A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF ORNAMENTING METALLIC BEDSTEADS AND SUCH OTHER ARTICLES OF FURNITURE AS ARE OR MAY BE MADE OF METAL
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Herbert Room, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, and William Morton, of Birmingham aforesaid, Manufacturers.
and Copartners, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF
ORNAMENTING METALLIC BEDSTEADS AND SUCH OTHER ARTICLES OF FURNITURE
AS ARE OR MAY BE MADE OF METAL."
Sealed the 6th June 1854, and dated the 24th March 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Herbert Room and William
Morton at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition,
⚫ on the 24th March 1854.
We, HERBERT ROOM, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, and
WILLIAM MORTON, of Birmingham aforesaid, Manufacturers and Copartners,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED
METHOD OF ORNAMENTING METALLIC BEDSTEADS AND SUCH OTHER ARTICLES OF
FURNITURE AS ARE OR MAY BE MADE OF METAL" to be as follows:-
Our said Invention consists in ornamenting metallic bedsteads and other
articles of metallic furniture by the use of ornaments made of glass, china, or
other vitreous and semi-vitreous substance. The said ornaments may either
be additions to bedsteads and articles of metallic furniture made in the usual
manner, or the said ornaments of glass or china may constitute ornamented

page_text: portions of the framing or other part of the said articles where the same is
admissible; for example, the caps of bedstead pillars and other articles may
be made of the said glass or china. We do not limit ourselves to any precise
method of applying glass, china, or other vitreous or semi-vitreous substance to
the ornamenting of articles of metallic furniture, as as the same may be applied
in various ways. The said ornaments of glass, china, or other vitreous or
semi-vitreous substance may either be plain, or colored or gilded, stained or
painted with any desired patterns.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Herbert Room and William Morton in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 20th September 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, HERBERT
ROOM, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, and WILLIAM MORTON, of
Birmingham aforesaid, Manufacturers and Copartners, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Herbert Room and William Morton, Her special licence that we, the said
Herbert Room and William Morton, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Herbert Room and William Morton,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter 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 Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF
ORNAMENTING METALLIC BEDSTEADS, AND SUCH OTHER ARTICLES OF FURNITURE AS
ARE OR MAY BE MADE OF METAL," upon the condition (amongst others) that we,
the said Herbert Room and William Morton, by an instrument in writing
under our hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Herbert Room and William Morton,
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, that is to say:-
Our said Invention consists of a method of ornamenting metallic bedsteads
and other articles of furniture made of metal, herein-after particularly described,
which said method consists principally in attaching or connecting ornaments of
glass, china, and other vitreous or semi-vitreous matters to the said bedsteads
and articles of furniture, but which said method is also applicable to the
ornamenting of the said articles of furniture by the use of ornamental parts
made of metal or other solid substance.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents, in elevation, a bedstead
pillar ornamented according to our Invention; Figure 2 represents a vertical
section of the same; and Figure 3 represents in elevation the several external
parts of the same disconnected from one another. a is a metallic upright or
rod, which constitutes the true pillar, and to which said upright or pillar the
ornamental parts are connected in the following manner:-b is a shoulder on
the rod a; c is the corner block, to which the side rails are attached by the
dove-tail d, or otherwise the said corner block is dropped on the rod a, the
said rod passing through a hole in the said corner block, and the said corner
block rests on the shoulder of the rod a. The ornamental collars e, f, are.
passed on the pillar a, a, from opposite ends, and drop into recesses made
for their reception in the corner block c; the taper or other tubes g, h, are
passed upon the pillar a, and engage with the ornamental collars e, f, as shewn
in Figure 2, and the ornamental caps i, k, terminate the ornamental pillar at
the top and bottom respectively. The cap i may screw on the top of the pillar
a, as represented in Figure 2, or it may drop thereon and be surmounted by
an ornament screwed on the top of the pillar, and the bottom cap k may either
slide on the pillar a, as represented, and the said pillar a be terminated by the
castor l, or the said cap k may be screwed directly on the bottom of the pillar.
Instead of making the ends of the tubes g, h, engage on the exterior of the
collars e, f, we sometimes make the said ends engage in the interior of the said
collars.
We have described the several parts of the pillar, Figures 1, 2, and 3,
in the order which we believe will most readily render our Invention in-
telligible, but the order in which the several parts are put together is as
follows:-
The bottom end of the rod a is screwed into the castor 1, and the other parts.

page_text: are dropped in succession on the rod a from the top thereof in the following
order, namely, the cap k, the tube h, collar f, corner block c, collar e, tube g,
and cap i, which last, or an ornamental termination surmounting it by being
screwed on the top of the rod a, secures the whole together. The tubes g, h,
collars e, f, and caps i, k, may be made of glass, porcelain, earthenware, or
other vitreous or semi-vitreous substances, and may be plain in figure, as
represented, or fluted, or otherwise ornamented, and may be uniform in colour,
or coloured with different colours in any desired patterns, or the said tubes
and collars and caps may be made of metal or any other solid, by which an
ornamental effect may be produced. If the cap is not surmounted by
an ornamental top the said cap is made in metal, in order that it may
screw on the top of the rod a. Instead of screwing the lower end of the
rod a into the castor 1, and causing the several parts of the lower half of
the pillar to rest on the said castor, we sometimes make a shoulder near the
bottom of the rod a, and cause the several parts of the lower half of the pillar
to rest on the said shoulder. Figure 4 represents, partly in vertical section
and partly in elevation, another bedstead pillar constructed according to our
Invention; and Figure 5 represents a transverse section of the same through
the line m, Figure 4. The said bedstead pillar is put together in a manner
resembling in all essential respects the method by which the pillar, Figures 1,
2, and 3, is put together; but the said pillar, Figure 4, is in its lower part
furnished with plane sides, ornamented with panels; the said panels are
attached to the said plane sides by being dropped in the dovetails n, n, Figure 5.
Although we have only described our Invention in connection with a bedstead
pillar, yet our said Invention is also applicable to the pillars or legs of chairs,
couches, cots, sofas, and such other articles of furniture as are or may be
made of metal.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, we wish it to be understood that we do not limit
ourselves to the precise methods herein described, as the same may be varied
without departing from the nature of our said Invention; but we claim as our
Invention, ornamenting metallic bedsteads and such other articles of furniture
as are or may be made of metal in the manner herein described and illustrated
in the accompanying Drawing, that is to say, by encasing in the manner described
and represented the pillars of the said articles of furniture in ornamental
casings made of glass, china, earthenware, or other vitreous or semi-vitreous
substances, metals, metallic alloys, and such other solids as are or may be
applicable to ornamenting the same; also the application of ornamental panels

page_text: to the pillars of the said articles of furniture, in the manner herein described
and illustrated in Figures 4 and 5 of the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, we, the said Herbert Room and William Morton,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Eighteenth day of Sep-
tember, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
fifty-four.
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
HERBERT ROOM.
(LS.)
WILLIAM MORTON. (L.S.)