IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND ORNAMENTATION . OF METALLIC BEDSTEADS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF METALLIC FURNITURE
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Roberts Walter Winfield, of Birmingham, in the
County of: Warwick, Merchant and Manufacturer, and John Simms, of
...Fleet Street, in the City of London, Commercial Agent,' and Thomas
Lloyd, of Kings Norton, in the County of Worcester, Brass. Founder, for,
the Invention of." IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND ORNAMENTATION
.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Walter Winfield,
Jolin Simms, & Thomas Lloyd at the Office of the Commissioners of
"Patents, with their -Petition, on the 15th March 1856:-
We, ROBERT WALTER WINFIELD, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Merchant) and Manufacturer, and: JOHN SIMMS,. of Fleet Street,.in
the City of London; Commercial Agent, and THOMAS LLOYD, of Kings Norton,
in the County of Worcester, Brass Founder, do hereby declare.the nature: off
the said Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND: ORNAMENTATION
OF METALLIC BEDSTEADS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF METALLIC FURNITURE," to be as
follows:
1.
T
Our Invention consists, firstly, in a new or improved method of constructing"
the corner blocks of metallic bedsteads, and otlier articles of metallic furniture.

page_text: In carrying this part of our Invention into effect, we attach to each end of
the side rails hollow cylindrical blocks, which drop upon the upright pillars,
and are fixed at the requisite height either by a conical shoulder engaging in
the holes in the said corner blocks, or by any other convenient stop on the
pillar.
Our Invention consists, secondly, in a method of coating or covering taper
rods or pillars, or partially taper and partially cylindrical rods or pillars, with
brass or other metal, for metallic bedsteads, and other articles of metallic furni-
ture, in the following manner:-We place a roughly-formed tube of brass or
other metal upon an iron taper rod or pillar, and subject the whole to the action
of an expanding draw plate, that is to say, we draw them through a collar of tin
or other soft metal, by which the tube becomes drawn upon the internal iron
rod or pillar.
Our Invention consists, thirdly, of the following method of ornamenting
metallic bedsteads, and other articles of metallic furniture. In carrying this
part of our Invention into effect we proceed as follows:-We construct
ornaments of brass or other suitable metal, the general figure of such
ornaments being tubular, and we slide the said tubular ornaments upon such
portions of the rods or pillars as we wish to ornament; the said tubular
ornaments may be attached to the said rods or pillars by collars at top and
bottom, or in any other suitable manner. The articles to which our Invention
is applicable in addition to bedsteads, are chairs, couches, sofas, and such other
articles of metallic furniture as are or may be constructed for the purpose of
sitting, lying, and reclining upon.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Walter Winfield, John Simms, and Thomas Lloyd
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 12th September 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ROBERT
WALTER WINFIELD, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Merchant and
Manufacturer, and JoпN SIMMS, of Fleet Street, in the City of London, Com-
mercial Agent, and THOMAS LLOYD, of Kings Norton, in the County of
Worcester, Brass Founder, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her reign;.

page_text: did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
Robert Walter Winfield, John Simms, and Thomas Lloyd, Her special
licence that we, the said Robert Walter Winfield, John. Simms, and Thomas
Lloyd, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the
said Robert Walter Winfield, John Simms, and Thomas Lloyd, our 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 CONSTRUCTION AND ORNAMENTATION
OF METALLIC BEDSTEADS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF METALLIC FURNITURE," upon the
condition (amogst others) that we, the said Robert Walter Winfield, John
Simms, and Thomas Lloyd, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under our or their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one
of us or them, 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 John Simms, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:-
Our Invention consists, firstly, in a new or improved method of constructing
'the corner blocks of metallic bedsteads, and other articles of metallic furniture,
illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
Figure 1 represents in side elevation, Figure 2 in vertical section, and
Figure 3 in plan, our method of carrying this part of our Invention into effect.
.We attach to each end of the side and end rails hollow cylindrical blocks a, b; the
said blocks drop upon the upright pillar c, one over the other, as represented,
and are fixed at the requisite height either by the conical shoulder d engaging
in the holes in the said blocks, or by any other convenient stop on the pillar c.
The side and end rails are attached to the blocks a, b, by means of the arms
or brackets e, e, on the said blocks, or in any other convenient manner.
Our Invention consists, secondly, of the method illustrated in elevation in
Figure 4, and in vertical section in Figure 5, of the accompanying Drawing, of
coating or covering taper rods or pillars, or partially taper and partially
cylindrical rods or pillars, with brass or other metal, for metallic bedsteads, and
other articles of metallic furniture. We carry this part of our Invention into
effect in the following manner:-We place a roughly-formed tube of brass or

page_text: other metalf upon an iron taper rod or pillar 9, and subject-the said tube and
rod or pillar to a drawing action, that is to say, we draw them through a draw
plate or collar of tin, or other soft metal or material which will expand by the
passage of the tube and pillar through it, but which will at the same time
exercise sufficient pressure upon the tubef as to draw it into close contact
with the rod or pillar g. A collar of tin answers very well in practice, but we
do not limit ourselves thereto.
.
Our Invention consists, thirdly, of the method of ornamenting metallic bed-
steads; and other articles of metallic furniture, illustrated in elevation in
Figure 6, and vertical section in Figure 7, of the accompanying. Drawing::
In carrying this part of our Invention into effect, we construct ornaments
of brass or other suitable metal, the general figure of such fornaments. being
tubular, and we slide the said 'tubular ornaments; represented at h, i; in Figures
'6 and 7, upon such portions of pillars as we wish to ornament. The tubular
ornaments h; i, Figures 6 and 7 are represented upon the-pillar of a metallic
bedstead. The said tubular ornaments may be attached to the said rods' or
pillars by collars 1, 1, at top and bottom, the said collars screwing or otherwise
engaging on the pillar k, and thereby securing the tubular ornaments h, i, in
their places. Where for convenience of construction or for purposes of orna-
ment it may be considered necessary "or desirable; we introduce collars- at the
middle or other part of the tubular ornaments, as well as their ends.
Although we have only represented in Figures 6 and 7.twisted metallic tubes
made to encase a pillar of a metallic bedstead, we wish it to be understood that
this part of our Invention embraces any ornamental kind of tube, the general
figure of which is cylindrical and which lies close upon the pillargas "repre-
sented in the Drawing. The articles to which our Invention is applicable in
addition to bedsteads, are chairs, couches, sofas, and such other articles of
metallic furniture as are or may be used for the purposes of sitting, lying, and
reclining upon.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention, and the manner. of
carrying the same into effect, we wish it to be understood that we do not limit
ourselves to the precise details herein described and represented, as the. samè
may be varied without departing from the nature of our said Invention ; but
we claim as our Invention:
Firstly, the method herein described, and illustrated in Figures 1, 2, and 3
of the accompanying Drawings of constructing the corner blocks of metallic
bedsteads, and other articles of métallic furniture.
"
Secondly, coating or covering taper rods or pillars, or partially taper and
partially cylindrical rods or pillars, with brass, or other metal or alloy, for

page_text: metallic bedsteads, or other articles of metallic furniture, as herein described,
and illustrated in Figures 4 and 5 of the accompanying Drawing.
Thirdly, ornamenting metallic bedsteads, and other articles of metallic
furniture, by encasing the same in ornaments, the general figure of which is
tubular, the said tubular ornaments fitting closely upon the rod or pillar to
which they are applied, as herein described, and illustrated in Figures 6 and 7
of the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Simms; have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Eleventh day of September, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
JAMES MURDOCH.
JOHN SIMMS.. (L.S.)