Improvements in Attaching or Securing Ornaments or Trimmings to Bedsteads, Cots and Other Articles of a like Manufacture.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Oct., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 21st May, 1897-Accepted, 3rd July, 1897
Improvements in Attaching or Securing Ornaments or Trimmings to
Bedsteads, Cots and Other Articles of a like Manufacture.
I, CHARLES FREDERICK HOSKINS, Works Manager of Hoskins and Sewells Bedstead
Works, Bordesley, in the City of Birmingham, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the securing of ornaments, trimmings and other
embellishments to the chill and other parts of metallic bedsteads, cots, fenders and
articles of a like manufacture.
Heretofore, such trimmings or additions, which are principally in the form of
shells or part shells made from thin sheet metal, have been secured by headed pins
passed through the said shells and taking into a tapped hole in the chill or other
part, or by a shell ornament taking over a laid-in pin upon whose outer end a nut is
screwed.
My invention consists in making a simple securing means by threading the shell,
trimming or the like to be secured over a plain end and laid in wire, pin, stalk peg or
equivalent, and then passing a cap or cup through the hole in the shell and taking
or being driven onto the end of the laid-in peg or the like, with the annular shoulder
or overhanging edge of the affixing cap closing down onto the ornament.
Thus in affixing a rosette to a junction chill, the middle of the shell part is pierced
with a rather larger hole than the wire or peg and of a size suitable to receive the
shank of the hollow and headed or flanged cap or cup, so that when the said tubular
shank of the affixer is driven onto the stem on the chill, the ornament or shell is
firmly secured in its assigned position.
Instead of the tubular shank being solid, it may be split from its bottom edge,
upwards and instead of the end of the peg being plain it may be slightly bulbous so
that the cap may snap over the end of the same.
In order to affix the cap on the end of the wire or peg so that the same cannot be
withdrawn, I make the hole in the trimming to be attached, which may be of metal,
wood, ivory, bone, celluloid or other material, with a slightly contracted throat, so
that when the cup is driven into place, should be contracted or gathered in around a
loose or shoulder part of the wire near the end.

page_text: Improvements in Attaching or Securing Ornaments or Trimmings to
Bedsteads, Cots and Other Articles of a like Manufacture.
I, CHARLES FREDERICK HOSKINS, Works Manager of Hoskins and Sewells Bedstead
Works, Bordesley, in the City of Birmingham, 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 relates to the securing of ornaments, trimmings and other
embellishments to the chill and other parts of metallic bedsteads, cots, fenders and
articles of a like manufacture.
Heretofore, such trimmings or additions, which are principally in the form of
shells or part shells made from thin sheet metal, have been secured by headed pins
passed through the said shells and taking into a tapped hole in the chill or other
part, or by a shell ornament taking over a laid-in pin upon whose outer end a nut is
screwed.
My invention consists in making a simple securing means by threading the shell,
trimming or the like to be secured over a plain-ended laid-in wire, pin, stalk, peg or
equivalent, and then passing through the hole in the shell, a cup or cap, taking or
being driven onto the end of the laid-in peg or the like, with the annular shoulder
or overhanging edge of the affixing cap closing down onto the ornament.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a bedstead rosette or orna-
ment secured to one of the junction chills of the framing in accordance with my
invention.
Figure 2 is a vertical section of Figure 1 upon the dotted line x.
Figure 3 is a like view as Figure 2, but with the securing cap removed from the end
of the peg.
Figures 4 and 5 respectively represent front and side elevations of the junction
boss and laid in pin, with the rosette or ornament and its securing cap removed.
Figure 6 is a front elevation of the rosette separately.
Figure 7 is a vertical section of the same upon the dotted line a¹.
Figure 8 is a side elevation of the securing cap separately.
Figure 9 is a plan thereof and Figure 10 a vertical section of the same.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in Figures 1 to 10 of
the drawings.
Thus in affixing a rosette a, to a junction chill b, the middle a¹ of the shell part is
pierced with a rather larger hole a, than the wire or peg b¹ and is of a size suitable
to receive the shank c¹ of the hollow and headed or flanged securing cap or cup c, so
that when the said tubular shank of the affixer is driven onto the stem on the chill,
the ornament or shell is firmly secured in its assigned position.
Instead of the tubular shank being solid, it may be split from its bottom edge,
upwards and instead of the end of the peg being plain it may be slightly bulbous so
that the cap may snap over the end of the same.
Instead of the peg being a separate stalk or wire laid in the casting, it may be
formed an integral part of the junction chill or boss.
Figure 11 is a vertical section of a junction casting or boss with the ornament or
rosette secured thereto according to a modified form of my improvements.
In this arrangement the securing cap c, is formed as an integral part of the
rosette a, and has a contracted throat part or mouth c¹, which is forced or sprung
over the end of the stem b¹.
Figure 12 is a vertical section of another modification.
In this arrangement the head end 62, of the stem b¹, is slightly enlarged, and the
cap c, which may, if required, be split at points c¹, upwards from the bottom edge, is
sprung over the said enlarged end and secures the ornament a, which has a conical or
flared central hole a', to the junction casting b.

page_text: My invention is applicable to securing ornaments to all parts of bedsteads, fenders
or the like, other than bosses or junction chills or castings, which ornaments may be
made of metal, wood, bone, celluloid or other material.
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 :-
First. Attaching or securing rosettes and other ornaments or trimmings to bed-
steads, cots, fenders and other articles of a like manufacture, by means of a loose and
plain or headed cap, cup or equivalent taking or fitted over the end of a peg, stalk or
wire carried by or formed integral with the chill casting, boss or the like, and upon
which the ornament is threaded, substantially as described and set forth in
Figures 1 to 10.
Secondly. Providing rosettes, and other ornaments or trimmings for bedsteads,
cots, fenders and the like, with an integral attachment cap or cup adapted to be
placed, fitted or sprung over the end of the peg or stalk on the junction chill or boss,
substantially as described and set forth in Figure 11.
Thirdly. The method of attaching or securing ornaments or trimmings to
bedsteads and the like substantially as described and set forth in Figure 12.
1500
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CHARLES FREDERICK HOSKINS,
By Henry Skerrett,
24 Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.