Improvements in the Mouldings of Fenders and Kerbs.
Year: 1893

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Mouldings of Fenders and Kerbs.
I, EDGAR AUGUSTUS JOSEPH HOOPER, of Hospital Street, in the City of
Birmingham, Manufacturer, 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 :-
My invention relates to the mouldings or part mouldings of fenders and kerbs,
and consists in making up the same from lengths of plain, patterned or partly
patterned thick rolled iron or steel, or thick iron or steel partly rolled and partly
drawn.
Thus in carrying out my invention, I take a strip of rolled metal, and whilst in
a soft or cold state, I pass the same through rolls, which convert the said strip into
an open bottomed moulding of thick metal, and subsequently or at the same time
as the moulding is fashioned, so the surface of the same, or a part of the surface
of the same, is patterned or ornamented.
Or I first take a length of thick moulding, formed into shape either by rolling
or by drawing, and I then impress the necessary pattern upon the surface of the
same, or upon a portion of the surface, either when the metal is in a heated and
soft state or when cold.
When the impressing of the pattern is conducted when the metal is cold, the
said length of thick metal may be drawn under rolls, instead of being passed
through rolls.
To embellish the said lengths, strips of thin casing metal may be applied or
drawn upon parts of the same.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents a length of thick wrought iron
and patterned moulding inade according to my invention.
Figure 2 represents three of such lengths in the positions which they occupy as
the sectional portions of a fender or kerb.
Figure 3 represents one end or a corner of the same connected together,
and the corner gap covered over by a cap as in my former Letters Patent
No. 12529 of 1888.
Thus, in making a fender, I take three lengths a, b, and c, of plain and thick
wrought metal moulding, or of patterned and thick wrought metal moulding as in
Figure 1, with squared ends a', b, c, and I unite the said component and sectional
lengths together by introduced corner stays, covering caps, and screw pins and other
means as described in the said cited Letters Patent, although I do not limit myself
to this means of connecting the said ends, which may if necessary be mitred and
secured together in other ways.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
First. In fenders and kerbs, making the mouldings or part mouldings composing
the sides and ends of the same of thick iron or wrought metal, produced either
by rolling, or by partly rolling and partly drawing, substantially as described and
set forth.
Secondly. In fenders and kerbs, making the mouldings or part mouldings
composing the sides and ends of the same of thick and patterned iron or wrought
metal, produced either by rolling, or by partly rolling and partly drawing, substan-
tially as described and set forth.
Thirdly. In the application to fenders and kerbs, of cut-off lengths of plain or

page_text: patterned and thick iron or wrought metal mouldings or part mouldings substantially
as described and set forth.
Dated this 31st day of August 1893.
EDGAR AUGUSTUS JOSEPH HOOPER,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.