A Method of Imitating in Metal the External Appearance of Bamboo Canes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 21st July, 1896--Accepted, 21st Nov., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Method of Imitating in Metal the External Appearance of
Bamboo Canes.
We, GEORGE SANDERS, Engineer, 1, Providence Place, Hob Moor Road,
Small Heath, County of Warwick, and PICKERING PHIPPS, Chairman of the
Bamboo Cycle Company, Petit Street, Wolverhampton in the County of Stalford
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
Collars of metal are turned in the shape & fashion of bamboo nodes and are
then fixed upon metal tubes by blazing, soldering, or any other known method, at
certain distances-whereby the circular exciescences and the external appearance
of the bamboo caue are imitated.
Dated 14 do than 1005
GEORGE SANDERS.
D PICKERING PHIPPS.
A Method of Imitating in Metal the External Appearance of
Bamboo Canes.
We, GEORGE SANDERS, Engineer, of No. 1 Providence Place, Hob Moor Road,
Small Heath in the County of Warwick, and PIOKERING PHIPPS, Chairman of
the Bamboo Cycle Company, Limited, Petit Street, Wolverhampton in the County
of Stafford 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 :-
This invention has for its object the imitation, in metal, of bamboo canes so that
in structures, such as certain cycle frames, consisting largely of natural bamboo
cane, metal parts may be introduced, (where, for example, greater gidity is
desired than can readily be obtained with natural bamboo cane) without interfering
with the characteristic appearance of the structure as a whole.
To attain our object we turn collais of metal in the shape and fashion of
bamboo nodes, and fix such collars upon metal tubes by brazing, soldering, or
any other known method at certain distances apart, whereby the circular
excrescences and the external appearance of the bamboo cane are imitated.
In order that our invention may be properly understood and readily carried into
effect we have hereunto appended an explanatory sheet of drawings, in the
several figures of which coriesponding parts are marked with the same reference
numerals.
Figure 1. is a view in elevation of an ordinary metal tube.
Figure II. is a similar view of a metal collar or node adapted to be secured to
the said tube, and
Figure III 18 a similar view of the said tube having fixed upon it three of the
said collars or nodes.

page_text: The collars or nodes, 2, 2, may be stamped or cast in form approximating more
or less closely to their finished shape or may be cut from a hollow or solid inetal
bar and are finished exteriorly in the shape and fashion of bamboo nodes by
turning or like means. They are bored through lengthwise to the size of the
tube 3 on to which they are to be fitted and are secured on such tube by brazing,
soldering or any other known method, at distances apart corresponding more or
less nearly to the distances at which they are usually apart in natural bamboo
canes of diameter corresponding to the diameter of the metal tube. The surplus
brass, scale or the like, or projecting rivet heads and the like, are cleaned off in the
well known manner. To complete the effect, the metal tube bearing the collars or
nodes is preferably painted, enamelled or otherwise colored to imitate bamboo
cane.
We wish it to be understood that we do not confine myself to the precise details
described herein or illustrated in the accompanying drawings, but may make such
variations and modifications as fauly fall within the scope of our invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim 18;-
1. As a new process of manufacture,-imitating bamboo canes in metal, by
securing to metallic tubes, metal collars shaped and fashioned in the form of bamboo
nodes, substantially as herein described
2. As a new article of manufacture,-metal tubes bearing metal collars, such
collars being of such form and being secured to the said tubes at such distances
apart as to imitate the appearance of bamboo canes with their nodes, substantially
as herein described.
Dated this 20th day of July 1896.
G DOUGLAS LEECHMAN,
18 Hertford Street, Coventry, Patent Agent for the Applicants.