Improvements in Means for connecting together the Component Parts of Hollow-ware and other kindred Metallic Articles.
Year: 1897

page_text: Improvements in Means for connecting together the Component
Parts of Hollow-ware and other kindred Metallic Articles.
We, RICHARD PAULL, of 5, Carrs Lane, in the City of Birmingham, Agent, and
THOMAS WALTER SPURRIER, of 295, Bridge Street West, Birmingham aforesaid,
Accountant Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
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This invention relates to means for connecting together the component parts
of hollow-ware and other sheet or wrought metallic articles, such as egg-cups,
buckets, candlesticks, pails, vases, sheet-metal terminals, knobs, culinary vessels,
tea-pots and jugs.
The said invention consists in forming a sinking, cup or well within one part
or element of an article and forming upon the other part or clement to be con-
nected thereto, a correspondingly shaped dowel, stud, lift or rise, capable of
socketting one within the other, or one over the other, the said parts being made
fast or permanently attached to one another by collectively upsetting the said
socketting parts preferably from the inside of the she-socketted part, so as to
spread out or upset the metal of the combined infibulated walls, thereby forming
a rivetted connection, with the rivets (the heads of which are compound or of
double thickness) made out of the metal of the walls of the parts to be united
together. In order to prevent any tendency of the parts to rotate upon one
another, the rivetting may be so effected as to spread the metal out more at one
point than another and so disconform the circular figure of the same.
Where large parts of an article have to be united, then two, three or more
pairs of socketting studs may be provided and headed up as described.
In consequence of there being no joints or seams and of the rivet being formed
integrally with the walls of the parts to be united, a perfectly water-tight connec-
tion is made without the employment of solder.
As a modification, a circular, elliptical or other shaped piercing may be made
in the walls of the one part and a corresponding boss or stud is formed on the
other and then introduced through the said hole and rivetted over or headed up
on the other side. Two, three or more such connections are made, according to
the size of the parts to be united.
Dated this 16th day of August 1897.
RICHARD PAULL,
THOMAS WALTER SPURRIER,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicants.

page_text: Improvements in Means for connecting together the Component
Parts of Hollow-ware and other kindred Metallic Articles.
We, RICHARD PAULL, of 5, Carrs Lane, in the City of Birmingham, Agent, and
THOMAS WILLIAM SPURRIER, of 295, Bridge Street West, Birmingham aforesaid,
Accountant Clerk, 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:-
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This invention relates to means for connecting together the component parts
of hollow-ware and other sheet or wrought metallic articles, such as egg-cups,
buckets, candlesticks, pails, vases, sheet-metal terminals, knobs, culinary vessels,
tea-pots and jugs.
The said invention consists in forming a sinking, cup or well within one part
or element of an article and forming upon the other part or element to be con-
nected thereto, a correspondingly shaped dowel, stud, lift or rise, capable of
socketting one within the other, or one over the other, the said parts being then
made fast or permanently attached together by collectively upsetting the said
socketting parts preferably from the inside of the she-socketted part, so as to
spread out or upset the metal of the combined infibulated walls, thereby forming
a rivetted connection, with the rivets (the heads of which are compound or of
double thickness) made out of the metal of the walls of the parts to be united
together.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents, in elevation, the cup and
foot parts of an egg-cup, separated, but formed respectively with he and she parts
capable of being socketted with one another prior to the connection of the same by
collective rivetting according to this form of my invention.
Figure 2 represents, in section, the same separated parts of an egg-cup as shown
in Figure 1.
Figure 3 represents a section of the said component parts or elements brought
together, with the respective he and she formations thereof socketted into one
another, prior to the heading or rivetting of the same from the inside of the
cup part.
Figure 4 is a like view as Figure 3, but upon a considerably enlarged scale.
Figure 5 represents a view (upon the same scale as Figure 4) of the said parts
permanently connected together by the collective upsetting or heading up of the
aforesaid socketting parts.
The same letter of reference indicate corresponding parts in the said Figures
to 5 of the drawings.
a is the cup part of an egg-cup, made from sheet metal and with the closed
bottom a¹, of the same provided with an upwardly formed she-sinking or recess a².
whilst b, is the foot part of the said cup, also fashioned out of sheet metal and
having upon the summit or upper end 61, thereof a dowel, stud, lift or other
equivalent he formation 62, corresponding to and adapted to fit within the she
part of the other component of the article to be made. After being socketted
together, the said engaging parts are made fast or permanently attached by
heading up or upsetting the same by operating upon them by tools on the inside
of the cup, thus forming a rivetted connection c, see Figure 5. In order to
prevent any tendency of the parts to rotate upon one another, the rivetting may
be so effected as to spread the metal out more at one point than another and so
disconform the circular figure of the same, or a key formation on the one socket-

page_text: ting part may be made to engage in a corresponding space or key way in the
other part, or a cross indentation or corrugation may be formed across the two
parts after the rivetting of them together.
Where large parts of an article have to be united, then two, three or more
pairs of socketting studs may be provided and headed up as described.
In consequence of there being no joints or seams and of the rivet being formed
integrally with the walls of the parts to be united, a perfectly water-tight connec-
tion is made without the employment of solder.
Figures 6 and 7 represent a modification, of our invention according to which
a circular elliptical or other shaped piercing a¹, may be made in the walls of the
one part a, and a corresponding boss or stud b', is formed on the other b, which
latter is introduced through the said hole a (see Figure 6) and then rivetted over
or headed up on the other side, thus forming a permanent connection c, as shown
in Figure 7. Two, three or more such connections are made, according to the
size of the parts to be united.
Instead of the she sinking or hole being formed in the bottom of the cup
element and the he-dowel on the summit of the foot, their positions may be
reversed by making the sinking or hole in the said base and the dowel upon the
bottom end of the cup or other element and then collectively upsetting the
socketted parts from the inside of the foot.
Our invention is also applicable to uniting together the several parts of articles
comprised of more than two components, in which case, clearances may be left,
when required in the walls of the parts, to admit of the introduction of the tools
necessary for the upsetting of the socketted or engaged parts.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
First-Uniting or connecting together the component parts of articles made
of metal or other material, by forming a female sinking or cup within the one
part, and a corresponding he-dowel, stud or lift upon the other part, then socket-
ting the one part over or into the other and permanently attaching them together
by collectively heading up or upsetting the said engaged or socketted parts.
Secondly-Uniting or connecting together the component parts of articles
made from metal or other material, by forming a hole in the bottom of the one
element, and engaging therewith a he-dowel or hollow rivet formation on the
other part, which is then headed up or upset within the interior of the first-named
part.
1000
RICHARD PAULL,
THOMAS WILLIAM SPURRIER.
By Henry Skerrett,
24, Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicants.