IMPROVEMENTS IN METALLIC BEDSTEADS
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I FREDERICK HOSKINS of High Street Bordesley Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of the said invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN METALLIC BEDSTEADS to be as follows:-
This invention refers to bedsteads with solid ends that is to say with the angle
iron and pillars cast in one piece and has for its object an arrangement by which
complete or solid brass corner mounts can be passed onto the pillars. This I effect
by casting the head or foot rails separately and after having passed the corner
mounts along the pillars into position I connect the top and bottom rods of the
rails to the pillars by means of brass bands or clips with screws passing through
the pillars into the vertical rods Or I can connect by the same means the upper
rods of the rails to the top rail connecting the pillars.
PAYNE & TALBOT,
100, Colmore Row, Birmingham,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: I FREDERICK HOSKINS of High Street Bordesley in the County of Warwick
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of the said invention for IMPROVE-
MENTS IN METALLIC BEDSTEADS and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statemen
reference being had to the drawings hereunto annexed and to the letters and figures
marked thereon that is to say :-
This invention refers to bedsteads with solid ends, that is, with the angle irc 1
and pillars cast in one piece and has for its object an arrangement by which
complete or solid brass corner mounts can be passed on to the pillars.
This I effect by casting the rails separately from the angle iron and pillar which
are cast together for this class of bedstead and after having passed the corner
mounts along the pillars into position I connect the top and bottom rods to the
pillars by means of brass bands or clips with screws or pins passing through the
pillars into the vertical rods or through the clips into the pillar. Or I can connect
by the same means the upper rods of the rails to the top rail connecting the
pillars.
Referring to the drawings Fig 1 is a view of part of the end of a bedstead of the
above named description.
Fig 2 is a view of the end of a bedstead with another form of clip shewn in
detail in Figs 3 & 4.
Fig 3 is an enlarged view of an alternative attachment and Fig 4 a plan of
the same.
The angle iron (a) and the pillar (6) being cast together and the-rail (c c¹ c³)
being cast separately the mounts (D D D³ can be slid into position on the
pillar (b) after which the top and bottom rail (c c¹ c²) of the rail (c) is attached
to the pillars (b) by the clip or band (e) by passing a pin or screw through the clip
as previously described. Or as will be obvious without the assistance of a drawing
the upper rod may be attached to the top rail (d) which connects the pillars.
Figs 3 & 4 shew a portion of a pillar (b) with a rail (c¹) at the end of which is
cast or otherwise attached an ornamental boss (f) which clips the pillar (b) the
boss being completed by inserting the piece (g.) which may if desired be attached to
and form part of the head of the screw pin (h) and may be divided from the
remainder of the clip either at ij or i k as desired.
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is the end frames of metallic bedsteads constructed as herein before described
and illustrated.
Dan L
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