An Improved Construction of Furniture, Upholstery, Packing Cases, and the like.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Sept., 1886.
Complete Left, 6th June, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 8th July, 1887.
An Improved Construction of Furniture, Upholstery, Packing
Cases, and the like.
We HERBERT TIPPER of 4 Station Road, Aston, Engineer, and HENRY JAMES
CARLYLE SOMMERVILLE of 17 Temple Street, Birmingham, Commission Agent, both
in the county of Warwick do hereby declare the nature of our invention to be
as follows:-
This invention relates to a certain improved construction of furniture, upholstery,
packing cases and the like and has for its object to provide a means of so constructing
the various parts or sections of such articles as to permit of their being readily
separated from each other when required and rejoined with equal facility. The
various parts of such articles as at present constructed are usually rigidly fixed
together either by dovetailing or equivalent rigid jointing but by our invention we
form one or more tenons or dovetailed projections on one of the bearing faces of
each joint adapted to be slidden freely into one or more corresponding mortices or
dovetailed grooves cut or formed in the face of the abutting part. The projections or
grooves may be formed on the parts themselves or may be of metal, hardwood,
or other suitable material attached thereto, and the parts when put together may be
secured from movement by a bolt or bolts suitably situated.
Dated this Sixth day of September 1886.
J. C. CHAPMAN,
70, Chancery Lane, W.C.,
Agent for Applicants.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Construction of Furniture, Upholstery, Packing
Cases, and the like.
We HERBERT TIPPER of 4 Station Road, Aston, Engineer, and HENRY JAMES
CARLYLE SOMMERVILLE of 17 Temple Street, Birmingham, Commission Agent, both
in the county of Warwick, 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:—
This invention relates to a certain improved construction of furniture, upholstery,
packing cases and the like and has for its object to provide a means of so constructing
the various parts or sections of such articles as to permit of their being readily
separated from each other when required and rejoined with equal facility. The
various parts of such articles as at present constructed are usually rigidly fixed
together either by dovetailing or equivalent rigid jointing, but by our invention we
form one or more tenons or dovetailed projections on one of the bearing faces of each
joint adapted to be slidden freely into one or more corresponding mortices or dove-
tailed grooves cut or formed in the face of the abutting part.
In Figures 1 to 3 of the accompanying drawings the invention is illustrated as 1
applied to a table, and in Figures 4 and 5 to a box or packing case.
Figure 1 is a plan of the legs and frame of a table constructed on this principle
with the table board removed: Figures 2 and 3 are respectively side and end
elevations of same: Figures 4 and 5 are respectively a plan and elevation of a box
with top removed. Similar letters refer to similar parts in all of these figures.
a a are tenons or projections preferably dovetailed formed on one bearing surface
of each joint, and bb are corresponding mortices or grooves cut or formed in the
bearing surface of the abutting part; only a single such mortice and tenon is shown
on each bearing surface in the figures though under certain circumstances we find it
advantageous to form two or more as required.
The tenon or tenons may be formed on either abutting surface, as may be most
convenient, in a table such as is illustrated we prefer to form it or them upon the legs,
as thus the side and end bars of the frame and then the table board are more readily
placed in position.
The projections and their corresponding grooves may be formed upon and in the
parts themselves, or for extra strength and durability they may be of metal hardwood
or other suitable material let into and rigidly attached thereto as though they were
formed upon and in the parts themselves.
The parts are made to correspond and fit well and closely but to slide freely upon
each other so as to form a firm connection. Suitable stops or projections such as c
may be formed in any convenient situations to ensure the exact position of the
separate pieces when put together, and they may then be secured from movement in
their places if necessary by one or more screwed bolts and nuts such as d passing

page_text: through and securing the parts. The position of such bolts will depend upon the
class of articles. By this construction each joint consists of a sliding and not a rigid
connection and on removing the bolts (if used) the various parts may be readily
slidden apart and separated when desired for warehousing packing, removal and the
like, and put together with equal facility.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we claim is
The hereinbefore described improved construction of furniture upholstery and the
like consisting in forming the abutting surfaces of the various joints with sliding
connections substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described and
illustrated.