Improvements in connecting Sheet Metal Tee and Corner Mounts to Metallic Bedsteads and Cots.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 7th May, 1890
Complete Specification Left. 30th Jan., 1891-Accepted, 7th Mar., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in connecting Sheet Metal Tee and Corner Mounts
to Metallic Bedsteads and Cots.
We, JOHN PHILLIPS, THOMAS WATERHOUSE, HARRY PHILLIP PHILLIPS,
and GERALD ALBERT PHILLIPS, trading together as Phillips & Son, of Speedwell
Works, Sherborne Street, Birmingham, Metallic Bedstead Manufacturers, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
This invention consists of the hereindescribed improvements in connecting brass
or other sheet metal mounts over the cast tee junction pieces of metallic bedsteads
and cots and over the corner castings of what are known as "fast French end "
bedsteads and cots.
By this invention the said mounts can be very quickly and firmly fixed in place
on the said castings and when so fixed they are not liable to come off and they have
a neat appearance and finish.
A sheet brass or other sheet metal mount for partly covering a tee casting
according to this invention is made of a size and shape to cover about one half more
or less of the upper cross limb of the tee. This mount has a bulged out part fitting
over a corresponding projection cast on the tee and cast in this projection are
undercut recesses. When the mount above described has been placed in position
on the tee casting, tongues formed on the mount are pressed into the said recesses
thus securing the mount in position. The said tongues may be dispensed with and
the mount fixed in place by the sides of the bulged out part being indented into the
recesses.
There may be two or more of these projections on the tee and corresponding
bulged out parts on the mount.
The said projection or projections on the tee may pass right through the mount
and in this case the latter is made with holes corresponding with the projections
instead of being made with bulged out parts.
When the whole of the tee casting is required to be covered by the mount the
latter is made in two or more pieces and secured thereto in the manner above
described.
The said projection or projections on the tee casting with which the mount
engages may be made separate from the tee castings and cast thereto by being
laid in the chill before the tee is cast.
We fix mounts to the said corner castings similarly as above described with
reference to mounts on tee castings, the said corner mounts being made of a shape
and size to cover about one half more or less of the corner casting.
Dated this 6th day of May 1890
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in connecting Sheet Metal Tee and Corner Mounts
to Metallic Bedsteads and Cots.
We, Joux PHILLIPS, THOMAS WATERHOUSE, HARRY PHILLIP PHILLIPS,
and GERALD ALBERT PHILLIPS, trading together as Phillips & Son, of Speedwell
Works, Sherborne Street, Birmingham, Metallic Bedstead Manufacturers, 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 consists of the herein described improvements in connecting brass

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or other sheet metal mounts over the cast tee junction pieces of metallic bedsteads
and cots and over the corner castings of what are known as "fast French end
bedsteads and cots.
By this invention the said mounts can be very quickly and firmly fixed in place
on the said castings and when so fixed they are not liable to come off and they have
a neat appearance and finish.
A sheet brass or other sheet metal mount for parily covering a tee casting
according to this invention is made of a size anul shape to cover about one half more
or less of the upper cross limb of the tee. This mount has a bulged out part fitting
over a corresponding projection east on the tee and cast in this projection are
undereut recesses. When the mount above described has been placed in position
on the tee casting tongnes formed on the mount are pressed into the said reresses
thus securing the mount in position. The said tongues may be dispensed with and
the mount fixed in place by the sides of the bulged out part being indented into the
recessies.
The said projection or projections on the tee casting with which the mount
engage may be and by preference are made separate from the tee enstings and east
thereto by being laid in the chill before the tee is cast.
In the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 represents in front elevation and Fig. 2 in
section fee casting with a mount fixed thereto in accordance with this invention;
Fig. 3 shews the same with the mount in position ready for fixing: Fig. 4 shews in
section and side elevation the said mount separately and Fig. 5 is a separate view
of the projecting part with which the mount engages.
A is the tee casting and B is the sheet metal mount for partly covering the same.
is the bulged out part of the mount which fits over the corresponding projection
east on the ice, and are the undercut recesses of the said projection e. We
prefer to make the projection in the form of a stud as shewn separately by Fig. 5
the collar being necessary to close the hole in the chill in which the projection e
is laid and thus prevent the molten metal filling up the recesses when the tee is
being cast. are the tongues which are formed on the mount B and which
after the mount has been placed in position on the tee (as shewn in Fig. 3) aro
pressed into the recesses (see Fig. 2) so as to engage therewith and thus secure
the mount in position.
Fig. 6 represents a sheet metal mount in which the tongues are dispensed with
and which is fixed to the tee casting A as shown in Fig. 7 by the sides of the bulged
out part, & being indented into the recesses of e.
It will be evident that our invention as above described is applicable for fixing
sheet metal mounts of any size and of various shapes and that when the mount is
large enough to require it there may be two or more of the said projections e on the
tec or on the corner casting and corresponding bulged out parts on the mount B.
The projection or projections e on the tee casting A may as shewn by Figg. 8
and 9 pass right through the mount B and in this case the mount B is made with a
hole or holes corresponding with the projections e instead of being made with a
bulged out part or parts . Fig. 10 shows this form of mount separately. The
hole is made just large enough to pass over the projection e as shown in Fig. 9
and then the metal round the hole is indented into the recesses to fix the
mount in place as shown in Fig. 8.
When, as in the example shewn by Fig. 11, the whole of the tee casting is
required to be covered by the mount the latter is made in two pieces (marked
respectively Band B) and secured thereto in the manner above described. One
half B of the mount is shewn separately by Fig. 12.
We fix mounts to the said corner castings, such as the corner casting marked D
in Fig. 13, similarly as above described with reference to mounts ou tee castings,
the said corner mounts (such as that marked E shewn separately by Fig. 14) being
made of a shape and size to cover about one half more or less of the corner casting.
In the example illustrated the corner mount E has a bulged out part b' engaging
with underent recesses e²² in the projection similarly as in the mount and casting
1.

page_text: shewn by Fig. 7. Mounts such as E' E' can also as shewn by Figs. 15 and 16 be
similarly fixed to the corner casting for covering those parts of the corner casting
which are above and below the dovetail recesses for the angle irons and which parts
are not covered by the mount such as E.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is —
1. Connecting sheet metal mounts to the cast tee junction pieces or to the corner
castings of metallic bedsteads and cots in the manner hereinbefore described and
illustrated by the accompanying drawings; that is to say, providing on the tee or
corner casting an undercut projection or undercut projections and making the sheet
metal mount with a bulged out part or bulged out parts or with a hole or holes
corresponding with the said projection or projections and adapted to engage with
the undercut recesses thereof in the manner and substantially as hereinbefore set
forth.
2. The combination with the cast tee junction pieces or with the corner castings
of metallic bedsteads and cots of projections such as c cast thereon and adapted to
engage with and secure the mounts thereto substantially as hereinbefore set forth
and illustrated.
Dated this 20th day of Jan1001
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.