IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ORNAMENTAL METALLIC TUBES FOR THE PILLARS OF METALLIC BEDSTEADS AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES to be as follows:
Year: 1885

page_text: I LEONARD BRIERLEY of Sheepcote Street Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Metallic Bedstead Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ORNAMENTAL METALLIC
TUBES FOR THE PILLARS OF METALLIC BEDSTEADS AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
to be as follows:-
"
My invention consists in manufacturing ornamental metallic tubes from strips
plates or bars of metal connected together edge to edge having either external or
internal supports By my method of manufacture ornamental metallic tubes having
four or other number of plane or curved sides or sides alternately plane and
curved as well as of various other ornamental figures may be readily produced
and ornamental effects obtained which are unattainable in tubes made in the
ordinary way.
In making an ornamental metallic tube square in cross section I take two bars
of angle iron or of other metal having the shape of angle iron and place them
together so as to form a four sided tube that is I place the edges of the webs of one
angle bar in contact with the edges of the webs of the other angle bar and fix
them together either by casting (preferably by the process of chill casting) blocks
at the ends and at such other parts of the tube as may be necessary or desirable.
Or I introduce internal supports into the tube and secure the webs of the angle
iron to the said supports by screwing or otherwise.
When I wish to inake a tube hexagonal or octagonal or of other polygonal figure
I employ angle bars the webs of which are inclined to each other at the angle
required to produce the desired figure. Or instead of employing angle bars plain
strips may be employed the said strips being secured together by the external or
internal supports described.
The angles of the tube may where desired be covered by fluted strips and
these strips at the angles serve to support either continuous or detached pieces.
when the character of the ornamentation requires the use of such pieces.
The strips of which the tubes are built up may be flat or concave or convex or
combinations of these may be employed or each strip may have a series of flutes
or may be ornamented in any desired manner.

page_text: I LEONARD BRIERLEY of Sheepcote Street, Birmingham in the County of
Warwick, Metallic Bedstead 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 consists in manufacturing ornamental metallic tubes principally
for bedstead pillars and rails from strips plates or bars of metal connected together
edge to edge having either external or internal supports. By my method of
manufacture ornamental metallic tubes having four or other number of plane or
curved sides or sides alternately plane and curved as well as of various other
ornamental figures may be readily produced and ornamental effects obtained which
are unattainable in tubes made in the ordinary way.
In making an ornamental metallic tube square in cross section I take two bars
of angle iron or of other metal having the shape of angle iron, and place them
together so as to form a four sided tube that is, I place the edges of the webs of:
one angle bar in contact with the edges of the webs of the other angle bar and fix
them together either by rivetting, casting (preferably by the process of chill
casting) or attaching blocks at the ends and at such other parts of the tube as
may be necessary or desirable. Or I introduce internal supports into the tube
and secure the webs of the angle iron to the said supports by screwing or
otherwise.
When I wish to make a tube hexagonal or octagonal or of other polygonal figure
I employ angle bars the webs of which are inclined to each other at the angle
required to produce the desired figure. Or instead of employing angle bars,
angle bars and strips or strips only may be employed, the said strips or strips
and angle bars being secured together by the external or internal supports
described.
The angles of the tube may where desired be covered by fluted strips and these
strips at the angles serve to support either continuous or. detached pieces when the
character of the ornamentation requires the use of such pieces.
The strips of which the tubes are built up may be flat or concave or convex or
combinations of these may be employed; or each strip may have a series of flutes
or may be ornamented in any desired manner.
· I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying Drawing the
manner in which my invention is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in perspective a metallic tube for forming the body of a
bedstead pillar the said tube or tubular body being made according to my inven-
tion namely of two rolled or drawn angle bars marked respectively a and a³ the
edges of the webs of one angle bar being placed in contact with the edges of
the webs of the other angle bar so as to form a four sided tube as represented.
One of the angle bars of which the tube Figure 1 is composed is shown at a³ drawn
to a larger scale.

page_text: Instead of making the tubular body of the bedstead pillar of two angle bars a
and a³ a rolled or drawn trough bar of the kind represented at a³ may be used for
forming three sides of the tube the fourth side being formed of the flat strip repre-
sented at a Figure 1. The ends of the angle or trough bars are perforated for the
purpose hereinafter explained.
The parts of the tubular body made in either of the ways described may be
bound or connected together by casting parts upon and in the tube as represented
in Figure 2; that is to say, upon the tube at about one third of its height from
the bottom, the corner block & of the pillar is cast and in the ends of the said tube,
blocks marked respectively d and d³ are cast, the molten metal in the casting of
the said blocks running into and filling the holes made in the ends of the tube and
thereby binding the parts of the tube together and fixing the said blocks therein.
The top block d³ carries the screw by which the knob or terminal ornament of the
pillar is connected to it and the bottom block d³ carries the peg on which the castor
is fitted and turns. Or instead of binding the parts of the tube together by casting
as described they may be secured together by rivetting the webs edge to edge, or
by introducing supports into the tube and securing the webs of the angle bars to
the said internal supports by screwing or otherwise. I do not however limit
myself to any particular method of connecting the angle bars, or a trough bar
and a flat strip together, to form a tube but I have found the arrangement described
and represented in Figure 2 to answer well in practice.
Figures 3 and 4 represent finished bedstead pillars the tubular bodies of which
are made and ornamented according to my invention.
In Figure 3 the bedstead pillar has fitted upon it the ringlike or short ornamental
tubular brass (or other) mounts marked e, e and the angles of the tubular pillar are
concealed by fixing thereon or covering them with the brass or other fluted strips,
beadings or edgings marked f. f. The bedstead pillar is completed by applying to
its top the knob or terminal ornament g and to its bottom the castor h.
The bedstead pillar Figure 3 may be further ornamented by the addition to it
of brass (or other) metal panels or detached pieces introduced between the
mounts e, e and beadings f,f as represented in Figure 4, where the panels or
detached pieces are marked i, i. The panels or detached pieces are fixed or
supported in their places preferably by engaging their edges underneath the strips
or beadings f. f. They may however be attached by screwing or otherwise.
In the bedstead pillar Figure 4 the whole of the tubular body made as herein-
before described is thus concealed and when the covering parts are made of brass,
the said pillar has the appearance of being composed wholly of brass.
I do not limit myself to any particular kind of ornamental mounts beadings or
edgings and panels or detached pieces constituting the covering parts of the tube
or tubular body of the bedstead pillar as the said parts may have any desired
ornamental figures or patterns given to them and they may be made of the same
or of different metals or alloys.
In making a tubular body of a bedstead pillar having a series of alternating
plane and curved sides I make it in the manner represented in Figure 5, that is,
I take four rolled or drawn strips marked k, k each strip having a convex flute
running along its middle, and I place and fix the four strips together edge to edge
in the manner represented in the Drawing by casting or otherwise.
In making a tubular body having, say, six (or other number of) plane sides
I use two trough shaped strips of the kind represented in Figure 6 or I take a
single trough strip nearly of the kind represented in Figure 6 and a flat strip and
place and join them together in the manner represented in Figure 7 to form a
tube having an angular front and a flat back; or instead of an angular trough
strip I form the front of the tube of a curved or nearly semi-circular strip as
represented in Figure 8.
Tubes made as described may be used in the construction of what are technically
known as rail rods, that is, the tubes or rods used in the construction of the head
and foot rails of metallic bedsteads and other articles of metallic furniture such as

page_text: cots and couches. In making the said rail rods or tubes I connect the two or more
strips or parts of which each rod or tube is composed preferably by means of the
same cast chilled blocks or joints which connect together the several parts of the
rail but the strips or parts may be connected together by rivetting or by specially
constructed internal or external castings or otherwise.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim
as my invention is ;-
First. Manufacturing each of the tubes or tubular bodies of the pillars and
rails of metallic bedsteads, cots, sofas and couches, of two or more rolled or drawn
angle bars or bars or strips having plane and curved sides or of a single curved or
angular or trough shaped bar combined with a flat bar or strip, the parts of which
the said tubes or tubular bodies are made being united or bound together substan-
tially as herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
Secondly. Covering the angles of the tubes or tubular bodies of the pillars and
rails with fluted strips beadings or edgings either alone or in combination with
panels or detached parts situated between and supported preferably by the said
strips beadings or edgings as herein before described and illustrated in the accom-
panying Drawing.
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