IMPROVEMENTS IN THE FRAMES OF METAL BEDSTEADS
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Peyton, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
FRAMES OF METAL BEDSTEADS."
Sealed the 16th April 1862, and dated the 18th October 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Peyton at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 18th
October 1861.
I, EDWARD PEYTON, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE FRAMES OF METAL BEDSTEADS," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in casting or otherwise fixing the dovetail tongues on
the side and end frames of metal bedsteads at an angle, and in forming the
dovetail grooves into which the tongues are to be inserted at a corresponding
angle.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Peyton in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 17th April 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
PEYTON, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Edward Peyton, Her special licence that. I, the said Edward Peyton,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Edward Peyton, my 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
FRAMES OF METAL BEDSTEADS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Edward Peyton, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands 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 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 I, the said Edward Peyton, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, that
is to say.
My Invention consists in casting or otherwise fixing the dovetail tongues on
the side and end frames of metal bedsteads at an angle, and in forming the
dovetail grooves into which the tongues are to be inserted at a corresponding
angle.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings shows in side elevation, and
Figure 2 in plan, so much of a bedstead pillar and rail as will be necessary to
explain my Invention. a are the dovetail grooves, set at an angle, as shown,
and into which the dovetail tongues on the side and end frames take.

page_text: Figure 3 is a side elevation of part of a pillar and frame, the dotted lines
showing the position or direction given to the side frame marked A when the
dovetail tongues are about to be inserted in the dovetail grooves. The full
lines show the frame secured in the grooves.
In Figure 4, which is a view in plan of part of a pillar and frame, the
dotted lines show the position or the amount of obliquity given to the dove-
tail, in order to enable the lath B to pass over the stud C without entirely
disengaging the tongues from the pillar.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as my "Improve-
ments in the Frames of Metal Bedsteads," casting or otherwise fixing the
dovetail tongues on the side and end frames at an angle, and in forming the
dovetail grooves into which the tongues are to be inserted at a corresponding
angle, substantially in manner herein-before described, and illustrated in the
accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Peyton, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of April, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-two.
Witness to the signature of
Edward Peyton,
WILLIAM TAYLOR,
Bordesley Works,
Birmingham.
EDWARD PEYTON. (L.S.)