AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING METALLIC BEDSTEADS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF METALLIC FURNITURE
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Walter Winfield, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Merchant and Manufacturer, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING METALLIC BEDSTEADS
AND OTHER ARTICLES OF METALLIC FURNITURE."
Sealed the 7th January 1862, and dated the 30th October 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Walter Winfield
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
30th October 1861.
I, ROBERT WALTER WINFIELD, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Merchant and Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said In-
vention for "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING METALLIC
BEDSTEADS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF METALLIC FURNITURE," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in ornamenting metallic bedsteads and other articles
of metallic furniture by means of ornaments made in part of glass, china,
or earthenware, or other vitreous or semi-vitreous material, and in part
of metal. The parts of the ornament made of glass or such like material are
fixed in the parts made of metal, and the several parts of the ornament are
thus secured together. The glass or non-metallic parts of the ornament may
be made of imitation opal or other precious stones, and may be gilded or
painted upon, and the metallic parts of the ornament may be made of brass,
and either lacquered or silvered or gilded. For ornamenting the pillars or

page_text: rods of articles of metallic furniture I usually make the ornaments of a ring-
like figure, so that they may fit upon the said pillars; but I do not limit
myself either to any general figure in the ornaments or to any particular
method of attaching them to the article to which they are applied.
My Invention is applicable to the ornamenting of metallic bedsteads and
cots, chairs, couches, sofas, and to other articles of like manufacture.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Walter Winfield in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 24th April 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
WALTER WINFIELD, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Merchant
and Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Robert Walter Winfield, Her special licence that I, the
said Robert Walter Winfield, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Robert Walter Winfield, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of
Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING
METALLIC BEDSTEADS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF METALLIC FURNITURE,"
upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Robert Walter Winfield, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their,
or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Robert Walter Winfield, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-

page_text: My Invention consists in ornamenting metallic bedsteads and other articles
of metallic furniture by means of ornaments made, as herein-after explained
and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing, partly of glass or enamel, and
partly of metal. The glass or enamel parts of the ornaments are engaged or
fixed in the metal parts, the several parts of the ornaments being secured
together by the metal parts. The glass or enamel parts of the ornaments may
be made of imitation opal or other precious stones, or of glass or enamel,
either plain or colored, in any desired manner, or they may be. gilded or
painted upon. The metallic parts of the ornaments may be made of brass or
other metal or alloy, either lacquered, bronzed, silvered, or gilded. For orna-
menting the pillars of metallic bedsteads, or rods of metallic furniture, I
usually make the ornaments of a ring-like figure, so that they may fit upon
and encircle the said pillars or rods; but I do not limit myself either to any
general figure in the ornaments, or to any particular method of attaching them
to the articles to which they are applied.
Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying Drawing represent in elevation
bedstead.pillars ornamented according to my Invention, the ornaments on the
said pillars being composed of ring-like ornaments of glass or enamel alter-
nating with ring-like ornaments of metal.
I
.In order that the construction of the said ornaments may be the better under-
stood, I have represented some of the said ornaments of full size in Figures 3,'
4, 5, and 6. Figure 3 represents in elevation, and Figure 4 in vertical section
the ornament marked a, situated under the corner block of the bedstead'
pillar, Figure 1, the said section, Figure 4, showing also a portion of the pillar
and corner block. Figure 5 represents in elevation, and Figure 6 in vertical
section, the ornament marked b, situated under the corner block of the pillar,
Figure 2; the said section, Figure 6 also shewing in section part of the pillar
and corner block. The parts marked c, in Figures 3, 4, 5, and 6, are of glass
or enamel, and the parts marked d are of metal. The manner in which the
parts of the ornaments c, d, are held together and fixed upon the pillars by
the screwing of the lower metallic part of the ornament to the screwed tube e,
passed on to the pillar and fixed thereon by a pin or pins f, will be understood
by an examination of Figures 4 and 6. In the ornament, Figures 3 and 4,
the larger or convex rings c are of glass or enamel, and the smaller or concave
rings d are of metal, while in the ornament, Figures 5 and 6, the smaller
concave ring c is of glass or enamel, and the larger convex rings d are of
metal. The terminal ornaments of the bedstead pillars, Figures 1 and 2, are
composed of alternate parts of metal and glass or enamel.
As the several
ornaments on the pillars, Figures 1 and 2, are made up of alternate rings of

page_text: glass or enamel and metal joined together and connected to the pillars, essen-
tially in the manner herein-before described and illustrated in Figures 3, 4, 5,
and 6, I do not consider a further description of the said ornaments necessary.
In the ordinary method of applying glass or enamel to the ornamentation of
metallic bedsteads, and other articles of metallic furniture, the whole of the
ornaments are made of glass or enamel, that is to say, the ornaments,
Figures 3 and 5, are made wholly of glass or enamel, supported at top and
bottom by metallic collars or shoulders. The essence of my Invention consists
in ornamenting metallic bedsteads and other articles of metallic furniture by
the use of ornaments composed partly of glass or enamel and partly of metal,
the said glass or enamel and metal parts being made to alternate with one
another, in the manner herein-before described and illustrated in the accom-
panying Drawing.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I do not
limit myself to the precise details described and represented in the Drawing,
as the same may be varied without departing from the nature of my Inven-
tion; but I claim as my Invention the improvement or improvements in
ornamenting metallic bedsteads and other articles of metallic furniture, herein-
before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing, that is to say,
ornamenting the said articles by the use of ornaments composed partly of
glass or enamel and partly of metal, the said ornaments being constructed and
applied essentially in the manner herein-before described and illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Walter Winfield, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
Witness,
RICHARD SKERRETT,
ROBERT WALTER WINFIELD.. (L.S.)
Clerk to George Shaw.