IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF RODS, POLES, TUBES, AND OTHER FORMS EMPLOYED IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF VARIOUS ARTICLES OF FURNITURE, AND FOR OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Fearn, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Electro-Metallurgist, for the Invention of " IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF RODS, POLES, TUBES, AND OTHER FORMS EMPLOYED
IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF VARIOUS ARTICLES OF FURNITURE, AND FOR OTHER
SIMILAR PURPOSES."
Sealed the 17th April 1868, and dated the 22nd October 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Fearn at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
22nd October 1862.
I, THOMAS FEARN, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Electro-
Metallurgist, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "Im-
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF RODS, POLES, TUBES, AND OTHER FORMS
EMPLOYED IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF VARIOUS ARTICLES OF FURNITURE, AND FOR
OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES," to be as follows, that is to say :-
My Invention refers more particularly to the manufacture and ornamentation
of rods, poles, and tubes, such as are required for cornice poles, for making
bedsteads, couches, chairs, and other analagous uses, and it consists in taking
a core or base of metal, wood, paper, or other suitable material, either in the
form of a tube or of a solid, and coiling carefully round such core or base a
strip or riband of thin metal, such, for instance, as brass or gilding metal.
The core or base may be japanned, enamelled, or otherwise decorated, before

page_text: it receives the coil or twist, in which case a portion of the surface of the core
may be left exposed; or the core may be left rough, and the strip or riband
may be ornamented with an embossed or engraved enrichment and coiled
closely upon the core or base, thus producing, a very rich and elaborate
appearance at a low cost.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Fearn in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
18th April 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
FBARN, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Electro-Metallurgist, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Thomas Fearn, Her special licence that I, the said Thomas
Fearn, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Thomas Fearn, my 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 make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF RODS, POLES, TUBES, AND OTHER FORMS EMPLOYED IN THE
CONSTRUCTION OF VARIOUS ARTICLES OF FURNITURE, AND FOR OTHER SIMILAR PUR-
POSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas Fearn,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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 Thomas Fearn, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement,
that is to say :-
My Invention refers more particularly to the manufacture and ornamentation
of rods, poles, and tubes, such as are required for cornice poles, for making

page_text: bedsteads, couches, chairs, and other analogous uses, and it consists in taking
a core or base of metal, wood, paper, or other suitable material, either in the
form of a tube or of a solid, and coiling carefully round such core or base a
strip or riband of thin metal, such, for instance, as brass or gilding metal.
The core or base may be japanned, enamelled, or otherwise decorated, before it
receives the coil or twist, in in which case a portion of the surface of the core
may be left exposed; or the core may be left rough, and the strip or riband
may be ornamented with an embossed or engraved enrichment and coiled
closely upon the core or base, thus producing a very rich and elaborate
appearance at a low cost.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention; and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I claim the improvements in the manufacture
and ornamentation of rods, poles, tubes, and other forms, useful in the con-
struction of articles of furniture, and for many other similar uses, by coiling
round a base or core of suitable form a strip or strips of metal, as herein more
fully set forth and specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Fearn, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
МНОМАС (- - 1 BRADY
THOMAS (2.5.)
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BARN.