Improvements in and connected with Spurs.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 28th June, 1895-Accepted, 7th Sept., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Spurs.
I, FREDERICK WILLIAM BRAMPTON of The Oliver Street Works Oliver
Street, Birmingham in the County of Warwick Mechanical Engineer do hereby
leclare 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:-
The object of this invention is to do away with the necessity of forging and
filing spurs by hand thus enabling spurs to be made much cheaper than heretofore.
Now according to this invention I form the bows and the necks of spurs from
rolled sheet metal by cutting blanks from sheet steel or other metal and afterwards
bending them to the proper shape the knobs and rowels being secured thereto in
the usual way.
The spur is then hardened if necessary and polished.
Or the neck may be formed by drop forging and the bow from sheet metal the
Decks being secured by brazing, rivetting or by any other suitable means.
And in order that my said invention may be fully understood I will proceed
to explain the same with reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings in
which
Fig. 1 represents a blank for forming one side of a spur.
Fig. 2. is plan of spur formed by uniting two such blanks.
Fig. 3. is side view of spur.
Fig. 4. is plan of spur made froin three picces of sheet steel.
Fig. 5. is side view of same.
Fig. 6 is plan of a spur having a sheet steel bow and stamped neck.
Fig. 7. is side view of same.
Fig. 8. is front view of bow ready to receive neck.
Fig. 9. is side view of neck.
Fig. 10. is plan of spur having sheet steel bow and stamped neck.
Fig. 11 is side view of same.
Fig. 12 is blank for making bows of Figs. 6 and 10.
Fig. 13. is plan of stamped neck shewn at Fig. 10. Fig. 14 is end view of same.
Fig. 15 is side view of same.
The same letters denote the same parts in all the figs.
a is a piece of steel or blauk cut from a sheet of steel of the proper thickness
which is afterwards placed between a pair of dies and bent as shown at Figs. 2.
If the neck is straight only one pair of dies will be required but if curved as
shewn at Fig. 3. right and left hand dies will be required.
The two halves of the spur are then rivetted or brazed together forming a spur
as shewn by Figs. 2 and 3 the knobs d are secured to the spur by rivetting in the
ordinary way and the rowel 6 rotates on a rivet passing through the two pieces of
metal forming the neck.
In the modification shewu at Figs. 4 and 5 the bow fis made from one piece of
sheet metal and the neck of two pieces of sheet metal h, i, as shewn.
The neck is rivetted to the bow the knobs d d are rivetted into the bow and a
rivet passing from side to side of the bow carries the rowel b.
In the modification shewn by Figs. 5. 6. 7. 8 and 9 the bow fis made of sheet
steel or other suitable metal the blank being formed as shewn at Fig. 12 and
afterwards bent in any suitable mauner between dies for instance to the required
shave.

page_text: The neck is forged (preferably drop forged in suitable dies) passed through
the hole m in the bow and secured to the bow by rivets as shewn or by other
suitable means.
A saw cut is made in the neck to receive the rowel & through which and the neck
passes the usual rivet.
In the modification shewn by Figs. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. and 15 the same blank is
used for the bow as shewn by Fig. 12 and the neck is forged (by drop forging or
otherwise) but in this case the flanges nn of the neck kare secured outside the
bow as will be seen on reference to Fig. 10. The rowel is secured to the neck as
in the previous case.
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. Constructing spurs of two or more pieces of sheet metal secured together by
rivetting, brazing or by other suitable means, substantially as herein before
specified.
2. Constructing spurs with a sheet metal bow and a forged neck substantially as
herein before specified.
3. Spurs constructed of two pieces of sheet metal rivetted or otherwise secured
to one another as hereinbefore specified and illustrated by Figs. 1. 2. and 3 of the
accompanying drawings.
4. Spurs constructed of sheet metal having a bow of sheet metal and a neck
formed of two pieces of sheet metal rivetted or otherwise secured thereto as
herein before specified and illustrated by Figs. 4 and 5 of the accompanying
drawings.
5. Spurs constructed with a bow of sheet metal and a forged neck rivetted or
otherwise secured thereto substantially as hereinbefore specified and illustrated by
Figs. 6 to 15 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 28th day of June 1895.
T. E HALFord,
11, Furnival Street, Holborn, E.C., Agent for Applicant.