Improvements in the Manufacture of Metallic Bedsteads.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Sept., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 21st June, 1893-Accepted, 5th Aug., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Metallic Bedsteads.
I, SAMUEL ILSLEY WHITFIELD of 96 Sampson Road Birmingham in the
County of Warwick, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows :-
My invention relates to mounting with brass or other suitable metal the pillars or
other parts of metallic bedsteads and consists of an extension of the principle
employed and specified in my Specification of Patent No. 15960 1889 which refers
to a system of mounting the pillars or other portions of metallic bedsteads.
In the before named Patent I claim a method of attaching and securing embellish-
ments or mounts of brass or other suitable material to the corner blocks and other
parts of metallic bedsteads either with extended rails or not more particularly to
such bedsteads as have collars or mounts cast upon the pillars or other parts which
prevent the usual ring mounts being passed onto the pillars or other parts from the
ends thereof.
By my present improvements in order to brass or otherwise mount a chill casting
or to secure the mount without a chill casting on the pillars corner blocks or
horizontal rails of metallic bedsteads I use a mount of any ornamental design which
may conform to the shape and outline of the chill or not as the case may be the
mount having extended portions or bands at the extremities of the same. I then
attach a shield of brass or other suitable metal above and below the mount by means
of screws or other suitable attachment, the pillar of the bedstead being tapped or
otherwise to receive such screw through the shield or shields, these shields will
take the place of the rings or ferrules mentioned in my previous Patent No. 15960-
1889 and will fit over the upper and lower portions of the mount and firmly secure
the same in the desired position.
If preferred the mounts and shields may be made of one piece of metal and
affixed to the pillars or other parts in a precisely similar manner, as above set
forth.
By my improved method of mounting metallic bedsteads the embellishments or
mounts can be fixed and adjusted in a very simple manner and the appearance given
to the bedstead is greatly improved.
Dated this 20th day of Santamber An 1000
EDWARD J. PAYNE & SON,
104, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Metallic Bedsteads.
I SAMUEL ILSLEY WHITFIELD of 96, Sampson Road Birmingham in the
County of Warwick, 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, reference being had to the
drawings hereunto annexed and to the figures and letters shown thereon :-
My invention relates to a method of mounting with brass or other suitable metal
or material, the pillars or other parts of metallic bedsteads and consists of an
extension of the principle employed and specified in my Specification of Patent

page_text: No. 15960, dated the 10th of October 1889, which refers to a system of mounting
the said pillars or other portions of metallic bedsteads.
In the above named Patent I claim a method of attaching and securing
embellishments or mounts of brass or other suitable material to the corner blocks
and other parts of metallic bedsteads either with extended rails or not, but more
especially relating to such bedsteads as have collars or mounts cast upon the pillars
or other parts which prevent the usual ring mounts from being passed on to the
pillars or other parts from the ends thereof.
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I will proceed to describe my invention with the aid of the drawings in which
Figure 1. is an elevation of a part of a metallic bedstead pillar showing the
mount upon the corner block as fixed by my present improved method.
Figure 2. is a similar elevation with one of the attachment shields removed.
Figure 3. the centre portion of a mount alone.
Figure 4. one of the attachment shields.
Figure 5. is the centre mount and attachment shields composed of one piece of
metal.
Similar letters of reference relate to similar parts on all the figures.
By my present improvements in order to brass or otherwise mount a chill casting,
or to secure the mount, without a chill casting upon the pillars, corner blocks or
horizontal rails of metallic bedsteads, I use a mount A. of any ornamental design
and composed of any suitable metal or material, which may or may not (as the
requirement may be) conform to the shape and outline of the chill when
one is used.
The mount A. has extended portions or bands B. at the extremities of the same.
I then attach shields C. of brass or other suitable metal or material above and
below the mount A. by means of screws D. or other convenient method of attach-
ment when screws are used the pillars E. of the bedstead, are tapped and screwed F.
to receive such screws through the shield or shields; these shields C. are intended to
be used in the place of the rings or ferrules described in my previous Specification
of Patent No. 15960 of 1889, as aforesaid, such shields C. will fit over and impinge
the upper and lower portions or bands B of the mount as shown and firmly secure
same in the desired position.
If preferred the centre mounts and shields may be made from one piece of metal
as shown in Figure 5. the method of attachment to the pillars or other parts of the
bedstead will be precisely similar to the above; this being merely an alternative I
may use in some cases.
By my improved method of mounting metallic bedsteads the embellishments or
mounts can be fixed and adjusted in a very simple manner and the appearance
given to the bedstead is greatly improved.
I do not confine myself to the exact methods of mounting and attaching such
mounts to the parts of metallic bedsteads as I may require to sometimes vary the
same without departing from the principle, of this my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
Firstly. The improvements in the manufacture of metallic bedsteads by the
above described methods for attaching and securing the embellishments or mounts
to the pillars, corner blocks chill castings, or other parts, by the use of the particular
shaped mounts and shields, which are secured by screws or other suitable means,
for the purpose all substantially and in manner as herein more fully set forth and
described.
Secondly. I claim-The method of forming the mounts with the extended ends
or bands as shown for the shields to pass over and impinge in order to effectually
secure the parts in position when screwed on or otherwise connected to the bedstead
substantially as herein set forth and described.

page_text: Thirdly. I claim-The method of making the mounts or embellishments in one
piece, that is to say the centre portion and shields from one piece of metal or
material, for the purpose substantially as herein set forth and described.
Dated this 20th day of June A.D. 1893.
EDWARD J. PAYNE & SON,
104, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.