Improvements in Sheet Metal Terminal Ornaments, Mounts, and Knobs of Metallic Bedsteads, Fenders, and other articles, and. also in Door Knobs and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 16th July, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 24th Dec., 1892-Accepted, 4th Feb., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Sheet Metal Terminal Ornaments, Mounts, and
Knobs of Metallic Bedsteads, Fenders, and other articles, and.
also in Door Knobs and the like.
I, ALFRED HEATH, of the firm of Heath and Sons Limited, of Leopold Street.
in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the sheet metal terminal ornaments, mounts and knobs,.
for various articles, such as metallic bedsteads, fenders, fire dogs, desk mounts,
railing corners, cots and other articles of a like manufacture, also to knobs for'
doors, drawers or cupboards, and the like.
My said invention is also applicable to middle mounts for various metallic"
articles.
The said invention relates only to detail improvements in the said articles, and
resides in the foot or neck part, which is internally wormed, for taking upon a
screw pin or rod, extending from, or attached to an article to which the ornament,
mount, vase, knob or the like is to be applied.
In ordinarily manufactured thin sheet metal ornaments, the feet or bases of them
have, or are provided with thick metal parts, with screw threads cut within the
interiors of them, for the taking of the screw pin or rod as aforesaid.
These thick metal parts are affixed to the said foot end or puminel of the neck,
by brazing, or by hard soldering.
In consequence of the extreme thinness of the metal employed, and the formation
of the shell neck and body parts, the same are liable to be deteriorated in quality, i
blistered or burned, consequent upon being subjected to intense heat, during the
brazing or soldering process.
As a further drawback against soldering, if the process is not conducted with
care, the parts soldered become loose, hence the rendering of the said article
worthless.
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According to one form of my invention a loose pummel, with a screwed hole
through its middle, surrounded by angular walls, is affixed within a pierced foot
end, by a thin outside closing cap.
According to another form of my invention, the neck is fitted with a loose and
spun over mount, having a screwed hole through its middle, and with the outside
walls surrounding the said screwed hole made angular, or of an irregular figure,
which fits or takes within a like shaped hole, cut within the middle of the underside
of a thin sheet metal foot.
In carrying out the first form of my invention, I take a sheet metal neck, with
an angularly or irregular pierced foot or standside end, and I fit upon the said end,
a centrally wormed pummel, with inside boundary walls, of a like shape as the
piercing within the foot.
The said boundary walls form, as it were, a collar, which takes into the piercing
in the foot, and thereby prevents the said pummel from rotating.
The screwed pummel, or the pummel with a screwed hole through its middle, is
covered or encased by a thin sheet metal covering cap, whose terminal edge is
burnished or turned over the collar or shoulder of the neck, hence the affixing of
the said cap or casing, and the pummel enclosed within, to the neck.
In carrying out the other form of my invention, I make up the body part of the
ornament or mount, from two thin and shaped sheet metal shells, of any desired
pattern or figure. The lower shell has a neck or contracted under part, which is
terminated outwardly by a closed foot, consisting of a narrow collar with a closed
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page_text: bottom, which is subsequently pierced with a square (or other suitable shaped)
hole, to prevent the attached pummel, or combined pummel and mount, from
rotating, when in position.
The pummel or combined pummel and mount, consists of a circular dished shaped
piece of metal, having an inwardly directed hollow neck or boss, squared on the
outside, and with a screw thread cut in the interior.
In putting the component parts of the ornament or mount together, the shells of
the body part, are united in the ordinary way of spinning or closing the boundary
edging of the open boundary part of one shell, over that of the other, when the
mount or ornament, is then completed, by placing the said outside pummel or
fitting, upon the outside and extreme lower part, of the foot of the neck, with the
internally screwed, and outside squared boss, taking and lying within the square
hole in the bottom of the neck, hence the prevention of the same from rotating.
This outside pummel is then permanently affixed, by turning or spinning the
terminal edging of the outside wall, over and upon the throttled or contracted part
of the neck, at its junction with the foot or short collar.
By my invention considerable economy in the manufacture or production without
soldering or brazing of the said articles, is effected.
Dated this 15th day of July 1895
ALFRED HEATH,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Sheet Metal Terminal Ornaments, Mounts, and
Knobs of Metallic Bedsteads, Fenders, and other articles, and.
also in Door Knobs and the like.
"J
I, ALFRED HEATH, of the firm of Heath and Sons Limited, of Leopold 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:-
This, invention relates to the connection ends of sheet metal terminal ornaments,
mounts and knobs, for various articles, such for example as metallic bedsteads,
fenders, fire dogs, desk-railings, cots and other articles of a like description; also to
knobs for doors, drawers, cupboards, and the like, and also middle mounts for
various metallic articles, and is an improvement upon previous Letters Patent
granted to me and bearing date March 11 1892 No. 4785.
In ordinarily manufactured thin sheet metal ornaments, the feet or connection
parts of them have, or are provided with thick metal parts, with screw threads
cut within the interiors of them, for the taking of the screw pin or rod as
aforesaid.
These thick metal parts are affixed to the said foot end or pummel of the neck
by brazing, or by hard soldering.
In consequence of the extreme thinness of the metal employed in the formation
of the shell neck and body parts, the same are liable to be deteriorated in quality,
blistered or burned, consequent upon being subjected to intense heat, during the
brazing or soldering process.
As a further drawback against soldering, if the process is not conducted with
care, the parts soldered become loose, hence the rendering of the said article
worthless.
According to my invention, a loose pummel with a screwed hole through its
middle, surrounded by angular walls, is affixed within a pierced foot end, by a thin
outside closing cap.
In carrying out the first form of my invention, I take a sheet metal neck with an
angularly
or irregular pierced foot or standside end, and I fit upon the said end, a
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page_text: centrally wormed pummel, with inside boundary walls, of a like shape as the
piercing within the foot.
The said boundary walls, form as it were, a collar, which takes into the piercing
in the foot, and thereby prevents the said pummel from rotating.
The screwed pummel, or the pummel with a screwed hole through its middle is
covered or encased by a thin sheet metal covering cap, whose terminal edge is
burnished or turned over the collar or shoulder of the neck, hence the affixing of
the said cap or casing and the pummel enclosed within, to the neck.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents partly in elevation and partly
in vertical section, a terminal ornament or mount, with the attachment or foot end
provided with improvements made according to my invention.
Figure 2 represents a front side view of the same.
Figure 3 represents a like view as Figure 1, but with the pummel part, which
has an angular collar, which takes and fits within a like angular hole made in the
metal of the said foot, shown in elevation.
Figure 4 represents an elevation with the neck part in section of the said sheet
metal ornament or knob, before being fitted with a screwed and angular collared
pummel.
Figure 5 is the said sheet metal foot end unpierced.
Figure 6 is a front elevation of Figure 4.
Figure 7 is a front elevation of Figure 5.
Figure 8 is a section of the inside screwed pummel.
Figure 9 is a back elevation of the same.
Figure 10 is a section of the outside sheet metal closing cap.
Figure 11 is a back elevation of the same.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures
of the drawing.
a is a sheet metal terminal ornament, knob or the like, having a sheet metal foot
or connection end a², with a sheet metal neck a³, and with the middle of the foot
end a², pierced with a square, angular or other irregular shaped hole a', wherein a
square, angular or other irregular shaped collar 2, of a loose or fitted pummel b,
takes and fits, and is prevented from rotating by the square or other shaped part of
the one, taking into the square or other shaped part of the other, and which pummel
has an axial screwed hole 3 up its middle.
The affixing of the said pummel to the sheet metal foot end a³, and within the
piercing a', is effected by a sheet metal cap or end covering c, which, when placed
upon or over the pummel, and upon the sheet metal foot of the knob or terminal
ornament, and the boundary edges c², closed or spun over the shoulder a, at the
junction of the said foot with the neck, the said pummel or inside screwed collar
part is affixedly attached to the said foot end.
This sheet metal end covering or cap has a plain hole c', through it, which comes
lignable or coincident with the screwed hole 6, of the pummel.
A wormed rod, screwed end part, or screwed spindle, takes axially through the
said foot end into the knob, whereby the attachment of the said knob, terminal or
the like, to an article is made.
It is understood that the hole or piercing at in the foot may be of any figure
which will prevent the rotation of the collar of the pummel, within it.
Of course the collar of the pummel is made of a figure suitable for taking into
the piercing.
Figure 12 represents a modified form of my invention. In this arrangement, a
collar of the pummel, lies within a sinking or recess made within the said foot end,
instead of taking into and through a piercing.
a is the knob, a² the foot end, a³ the neck, 6 the pummel, with an axial screwed
hole, through its middle, and with the angular collar, lying within a like
shaped recess a', and with a plain hole a, coming coincident with the screwed
holes b, c, of pummel b, and sheet metal cap c, respectively.
Figure 13 represents a still further form of my invention.

page_text: In this arrangement, the pummel part is let within a recess sunken within the
foot of the knob or ornament, and with the boundary edges of the said foot end.
turned forward over the front or outside boundary edge of the pummel.
Figure 14 represents the parts of the foot end of the knob or ornament separated
and separately or before the boundary edge of the foot end is closed over the
boundary edges of the pummel.
a is the knob, a² the foot end, a³ the neck, at a sinking, as the boundary walls of
the same, a an angular hole within the sinking, suitable for taking an angular
collar, of a pummel b, having an axial hole 63, through its middle, and a circum-
ferential rabate, at its front, wherein the extreme edge of the boundary walls a,
of the foot a, is pressed, by closing, spinning or otherwise, as represented in
Figure 13.
The said bringing over of the part a', keeps the pummel in position, whilst the
angular hole a, prevents the same from rotating.
In applying my invention to middle mounts, I employ a foot end to both top and
bottom parts.
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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 sheet metal terminal ornaments, knobs and the like, having sheet
metal foot ends or bases, providing the said foot or connection end of the same
with an angular collared and fitted pummel attachment, and 'with the said collar
taking into an angular or other irregular shaped hole, cut or formed within the
middle of the said sheet metal end, as set forth.
:
Secondly-In sheet metal terminal ornaments, knobs and the like, having sheet
metal foot ends or bases, fitting the same with an inside wormed pummel, and with
the same affixed in position by a sheet metal closing cap or sheet metal end
covering, substantially as described and set forth in Figures 1, 2 and 3.
Thirdly-In sheet metal ornaments, knobs and the like, forming the foot or
attachment ends of attached and fitted parts, arranged and applied as described and
set forth in Figures 1, 2 and 3.
Fourthly In sheet metal ornaments, knobs and the like, securing and affixing
inside screwed pummels to their seats, or to the attachment ends of knobs, by a
supplementary thin sheet metal cap, as set forth.
:-
Fifthly In the attachment ends of sheet metal terminal ornaments, knobs and
the like, making up the said ends by means and in the way as described and set
forth in Figure 12.
Sixthly In the attachment ends of sheet metal terminal ornaments or knobs,
making up the same of fitted paris, secured in position, and prevented from
rotating, by means and in the way as described and set forth in Figures 13
and 14.
Dated this 20-11
of December
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ALFRED HEATH,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.