AN IMPROVED METHOD OF MAKING A BRACKET OR HOLDER FOR TUBES OR POLES
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Dec., 1885
Complete Left, 13th Sept., 1887
Complete Accepted, 25th Nov., 1887
We, WILLIAM ALLMAN and GEORGE SAMUEL MARSHALL Brassfounders both of
65 Summer Row Birmingham in the County of Warwick do hereby declare the
nature of our invention for "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF MAKING A BRACKET OR
HOLDER FOR TUBES OR POLES" to be as follows:-
This invention consists in making by Press tools or otherwise a Bracket formed
out of one strip of rolled Brass, Steel, Iron, or any other suitable metal or alloy,
the same shape & style when finished of the Bracket now generally sold & made
out of cast netal.
WILLIAM ALLMAN,
For self and George Samuel Marshall.

page_text: Poles.
WILLIAM ALLMAN and GEORGE SAMUEL MARSHALL Brassfounders both of
65 Summer Row Birmingham in the County of Warwick 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 consists in making a complete bracket or holder for tubes Poles or
for other purposes out of one strip of Rolled Brass Steel or other suitable metal or
alloy, and so shaped that it resembles the cast bracket now in general use.
The methods hitherto employed in making brackets; are casting in iron or brass in
the ordinary way or making them out of rolled metal in two or more parts and
without a back plate.
Our improvement consists in using only one strip of rolled metal and including a
backplate in the formation of the bracket; we take a strip of rolled metal the proper
length of one bracket and about half an inch wide and bend it by various tools into
the required shape having one thickness of metal for the back plate, two thicknesses
where the screw holes are required, and under the hollow made for the tube or pole,
and three thicknesses where the rose or ornament screws in, a rivet is put through
the two thicknesses under the pole to give extra strength.
In order that the said invention may be more fully understood we will describe it
in detail making reference to the accompanying drawings which are to be taken as
part of this Specification and read therewith.
Fig. 1. is a section of the strip of metal after passing through the first and second
pair of Press tools, the first pair bend it to shape A. A. A. the second pair bends the
other end to shape at B; the shaped strip Fig. 1 is then bent by other tools at .C
which forms Fig. 2. the parts of Fig. 2 marked D. D. D. are closed together with
press tools forming Fig. 3. which is then pierced where necessary for screw holes
and the hole for the rose tapped; we then put a rivet through the two thicknesses of
metal at F which completes the bracket ready for finishing or polishing Fig. 4.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :
First. Making a Cornice Pole bracket or holder with a backplate, from one strip
of sheet metal by means of press tools or otherwise.
Second. The double strength of metal where the bracket has to be fixed and on the
curve where the pole or tube has to fit, and three thicknesses where the rose fits in,
as hereinbefore described and illustrated in Fig. 3 and 4.
Third. The metal rivet at F in Fig. 4 imparting extra strength and rigidity as
shewn by illustration.
Dated this 12th day of September 1887