Improvements in the Manufacture or Production of Terminal Ornaments, Knobs, Junction, Corner and Middle Mounts, and other Metallic Articles of a like Manufacture.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Oct., 1893-Accepted, 4th Nov., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture or Production of Terminal
Ornaments, Knobs, Junction, Corner and Middle Mounts, and
other Metallic Articles of a like Manufacture.
We MARK LAWTON of Harford Street, in the City of Birmingham
Manufacturer, and WALTER JOSEPH CHARLES, of 72 Hampton Road Birchfields,
near Birmingham aforesaid General Manager do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the production of terminal ornaments, knobs, spherical
corner mounts, and spherical or hemispherical end or ended mounts. The said
mounts are generally employed as terminals or junctions to metallic parts of
bedsteads, cots, railings, fenders, and other metallic articles of furniture.
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Certain types of ornaments or mounts having necks, and made from sheet metal,
are united or connected to the said necks by hard soldering, which is detrimental to
the quality of the articles produced, inasmuch as the heating renders the metal
soft, hence the liability of the said articles to dent.
Now according to our invention, no hard soldering is employed, but the head or
sperical sheet metal or other part is connected to the neck part, by a loose screw
having a shoulder near a headed end, and a worm at the other end, which formed
shoulder part, takes into a square hole in the spherical sheet metal part, whilst the
wormed end takes into a screwed inside top part of the neck.
Thus, in a terminal corner mount, I take a sheet metal spherical terminal part,
and pierce the middle of the underside of the same with a square hole, of the
outside counterpart of the square shoulder of a headed screw pin.
The head of the said pin lies within the inside of the spherical terminal part,
with a shoulder passing into the square piercing, and with the screw wormed part
directed outwardly, which takes into the screwed inside top of the neck.
The opposed end of the neck to the terminal is seated to the curvature of the
latter, and in putting the parts together, the screwed pin is passed through a side
or other hole into the interior of the sheet metal terminal, and then passed
outwardly through the piercing from the inside of. the same, and with the head
lying inward of the piercing, and resting upon the metal surrounding it, and with a
square shoulder located within a square piercing. Then by screwing up the neck
upon the protruding or extended end of the wormed pin, the two parts are firmly
connected together.
The same result may be attained by making the adjacent end of the neck
screwed, with a square collar at its base, which takes through the square hole in
the terminal, and with a wormed part passing into the interior knob, upon which a
nut is screwed.
The application of my invention to other ornaments, the interiors of which are
accessible by an opening, differs in no essential respect from its application to a
corner mount, as herein before described.
Dated this 19th day of December 1892.
MARK, LAWTON,
WALTER JOSEPH CHARLES,
By Henry. Skerrett,
Agent for Applicants.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture or Production of Terminal
Ornaments, Knobs, Junction, Corner and Middle Mounts, and
other Metallic Articles of a like Manufacture.
We, MARK LAWTON, of Harford Street, in the City of Birmingham,
Manufacturer, and WALTER JOSEPH CHARLES, of 72, Hampton Road, Birchfields;
near Birmingham aforesaid, General Manager, 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 production or the connecting together of the
primary parts of terminal ornaments, knobs, spherical corner mounts, and spherical
or hemispherical end or ended mounts without soldering. The said mounts are
. generally employed as terminals or junctions to metallic parts of bedsteads, cots,
railings, fenders, and other metallic articles of furniture.
Certain types of ornaments or mounts having necks, and made from sheet metal,
have their heads or primary body parts united or connected to the said necks by
hard soldering, which is detrimental to the articles produced, inasmuch as the
heating renders the metal soft, hence the liability of the said articles to dent or
become damaged.
Now according to our invention, no hard soldering is employed, but the head or
spherical sheet metal or other part is connected to the neck part, by a loose screw
or attachment having a shoulder near a headed end, and a worm at the other end,
which formed shoulder part, takes into a square hole in the spherical sheet metal
part, whilst the wormed end takes into a screwed inside top part of the neck.
Thus, in a terminal corner mount, I take a sheet metal spherical terminal part,
and pierce the middle of the underside of the same with a square hole, of the
outside counterpart of the square shoulder of a headed screw pin.
The head of the said pin lies within the inside of the spherical terminal part,
with a shoulder passing into the square piercing, and with the screw wormed part
directed outwardly, which takes into the screwed inside top of the neck.
The opposed end of the neck to the terminal is seated to the curvature of the
latter, and in putting the parts together, the screwed pin is passed through a side
For other hole into the interior of the sheet metal terminal, and then passed
outwardly through the piercing from the inside of the same, and with the head
lying inward of the piercing, and resting upon the metal surrounding it, and with a
square shoulder located within a square piercing.
Then by screwing up the neck upon the protruding or extending end of the
wormed pin, the two parts are firmly connected together.
The application of our invention to other ornaments, the interiors of which are
accessible by an opening, differs in no essential respect from its application to a
corner mount, as hereinbefore described. .
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents partly in vertical section and
partly in elevation a corner mount, knob or pillar support made or the component
parts of the same put together or fitted according to our invention.
Figure 2 represents an underside plan of the upper or spherical end Figure 1,
.and with the securing pin shown in section, and upon the dotted lines A B of the
said Figure 1.
Figure 3 represents a topside plan of the neck part.
Figure 4 is the spherical head part separately.
Figure 5 is the screw pin or screw attachment separately.
Figure 6 is an underside plan of Figure 5.
Figure 7 is an end view of Figure 4.
Figure 8 shows the neck part separately.
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Figure 9 is a corner mount or knob with its head secured to its neck by a further
and modified form of our invention.

page_text: In the said corner. mount Figure 1, a is the spherical head, having its lower
underside provided with an angular or square shaped piercing a², wherein a like
angular or square shaped shoulder 62, of a screw pin b, with an enlarged or
headed part 6, takes.
c is a neck, base or pillar part, having a screwed hole c', through the middle.
of its upper part, which is terminated by a seating c², for the head a to rest.
within.
Now this said head has an opening a¹, wherethrough the rail of a fender, or the
rail of a bedstead or other article of manufacture takes, so that on the said attach--
ment means, being screwed home, the head cannot be turned upon the neck when
the said rail is in position.
Thus, in, connecting the head part to the neck or pillar part, pass the screw
attachment b, into the interior of the same, and then direct the screw pin part ³,
of the same outwards, and with the angular collar 62, lying within the like angular
shaped hole or piercing a², in the head a.
Then by screwing the screw part 3, of the said attachment b, into the screwed
hole c', of the neck c, or by screwing the neck c, upon the screw 6³, until the same
is wrung fully home, a fixed connection is made.
Instead of the collar 62, being square, and the hole in the knob being of a like-
figure, it may be made elliptical or of any elliptical figure which will prevent the
one part from rotating within the other part.
As a modified form of our invention, the screw attachment b, may extend or take
into the interior of the knob or head, and the part ', which may be made smaller,.
may take into the interior of the neck or pillar c, and then by passing a screw nut
upon the screwed pin 63, and rotating the same up tight, a like connection as in.
Figure 1 was thereby made.
As a further modified form of our invention, the screw part 63, and the shoulder b²,.
may be made integral with or fast to the middle of the summit of the neck c, so
that the said shoulder 62, is passed into a like shaped hole in the head, and the
screw 63, into the interior of the same, and the said head part is then affixed to the
said neck part by passing and screwing home a screw nut on the screw part.
Or instead of a screw pin 3 being employed, a rivet may be used, and the affixing
of the one part to the other may be accomplished by expanding the end of the said
rivet in the inside of the knob.
Figure 9 represents a further modified form of our invention.
a is a sheet metal head, c is a neck or pillar, with a seating c², and a screwed.
hole c', through the middle of its upper part. is a screw attachment, with a
double wormed part 63, 64, and a square or angular collar b². The screw part ³,
takes into the screwed hole c', the square collar 62, into a square or angular hole a²,
in the terminal a, and upon the end , comes a nut 6, by the screwing up of which
the component parts of the corner mount are united together.
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Instead of the pin 63, being wormed, it may be plain, and be rivetted or made fast.
to the neck in any desired way.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
:-
First. In the production of terminal ornaments, knobs, middle mounts and other
articles of a like manufacture, uniting or connecting the head or knob part to the
neck, pillar or base part, by a screw attachment b, with collar, head and screw
part,,, taking into the said component parts of the article to be united
together in manner substantially as described and set forth in Figures 1 to 8.
Secondly. In the production of terminal ornaments, knobs, middle mounts and.
other articles of a like manufacture, uniting or connecting the head part to the
neck, pillar or base part by means substantially as described and set forth in
Figure 9.

page_text: Thirdly. In the production of terminal ornaments, knobs, middle mounts, and.
other articles of a like manufacture, the means herein described for uniting or
connecting the head or body part to the neck, pillar or base part, substantially as
described and set forth in the Specification and drawings.
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MARK LAWTON,
WALTER JOSEPH CHARLES,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicants.