IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF METAL CORNICE AND OTHER POLES AND RODS AND MOULDINGS BAR PARANG DIDDARDS OF TILTY AND DECORATION
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Allcock, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Brassfounder, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF METAL CORNICE AND OTHER POLES AND RODS AND MOULDINGS
BAR PARANG DIDDARDS OF TILTY AND DECORATION"
Sealed the 13th April 1865, and dated the 21st October 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Allcock at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
21st October 1864.
I, THOMAS ALLCOCK, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Brass-
founder, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF METAL CORNICE AND OTHER POLES AND RODS AND
MOULDINGS FOR VARIOUS PURPOSES OF UTILITY AND DECORATION," to be as follows,
that is to say:-
This Invention consists in manufacturing metal poles such as are used for
cornice poles, bedsteads, and other articles of metallic furniture, rods for stairs,
picture rods, carpet weights, and decorative or other mouldings of any
desired section from thin tubes or sheets or strips of metal, drawn with fins,
beads, or grooves upon them, flanged inwards in such manner that between

page_text: each pair of fins, beads, or grooves a space is left for the reception of
ornamental bands of metal or other decoration, which bands can be slid into
such grooves or between such beads or fins, being firmly secured thereby.
The inside of the tube, rod, or moulding can be filled with wood or other
solid substance if necessary, or with lead or metal if employed as carpet!
weights.
Re this method enrichments which would otherwise be exceedingly costly to
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Allcock in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
21st April 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
ALLCOCK, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Brassfounder, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Thomas Allcock, Her special licence that I, the. said Thomas
Allcock, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Thomas Allcock, 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 "In-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF METAL CORNICE AND OTHER POLES AND RODS
AND MOULDINGS FOR VARIOUS PURPOSES OF UTILITY AND DECORATION," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas Allcock, by an instru-
ment 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 Allcock, 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 fol-

page_text: lowing statement, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and
to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say):-
This Invention consists in manufacturing metal poles such as are used for
cornice poles, bedsteads, and other articles of metallic furniture, rods for
stairs, picture rods, carpet weights, and decorative or other mouldings of any
desired section from thin tubes or sheets or strips of metal, drawn with fins,
beads, or grooves upon them, flanged inwards in such manner that between
each pair of fins, beads, or grooves a space is left for the reception of
ornamental bands of metal or other decoration, which bands can be slid into
such grooves or between such beads or fins, being firmly secured thereby.
The inside of the tube, rod, or moulding can be filled with wood or other
solid substance if necessary, or with lead or metal if employed as carpet
weights.
By this method enrichments which would otherwise be exceedingly costly to
produce can be obtained very economically.
I will now proceed to describe my improvements more fully in detail by the
aid of the annexed Drawings, which represent in elevation and section, portions
of cornice poles and stair and other rods adapted for various uses, and
constructed according to my Invention.
(a) Figure 1, represents a rod of wood partly covered with brass, on the
face of which rod is sunk a groove or channel (6) in which groove is slid a
stamped or cast brass or other metal enriched band (c), which is held in its
place by the overlapping edges or fins (d). This enriched band may be
formed of other material than metal if preferred, and it may be applied to a
pole or rod formed of wood without metal covering, and if necessary it may be
further secured in position by small tacks or nails to prevent its slipping from
the groove.
Figure 2 represents in similar Drawings another section of cornice pole,
having a triple band of enrichment, put together in manner similar to the last
described, Figure 3 shewing a pole made of wood of any suitable description,
and without a metal covering, and grooved to receive the ornamental band.
Figure 4 represents a blind lath formed of iron covered with brass or of
solid brass, and turned over or flanged to receive an enriched band.
Figure 5 represents a stair rod of wood covered with iron and again with
brass, or with what is termed cased tubing, the enriched band being similarly
clipped between the overlapping edges; Figure 6 shewing the section of the
same design as applied to the ornamentation of picture rods.
Figure 7 represents a stair weight formed by filling a metal casing with
lead, and introducing the ornamental band in the manner already described.

page_text: This description of rod is used for holding down carpets without the, employ-
ment of stair eyes:
Figure 8 shews a stair rod of oak or other valuable wood, polished and
ornamented by the introduction of the enrichment inserted within the fins or
flanges.
These Drawings serve to illustrate a few only of the varied forms my
Invention may assume, and they apply only to a few of its uses. It may be
employed in forming mouldings of a highly ornamental.character.to be used
in the decoration of rooms, carriages, ships' cabins, and furniture generally?
and the mode of applying the decorative parts admits of endless' variety, poles,
rods, or mouldings in glass, wood, or metal of any description may be enriched
with ornamental bands in metal, glass, carved wood, or stamped leather to
imitate carving, papier maché, china, vegetable ivory, or enamel, and bands or
ribands of velvet or other textile manufacture may also be introduced with
considerable advantage, and thus highly ornamental and novel effects may be
produced at very insignificant cost.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I do not confine myself to these precise
details; but that which I claim is, the improvements in the manufacture of
cornice and other poles and rods, and mouldings for various purposes of utility
and decoration, substantially as herein more fully set forth and specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Allcock, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.