IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC BEDSTEADS
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Peyton and William Fothergill Batho, of
Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Metallic Bedstead Manu-
facturers, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
METALLIC BEDSTEADS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Peyton and
William Fothergill Batho at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 21st April 1860.
We, EDWARD PEYTON and WILLIAM FOTHERGILL BATHO, of Birmingham, in
the County of Warwick, Metallic Bedstead Manufacturers, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF METALLIC BEDSTEADS," to be as follows:―
Our Invention consists in a new method of fixing tester and curtain rods
together, and in fixing and supporting the brackets which support the tester
and curtain rods, and which also tend to support or maintain the head pillars
upright.
Hitherto the tester and curtain rods have been weakened by apertures
formed therein to receive metal pins for connecting them together, and also at
those parts where the brackets for supporting them were united or affixed to
them. The ends of the brackets which bore against the pillars were also
bollowed to lie snugly and fit the curve of the pillars. The pillars were also

page_text: weakened in some cases by an aperture or apertures formed therein to receive
one end of the bracket.
Now, as far as regards the uniting the tester and curtain rods, our Inven-
tion consists in casting or otherwise forming clamps, the ends of which
embrace the rods.
The second part of our Invention consists in casting or otherwise forming,
on the pillars as well as on the tester rods, sockets into which the ends of the
brackets enter; or instead of sockets, other descriptions of supports, such as
studs, to receive the ends of the brackets, which would have to be formed with
eyes or other like terminations to fit over or into the supports. Where the
supports are in the shape of sockets, then the ends of the brackets are formed
plain, to fit into them.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edward Peyton and William Fothergill Batho in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 20th October 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, EDWARD
PEYTON and WILLIAM FOTHERGILL BATHO, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Metallic Bedstead Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
Edward Peyton and William Fothergill Batho, Her special licence that
we, the said Edward Peyton and William Fothergill Batho, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Edward Peyton
and William Fothergill Batho, our 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 METALLIC BEDSTEADS," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that we, the said Edward Peyton and William
Fothergill Batho, or one of us, our executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under our, or one of our, or their, or one of their bands
and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the

page_text: 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 we, the said Edward Peyton and William Fothergill
Batho, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performned, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the
Drawings hereunto annexed, that is to say :-
Our Invention consists of a new method of fixing tester and curtain rods
together, and in fixing and supporting the brackets which hold up the tester
and curtain rods, and which also tend to maintain the head pillars upright.
Hitherto the tester and curtain rods have been weakened by apertures
formed therein to receive metal pins for connecting them together, and also at
those points where the brackets for supporting them were united or affixed to
them. The pillars have also been weakened in some cases by an aperture or
apertures formed therein to receive one end of the brackets.
Now, as far as regards the uniting of the tester and curtain rods, our
Invention consists in casting or otherwise forming clamps which embrace
the rods.
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The second part of our Invention consists in casting or otherwise forming,
on the pillars as well as on the tester rods, sockets into which the ends of the
brackets enter; or instead of sockets, other descriptions of supports, such as
studs, to receive the ends of the brackets, which would have to be formed with
eyes or other like terminations to fit over or into the supports. Where the
supports are in the shape of sockets, then the ends of the brackets are formed
plain, to fit into them.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a front view of the upper part of
a head pillar, showing the tester and curtain rods, and the supporting bracket
connected thereto; Figure 2 is a side view of the same; and Figures 8 and 3*
are separate views on an enlarged scale. A is the tester rod; B is a casting
fixed to it; C is the curtain rod, threaded at the end, and passed through an
aperture provided for the purpose in the casting B. A nut or tapped rosette
is screwed upon the end of the curtain rod to keep it in its place. By
unscrewing the nut the end of the curtain rod can be withdrawn from the
casting B, to allow of the curtain rings being placed upon it, after which it is
passed through the casting, and secured by the nut. The curtain rod C is
supported at its central part in front by a rosette clamp D, through apertures
in which the tester and curtain rods pass, as shown at Figures 4 and 5. We
prefer to make these clamps in two parts and rivet them together, as shown in
the detached views, Figures 6, 7, and 8, the rivet being placed midway between

page_text: the two rods. E, Figure 1, is a socket, either cast on the pillar or formed
separately, and secured in its position by caulking or otherwise, into which tho
lower end of a bracket F is inserted; the bracket is formed at top with an
eye, which passes over the threaded pin on the top of the pillar, while the
upper end of a branch G is inserted in the socket H, cast or otherwise fixed
on the tester rod, whereby the tester and curtain rods are supported. Separato
views of the sockets E and I are shown at Figures 9 and 10.
At Figure 11 we have illustrated the manner in which we support the head
pillars of bedsteads. I is a socket, into which the upper end of a bracket K
is inserted; j, j, are eyes, in which the arms of the bracket terminato at
bottom, and which are placed over studs k, k, on the side frame. Separate
views of the socket I are given at Figure 12.
And having now described the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we claim,—
First, fixing together the tester and curtain rods used in metallic bedsteads
by means of clamps, substantially in manner hercin-before described.
And, second, fixing and supporting brackets employed in inetallic bedsteads,
substantially in manner herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Peyton, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of October, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty.