Improvements in Metallic Bedsteads.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Apr., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 18th Jan., 1890-Accepted, 22nd Feb., 1890
PROVISIONAL. SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Metallic Bedsteads.
We ALFRED HENRY GRIFFITHS Managing Director of Evered and Company Limited
of Surrey Works Smethwick in the County of Stafford Manufacturers and EDGAR
SMALLWOOD of Victoria Road Stechford near Birmingham in the County of Warwick
Manager of Works do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as
follows:-
This invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in constructing
tubular brass mounts for and attaching them above and below the corner blocks cast
on the pillars of French end metallic bedsteads.
By this invention the tubular brass mounts are readily attached to and detached
from the pillars and when attached are very secure.
We make each of the tubular brass mounts in symmetrical halves so that when
the said half mounts are attached to the pillar either above or below the corner block
of the French end bedstead the edges of the two half mounts come closely into
contact and form a complete tubular brass mount to the pillar. We make at each
of the vertical edges of the half tubular mount an inwardly projecting rim or flange
the said ribs or flanges being inclined to one another at a small angle the space
between the edges of the said ribs or flanges being equal to the diameter of the pillar
so that when the mount is in position the said edges of the ribs or flanges seat them-
selves against the pillar and assist in keeping the half mounts truly concentric with
the pillar. These inwardly projecting ribs or flanges may either be attached to the
edges of the half mount by soldering or they may be made in one piece with the half
mount. For the purpose of attaching these half mounts to the pillar of the French
end bedstead we cast a collar above and below the corner block and in one piece with
the said block upon these collars the wider parts of the half mounts can seat them-
selves. In each of the said collars and in that part of the corner block adjoining the
said collars vertical slots are made the said slots being parallel to the angle bar of
the French end and on opposite sides of the pillar. By a vertical sliding motion the
inwardly projecting ribs or flanges of the two half mounts are engaged with the
vertical slots in the collars and corner block on the pillar so as to completely cover
the parts of the pillar above and below the corner block with brass tubular mounts
the outer edges of each half tubular mount coming into close contact and thereby
forming a neat junction of the two half mounts. Each half tubular mount is fixed in
its place by its horizontal edges bearing against the pillar and by means of a screw
pin passed through the middle of it taking into a screwed hole in the cast collar above
and below the corner block. The middle brass covering for the corner block between
the two mounts described is of the ordinary kind.
Dated this 27th day of April 1880
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Metallic Bedsteads.
We, ALFRED HENRY GRIFFITHS, Managing Director of Evered and Company
Limited, of Surrey Works Smethwick in the County of Stafford Manufacturers and
EDGAR SMALLWOOD of Victoria Road Stechford near Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Manager of Works do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention and
the manner in which the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :—
This invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in constructing

page_text: tubular brass mounts for and attaching them above and below the corner blocks cast
on the pillars of French end metallic bedsteads.
By this invention the tubular brass mounts are readily attached to and detached
from the pillars and when attached are very secure.
We make each of the tubular brass mounts in symmetrical halves so that when
the said half mounts are attached to the pillar either above or below the corner block
of the French end bedstead the edges of the two half mounts come closely into
contact and form a complete tubular brass mount to the pillar. We make at each of
the vertical edges of the half tubular mount an inwardly projecting rib or flange the
said ribs or flanges being in the same line or inclined to one another at a small
angle, the space between the edges of the said ribs or flanges being equal to the
diameter of the pillar so that when the mount is in position the said edges of the ribs
or flanges seat themselves against the pillar and assist in keeping the half mounts
truly concentric with the pillar. These inwardly projecting ribs or flanges may
either be attached to the edges of the half mount by soldering; or they may be made
in one piece with the half mount. For the purpose of attaching these half mounts
to the pillar of the French end bedstead we cast a collar above and below the corner
block and in one piece with the said block; upon these collars the wider parts of the
half mounts can seat themselves. In each of the said collars and in that part of the
corner block adjoining the said collars, vertical slots are made the said slots being
parallel to the angle bar of the French end and on opposite sides of the pillar. By
a vertical sliding motion the inwardly projecting ribs or flanges of the two half
mounts are engaged with the vertical slots in the collars and corner block on the
pillar so as to completely cover the parts of the pillar above and below the corner
block with brass tubular mounts the outer edges of each halt tubular mount coming
into close contact and thereby forming a neat junction of the two half mounts.
Each half tubular mount is fixed in its place by its lower horizontal edge bearing
against the pillar and by means of a screw pin passed through the middle of it taking
into a screwed hole in the pillar or cast collar above and below the corner block.
The middle brass covering for the corner block between the two mounts described is
of the ordinary kind.
The vertical slots described in the collars cast with the corner block may be omitted
and the opposed ribs or flanges on the half mounts be engaged or locked together.
The half mounts or one of the half mounts may be applied to the foot blocks of the
pillars of French end and other metallic bedsteads.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in side elevation the corner block
of the pillar of a French end bedstead before the half metallic tubular moants made
according to this invention are applied to it and Figure 2 represents the same with the
said half tubular mounts and the middle covering applied to the corner block; Figure 3
represents in horizontal section the pillar and one of the mounts; Figure 4 represents
in elevation and Figure 5 in plan of underside the two half mounts before they are
connected together and to the pillar and Figure 6 represents inside elevations of the
two half mounts exhibiting the shape of the ribs or flanges of the said mounts.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of
the Drawing.
are
a is the corner block cast on the pillar of the French end Bedstead and c, c
the collars cast above and below the said corner block for receiving the brass tubular
mounts. Each tubular brass mount above and below the corner block a is con-
structed alike, as herein after explained. Each tubular brass mount is made in
symmetrical balves marked d and d² the edges of the two half mounts when fixed
together and to the pillar coming into close contact and thereby forming a com-
plete tubular mount as seen in the Drawing. On each of the vertical edges of the
half tubular mount dan inwardly projecting straight rib or flange f is made and
on each of the vertical edges of the other half tubular mount da nearly similar
inwardly projecting rib or flange e is made. The inner end of each rib or flange e
is bent back and formed into a flat groove or trough e² of a size proper for the end
of the straight rib or flange f on the other half mount to interlock or engage with.

page_text: In opposite sides of the collars c, c vertical slots g, g are made, into which the
inwardly projecting ribs or flanges e, e², f; e, e², f of the two half mounts d, d² take.
In connecting say the upper tubular mount to the pillar above the corner block the
grooved or trough ended ribs or flanges e, e² of the half mount d are by a vertical
motion engaged with the vertical grooves g, g in opposite sides of the cast collar c
and the straight ribs or flanges of the half mount d² are engaged with the grooves
or troughs e, e² of the ribs or flanges e so as to lock or engage together the ribs
or flanges of the two half mounts as best seen in Figure 3. When the two half
mounts are thus connected together their vertical edges come closely into contact
and form a complete tubular brass mount to the pillar. It will be seen by an ex-
amination of Figure 3 that when the two half mounts are in position the inner ends
or edges of the ribs or flanges e, f abut or seat themselves against the pillar band
thereby assist in keeping the half mounts truly concentric with the pillar. The base
or wide end of the tubular mount, when in position, bears against the corner block a
the wide parts of the half mounts passing over the collar c. The connected half
mounts may be secured in their places on the pillar by screw pins passed through the
half mounts taking into tapped holes in the pillar; or a single screw pin marked h for
fixing the half mount d² may be used when the interlocking arrangement of the ribs
is employed. In this case the inner ends or bottoms of the grooves or troughs e² of
the ribs e are closed as represented at e, Figure 4, so that when the half mount d² is
fixed by the screw pin the other half mount d cannot by a sliding motion be drawn
off the other balf mount d in consequence of the said closed ends of the grooves or
troughs.
The tubular mount below the corner block is arranged in position and fixed in the
same way.
The middle brass covering i of the corner block is fixed in its place by the inner
edges of the tubular mounts d, d²; d, d² passing over its edges as usual.
The inwardly projecting ribs or flanges of the half mounts taking into slots 9. 9
in
the collars on the pillar need not be interlocked or engaged together. This arrange-
ment is represented in horizontal section in Figure 7. In this arrangement the ribs
or flanges e, f on both the half mounts are straight and are slightly set back from the
meeting edges of the half, mounts, the said ribs or flanges when engaged in the slots g, g
bearing against the sides of the said slots as represented. Or the straight ribs or
flanges on both the half mounts may be situated at the vertical edges of the half
mounts as indicated in dotted lines in Figure 7 and meet and bear against one another
at the middle of the slots. In these arrangements each half mount requires to be
fastened to the pillar by a screw pin h.
The interlocking or engaging arrangement of the inwardly projecting ribs or flanges
of the half mounts may be used without the cast collars (with slots) above and below
the corner block as represented in vertical section in Figure 8 and horizontal
section in Figure 9. Figure 10 represents inside elevations of the two half mounts
shown in the arrangement Figures 8 and 9. The two half mounts, their ribs or
flanges and other parts of the arrangement represented in Figures 8, 9 and 10 are
marked with the same letters of reference as corresponding parts of the arrangement
Figures 1, 2 and 3 and the interlocking of the ribs or flanges of the two half mounts
and fixing them in their place are the same in both arrangements.
When one half only of the corner or other block is required to be covered with a
brass mount, one of the half mounts only is used having straight ribs or flanges at its
edges, the said ribs or flanges taking into narrow vertical slots on opposite sides of
the block cast on the pillar, the half mount being fixed in its place by a screw pin.
The improvements which we have described with reference to the corner blocks of
the pillars of French end bedsteads may also be applied to the foot blocks of the said
pillars and to the foot blocks of other metallic bedsteads, the foot blocks being com-
pletely covered or partially covered.
In the former case two half mounts are used, and in the latter case a single half
mount.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed we declare that we claim
as the said invention:-
The improvements in constructing tubular brass mounts for and attaching them to
the corner blocks of the pillars of French end bedsteads and to the foot blocks of
French end and other metallic bedsteads herein before described and illustrated in the
accompanying Drawing; that is to say, constructing tubular brass mounts in
symmetrical halves and providing each of the vertical edges of the said half mounts
with an inwardly projecting rib or flange, which ribs or flanges, when the half mounts
are placed in position on the pillar for forming a complete tubular mount, are either
made to interlock or to meet face to face without interlocking or are made to bear
against the sides of vertical slots in the corner block or foot block into which slots they
are passed by a sliding motion and afterwards fixed substantially as described and
illustrated; also the arrangement described in which a single half mount, with
inwardly projecting ribs or flanges on its edges, is used in conjunction with a slotted
corner block or foot block for receiving the said inwardly projecting ribs or flanges of
the half mount.
1000
ALFRED HENRY GRIFFITHS.
EDGAR SMALLWOOD.
ALFRED HENRY GRIFFITHS.
EDGAR SMALLWOOD.