IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF REDSTRANG
Year: 1855

page_text: Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF REDSTRANG
"
Scaled the 5th October 1855, and dated the 1st June 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Peyton and
Alexander Southwood Stocker at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 1st June 1855.
We, RICHARD PEYTON, of the Bordesley Works, Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Manufacturer of Bedsteads, and ALEXANDER SOUTHWOOD STOCKER,
of the Poultry, in the City of London, Manufacturer, do hereby declare tho
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BED-
STEADS" to be as follows:-
Iron bedsteads have hitherto been constructed either by casting the corner
pieces or bearings for the side and end bars to rest upon or take into, upon
the solid or hollow pillars or legs of the bedsteads, or else by attaching the
corner pieces with bolts or screws thereto, whether such corner pieces or
bearings be formed dovetail or otherwise, or are made in one piece to take-the-
side as well as-the-end rail.-

page_text: Wooden bedsteads have hitherto been framed together, either by mortice
and tennon joints, or by screwing a plate to the post with an eye and pin
fastening, or by a dovetailed piece attached to a plate, which plate is fastened
by screws to the wooden pillar or leg, the corresponding part of the dovetail
joint being screwed to the end of the rail.
Now, our Invention is for so constructing wooden pillars, standards, or legs
with a suitable shoulder, that a cast-iron collar having wings, dovetailed or
otherwise, wherein or whereon the ends of the rails may rest ánd be attached,
may be slipped-thereon-and-securely-fastened;-also,-the-construction of such
iron collars for this purpose with wings for receiving the ends of the bed rails,
as also their application to the pillars, as before described, which have a shoulder
prepared to receive them, whether the eyes of such collars or corner pieces be
made internally circular, square, hexagon, or of any such form to agree with the
configuration of that part of the pillar, post, or leg whereon they have to be fitted;
these winged collars or corner pieces being cast or otherwise produced so as
to fit the corresponding parts of the post or pillar; as also the ends of the
rails which take into them, no fitting will be necessary, but they should be
secured or fastened in their places by a cross pin, dowel, or bolt.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Peyton and Alexander Southwood Stocker in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 10th October 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, RICHARD
PEYTON, of the Bordesley Works, -Birmingham, -in-the County of Warwick,
Manufacturer of Bedsteads, and ALEXANDER SOUTHWOOD STOCKER, of the
Poultry, in the City of London, Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters.
Patent, bearing date the First day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred, and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
Richard Peyton and Alexander Southwood Stocker, Her special licence that
we, the said Richard Peyton and Alexander Southwood Stocker, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Richard Peyton and
Alexander Southwood Stocker, 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

page_text: make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention för "Iм-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BEDSTEADS," upon the condition. (amongst
others) that we, the said Richard Peyton and Alexander Southwood Stocker,
or one of us; by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, or under
the hand and seal of one of us, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alexander Southwood Stocker, -do
hereby declare the nature" of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement and accompanying Drawings (that is to say):-
Iron bedsteads have hitherto been constructed either by casting the corner
pieces or bearings for the side and end rails or bars to rest upon or take into,
upon the solid or hollow. pillars or legs of a bedstead, or by attaching the
corner pieces with bolts and nuts or screws to such legs or pillars, whether
such corner pieces or bearings be formed dovetail or otherwise, to take one end
of each the side and end rail.
Wooden bedsteads have hitherto been framed either by mortice and tennon
joints, the tennoned end of the rail being secured in the mortice hole in the
bed post bý a bed screw and nut, or by screwing a metal plate to each side of
the post at a proper height to receive the side and end rails, such plates
having an eye and stud pin fastening, one part being attached by screws to the
post, the other to the end of the rail, or by dovetail pieces attached to a plate,
one of which is screwed to the face of the post, pillar, or leg, and the other to
the end of the rail.
Now, our Invention consists in combining wooden pillars, standards, posts,
or legs with metal collars or corner pieces winged, for attaching or connecting
the end and side rails securely therewith, and in so constructing the posts,
pillars, or legs to receive the metal collar and secure it firmly thereto, such
metal collars having wings, dovetailed or otherwise, formed to receive the
ends of the rails, wherein or whereon the ends of the rails may rest or be
attached and securely fastened, and whether the internal form of the eye of
such winged collars or corner pieces be circular, square, hexagonal, or of other
form to agree with the configuration of that part of the pillar, post, or leg
whereon they have to be fitted. We intend that if these winged collars or
corner pieces and their corresponding parts be cast, they should be so
pro-

page_text: duced as to come together with the end pieces of side or end rails, as also on
the seating or shoulder on the post, pillar, or leg without any fitting or
machinery being necessary; they may be secured or fastened in their places
by a cross pin, dowell, key bolt, or screws.
In the Drawing hereunto annexed, Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation of a
wooden bed post pillar, with the metal collar according to our Invention; and
Fig. 2 is a plan of the same, the post a being turned parallel at b, with a
square shoulder c, having its under side moulded; the metal collar d having
the wings e, e, placed at a right angle with each other, in which wings the
ferrule parts of the circular dovetails f, f, are shewn. The collar is driven
on tightly up to the shoulder, and may be pinned, keyed, or bolted in its place.
In some cases it may be preferred to keep the parallel part of the post at b
larger in diameter, and to cut a coarse thread screw thereupon, and cast the
metal collar d with a corresponding thread therein, so as to screw on the collar
to the post.
Figure 3 is a section of the foot of the post fitter with a castor.
Figure 4 is a view of a mode of fitting the top of the post with the cap
and knob, the eye in the end of the cross rail being secured upon the screwed
pin and by the knob being screwed over it.
Figures 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 are elevations and sections, alternately, of
wooden bed posts or pillars of different forms or configurations, fitted according
to our Invention, and mounted complete for use. The metal collar or corner
pieces have variously formed eyes, and the wings are in these cases, for the
sake of varying, shewn as fitted to receive angle or T iron side and end rails.
The tops of the posts are shewn as variously fitted, and may be made suitable
to the taste of the manufacturer.
Figure 11 is a plan view of a post or pillar, Fig. 5; which may be of a four-
post or half-tester bedstead, or it will answer for a plan of the foot leg of a
stump or of half-tester bedstead.
Figure 12 is a plan of the winged collar piece, shewing the circular eye of
collar and the mode of connecting the T iron side and end rails. Figure 13
is a section of Fig. 12.
Figures 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19 illustrate varieties in the mode of fitting
the corner pieces into the posts, pillars, or legs; some of the eyes of the collars
and the parts where they fit upon the posts, pillars, or legs are shewn as
square, circular, hexagon, and octagon.
Having described our Invention in the first part hereof, and illustrated it
by a Drawing hereunto annexed, together with the explanations just given of
the several Figures shewn therein, we would observe that the posts or pillars

page_text: of wooden bedsteads fitted according to our Invention may be turned, carved,
moulded, and polished if made of valuable or ornamental woods, or may be
stained and polished if made of common wood, as heretofore; or they may
be coated with variegated or ornamental materials, by which variety of colors
or tints of colors, or imitations of marbles, stones, malachites, and other
beautiful-imitations-of-nature.may be produced.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Southwood Stocker, on behalf
of-myself and the said-Richard. Peyton, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Ninth day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
Witness,
WILLIAM SMITH, C.E.,
10, Salisbury St., Adelphi.
ALEX S. STOCKER. (L.S.)