Improved Method of Constructing Framework for Furniture, Tents, Platforms, and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 6th July, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 4th May, 1895-Accepted, 6th July, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Method of Constructing Framework for Furniture, Tents,
Platforms, and the like.
JONES SAUNDERS 102 Chatsworth Street Edge Hill Liverpool Lancashire
Marine Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
Improved method of constructing framework for furniture tents, platforms, and
the like, so that the constituent parts of them can be easily and quickly fitted
together and fixed or taken asunder with like facility for convenience of removal
or stowage.
I accomplish this new improvement by taking, say for a table, two straight
metal tubes such as ordinary gas tubes one inch in diameter and ten feet long.
I bend alike both ends of both these tubes at a distance of three feet from their
extremities, making each tube form three sides of a rectangular figure having a
common base of four feet with two perpendiculars of three feet each. I bend a
pair of metal rods in like form of similar lengths as the tubes but of a diameter by
so much less as allows of the perpendicular sides of the one rod being passed, one
perpendicular side into the hollow perpendicular side of one tube, & the other
perpendicular side or leg into the hollow perpendicular side or leg of the other
tube when the two tubes are placed correspondingly and parallel with each other and
their ends upwards and vertical.
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This one description serves for guide direction and explanation for all other
work subject to variation of form and dimensions as required.
Dated this 4th day of July 1894.
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Improved Method of Constructing Framework for Furniture, Tents,
Platforms, and the like.
I, JONES SAUNDERS, of 102, Chatsworth Street, Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said 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 relates to an improved method of constructing framework for
furniture, tents, platforms, and the like; and has for its object to render such
framework portable and so that it can be readily erected.
A framework constructed according to this invention is made up of tubes and
rods, which are bent to the form required, the tubes forming sockets for the
reception of the rods. In some cases where additional strength is required the
framework may be entirely constructed of tubes.
As an example of the application of this invention, I will now describe a
framework suitable for a rectangular article, such as a seat, table, or platform. I
take two straight metal tubes, such as gas piping, and bend alike both ends of

page_text: both of these tubes so that each tube forms three sides of a rectangular figure. I
next bend a pair of metal rods in like form and of similar lengths as the tubes,
but of a lesser sectional diameter, so as to allow of the ends of the rods being
placed within the tubes, and I fit the ends of the rods into the hollow ends of the
tubes so that the tubes and rods together form a parallelogram, the rods being
parallel with each other, and the tubes being parallel with each other. The tubular
members or sockets are preferably disposed so as to form the pedestal of the structure,
whilst the rods or connecting pieces serve as a support on which to rest the table-top,
seat-bottom, or platform.
In the drawing hereto annexed A represents the framework of a tent; B the
framework of a table; C the framework of a seat; D the framework of a couch;
and E illustrates a framework constructed according to this invention in its folded
and portable state. In all the examples a a represent the tubular members or
sockets of the framework, and b b the connecting members which are adapted to
ship into them.
Upon reference to the drawing hereto annexed it will be seen that the tubular
members or sockets a a are bent to form three sides of a rectangular figure. The
connecting members or rods bb may be similarly shaped when the article for which
the framework is intended possesses a flat top-such as a seat, table, or platform ;
but for a tent, where it is desirable that the roof should be inclined or curved, the
connecting members or rods are curved, as shown at A. The external diameter
of the connecting members or rods bb is less than the internal diameter of the
tubular members a a, into which they fit; and, as before stated, tubes may be
substituted for rods as connecting members where extra strength is required.
'In dismantling the framework the connecting members bb may be withdrawn
from the sockets a a, or the framework may be folded into the position shewn at E
without the connecting members being thus withdrawn.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what 1
claim is :-
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Framework for furniture, tents, platforms, and the like, comprising tubular
members or socket pieces such as a a and connecting members such as b b, combined,
arranged and operating substantially in the manner herein set forth.
Dated this 3rd day of May 1895.
J. A. COUBROUGH,
Registered Patent Agent,
10 St. George's Crescent, Liverpool, Agent for the Applicant.