Year: 1896

page_text: I SAMUEL BIGGS of Eggford, in the Parish of Whatley near Frome in the County
of Somerset Wood Turner do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The improvements consist in the manner of fixing the several parts of the Towel
Rails or Horses together. Instead of boring the receiving holes partly through the
uprights & other parts & inserting the rails & other parts & then fixing with
glue, I may bore my receiving holes partly through & then continue smaller holes
right through. I may then insert the said rails & other parts into their respective
receiving holes, and into the opposite side & through the aforesaid smaller holes
I may insert screws which may pass into the ends of the said rails or other parts &
thus fix the whole together. This will also enable me to send out the Towel Rails or
Horses in parts ready for fixing together in the manner above described & avoid
the enormous number of breakages which occurs in the transit of these fragile
articles when sent out glued together in the usual way.
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I, SAMUEL BIGGS, of Eggford, Frome, in the County of Somerset, Wood Turner, 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 nature of this invention is the provision of certain improvements in the
construction of Towel rails or horses whereby the several parts of the same may
be readily and easily taken apart and re-assembled, to the end that the said Towel
rails or horses being a fragile article, may be taken apart and packed in small
compass for safer transit, storage, and the like.
To perform this my invention I make the towel rails or horses in the following
manner or similar thereto, I make the uprights by preference as heretofore but
instead of boring holes partly through the uprights to receive the rails and inserting
the rails and fixing the same by glue, I bore the receiving holes partly through the
uprights to receive the rails and continue smaller holes of a suitable size right
through the said uprights, I fit the rails into the said holes up to a shoulder, I then
insert screws into the smaller holes, the said screws engaging and screwing into the
rail ends, on the screws being tightened up the rail ends are drawn into the uprights
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page_text: up to the shoulders thus securely fixing the rails; on withdrawing the said screws the
rails may be taken out and the towel rail or horse packed in small compass as
herein before set forth.
In the accompanying drawings Figs. 1 23 & 4 are side and end elevations of the
said Towel rails or horses, A A being the uprights and B B B the rails, Figs. 5 & 6
are sections of the screwed joints, A being the upright and B the rail shouldered
thereinto, C is the screw and D Fig. 6, a washer or plate which may be used to
prevent the head of the screw sinking into the upright A.
I may make any or all of the joints of Towel rails or horses in the manner before
described or similar thereto.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The application of screwed joints as described or similar to those described in the
foregoing specification and shewn in the accompanying drawings, to the construction
of Towel rails or horses, to the end that the said Towel rails or horses may be easily
and readily taken apart for transit and storage and re-assembled as hereinbefore set
forth and described.