AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF IRON AND OTHER METALLIC BEDSTEADS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Allen, of Clifton, in the City and County of
Bristol, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
IRON AND OTHER METALLIC BEDSTEADS."
Sealed the 31st March 1857, and dated the 14th October 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Allen at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 14th
October 1856.
I, THOMAS ALLEN, of Clifton, in the City and County of Bristol, do hereby
declare the nature of the Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF IRON AND OTHER METALLIC BEDSTEADS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object an improvenient in the manufacture of
iron and other metallic bedsteads," and consists of forming castings or metal
corner pieces suitable for receiving tubular side, foot, and head rails, and also
tubular uprights or posts. For these purposes each of the corner pieces is
formed in one piece, having two vertical projections and two horizontal pro-
jections at right angles to each other. The lower vertical projection enters
and fits the tube which is to form a leg or lower part of an upright or pillar,
and the other vertical projection enters and fits the end of the tube which is
to form the upper part of a post or pillar; the horizontal projections receive
and fit into the tubes which are respectively to form a side rail and a. head or
foot rail. Each of the projections is formed with an enlargement or collar
against which the end of the tube comes, and the several tubes when slid on
to the projections are fixed there by pins, screws, or suitable instruments.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Allen in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 14th
April 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
ALLEN, of Clifton, in the City and County of Bristol, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Thomas Allen, Her special licence, that I, the said Thomas
Allen, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Thomas Allen, my 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,
usc, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IM-
PROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF IRON AND OTHER METALLIC BEDSTEADS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas Allen, my ex-
ecutors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their,
or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describo 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: I, the said. Thomas Allen, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner. the same is to be per-
formed; to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:
This Invention has for its object an improvement in the manufacture of
iron and other metallic bedsteads, and consists of forming castings .or. metal
corner: pieces suitable for receiving tubular side, foot, and head rails, and also
tubular uprights or posts. For these purposes each of, the corner pieces is
formed in one piece, having two vertical projections and two horizontal, pro-
jections at right angles to each other. The lower vertical projection enters
and fits the tube which is to form a leg or lower part of an upright or
pillar, and the other vertical projection enters and fits the end of the tube
which is to form the upper part of a post or pillar; the horizontal projections.
receive and fit into the tubes which are respectively to form a side rail and. a

page_text: head or foot rail. Each of the projections is formed with an enlargement or
collar against which the end of the tube comes, and the several tubes when
slid on to the projections are fixed there by pins, screws, or suitable
instruments.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shows a perspective view of one of the corner pieces of a bedstead,
and Figure 2 shews a perspective view of a bedstead with the sacking fixed to
the two side rails and the head and foot rails. In these Figures the same
letters of reference are used to indicate the same parts.
a, a, are the corner pieces, each of which is formed with two vertical
projections b and c formed thereon; the projection 6 is for receiving the
upright or post above the bedstead, and the projection c is for receiving one
of the legs of the bedstead. The posts and legs of the bedstead may be fixed
to the projections by means of screws or otherwise. It is preferred to heat
the ends of the tubes constituting the posts and legs and to shrink them on
their projections. d, d, are two horizontal projections formed on each corner
piece at right angles to each other; these are to receive the side and end rails
which it is preferred should be tubes, or have hollow ends to fix on the pro-
jections d, d; and in order to fix a sacking to such side and end rails screw.
apparatus is applied, which not only tighten the sacking, but they hold the
side and end rails, also the corner pieces, securely together; e, e, are the side
rails, and f, f, are the end rails; g is the sacking, which is attached to the rods
h, h, h, h, and they are attached by means of the screws i to the side and end
rails, as shown.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Allen, have hereunto set my
land and seal, this Thirteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Witness,
GEORGE FREDERICK SCHACHT,
Chemist, 7, Regent Pl., Clifton.
THOMAS ALLEN. (L.S.)