Improvements in the Ornamentation of Metallic Mounts, Terminal Ornaments, and other Articles of like Manufacture, and in Tools to be Employed therein.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Oct., 1887
Complete Left, 29th Mar., 1888
Complete Accepted, 25th May, 1888
DECEDV/
Improvements in the Ornamentation of Metallic Mounts, Terminal
Ornaments, and other Articles of like Manufacture, and in Tools
to be Employed therein.
1, ALFRED HEATH trading as Samuel Heath and Sons of Leopold Street Birmingham
in the County of Warwick, Brassfounder, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion to be as follows:-
This invention has reference principally to the production of reeded or fluted mounts,
terminals or other ornaments, of a globular or enclosed figure; and which said mounts,
ornaments or parts, which are generally used in conjunction with pillars or uprights,
are open at both top and bottom, or are open at top only.
Although I have described that the mount, ornament or part, as aforesaid, is fluted
or ribbed, and the figure when so fluted or ribbed, resembles in form, a tomatoo, yet
I wish it to bo observed, that the ribbed character of the ornament may be varied, and
broken up, in accordance with the particular ornamental character to be imparted
thereto. Thus, the ornament may resemble, overlapping scales, like the scales of a fish,
or between the flutings, running patterns may be placed; or the ribbings and patterns
may be made to incline, instead of radiating, like the ribs of a tomatoo, or the quarters
of an orange.
In carrying out the process of ornamentation, I proceed as follows.
I take a suitable shaped blank, open at top and bottom, and of a somewhat globular
figure, and by means of raising and shaping tools, I give to the said hollow, and
globular shaped blank, a ribbed character, by placing the blank upon the shaped end
of a standing out tool, supported by a suitable holder or carrier.
Working above, and in conjunction with the said shaped end, is a descending tool or
punch, whose underside is of a like contour to the shape to be given to the outside of
the blank to be operated upon, and of a like counterpart, to the shaped end, or parts of
the shaped end, upon which the blank rests.
Thus, I take an annular or a globular shaped blank, open at top and bottom, produced
either by a spinning process, or by raising and shaping tools.

page_text: I place or hang the said globular blank upon a standing out tool, whose end is shaped
to the pattern which is required to be impressed upon the blank, and when in this
position, a punch, shaped upon its underside, descends upon the said blank, and
impresses the metal between the underside of the one, and the upper side of the other,
which thereby gives a portion of the ornament, which the blank is to receive. This
having been done, the blank is removed through a portion of a circle, and the same
process repeated, and so on, until the whole of the blank has been operated upon, and
shaped.
The pressure exerted by the tools, impresses or imprints their shape in a cross, or in
an oblique direction.
When the mount, ornament or part has an open top, and a closed bottom, or a
partially closed bottom, so as to form a base, the ornament is impressed by a supple-
mentary die, whose face is disposed horizontally, with the punch tool working vertically;
and which said supplementary die and tool, produces the lower half of the reedings,
flutings, ornament or the like, while the first named tools complete the said reedings,
flutings or the like:
In the first named set of tools, I prefer to shape the end of the standing out tool,
with two or more flutings or ornaments, which make guides or sets, for the subsequent
shapings to rest within, and to keep the blank steady, while being completely.
ornamented, on the blank being intermittently rotated, or its position changed, at each
descent of the punch tool.
The cross shapings instead of being produced by tools as described, shallow impres-
sions may be produced, by passing the blank between rolls, whose peripheries are
shaped to the pattern or patterns required to be impressed upon the article.
Instead of the work being done from the outside, it may be done from the
inside, by employing a crank punch, instead of a standing out fixed punch as
aforesaid.
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page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Ornamentation of Metallic Mounts, Terminal
Ornaments, and other Articles of like Manufacture, and in Tools
to be Employed therein.
1, ALFRED HEATH trading as Samuel Heath and Sons of Leopold Street
Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Brassfounder, 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 has reference principally, to the production of reeded, or fluted
mounts, terminals or other ornaments, of a globular, or enclosed figure; and which
said mounts, ornaments or parts, which are generally used in conjunction with pillars
or uprights, are open at both top and bottom, or are open at top only.
Although I have described that the mount, ornament or part as aforesaid, is fluted
or ribbed, and the figure when so fluted or ribbed, resembles in form a tomatoo, yet
I wish it to be observed that the ribbed character of the ornament may be varied,
and broken up, in accordance, with the particular ornamental character to be imparted
thereto. Thus, the ornament may resemble, overlapping scales, like the scales of a
fish; or between the flutings, running patterns may be placed; or the ribbings and
patterns may be made to incline, instead of radiating, like the ribs of a tomatoo, or
the quarters of an orange.
In carrying out the process of ornamentation, I proceed as follows.
I take a suitable shaped blank, open at top, or open at both top and bottom, and of
a somewhat globular figure, and by means of raising and shaping tools, I give to
the said hollow, and globular shaped blank, a ribbed character, by placing the
blank upon the shaped end of a standing out tool, supported by a suitable hole or
carrier.
Working above, and in conjunction with the said shaped end, is a descending tool
or punch, whose underside is of a like contour, to the shape to be given to the outside
of the blank to be operated upon, and of a like counterpart, to the shaped end, or
parts of the shaped end, upon which the blank rests.
Thus, I take an annular or a globular shaped blank, open at top, or open at
top and bottom, produced either by a spinning process, or by raising and shaping
tools.
I place or hang the said globular blank upon a standing out tool, whose end is
shaped to the pattern which is required to be impressed upon the blank, and when
in this position, a punch, shaped upon its underside, descends upon the said blank,
and impresses the metal between the underside of the one, and the upper side of the
other, which thereby gives a portion of the ornament, which the blank is to receive.
This having been done, the blank is removed through a portion of a circle, and the
same process repeated, and so on, until the whole of the blank has been operated upon,
and shaped.

page_text: The pressure exerted by the tools, impresses or imprints their shape in a cross, or
in an oblique direction.
When the mount, ornament or part has an open top, and a closed bottom, or a
partially closed bottom, so as to form a base, the ornament is impressed by a
supplementary die, whose face is disposed horizontally, with the punch tool working
vertically and which said supplementary die and tool, produces the lower half of the
reedings, flutings, ornament or the like, while the first named tools complete the said
reedings, flutings or the like.
In the first named set of tools, I prefer to shape the end of the standing out tool,
with two or more flutings or ornaments, which make guides or sets, for the sub-
sequent shapings to rest within, and to keep the blank steady, while being completely
ornamented, on the blank being intermittently-rotated, or its position changed, at
each descent of the punch tool.
Instead of the work being done from the outside, it may be done from the
inside, by employing a crank punch, instead of a standing out fixed punch as
aforesaid.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying drawing, the
manner in which the same is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in side elevation, an ornamental metallic mount, ornament or
the like, as according to my invention.
Figure 2 represents a cupped blank, from which the said mount or the like, is
produced:
:
Figure 3 shows the same blank as figure 2, but with the edges of the mouth part,
slightly gathered in.
Figure 4 represents the blank figure 3, but with the said mouth end still further
enclosed, and with the bottom of the blank radially reeded, or ribbed, which forms the
first process in the ornamentation.
Figure 5. is an underside view of figure 4, and figure 6 shows a front elevation of
the tools employed, in the formation of the secondary or body reeds or ribs проп the
mount or ornament.
Figure 7 represents a side view of the said tools, figure 6, thus exhibiting the
process of producing the reeded formations, upon the body and upper part of the
blank.
Figure 8 represents a top side plan of the lower tool, and figure 9 an underside
view of the upper tool.
In carrying out the process of production of a reeded or ribbed mount or ornamont
figure 1, I proceed as follows.
I take a suitable shaped cup blank figure 2, globular on its underside, and by
means of closing and shaping tools, I slightly gather in the open mouth, to that as
represented in ligure 3, and then by a subsequent operation, I still further close in
the mount as represented in figure 4. This having been done, the blank is placed
within a die, shaped to the ribbed underside of figure 5, which gives to the said blank
as in figure 4, a radiating ribbed character.
:
The blank figures 4 and 5; is next operated upon, by tools figures 6 and 7,
consisting of an outstanding lower tool a, whose top face a³, is shaped to the pattern,
or part of the pattern, which the article is required to have impressed-upon it; and
which said tool is supported upon a bed a².
bis the upper tool, with a concaved acting face 62, which presses the metal inwards,
to the conformation of the face of the die a³; and which said upper tool b, is made
to come coincident with the recesses or sunken channels between the reedings or ribs
upon the lower tool.
Thus, in carrying out the ornamentation, the blank figure 4 is placed or hung upon
the top face a³ of the tool a, as represented in figures 6 and 7, when the tool & descends,
forcing the metal of the shell, into the recess between the middle ribs of the tools, and
which impress, is a continuation of one of the sunken parts of the ribbed formation,
upon the underside of the blank; so that the impress extends from the underside of
the blank, to the cupped in edge or mount. This produced, the shell blank is then

page_text: moved or advanced through a distance of a reed or rib, when the upper tool is again
brought down, producing a second impress, (which is continued from the second
under ribbing) and so on until the whole of the object has been fashioned in manner
as may be desired.
It will be observed, that the partly operated upon shell blank, as in figure 6,
is shown partly in section, and partly broken away, in order to exhibit the con-
formation of the supporting face of the lower tool, and the impressed metal of
the shell.
The supporting face of the lower tool, is made of the shape of a portion of the
interior of a mount to be made; so that on the first impress having been produced,
the position of the second one, is gauged by the first one falling into an advanced
groove, and so on, until the necessary inwardly directed impresses in the metal, have
been made.
Instead of the upper tool producing one impress only at a time, it may make two or
more impresses.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
First. A reeded, ribbed or fluted mount, ornament or article as described and
set forth in figure Í; and which said mount is made from a single blank of sheet
metal.
Secondly. Reeding, ribbing or fluting bulbous like articles as aforesaid, by side
impressing, or by combined stamping and side impressing (inwardly or outwardly);
and which said reedings, ribbings or flutings are produced, by the process, or by the
combination of processes as set forth.
Lastly. Producing reedings, ribbings, flutings or other ornaments, upon bulbous
like articles, as herein described, by the tools, and process, or processes, as described
and set forth.
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