An Improvement in the Manufacture of Metallic Bedsteads.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Sept., 1887
Complete Left, 15th June, 1888
Complete Accepted, 20th July, 1888
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in the Manufacture of Metallic Bedsteads.
We EDWARD PEYTON of Bordesley Works Birmingham in the County of Warwick
Metal Bedstead Manufacturer and THOMAS BOURNE of the same place Machinist do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our improvement applies specially to bedsteads with extended foot rails as is well
understood in the trade, but we do not limit its use to that class of bedsteads.
Our improvement consists in making the end bar (usually of angle iron) which
connects the foot pillars of a bedstead curved or with curved ends instead of straight
as heretofore and this applies equally to bedsteads made with what are known as tight
ends and to those in which the end bar or angle iron is loose and attached in the usual
way with dovetail joints to the pillars.
When the arrangement of parts is as heretofore practiced it is obvious that
sufficient space has to be provided in the length of the dovetail block to allow the
end bar or angle iron (whether cast into the corner block or attached by a dovetail)
to come between the pillar and the face of the dovetail block. This is objectionable
for many reasons as is well understood. According to our improvement the length of
the dovetail block between its face and the pillars need not be nearly so great, in
fact no more than in dovetail blocks as ordinarily made for bedsteads in which the
foot-rails are not extended.
In bedsteads with non extended foot rails the end bar or angle iron is immediately
under the foot rail that is in the same line from pillar to pillar, which cannot be the
case with extended foot rails. It follows therefore that if the required position is not
obtained by increasing the length of the corner block, the end bar or angle iron
must be curved so as to remove it outside the line of the foot-rail from pillar to
pillar.
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TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane,
Agents for the Applicants.

page_text: An Improvement in the Manufacture of Metano DOUBT
We EDWARD PEYTON of Bordesley Works Birmingham in the County of Warwick
Metal Bedstead Manufacturer and THOMAS BOURNE of the same place machinist
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 :-
Our improvement applies specially to bedsteads with extended foot rails as is
well understood in the trade but we do not limit its use to that class of bedsteads.
Our improvement consists in making the end bar (usually of angle iron) which
connects the foot pillars of a bedstead curved or with curved ends instead of straight
as heretofore and this applies equally to bedsteads made with what are known as tight
ends and to those in which the end bar or angle iron is loose and attached in the usual
way with dovetail joints to the pillars.
When the arrangement of parts is as heretofore practiced it is obvious that sufficient
space has to be provided in the length of the dovetail block to allow the end bar
or angle iron (whether cast into the corner block or attached by a dovetail) to come.
between the pillar and the face of the dovetail block.
This is objectionable for many reasons as is well understood. According to our
improvement the length of the dovetail block between its face and the pillars need not
be nearly so great in fact not more than in dovetail blocks as ordinarily made for
bedsteads in which the foot rails are not extended.
In bedsteads with non extended foot rails the end bar or angle iron is immediately
under the foot rail that is in the same line from pillar to pillar which cannot be the
case with extended foot rails. It follows therefore that if the required position is not
obtained by increasing the length of the corner block the end bar or angle iron
must be curved so as to remove it outside the line of the foot rail from pillar to
pillar.
And in order that our invention may be clearly understood and readily carried into
nnestice we will proceed to describe the drawings hereto annexed.
Fig. 1. represents in plan the dovetail corner as hitherto made in bedsteads with a
extended foot rails. a is the corner casting or block b is the end bar or angle iron
cast into it and the dotted lines. c represent the extended foot rail. In Fig. 2. a¹ b¹ c¹
respectively are the corresponding parts when made according to our improvements.
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page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is.-
The improved construction of metal bedsteads by making the foot rail 61 curved
substantially in the manner and for the purpose hereinbefore described and represented
in Fig. 2 of the drawings hereto annexed..
Dated thin IRIL