FURNITURE CASTERS
Year: 1884

page_text: WILLIAM YATES Watchmaker Sheraton N Malmesbury Wilts do hereby declare
the nature of my invention for FURNITURE CASTERS to be as follows:-
A upright frame holding ball or roller and a rotary motor fixed at a certain
angle to frame with a spindle above working in a cup or tube as shown in
drawings.
Fig 1 Shows half of table leg with Caster inserted.
Fig 2 Shows section of half of cup or tube A with plate B and circular flange O
also spindle D with flat side of rotary motor E connected with front view of round
or square frame F for ball or roller G.
Fig 3 Shows section of half of cup or tube A with plate B and circular flange C
also spindle D with end view of rotary motor E connected with side view of round
or square frame F for ball or roller G.
Fig 4 Shows bottom plate B circular flange C with rotary motor
E.

page_text: WILLIAM YATES Watch Maker Sherston Nr Malmesbury Wilts do hereby declare
the nature of my invention for FURNITURE CASTERS 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 improvements in Furniture Casters and is made so as
to carry the entire weight bearing on the centre and directly underneath the leg of
the furniture giving greater strength and durability and working better than
casters constructed in the manner hitherto employed.
In order to make my invention better understood I will now proceed to describe
the same by reference to the accompanying drawings.
Fig 1 Shows a caster inserted in a section of a leg of a piece of furniture.
Fig 2 Shows section of cup or tube A with bottom plate B and flange C also
spindle D with side view of Motor E attached to or forming part of round or square
frame F for holding ball or roller G.
Fig. 3. Shows cup or tube A with bottom plate B and flange C also Spindle D
with end view of Motor E attached to or forming part of square or round frame F
for holding ball or roller G.
Fig. 4. Shows bottom plate B with flange C and bottom view of Motor E.
In carrying out my invention I provide a cup or tube with a plate at bottom a
hole in the centre of the plate forming a flange in which works a pointed oval
motor forming part of a upright Spindle and fixed at a certain angle above the
frame that holds the ball or roller so that on moving the furniture the reverse way
to which the ball or roller turns the flange presses against the point or end of the
motor which immediately throws round the ball or roller in any direction the
furniture is required to move.
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
Firstly, A upright Spindle attached to or forming part of the frame that holds
the ball or roller.
Secondly, A cup or tube for the Spindle to work in with a flange for the motor
to revolve in.
Thirdly, A pointed oval motor on Spindle to turn the ball or roller in any
direction required.
Fourthly; The construction and employment of the emproved furniture caster
arranged and operating substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein
before described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings or any mere
modification thereof.
In witness thereof I the said William Yates have hereto set my hand and
seal this tenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and eighty four.