IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CON- STRUCTION OF METALLIC BEDSTEADS AND OTHER ARTICLES TO SIT OR RECLINE
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Peyton and Duncan Morrison, of Bordesley
Works, Birmingham, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CON-
STRUCTION OF METALLIC BEDSTEADS AND OTHER ARTICLES TO SIT OR RECLINE
"
Scaled the 18th April 1856, and dated the 27th November 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Peyton and
Duncan Morrison at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 27th November 1855.
We, EDWARD PEYTON and DUNCAN MORRISON, of Bordesley Works, Bir-
mingham, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF METALLIC BEDSTEADS AND OTHER ARTICLES TO SIT OR
RECLINE UPON " to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in manufacturing parts of
metal bedsteads and other articles to sit and recline on'; and the Invention
consists of employing castings of brass for connecting the parts of brass
bedsteads together.
The Invention also consists of using heated moulds when casting the con-
necting parts, the ornamental parts, and also other parts of brass bedsteads and
other articles to sit and recline on.

page_text: The Invention also consists of using heated moulds when casting parts of
the castors or vases, &c. of such articles when of brass.
And the Invention also consists of applying twisted tapering metal tubes in
the construction of parts of metal bedsteads and other articles to sit and
recline on.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edward Peyton and Duncan Morrison in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 27th May 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, EDWARD
PEYTON and DUNCAN MORRISON, of Bordesley Works, Birmingham, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of November, in the year of our
Lord Ono thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
tho said Edward Peyton and Duncan Morrison, Her special licence that
we, the said Edward Peyton and Duncan Morrison, our executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Edward Peyton and Duncan
Morrison, our 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF METALLIC BEDSTEADS AND OTHER ARTICLES TO SIT OR
RECLINE UPON," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Edward
Peyton and Duncan Morrison, our executors or administrators,, by an instru-
:ment in writing under our or their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal
of one of us or them, 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 be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months, next and immediately after the date of the said, Letters Patent.
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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Peyton, on behalf of myself
and the said Duncan Morrison, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention, and in' what manner the same is to bo performed, to be, par-
ticularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof,
that is to say-
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page_text: This Invention has for its object improvements in manufacturing parts of
metal bedsteads and other articles to sit and recline on; and the Invention'
consists of employing castings of brass for connecting the parts of brass
bedsteads together.
The Invention also consists of using heated moulds when casting the con-
necting parts, the ornamental parts, and also other parts of brass bedsteads
and other articles to sit and recline on.
The Invention also consists of using heated moulds when casting parts of
the castors or vases, &c. of such articles when of brass.
And the Invention also consists of applying twisted tapering metal tubes in
the construction of parts of metal bedsteads and other articles to sit and
recline on.
Having thus stated the nature of our Invention, we will now proceed more
fully to describe the same.
First, this Invention consists in connecting the parts of brass bedsteads by
means of brass castings, in a similar manner to that in which the parts of iron
bedsteads have heretofore been connected by castings of iron. For this
purpose the connecting piece is moulded in sand or otherwise, or metal moulds
may be used, and the parts of the brass bedstead which are to be connected
are placed so that their ends project into the mould; melted brass is then
run in, and the casting formed connects the parts together, as required.
Secondly, this Invention consists in using heated metal moulds, first, for
casting the connecting parts, as above proposed; second, for casting in brass
ornamental or other parts of metal bedsteads or other articles to sit or recline
on; third, for casting in brass parts of castors and vases forming parts of metal
bedsteads or other articles to sit or recline on.
The moulds are made, by preference, of cast iron, according to the pattern
desired, and they are heated when about to receive the melted metal, by
preference, to about the temperature of melted lead. The construction and
use of metal moulds when casting other articles is well known, but they have
not been used in the production of the articles above mentioned; and the
manufacture of the articles above named is greatly improved by the application
of such moulds.
The Invention also consists in the use and in the construction of metal
bedsteads or other articles to sit or recline on, of taper tubes, ornamented in
the manner known in the trade as "twisted," and we prefer to use such tubes
to form the pillars or legs of such articles. Parallel tubes thus ornamented
have before been used in the construction of metal bedsteads and similar

page_text: articles, our claim, therefore, only relates to the use of taper tubes of this
description.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Peyton; have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
EDWARD PEYTON. L.s.)
Witness,
W. CARPMAEL, Jun.