Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 20th June, 1887,
Complete Left, 24th Sept., 1887
Complete Accepted, 28th Oct., 1887
and other like Articles.
We SAMUEL LAMMAS DORE of 4 Corbet Court Gracechurch Street in the City of
London, Metal Merchant and THOMAS BENJAMIN LEECH of The Blackwall Galvanized
Iron Company Orchard Place Blackwall in the County of Middlesex, Works Manager,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
:-
The improvements have reference to the manufacture of fluted metal columns,
pedestals or half columns or like articles in a cheap and effective manner.
In carrying out our invention we make a pedestal or column or half column or like
article of a joined bent sheet or sheets of corrugated wrought iron either galvanized
or black and baving at the top or other part or parts soldered or connected thereto a
plate or plates of sheet or other metal corresponding to the sectional form of the shaft,
round, hexagon or whatever it may be.
The shaft thus constructed may be supported on a cast metal or other foot or
pediment and may have a capital which may be of cast metal, wood or other inaterial
either solid or hollow.
The column may be painted, enamelled, japanned or otherwise coated and may be
made to imitate marble or other material.

page_text: Figure 1 shews in front elevation parts of an arch topped pair of columns, each
supported on a pediment and carrying a capital on which the ends of the arched parts
rest.
Figure 2 is a plan view of Figure 1.
Figure 3 shews an elevation of a column according to the invention resembling
those shewn in the previous figures except that an inner plain cylinder or lining is
inserted concentrically in the column which is connected at top and bottom to the
outer corrugated cylinder.
Figure 4 is a view of Figure 3 partly in section.
Figure 5 is a section taken vertically of the upper end of this example and showing
the end of the central cylinder closed in partly by the plate e having in it the holes
1, 1, 1, 1, and 2.
Figure 6 shews a cross section of such a fluted column and Figure 7 an end view.
Figure 8 is a section of a pediment separately.

page_text: Figures 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13, shew respectively by front elevation, vertical section,
cross section, plan and under side view a modification of column in that it has one
open end and the plate e is dispensed with there, the other or lower end being closed.
Figures 14 and 15 shewing front view and section of pediment.
Figures 16 and 17 are front elevations of a half column or pedestal with its top
closed by an end plate e and its pediment respectively, as described.
Figures 18 and 19 are vertical sections of the same.
Figure 20 shows a cross section Figure 21 a plan and Figure 22 an underside view
of the half column.
Throughout the figures a are the bases or pediments to support the columns, of cast
metal or other suitable material and preferably provided with a recess a¹ at top into
which is dropped the end of the column so that the same may be retained centrally
thereby. are the columns made of corrugated metal bent round or into the form
desired and secured at their edges.
c are caps similar in construction to the bases a.
d are parts of an arched superstructure also of corrugated wrought iron here shown
as approximately of square cross section and made up of plates joined at the parts d¹
by the edges being overlapped.
The sides of the columns may be of single sheet bent into form or built up into
shape and closed at the ends by plain or open-work plates or the walls of the cylinders
as in Figure 6 may be double for greater strength or as in Figure 11 the double
walled columns may be left open centrally more or less.
Although we have shown as an example only, the particular shapes of parts indicated,
the invention admits of almost innumerable variations of shape and design without
departing from its essential features.
These columns and parts will be found very useful and ornamental and effective for
garden purposes, as well as for other uses where cheapness and strength with lightness
are desired.
The columns may also be made dwarfed or short and used as umbrella stands or
receptacles for such like articles, in which case, either the column itself or the pediment
or base may be fitted to receive and hold the drippings until it is convenient to
empty it.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is-
The manufacture of fluted or corrugated metallic pedestals or columns half columns,
and other like articles from sheet corrugated wrought iron in manner substantially
as set forth.
1000
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London,
Agents for the Applicants.