IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC BEDSTEADS COTS AND COUCHES to be as follows:
Year: 1885

page_text: and Couches.
We ALFRED HENRY GRIFFITHS Managing Director of Evered and Company
Limited of Surrey Works Smethwick in the County of Stafford Manufacturers
and EDGAR SMALLWOOD of Victoria Road Stechford near Birmingham in the
County of Warwick Manager of Works do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC BEDSTEADS
COTS AND COUCHES to be as follows:—
"
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Our invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in the con-
struction of metallic bedsteads cots and couches whereby the manufacture of the
same is much simplified. Our invention relates principally to metallic bedsteads
of the kind commonly called "brass mounted pillar bedsteads but our said
invention may be applied wholly or in part to other kinds of metallic bedsteads.
We will describe our invention in connection with a brass mounted pillar
bedstead We cast upon the tubular iron pillar of the bedstead the corner block
by which the angle bars of the framing of the bedstead are connected to the
pillar. We coat or cover the corner block with sheet brass in the ordinary way.
That is we form the said brass covering or mount of three parts namely a top
middle and bottom part the top part of the mount being passed from the top of
the pillar to the corner block and the bottom part of the mount being passed from
the bottom of the pillar the said two parts securing between them the middle part.
Instead of the ordinary top and bottom brass mounts we form top and bottom
mounts by casting preferably by the process of casting in metal moulds commonly
called chill casting.
The bottom mount consists of two parts cast on the ends of a short piece of
iron tubing. The said parts consist of ornamental bands (commonly called band
flowers) surrounding the ends of the said short tube the bottom casting besides
encircling the end of the tube closes the bottom of the tube and in the closed
bottom a pin is fixed by the casting process to which pin the castor is affixed.
The upper part of the bottom mount encircles but does not close the tube. This
mount is fixed by being driven on the lower part of the pillar. Or the upper part
of the said bottom mount may have a projecting piece of a size suitable to engage
in the inside of the lower part of the pillar.

page_text: The top mount consists of a casting fitting on and closing the top of the pillar
and having fixed in it by the casting process the screw which receives the terminal
ornament.
In order to connect to the pillars the top and bottom rods of the rails we cast
in the top mount a recess in which a projecting piece somewhat resembling part of
a knife blade is situated. On the underside of the end of the rod to be fitted to
the top mount we make a recess or notch which fits on the said knife blade. To
connect the bottom hollow rod to the bottom mount we make on the inner side
of the upper part of the bottom mount a projection with which the end of the
bottom rod engages and is fixed in position by a ferrule and cross pin. The fixing
of the bottom rod connects the parts of the rail together and secures the rail to the
pillars.
The application of our invention to metallic cots and couches differs in no
essential respect from its application to metallic bedsteads as hereinbefore
described.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Metallic Bedsteads, Cots,
and Couches.
We ALFRED HENRY GRIFFITHS Managing Director of Evered and Company,
Limited of Surrey Works, Smethwick in the County of Stafford Manufacturers
'and EDGAR SMALLWOOD of Victoria Road, Stechford near Birmingham in the
County of Warwick Manager of Works, do hereby declare the nature of our
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC BEDSTEADS,
COTS AND COUCHES and in what manner the same is to be performed to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
"
Our invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in the con-
struction of metallic bedsteads cots and couches whereby the manufacture of the
same is much simplified. Our invention relates principally to metallic bedsteads
of the kind commonly call "brass mounted pillar bedsteads " but our said invention
may be applied wholly or in part to other kinds of metallic bedsteads.
We will describe our invention in connection with a brass mounted pillar
bedstead. We cast upon the tubular iron pillar of the bedstead the corner block
by which the angle bars of the framing of the bedstead are connected to the pillar.
We coat or cover the corner block with sheet brass in the ordinary way. That is,.
we form the said brass covering or mount of three parts, namely, a top, middle

page_text: and bottom part the top part of the mount being passed from the top of the pillar
to the corner block and the bottom part of the mount being passed from the
bottom of the pillar, the said two parts securing between them the middle part.
Instead of the ordinary top and bottom brass mounts we form top and bottom
mounts by casting preferably by the process of casting in metal moulds commonly
called chill casting.
The bottom mount consists of two parts cast on the ends of a short piece of iron
tubing. The said parts consist of ornamental bands (commonly called band
flowers) surrounding the ends of the said short tube, the bottom casting besides
encircling the end of the tube closes the bottom of the tube and in the closed
bottom a pin is fixed by the casting process to which pin the castor is affixed.
The upper part of the bottom mount encircles but does not close the tube. This
mount is fixed by being driven on the lower part of the pillar. Or the upper part
of the said bottom mount may have a projecting piece of a size suitable to engage
with the bottom rod of the rail. The top mount consists of a casting fitting on
and closing the top of the pillar and having fixed in it by the casting process the
screw which receives the terminal ornament.
In order to connect to the pillars the top and bottom rods of the rails, we cast
in the top mount a recess in which a projecting piece somewhat resembling part of
a knife blade is situated. On the underside of the end of the rod to be fitted to
the top mount we make a recess or notch which fits on the said knife blade. To
connect the bottom hollow rod to the bottom mount we make on the innerside
of the upper part of the bottom mount a projection with which the end of the
bottom rod engages and is fixed in position by a ferrule and cross pin. The fixing
of the top and bottom rods connects the parts of the rail together and secures the
rails to the pillars.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings represents in elevation a portion of a
brass mounted pillar bedstead end made according to our invention and Figure 2
represents a portion of the same; Figure 3 represents in vertical section and
Figure 4 in elevation the top mount of the bedstead pillar drawn of the full size
and Figure 5 represents an underside view of a portion of the top rod of the rail;
Figure 6 represents in elevation and Figure 7 in vertical section the bottom mount
of the bedstead pillar.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of
the drawings.
In making a brass mounted pillar bedstead end according to our invention we
take a skeleton frame, half of which is represented in Figure 2, and we cast upon
cach pillar a, a³, the corner block b by which the angle bars are connected to the
pillars as is well understood. The end angle bar is marked c. We next coat or
cover the corner block b with brass mounts d. e, f in the manner shown in Figure 1.
The said brass mounts consist of a top mount d, a bottom mount f and a middlo
mount e. The top mount & is passed from the top of the pillar a and the bottom
mount is passed from the bottom a² of the pillar, the said top and bottom
mounts d, f securing between them the middle mount e.
We next form the top mount g and bottom mount h, i by casting and connect
them to the pillar and also connect the top and bottom rods k, l to the cast mounts
in the following manner.
The way in which the bottom mount is made will be best understood by
referring to the enlarged views Figures 6 and 7. The bottom mount consists of
ornamental bands h, i cast upon and surrounding the ends of the short piece of iron
tubing m. The cast band h is open at top and has on one side a peg or pro-
jection n for the purpose hereinafter described and the bottom cast band i besides
encircling the end of the tube m closes the bottom of the said tube and in the
closed bottom, a pin p is fixed by the casting process to which pin the castor q
(Figure 1) is affixed. The bottom mount is fixed on the bedstead pillar a² by
driving the tube m on the lower part of the said pillar as represented in Figure 7.
The top mount consists of a band g cast upon the top of the short piece of tubing r

page_text: which is driven upon the top a of the bedstead pillar. The top of the cast band
closes the top of the short tuber and has fixed in it by the casting process the
screws by which the terminal ornament is secured to the pillar. The said top cast
band g has also cast in it, at one side, a recess so as to form a knife blade at t and
the underside of the end of the top rod k has a recess or notch u made in it for
engaging with the said knife blade t.
The top and bottom cast mounts having been fixed on the top and bottom of the
pillars a, a, the recesses u, u at the ends of the top rod k are engaged with the
knife edges t, t on the mounts at the tops of the pillars and the bottom rod / is
next connected to the mounts at the bottoms of the pillars by means of ferrules of
the kind represented at x, each ferrule being driven on the peg or projection n on
the band h. By the fixing of the top and bottom rods k and the several parts of
the rail are secured together and to the pillars.
The application of our invention to metallic cots and couches differs in no
essential respect from its application to metallic bedsteads as herein before
described.
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 we
claim as our invention
First. Forming the top and bottom mounts of the pillars of brass mounted
pillar bedsteads, cots and couches and other metallic bedsteads cots and couches,
by casting and connecting the cast mounts to the pillars in the manner herein-
before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
Secondly. Connecting the top and bottom rods of the rails of the said bedsteads,
cots and couches to the cast mounts on the pillars by the construction and
arrangements of parts herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawings.
Dated this Twenty-first day of Sentember 1883