Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Nov., 1886.
Complete Left, 11th Aug., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 13th Sept., 1887.
I, WALTER HEATH WELSHMAN, c/o Messrs. Rollason, Wood & Co., of 52, Tenby
Street North, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Manufacturer's Manager, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This Invention has reference to improvements in ornamental metallic brackets
forming articles of furniture for hanging on walls and other places to carry bric-a-
brac and for other purposes; and it consists in making such brackets of sheet metal
in the manner hereinafter described.
1 will describe as an example the application of my Invention to that ordinary
form of bracket which consists of a back piece, which when the bracket is in use lics
flat against the wall, a top piece forming a shelf at right angles to the back piece, and
a vertical angle piece at right angles to the two former and connecting them together.
I take three flat sheet metal blanks of suitablo sizes and shapes to form respectively
the back, top and angle pieces of the bracket. Projecting from the straight edge of
the top piece (which edge abuts against the back piece when the bracket is finished)
and formed with it are two or more tongues or a single tongue may be used which
pass through corresponding narrow holes in the back piece and are there bent down,
or cut short and rivetted over, so as to secure the top and back pieces together. The
angle piece has also a similar tongue or tongues formed on those edges which abut
against the back and top pieces respectively and in the back and top pieces are
corresponding narrow holes through which the said tongues on the angle piece pass
where they are bent down, or cut short and rivetted over, so as to secure the angle
piece to the top and back pieces and form a rigid bracket.
When the bracket is required to be mounted, for instance on a cardboard shield
mount covered with velvet, I form projecting tongues on the back piece which pass
through holes in the mount and are bent down to secure it and the bracket
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page_text: It will be evident that a bracket having two or more angle pieces, or having several
shelves and vertical pieces, can be made similiarly as above described with reference
to a bracket having but one angle piece and a top and back piece. The sheet metal
blanks for forming the brackets as above described may be perforated by tools worked
in a press or by other means so as to have an ornamental appearance and certain parts
may for the same purpose be embossed or raised.
As a modification of my Invention, instead of fixing the parts together by tongues
formed on the edges of the top and angle pieces which pass through the back pieces
as above described, tongues may be formed out of the back piece and passed through
holes in the top and angle pieces and there bent over or rivetted to secure them
together.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Ornamental Metallic Brackets.
I, WALTER HEATH WELSHMAN, c/o Messrs. Rollason, Wood & Co., of 52, Tenby Street,
North, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Manufacturer's Manager, 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 reference to improvements in ornamental metallic brackets
forming articles of furniture for hanging on walls and other places to carry bric-a-brac
and for other purposes; and it consists in making such brackets of sheet metal in the
manner hereinafter described.
I will first describe as an example the application of my Invention to that ordinary
form of bracket which consists of a back piece, which when the bracket is in use lics
flat against the wall, a top piece forming a shelf at right angles to the back piece, and
a vertical angle piece at right angles to the two former and connecting them together.
A bracket of this description constructed according to this Invention is, on the
accompanying drawing, represented in front elevation by Fig. 1, in side sectional
elevation by Fig. 2 and in plan by Fig. 3; Figs. 4, 5 and 6 represent respectively
the back piece, the top piece or shelf, and the vertical angle piece, of the bracket
illustrated by Figs. 1, 2 and 3: Fig. 7 and 8 shew on an enlarged scale the method
of securing the parts together as hereinafter described.

page_text: The same letters of reference indicate similar parts throughout the several Figures
of the drawing.
I take three flat sheet metal blanks of suitable sizes and shapes to form respectively
the back, top and angle pieces of the bracket. These are marked respectiveby A, is
and C. Projecting from the straight edge of the top piece B (which edge abuts
against the back piece A when the bracket is finished) and formed with it are two or
more tongues b, b, or a single tongue may be used, which pass through corresponding
narrow holes a, a in the back piece A and are there bent down or cut short and
rivetted over so as to secure the top piece B and the back piece A together. The
angle piece C has also a similar tongue or tongues c, c, c, e formed on those edges
which abut against the back piece A and the top piece B respectively and in the back
and top pieces A, B are corresponding narrow holes a¹, a, b, b¹ through which the
tongues c, c, c, c on the angle piece C respectively pass where they are bent down or
cut short and rivetted over in a similar manner to the tongues b, b so as to secure
the angle piece to the top piece B and to the back piece A and form a rigid
bracket.
When the bracket is required to be mounted, for instance on a cardboard shield
mount E covered with velvet, the tongues b, b, c, c passing through the back piece A
are made long enough to pass also through the mount (see Fig. 7) where they are
bent down (see Fig. 8) so as to secure the parts of the bracket and the mount together;
or projecting tongues may be formed on the back piece which pass through holes in
the mount and are bent down to secure it and the bracket together. This latter
arrangement is illustrated by Figs. 9, 10 and 11 of which Fig. 9 represents in front
elevation a bracket secured to a mount by projecting tongues d, d which are formed
on the back piece A and, as shewn by the vertical section Fig. 10, pass through boles
in the mount E and are there bent down (see Fig. 11) so as to secure the mount and
the bracket together.
As a modification of my Invention instead of fixing the parts together by tongues
formed on the edges of the top and angle pieces which pass through the back pieces
as above described tongues may be formed out of the back piece and passed through
holes in the top and angle pieces, and there bent over or rivetted to secure them
together. Fig. 12 represents in sectional elevation and Fig. 13 in plan on an enlarged
scale a part of the back piece A and one of the tongues of formed out of it which
tongues pass through holes g, y in the top piece B and are bent over as shewn by
Figs. 14 and 15 so as to secure the back piece A and the top piece B together. The
angle piece C is secured to the back piece B in a similar manner. Fig. 16 shews a
complete bracket having the parts connected together in this manner which enables
the top piece B and the angle piece C to be turned on their connected parts as hinges
and folded flat against the back part A (see Fig. 17) which is very convenient in
packing. Figs. 18 and 19 respectively represent in sectional elevation and in plan a
modification of this method of securing the parts together the tongue being made in
the form of a loop separate from the back piece A its end f,f being passed through
a hole in the back piece A and through the mount E so as to secure them all
together.
It will be evident that a bracket having two or more angle pieces or having several
shelves and vertical pieces can be made similarly as above described with reference to
a bracket having but one angle piece and a top and back piece. For instance Fig. 20
represents in sectional elevation and Fig. 21 in plan a corner bracket having its parts
secured together in a similar manner to the bracket represented by Figs. 1, 2 and 3;
and Figs. 22, 23 and 24 represent a wall bracket for holding papers and for other
purposes having two top parts B and B hinged as above described to the back part A
and each supported by a vertical angle piece which in this case are respectively
fixed to the top pieces B1, B2 so as with them to fold into an approximately Hat state
as shewn by Fig. 24.
The sheet metal blanks for forming the brackets as above described may be
perforated by tools worked in a press or by other means so as to have an ornamental
appearance and certain parts may for the same purpose be embossed or raised.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention,
und in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is:
1st. The improvements in ornamental metallic brackets herein before described and
illustrated more particularly by Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8, and by Figs. 20 and 21
of the accompanying drawing, which consist in securing the parts of the said brackets
together by means of tongues formed on the edges of those parts which abut against
the back part, the said tongues passing through corresponding holes in the back part
and through the mount, their ends being bent down or rivetted over so as to secure
the parts of the bracket together and to the mount substantially as hereinbefore
described.
2nd. Securing the parts of ornamental metallic brackets together as herein before
described with reference to Figs. 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17 of the accompanying
drawing that is to say by means of a projecting tongue or tongues on one or more
of the parts which passes or pass through a hole or holes near the abutting edge or
edges of the other part or parts which tongue or tongues is or are then bent down
so as to secure the parts together substantially as herein before described and
illustrated.
3rd. Securing the parts of ornamental metallic brackets together and to their mounts
by means of a tongue or loop for by two or more tongues or loops substantially
as hereinbefore described and illustrated by Figs. 18 and 19 and by Figs. 22, 23
and 24 of the accompanying drawing.
4th. Securing an ornamental metallic bracket to its mount by means of a tongue
or tongues d projecting from such bracket which after passing through the mount is
or are bent over so as to secure the bracket and the mount together substantially as
herein before described and illustrated by Figs. 9, 10 and 11 of the accompanying
drawing.