tapered cylinder.
The ends shewn are half section of the same.
Fig. B shews six lengths stepped or fitted (about half their diameter) into each
other their ends resting upon shoulders or projections provided for the purpose.
Dated this Third day of January 1894.
GEORGE HENRY DENTON.
Improvements in Corrugated Sheet Metal Posts or Columns.
GEORGE HENRY DENTON No. 10 Stanley Street North Shields County of
Northumberland Foreman Galvanizing Works 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 :-
My invention has for its object to provide for easy transit & facility of erection
of posts or columns consisting of corrugated conical cylinders of desired lengths
made from sheet metal rolled or pressed to the taper required to step into each
other, provided with spigot & faucit ends, studs or rivets, or triangular stay plates
fixed near each end to form a landing for each length to rest upon the whole being
braced together by a bolt from crown to base plate.
As per drawings "left with the Provisional Specification"
Fig. A shews one length. The ends shew half section of same.
Fig. B shews six lengths stepped or fitted about half their diameter into each
other their ends resting upon shoulders, projections or triangular stay plates, see
drawing accompanying the Complete Specification.
Fig. C shews stay plate with ends to take the breadth of two corrugations.
Fig. D shews stay plate with ends to take one corrugation in the section of
column to which it may be riveted or bolted as desired. The stay bolt may be in
one length or made up of a number of short lengths screwed together by coupling
nut Fig. E the said stay bolt being carried through the centre holes shewn in
stay plates reaching from crown to base of post or column, bracing all the sections
firmly into each other substantially as shewn & described.
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of my said
invention & in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
First. A corrugated post or column made out of sheet metal in lengths fitting
into each other telescopically, the ends resting upon projections or stay plates.

page_text: Second. The use of one bolt full length or short lengths made up by nuts
coupling each other together, & reaching from crown to base plate of column
bracing all sections together substantially as herein before described & illustrated.
Dated this 9th day November 1894.
GEORGE HENRY DENTON.