Improvements in or relating to the Ornamentation of parts of Metallic Bedsteads.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Jan, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 17th Oct., 1899-Accepted, 19th Jan.,
1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to the Ornamentation of parts of Metallic
Bedsteads.
I, WILLIAM HARRY DAVIS, of The Anchor Works, Macdonald Street,
Birmingham, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention
to be as follows:-
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My invention for improvements in or relating to the ornamentation of parts of
metallic bedsteads consists substantially in the application or employment of
what is known commercially as Tiles moulded from clay, the face or surface
of which is decorated with artistic designs in various colours and by various
processes and which for durability and effect are finally glazed or enamelled.
I purpose employing these Tiles" to bedsteads for high class art decoration
chiefly to the head rail and foot rail formed as panels medallions and configurated
according to the skill and caprice of the designer and to such other parts of bed-
steads and in such ways as practice may determine.
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The class of "Tiles" I employ by preference would be of clay and known by
the names of Encaustic" Mosaic"
"Tessicated "Vitrified" Majolicia
Ceramic" but metal such as iron or other material may be substituted which
will admit or allow of the same or similar kind of decoration.
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THOS. KENDRICK,
89, Temple Row, Brimingham, Agent for Applicant.
Improvements in or relating to the Ornamentation of parts of Metallic
Bedsteads.
I, WILLIAM HARRY DAVIS, of The Anchor Works, Macdonald Street,
Birmingham, Manufacturer, 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 for improvements in or relating to the ornamentation of parts of
metallic bedsteads consists substantially in the application or employment of
what is known commercially as "Tiles" moulded from clay or other plastic
material the surface of which is decorated with artistic designs in various colours
and by various processes, and which for durability and effect are finally glazed
or onemolled

page_text: Tiles thus constructed are to be applied to various parts of metallic bedsteads,
the aim and object being to produce an artistic or ornamental effect, combined
with economy and durability.
And in order that my said invention may be the more readily understood I
have hereto appended a sheet of drawings, in which similar letters of reference
indicate corresponding parts.
Figure 1 is a view in elevation of one end or rail of a metallic bedstead, and
constructed according to my invention.
Figure 2 is a view in section of one part detached (taken on the line A B)
shewing the mode of carrying out my invention.
a, and its component parts from the end or rail of the bedstead as above
described bb bb are metallic sections (right angle in cross section) and
affixed or secured to the lugs or bosses cccc and forming a frame in which
the tiles D are secured as shewn in Figure 2.
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These frames are fixed by the lugs or bosses
to the vertical or horizontal
rods, or such rods as may be employed, there is no limit to the configuration or
number of these frames, or the tiles, or to the position they may be arranged,
as this depends upon the skill of the artizan.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
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In "improvements in or relating to the ornamentation of parts of metallic
bedsteads.'
1. The application of "Tiles" to metallic bedsteads, substantially as and for
the purposes herein before described in the foregoing specification.
2. The construction of frames for the reception of said "Tiles" to metallic
bedsteads substantially as and for the purposes herein before described in the
foregoing Specification.
3. The general construction combination and arrangement of parts substan-
tially as and for the purposes herein before described in the foregoing specifica-
tion and shewn on the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Dated this 14th day of October 1899
THOMAS
KENDRICK,
Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.