Improvements in Attaching Ornaments to Metallic Bedsteads and other Articles of Metallic Furniture.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 16th July, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Apr., 1891-Accepted, 2nd May, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Attaching Ornaments to Metallic Bedsteads and
other Articles of Metallic Furniture.
I, EDWARD JAMES SMITH of the firm of Hoyland and Smith, of Soho Works
Heath Street South, Spring Hill, Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Manu-
facturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates principally to such bedsteads and other articles of metallic
furniture as are made of iron and consists principally of the improvements herein-
after described in attaching the rosettes and other ornaments of brass or other
metal to the junction pieces or chill castings by which the rods of the head and foot
rails of the said articles are joined. My improvements are however applicable to
bedsteads and articles of metallic furniture other than those made of iron and to the
attaching of ornaments other than the rosettes referred to.
I will describe my invention in connection with the attaching of a rosette of sheet
brass to the junction piece or chill casting by which the rods of the foot rail of an
iron bedstead are connected.
In order that my invention may be the better understood I remark that a rosette
of the kind referred to is ordinarily attached to the junction piece by means of a
screw fixed on the centre of the junction piece in the casting process.
The rosette
is passed onto the screw, the said screw passing through a central hole in the
rosette. A screw nut screwed onto the end of the said screw fixes the rosette on
the junction piece.
In attaching a rosette according to my invention I dispense with the screw and
screw nut described. I make the cast junction piece with a central or axial hole,
in which hole I drive tightly a piece of wood which completely fills or plugs the
said hole. I make in the centre of the rosette a small hole.
Having put the rosette in position on the junction piece I take a brass headed
nail and passing the point of the said nail through the hole in the rosette I drive
the nail home in the wood with which the hole in the junction piece is filled. The
rosette is thus firmly secured to the junction piece, the head of the nail which may
either be plain or ornamented forming when the nail is driven home an integral part
of the ornament.
Or instead of forming a hole in the junction piece I fix in the centre of the said
junction piece a short iron or steel tube the said tube being fixed in the junction
piece in the casting process as is well understood. This tube is filled or plugged
with wood into which wood the nail which fixes the rosette to the junction piece is
driven as hereinafter described.
Although my invention is principally applicable to the attaching of rosettes to
the junction pieces of metallic bedsteads and other articles of metallic furniture yet
it may be applied to the attaching of ornaments to any parts of the said articles
where a hole may be conveniently made or a tube is or may be inserted either by
the casting process or otherwise.
Dated the 16th day of Tu 1800

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Attaching Ornaments to Metallic Bedsteads and
other Articles of Metallic Furniture.
EDWARD JAMES SMITH of the firm of Hoyland and Smith of Soho Works,
Heath Street South, Spring Hill, Birmingham in the County of Warwick Manu-
facturers do hereby declare the nature of my 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 relates principally to such bedsteads and other articles of metallic
furniture as are made of iron and consists principally of the improvements herein-
after described in attaching the rosettes and other ornaments of brass or other
metal to the junction pieces or chill castings by which the rods of the head and
foot rails of the said articles are joined. My improvements are however applicable
to bedsteads and articles of metallic furniture other than those made of iron and to
the attaching of ornaments other than the rosettes referred to.
I will describe my invention in connection with the attaching of a rosette of sheet
brass to the junction piece or chill casting by which the rods of the foot rail of an
iron bedstead are connected.
In order that my invention may be the better understood I remark that a rosette
of the kind referred to is ordinarily attached to the junction piece by means of a
screw fixed on the centre of the junction piece in the casting process. The rosette
is passed onto the screw the said screw passing through a central hole in the rosette.
A screw nut screwed onto the end of the said screw fixes the rosette on the junction
piece.
In attaching a rosette according to my invention I dispense with the screw and
screw nut described. I make the cast junction piece with a central or axial hole in
which hole I drive tightly a piece of wood which completely fills or plugs the
said hole. I make in the centre of the rosette a small hole.
Having put the rosette in position on the junction piece I take a brass headed
nail and passing the point of the said nail through the hole in the rosette I drive
the nail home in the wood with which the hole in the junction piece is filled. The
rosette is thus firmly secured to the junction piece the head of the nail which may
either be plain or ornamental forming when the nail is driven home an integral
part of the ornament.
Or instead of forming a hole in the junction piece I fix in the centre of the said
junction piece a short iron or steel tube the said tube being fixed in the junction
piece in the casting process as is well understood. This tube is filled or plugged
with wood into which wood the nail which fixes the rosette to the junction piece is
driven as before described.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying drawing the
anner in which my invention is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in front elevation and Figure 2 in section a rosette attached
according to my invention to the junction piece or chill casting connecting the rods
of a foot rail together;
Figures 3 and 4 represent the same method of attachment applied to a rosette
having a different pattern;
Figure 5 represents in section the junction piece or chill casting before the rosette
is applied and attached to it;
Figure 6 represents in section the chills or metal moulds in which the junction
piece is cast and exhibits the way in which the conical recessed hole in the junction
piece is made and
Figure 7 represents in section a modification of my invention as hereinafter
described.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of the
drawing.
a is the junction piece or chill casting joining together the rods or tubes b, b, b of

page_text: the head or foot rail of the bedstead or other like article; c is the brass rosette (or
other ornament) attached to the junction piece according to my invention. For
this purpose cast the junction piece a with a central or axial hole d of a conical
figure as best seen in Figure 5, the said hole being provided with a screw like
depression. Into this conical hole da piece or plug of wood e is driven so as to
completely fill or plug the said hole. As the piece or plug of wood is driven into
the said hole it expands in the screw like depression in the said hole and the plug is
thereby effectually prevented from getting loose. The sheet brass or sheet metal
rosette has a small central hole made in it. The rosette having been put in
position on the junction piece a it is fixed in its place by means of the brass headed
mail: that is, the point of the nail is passed through the central hole in the
rosette and the said nail driven home in the plug of wood e with which the hole in
the cast junction piece is filled as represented in the sections Figures 2 and 4. The
rosette e is thus secured to the junction piece a the head of the driven nail f
forming an integral part of the ornament. A nail having a plain head is
represented in the drawing but the head of the nail used may be ornamented with
any desired pattern.
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In order to form the central hole d in the cast junction piece a and at the same
time to provide the necessary depressions in it for retaining the wooden plug in its
place use the steel drift represented in Figure 6 the said drift having a screwed
end. The screwed end of the drift y is passed through one of the chill moulds h, h
and made to project the required distance into the space enclosed by the moulds.
The junction being cast in the ordinary way there is produced in it the central
taper hole d provided with a screw like depression for the wooden plug to expand
into as before described and as represented in Figure 5.
Figure 7 represents my arrangement in which a short iron or steel tube i is fixed
in the junction piece a by the casting process the said tube being filled or plugged
with wood & into which the nail is driven for fixing the rosette e to the junction
piece a.
Although I prefer to make the hole in or to secure the tube in the cast chill
junction piece by the casting process by which the junction piece is made yet I do
not limit myself thereto as the hole or tube may be otherwise made in or secured in
the junction piece. For example after the cast junction piece has been made a
central hole may be drilled in it for receiving the wooden plug or for receiving the
tube into which the wooden plug is fixed.
And although my invention is principally applicable to the attaching of rosettes
to the junction pieces of metallic bedsteads and other articles of metallic furniture
as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing yet it may be
applied to the attaching of ornaments to any parts of the said articles where a hole
may be conveniently made or a tube is or may be conveniently inserted either by
the casting process or otherwise.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim
as my invention :-
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The improvements hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawing in attaching rosettes and other ornaments to the junction pieces or chill
castings and other parts of metallic bedsteads and other articles of metallic furniture;"
that is to say, attaching rosettes and other ornaments by casting or making
or fixing a tube in the junction piece or chill casting or other part to which the
rosette or ornament is to be attached, filling or plugging the said hole or tube with
wood and after putting the rosette or ornament in position on the chill casting or
other part, driving home a headed nail through the centre of the rosette or
ornament and into the plugged hole or tube substantially as described and illustrated..
Dated the 31st day of March 1891
EDWARD JAMES SMITH.