Improvements in Stable Pillars and Divisions, and Methods of Fixing same.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 8th June, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 8th Mar., 1894-Accepted, 14th Apr., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stable Pillars and Divisions, and Methods of
Fixing same.
COSSAR MACKENZIE and LACHLAN PATERSON MACKENZIE Ironfounders
Edinburgh Foundry Edinburgh do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
Stable pillars are at present made with either a snug or a socket for fixing the
ramp or division cope rail. These fixings are more or less unsightly in appearance
and besides are liable to come loose with the rough usage they are often
subjected to.
In this invention we make the pillar with a close end or top into which we screw
a large pin or tube we make the ramp or cope rail with a ring or moulding of
same diameter as the pillar, we also make the ball top or finial with a close end
which is screwed to fit the aforesaid pin or tube. In erecting and fixing the ramp
or cope is simply placed on the top of the pillar the pin or tube projecting through
the ring and the ball or finial screwed fixing down on the top.
We claim that this invention does away with all outward appearance of any
fixing and makes a much better finish, and is also a stronger way of binding the
pillar and the division together.
Dated this the Seventh day of June 1893.
COSSAR MACKENZIE.
LACHLAN PATERSON MACKENZIE.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stable Pillars and Divisions, and Methods of
Fixing same.
We, CoSSAR MACKENZIE and LACHLAN PATERSON MACKENZIE, Ironfounders,
of Edinburgh Foundry, Edinburgh, 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 :-
This invention relates to improvements in stable pillars and divisions and in the
methods of fixing the same.
Heretofore it has been usual to make stable pillars with either a snug or a socket
for fixing the ramp or division cope rail. These fixings are more or less unsightly
in appearance and are also liable to come loose with the rough usage they are often
subjected to.
Figure 1 is an elevation of one arrangement of carrying out our said invention.
Figure 2 is a section of the same.
Figure 3 is an elevation of a modified form of our said invention. And
Figure 4 is a section of the same.
We cast or otherwise form the top end of the pillar A or heel post, with a close
end or top a into which is screwed a large pin or tube B.
We cast or otherwise
form the ramp or cope rail C of the division with a ring or moulding D about the
same diameter as the pillar A, the said ring D, when erecting and fitting up,
being simply placed on the top of the pillar A as shown, and retained in such
position by the ball top or finial E, which is formed with a close end e screwed to
fit the pin or tube B, and which is screwed down on the ring D.

page_text: The design of our said invention may be varied in many ways, for example, as
shown in Figures 3 and 4, the ring D may be made deeper and instead of projecting
as in Figures 1 and 2 it may be overlapped by the top of the pillar A and also by
the bottom of the ball top or finial E.
By our said invention there is no outward appearance of any fixing; a better
finish is produced; and the binding together of the pillar and division is stronger.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
1st. The arrangement and construction of parts constituting our improvements
in stable pillars and divisions, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore
described and shown in the accompanying drawings.
2nd. The method of fixing together stable pillars and divisions, substantially as
and for the purposes hereinbefore described and shown in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 7th day of March 1804
JOHNSONS,
115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicants' Agents