IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE AND ORNAMENTATION OF METALLIC BEDSTEADS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF LIKE MANU- FACTURE
Year: 1862

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Richard Cromwell Taunton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 10th December 1862..
I; JOHN RICHARD CROMWELL TAUNTON, of the Firm of Taunton and Hatton,
of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturers, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE AND
ORNAMENTATION OF METALLIC BEDSTEADS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF LIKE MANU-
FACTURE," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists, firstly, in manufacturing the pillars of metallic bed-
steads and other articles of like manufacture by casting the said pillars of
malleable cast iron or of brass in the following manner :-I cast the pillar and
corner block (without the dovetail socket) and the leg all in one piece, the
casting being hollow or tubular. I effect the casting in sand wholly cored
with a sand or loam core as ordinarily employed in making hollow casting.
The ends of the pillar and leg may either be cast open or closed. When they
are cast open at the ends, the said ends are provided with top and bottom
mounts, which may either be cast on the said ends by means of chills or iron
moulds, or cast separately in sand or chills and afterwards fastened on the
ends. The dovetail socket of the corner block is cast in the following manner :-
I make hollows in or projections on the corner bloek, the said projections having
heads, and the said hollows being of such a figure that metal cast in them will
be fixed therein. Over these hollows or projections I place chills or iron
moulds, having internally the figure of the dovetail socket of the joint. Into

page_text: the said mould I run molten iron, and thereby cast upon the corner block the
dovetail socket required to affix the side of the bedstead to the pillar, the said
dovetail socket being secured to the corner block by being cast upon the pro-
jection on or engaging in the hollow or recess in the corner block.
Instead of casting the pillar and leg and corner block (without dovetail
socket) of malleable cast iron or brass in one piece, the said pillar and leg may
be cast separately in sand or chill moulds, and united by common chilled or
malleable iron corner blocks. These pillars and legs may be made in one or
more pieces divided either horizontally or vertically, and united by means of
chilled mounts or bands. I also cast bedstead pillars, corner blocks (without
dovetail sockets) and legs, in one or more pieces by the use of chills or iron
moulds, instead of sand moulds. In this case I use sand or loam cores for the
purpose of casting the said pillars and legs hollow, and I also use an iron core
or shell inside the corner block for the purpose of reducing the weight of metal.
These castings may be produced either closed or open at the ends, and have
terminations such as are herein-before described. In all cases where I employ
'malleable cast iron I anneal it in' the usual manner.
My Invention consists, secondly, in ornamenting metallic bedsteads and
other articles of like manufacture in the following manner:-I cast ornaments
of iron, brass, or other metal on the outside of the angle iron or other frame of
the bedstead or. other article, or on any other part of the bedstead or article
which it may be wished to ornament. At the parts where the ornaments are
to be cast, I rivet or screw rivets or screws having heads, or I make a hole or
holes at those parts. When the ornaments are cast upon those parts they are
fixed by being cast upon the heads of the rivets or screws, or by a part of the
molten iron running through the holes and forming heads on the side of the
frame opposite to that which is ornamented. When the ornament is attached
by means of the holes described, chills or moulds are placed on either side of
the place where the casting is effected so as to form the ornament on one side
and the head on the other. Or the ornaments of malleable iron or brass or:
other metal may be made separately, and attached by rivets or by casting in
chills or iron moulds.