Improvements in Fixing and Securing Ornamental Substances to Parts of Bedsteads.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Sept., 1887
Complete Left, 6th Dec., 1887
Complete Accepted, 6th Jan., 1888
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fixing and Securing Ornamental Substances to
Parts of Bedsteads.
I, ARTHUR LIPSCOMB BAYLEY, of the Dispatch Works, Stanhope Street,
Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Bedstead Manufacturer, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to fix and secure ornamental substances to parts
of bedsteads, when such substances are of a kind or kinds needing a firm support.
For example, my improvements are applicable for fixing and securing plates of
mother-of-pearl, tortoise-shell, glass or metal.
I form a hollow cylinder or prism of metal, earthenware, vulcanite or other.
substance possessing sufficient strength and hardness.
The plates of the substance or substances used for ornamentation are secured to the
outside of the said hollow cylinder or prism of metal, earthenware, vulcanite or
other substance having sufficient strength and hardness to form a firm basis for such
ornamental substances.
Within the before mentioned hollow cylinder or prism is a lining or core of wood,
cork, felt or other partly elastic material.
This lining or core by its outer dimensions fits the inside of the hollow cylinder or
prism which carries the ornamentation, and by its inner dimensions fits on to the part
of the bedstead for which the so-constructed ornament is intended that is to say,
through each completed ornament some component part of the bedstead
and
passes,
the lining or core fits that part of the bedstead to fix the ornament in position.
Dated this 27th day of September 1887.

page_text: I, ARTHUR LIPSCOMB BAYLEY, of the Dispatch Works, Stanhope Street,
Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Bedstead Manufacturer, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
The object of this invention is to fix and secure ornamental substances to parts
of bedsteads, when such substances are of a kind or kinds needing a firm support.
For example, my improvements are applicable for fixing and securing plates of
mother-of-pearl, tortoise-shell, glass or metal.
I form a hollow cylinder or prism of metal, earthenware, vulcanite, or other
substance possessing sufficient strength and hardness.
The plates of the substance or substances used for ornamentation are secured to the
outside of the said hollow cylinder or prism of metal, earthenware, vulcanite, or
other substance having sufficient strength and hardness to form a firm basis for such
ornamental substances.
Within the before mentioned hollow cylinder or prism is a lining or core of wood,
cork, felt or other partly elastic material.
:
This lining or core by its outer dimensions fits the inside of the hollow cylinder
or prism which carries the ornamentation, and by its inner dimensions fits on to
the part of the bedstead for which the so-constructed ornament is intended that
is to say, through. cach completed ornament some component part of the bedstead
passes, and the lining or core fits that part of the bedstead to fix the ornament in
position.
The accompanying drawings shew the manner of putting my invention into
practice.
Fig. 1 shews a perspective view of an ornament of cubical form constructed
according to my invention, and suitable for the decoration of the pillow of a
bedstead.
Fig. 2 shews a sectional plan, and Fig. 3 a vertical section of the same. A hollow
prism of metal, or other hard material, a b c d e fg, is provided with a core or lining
of wood, or other elastic or semi-elastic substance, h; and this core is bored through to
fit on to the pillar of the bedstead.
The faces of the hollow prism are covered with thin plates of any suitable decorativo
material, such as mother-of-pearl.

page_text: The hard material of the hollow prism forms a firm basis for the more fragile
decorative material, and the core or lining is easily fitted to the pillow.
Similarly constructed compound ornaments may be applied to other parts of the
bedstead beside the pillars, the forms and sizes being varied as required.
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
The improvements in fixing and securing ornamental substances to parts of
bedsteads as described and illustrated