IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF FASTENINGS FOR THE POSTS OF BEDSTEADS AND OTHER FRAMES
Year: 1842

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FRANCIS
KANE, of Cumberland Street, in the County of Middlesex, Mechanic, send
greeting..
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Seventh day of March, in the fifth year of Her reign, did, for
Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Francis
Kane, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I,
the said Francis Kane, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Francis Kane, my exors, adññiors, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF FASTENINGS FOR THE POSTS
OF BEDSTEADS AND OTHER FRAMES;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a
proviso, that I, the said Francis Kane, shall cause a particular description of
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in part
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto bad,
will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Francis Kane, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Juvention, and
the manner in which the same is to bo performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to
the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon,
that is to say:
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 represents a plan in section of, part of the framing of a bedstead;
a being part of one of the posts; b, b, being parts of the rails; and in place of
the ordinary mode of fastening the rails b, b, to the posts a, by passing screws
through the posts into the rails, I employ a screw in the following manner:-
c is a screw, by which the two rails b, b, and the post a are securely held
together by what I call the binding plate d, which lias projections d', d', at the
ends thereof, the projections d'entering into holes or recesses formed in the
rails b, b, and it is better that there should be a plate of metal e let into cach
of the rails b, with the requisite holes or recesses for the projections d¹ to enter,
ns is shewn, but such plates e, c, are not absolutely necessary to a good holding
of the parts a, b, b, together; f is a screw nut, which is introduced into the
post a, as is shown, by forming an oblique mortice hole from one of the mortice
holes in the post a, which receives one of the ends of one of the rails b, as is
shown. Figure 2 shows part of one of the rails & separately; Figure 8 shows
the binding plate d separately; and Figure 4 shows the screw and nut sepa-
rately. Supposing that it be desired to separate the parts a, b, b, the screw c
is withdrawn, and the plate d removed, when the rails 6, b, may be taken from
the post a.
I would remark that, in like manner, the fastenings described may be used
in securely holding together three parts of the frames of chairs, sofas, couches,
ottomans, tables, and other framings, which go together in a similar manner to
that described in respect to the parts a, b, b; and I would have it understood
that what claim is, the mode of combining the parts c and d with a suitable
nut for the screw when fasteuing the posts of bedsteads to the rails or framing;
and also, when fastening the parts of other framings where three parts come
together, in a similar manner to that described.
lu witness whereof, 1, the said Francis Kane, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Ninth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-two.
FRANCIS (L.B.) KANE.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Ninth day of August, in the
year of our Lord 1842, the aforesaid Francis Kane came before our said Lady
the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of
the Statute made for that purpose.