Improvements relating to Wall and other Brackets, Table Stands, and such like Ornamental Articles.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 20th June. 1891-Accepted, 1st Aug. 1891
COMITTEN MUITA ITO.
Improvements relating to Wall and other Brackets, Table Stands,
and such like Ornamental Articles.
I, JOSEPH KAY, of St. Martin's House Micklegate, York, Commission Agent,
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 produce new and attractive forms of wall and
other brackets, table stands and such like ornamental articles.
With this object in view I utilise animals' horns, such as cows' horns, and secure
them in any suitable manner with their open ends upwards to brackets, stands or
other ornamental articles, so that they form receptacles or holders for cut or dried
flowers, plants, grasses, mosses and for various other articles or objects.
I use horns the interior of which have been cleaned so as to entirely remove all
animal tissues or other organic matter and I preferably grind and polish the
exterior surface of the horns.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings shews a wood or other bracket A which
is intended to be secured suspended or otherwise attached to the wall of a room or
other place, or to any suitable object. The horn B is securely fastened to the
bracket by means of a band C of flat polished brass, wire or other suitable material.
The ends D of the band C are preferably passed through a hole E in the bracket
and are turned over at right angles and secured flat to the back of the bracket as
shown in Figure 2 which represents a back view of the bracket shewn in
Figure 1.
Figure 3 shews a double bracket the two parts A and A¹ of which are hinged
together as at F F so that the bracket may be hung upon a flat wall or may be
fitted into a corner as desired.
Figure 4 shews an ornamental stand to be placed on a table or on the floor,
having one or more horns B secured to cach of its arms G and with a horn cup H
on the top.
Figure 5 shews a perspective view and Figure 6 a horizontal or plan section of
three horns secured together in such positions as to mutually support each other
and form a stand which is adapted for table decorative purposes. The manner in
which the band C is wound round the three horns is shewn in Figure 6 but I do not
restrict myself to this particular mode of securing the horns together.
The drawings are furnished as illustrations of the manner in which animals' horns
may be used for table and other decorative purposes, but I do not confine myself
to the details herein shewn and described nor to the use of horns with the articles
shewn.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
The use of animals' horns for decorative purposes the horns being secured with
their open ends upward so as to form receptacles or holders for cut or other flowers
and for various other articles and objects substantially as described.
TY
ليمي
CASTLE SMITH,
Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.