Improvements in or relating to the Manufacture of Furniture or Mounts made from Sheet Steel or Iron for Ornamenting Bedsteads, Fenders, Firedogs, Fireirons, and articles of a like nature.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Nov., 1891-Accepted, 12th Dec., 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to the Manufacture of Furniture
or Mounts made from Sheet Steel or Iron for Ornamenting
Bedsteads, Fenders, Firedogs, Fireirons, and articles of a
like nature.
1, JOHN HENRY BIDDLE MANLY, of the Century Works, Lombard Street,
Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Brassfounder do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention has reference as hereinafter described to furniture or mounts used
for ornamenting bedsteads, fenders, firedogs, fireirons, and other similar articles.
In the manufacture of ordinary metallic furniture or mounts which-are known to
the trade as ball-vases, knobs, tees, mounts, caps, spindles, roses, fender supports,
and the like, used for ornamenting the aforesaid and other similar articles, it has
been usual to manufacture them of sheet or cast brass by a spinning or stamping
process.
By my invention I employ for the manufacture of the said articles sheet steel or
iron which enables me to make them much stronger, better in appearance and
materially lessens the cost of their production.
In carrying my said invention into practice I shape or fashion the articles
herein before described by the ordinary process of spinning or stamping, after which
I polish, burnish and lacquer them which gives them the appearance of polished
steel.
I
may if desired give the article the appearance of brass, copper, bronze or nickel
by coating them with a film of either of the said metals or other alloy, by the
process known as electro-depositing after which they are polished, burnished, and
lacquered.
In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated a few of the articles made in
accordance with my invention.
Figure 1. shows the footrail of a bedstead.
Figure 2. shows part of a fender.
Figure 3. a firedog.
Figure 4. a fireiron with the various articles attached.
In Figure 1. b. b. represents a ball-vase or knob which I have fully described in
a previous Specification No. 14170/1891, and which may be applied to a fender,
firedog or fireiron in place of the ornamental one shown at e. c. d. d. and e.
Figures 2. 3. and 4. or vice versa, the ornamental ball-vase or knob may be applied
to a bedstead rail instead b. b.
The mount f. g. g² or g³ Figure 1. may be applied as fender feet in the place of 9*
Figure 2.
The supports or spindles h. Figure 1, may be applied to a fender h³ Figure 2, or
to a firedog ³ Figure 3. or the mount Figure 1. may with slight modification be
used instead.
In Figure 1. I show other forms of furniture or mounts k. m. n. o. used for
ornamenting bedsteads which I may make of sheet steel or iron instead of brass in
accordance with my said invention.
I do not confine myself to any particular pattern, shape or detail of construction
for ornamenting the various parts or articles shown in the drawings but I wish it to
be clearly understood that the said parts or articles may be made in such shapes
and in such a manner as may be most convenient and suitable in each particular
case.

page_text: I have not thought it necessary to describe and illustrate the process of manu-
facture of the aforesaid articles, they being produced by spinning or stamping, a
process which is common and well known to that particular trade.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed declare that what I
claim is :-
The improvements in or relating to the manufacture of furniture or mounts for
ornamenting bedsteads, fenders, firedogs fireirons and articles of a like nature
from sheet steel or iron substantially as herein set forth and illustrated by the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 3rd day of November 1891
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.