IMPROVEMENTS IN CASTORS FOR FURNITURE, AND IN THE METHOD OF ATTACHING THE SAME TO THE LEGS OF CHAIRS AND OTHER ARTICLES, PART OF WHICH INVENTION IS APPLICABLE TO SOCKET JOINTS AND FERRULES FOR BRUSH HANDLES, AND TO THE HANDLES AND OTHER PARTS OF DOMESTIC AND AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, AND TO BUSHES FOR CASKS."
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Sidney Crowley, of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CASTORS FOR
FURNITURE, AND IN THE METHOD OF ATTACHING THE SAME TO THE LEGS OF
CHAIRS AND OTHER ARTICLES, PART OF WHICH INVENTION IS APPLICABLE
TO SOCKET JOINTS AND FERRULES FOR BRUSH HANDLES, AND TO THE HANDLES
AND OTHER PARTS OF DOMESTIC AND AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, AND TO
BUSHES FOR CASKS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Sydney Crowley at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 8th November 1879.
JOHN SIDNEY CROWLEY, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Engineer.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CASTORS FOR FURNITURE, AND IN THE METHOD OF ATTACHING
THE SAME TO THE LEGS OF CHAIRS AND OTHER ARTICLES, PART OF WHICH
INVENTION IS APPLICABLE TO SOCKET JOINTS AND FERRULES FOR BRUSH HANDLES,
AND TO THE HANDLES AND OTHER PARTS OF DOMESTIC AND AGRICULTURAL
IMPLEMENTS, AND TO BUSHES FOR CASKS."
The first part of my Invention consists in forming a thread in the interior of an
ordinary cup castor, so that it may be screwed on to the ferrule fixed on the leg of
the chair or other article.
The second part of my Invention consists in attaching a ferrule to the leg of the
chair or other article, on the outer edge of which ferrule a thread is formed. The
upper edge of this ferrule is serrated, and to secure it in its place when the ferrule
is placed on the leg of the chair or other article the serrations are bent over into
the wood; but this ferrule may be secured by a screw or pin instead of by
serrations.
The object of my improved castor is to dispense with the screws commonly used
to secure the castor and to allow of the castor being readily repaired. The third
part of my Invention consists in making a ferrule for the legs of chairs or other

page_text: articles with serrations at the top for securing it in its place, and with a flange at
the bottom projecting inwards, and in placing between the chair leg and the flange
a piece of india rubber, which comes partially through the opening in the ferrule
and prevents the chair or other article from slipping.
The fourth part of my Invention consists in attaching the handles to brushes by
a screwed flanged ferrule on the lower end of the handle, which is screwed into a
socket fitted into the brush stock. The socket has a projection or projections
formed on its outer lower end to prevent it from turning round, and to retain it in
its place in the brush stock. A hole is cut through the brush stock the size of
the socket, and in the under or bristle side are formed recesses to receive the pro-
jections on the socket. The socket is inserted at the under side of the brush, and
does not extend quite through, so that when the ferrule on the handle is screwed
into the socket the flange on the upper end of the ferrule comes against the brush
stock and holds the handle firmly in its place. In ordinary brush stocks the hole
to receive the brush handle does not go through the stock. When such is the
case I form a socket with a closed end, and make a small hole in the bottom for a
screw to pass through to secure the socket to the brush stock, and to prevent this
socket turning in the hole I form a projection or projections on the outer upper
edge.
I make another form of ferrule for brush stocks with a thread inside, and serrated
projections at either end. This ferrule is passed through the brush stock and the
serrations are bent down outwards into the wood, thus securing it firmly in the
brush stock.
The fifth part of my Invention consists in making the ferrules or bushes for
casks in the following manner:-A flange is formed on the upper edge of the
ferrule or bush, underneath which I form one or more teeth or midfeathers to
prevent it turning round. On the lower edge of the ferrule or bush I form
serrations, which are bent over when the ferrule or bush has been put in its place
to secure it in its position.
The last part of my Invention consists in forming serrations on the sockets of
shovels, rakes, forks, and other domestic and agricultural implements, which
serrations, when the handles have been put in the sockets, are bent or forced into
the wood, and fix the handle and socket firmly together, thus dispensing with the
rivets, nails, or screws commonly used, which work loose or come out with use.