IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC BEDSTEADS, SOFAS, COUCHES, OR OTHER ARTICLES FOR SITTING OR RECLINING UPON.
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Peyton, of Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF METALLIC BEDSTEADS, SOFAS, COUCHES, OR OTHER ARTICLES FOR SITTING OR
RECLINING UPON.'
"
Sealed the 15th November 1870, and dated the 18th May 1870..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Peyton at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
18th May 1870.
I, EDWARD PEYTON, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC BEDSTEADS, SOFAS, COUCHES, OR OTHER ARTICLES
FOR SITTING OR RECLINING UPON," to be as follows :―
This Invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of metallic
bedsteads, sofas, couches, or other articles for sitting or reclining upon
by employing in their construction welded iron or steel tubes of various
sectional forms other than round or oval, a reeded, fluted, or other form

page_text: being imparted to such tubes by passing them when highly heated
through bell-mouthed dies which may vary in form according to the
character of the grooved, reeded, or fluted tube required, as described in
the Provisional Specification of a Patent now being applied for by me,
bearing even date herewith. By the application of welded iron or steel
tubes of this description to the construction of metallic bedsteads and
other similar articles a very superior ornamental effect is imparted
thereto as compared with metallic bedsteads constructed with plain
round metal rods or tubes, such welded tubes being also cheaper than
ornamental brazed tubes employed for this purpose. The employment ]
of tubes of this character also increases the strength of the bedstead or
other article to which they are applied.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Peyton in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 17th November 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
PEYTON, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Edward Peyton, Her special licence
that I, the said Edward Peyton, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward Peyton, my executors,
administrators, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF METALLIC BEDSTEADS, SOFAS, COUCHES, OR OTHER ARTICLES FOR SITTING
OR RECLINING UPON," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Edward Peyton, 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

page_text: 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 Edward Peyton, 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:-
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This Invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of
metallic bedsteads, sofas, couches, or other articles for sitting or
reclining upon by employing in their construction welded iron or steel
tubes of various sectional forms (other than round, oval, or square), a
reeded, fluted, or other form being imparted to such tubes by passing
them when highly heated through bell-mouthed dies which vary in
form according to the character of the grooved, reeded, or fluted tube
required, as described in the Specification of Letters Patent granted to
me bearing even date herewith, No. 1435. By the application of
welded iron or steel tubes of this description to the construction of
metallic bedsteads, sofas, couches, and other articles for sitting or
reclining upon a very superior ornamental effect is imparted thereto, as
compared with metallic bedsteads constructed with plain round metal
rods or tubes, such welded tubes being cheaper than ornamental brazed
or other tubes, or any other means employed for producing similar
effects. Welded iron or steel tubes drawn with grooved, fluted, reeded,
or ribbed surfaces, and employed according to my Invention in the
manufacture of bedsteads and other articles for sitting or reclining upon
in addition to being ornamental are of very superior strength, for I find
in practice that without increase in weight or cost they can be drawn of
any desired sectional form most suitable for the particular purpose or
position for which they are required, and that sectional shape can be
employed which will give the greatest strength by reason of its being of
the proper sectional form best calculated to resist the particular strain
to which it may be subjected.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, what I claim is
the improved manufacture of metallic bedsteads, sofas, couches, or other
articles for sitting or reclining upon by employing in the construction
thereof of welded iron or steel tubes of various sectional forms (except
round, oval, or square), as herein described, a reeded, fluted, grooved, or
other desired form being imparted to such tubes by drawing them
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page_text: through dies of suitable form, as described in the Specification of the
Letters Patent granted to me above referred to.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Peyton, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of November, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
Witness,
THOS. R. HARRISON,
Birmingham.
EDWARD PEYTON. (L.S.)