An Improved Method of Securing Castors to Metallic Bedsteads.
Year: 1895

page_text: .Date of Application, 21st Jan., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 23rd May, 1895-Accepted, 29th June, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of Securing Castors to Metallic Bedsteads.
I, WILLIAM HENRY FERRER, of 128 St. Paul's Road, Balsall Heath, in the
City of Birmingham, Commercial Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows.:-
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This invention relates to an improved method of securing castors to metallic
bedsteads whereby I am enabled to readily attach a castor to the foot or like part
of a bedstead, and to readily detach the same for renewal or other purposes.
In carrying my invention into effect I employ a castor consisting of a bracket
and roller arranged in the ordinary manner, an eye or a hole being formed through
the bracket for the admission of the pin, stud, or castor peg formed with or rigidly
attached to the terminal or foot of the bedstead. Such pin, stud, or castor peg is
of sufficient length to enable it to project beyond the bracket, and I drill or form a
hole through the projecting portion of the peg to receive a small split pin or cottar
for the purpose of retaining or securing the castor in position. The cottar hole is
formed through the peg or stud in such a position as to allow free rotation of the
castor bracket. The cottar is fixed to the peg or stud by opening out the split end
thus preventing its accidental withdrawal through the pin hole, but it may be
readily withdrawn to permit of the removal of the castor for renewal or other
purposes, by forcibly closing the split end with pincers or other suitable tool.
I modify the form of the split pin, cottar, or other like fastening, but in all cases
I arrange that it may be readily withdrawn without damaging the terminal pin,
stud, or peg, to permit of the removal of the castor when broken, or for renewal or.
other purposes.
MARKS & CLERK,
18 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13 Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of Securing Castors to Metallic. Bedsteads.
I, WILLIAM HENRY FERRER, of 128 St. Paul's Road, Balsall Heath, in the
City of Birmingham, Commercial Traveller, 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 relates to an improved method of securing castors to metallic
bedsteads whereby I am enabled to readily attach a castor to the foot or like part
of a bedstead, and also to readily detach the same for renewal or other purposes.
In the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings to be hereinafter
referred to;—
Figure 1 is a side elevation and Figure 2 an end elevation representing a castor
secured by my improved method to a terminal or foot of the bedstead.
Figure 3 is a sectional plan of the castor peg and the retaining pin with its
ends closed, Figure 4 being a similar view with the ends of the retaining pin
opened.

page_text: Figure 5 is a sectional elevation and Figure 6 a sectional plan representing a
modified form of the retaining pin or cottar.
Figure 7 is an end elevation and Figure 8 a front elevation illustrating a modified
form of castor peg.
The same reference letters in the different views indicate the same parts.
In carrying my invention into effect I employ a castor consisting of a bracket
such as A and roller B arranged in the ordinary manner, an eye or a hole being
formed through the bracket for the admission of the pin, stud or castor peg C
formed with or rigidly attached to the terminal or foot D of the bedstead. Such
pin; stud, or castor peg C is of sufficient length to enable it to project beyond the
bracket, and I drill or form a hole through the projecting portion of the peg to
receive a small split pin or cottar E for the purpose of retaining or securing the
castor in position. The cottar hole is formed through the peg or stud in such a
position as to allow free rotation of the castor bracket. The cottar is fixed to the
peg or stud by opening out the split end as shown at Figures 4 and 6 thus
preventing its accidental withdrawal through the pin hole, but it may be readily
withdrawn to permit of the removal of the castor for renewal or other purposes, by:
forcibly closing the split end with pincers or other suitable tocl.
The castor peg C cast in the terminal or foot D has its upper end grooved
preferably in the manner shown at Figures 7 and 8, in order that it may be the
more securely attached when cast with the terminal.
I modify the form of the split pin, cottar, or other like fastening, but in all cases
arrange that it
may be readily withdrawn without damaging the terminal pin,
stud, or peg to permit of the removal of the castor when broken, or for renewal or
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other purposes.
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.
1. The improved method of securing a castor to the foot or terminal of a
bedstead, substantially as herein described.
2. In metallic bedsteads the use of a split pin or cottar in combination with a
castor and castor peg substantially as, and for the purposes hereinbefore described,
and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 23rd day of May 1895.
MARKS & CLERK,
18 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13 Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.