Improvements in Ornamenting Metallic Bedsteads, Cots, and Couches, and other Articles of Metallic Furniture.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application. 13th Dec., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 14th Aug., 1891-Accepted, 19th Sept., 1891
TRUYIDIONAL OF EVIFTUATION.
Improvements in Ornamenting Metallic Bedsteads, Cots, and Couches,
and other Articles of Metallic Furniture.
We EDWARD LAWSON, trading as R. L. Crosbie & Co. of Charlotte Street
Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, and RICHARD GEORGE
HODGETTS, of No. 61 Coventry Road Birmingham aforesaid Manager of Works
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention has reference principally to the ornamenting of iron bedsteads by
the addition of ornaments of brass, but is also applicable to the ornainenting of
metallic bedsteads, cots and couches and other articles of metallic furniture made
of metals other than iron and ornamented with metallic and non-metallic ornaments.
We will describe our invention in connection with a metallic bedstead made of
iron and ornamented with ornaments of brass.
In ornamenting according to our invention an iron bedstead with ornaments of
brass, we prefer to ornament the corner blocks and the upper part of the pillars and
the head and foot rails but our said invention may be applied to any of these parts
and any combination of these parts and to other parts of the bedstead.
In ornamenting the corner blocks of the bedstead with a series of short brass
tubes arranged around the part of the pillar immediately above the block we
proceed as follows:-We form on the said block and in one piece therewith by the
casting process a series of four or other number of equidistant projections and on
the pillar at a height say of three or four inches, we form a similar and symmetrical
series of projections and between these pairs of projections we fix tubes of brass in
the following way.
In the underside of each of the upper projections is a shallow
hole and on the upper side of each of the lower projections is a similar shallow hole
open at front.
In each of the lower projections and immediately below the front
opening, a screw pin is fixed in the casting of the block. The ornaments or short
pieces of brass tube are affixed by introducing their upper ends into the upper
shallow holes and passing their lower ends through the front openings into the
lower holes. Rosettes or ornamental plates are put on the screws and fixed by
screw nuts; the brass tubes are thus secured in their places.
In some cases the lower ends of the tubes are fixed in position by plain or
ornamental metallic bands. Or in place of screws fixed in the lower projections,
screws passed through the lower part of the tubes taking into screwed holes in the
projections may be employed.
When the upper part of the pillar is to be ornamented the lower projections may
be cast in one piece on the pillar and a ring like piece carrying the upper
projections may be made to slide on the pillar. Both the pieces described mav
have either shallow holes or pins in or on which the tubular ornaments are fitted.
The upper piece may be fixed down by the screwing down upon it of the terminal
ornament of the pillar.
Instead of the plain or cylindrical tubes described ornamental tubes or ornaments
not having a tubular figure may be employed.
In applying our invention to the ornamenting of the head and foot rails of metallic
bedstends and other like articles, we prefer to make the chilled junction pieces
by which the vertical and horizontal rods are joined, of greater length vertically
than usual and to leave an open space in the middle of the casting in which space
the tubular or other ornament may be inserted and fixed.
The application of our invention to the ornamenting of cots and couches and