IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Barker, of Kennington Lane, in the
County of Surrey, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
FASTENINGS."
Sealed the 12th January 1853, and dated the 1st October 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Barker at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his petition, on
the 1st October 1852.
I, JOSEPH BARKER, of Kennington Lane, in the County of Surrey
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN FASTENINGS" to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of employing for each fastening two half
screws, one half being affixed to one part of a bedstead or other frame
or article, and the other half to the other part, so that when brought
together the fastening is complete by the use of a nut or nuts.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Joseph Barker, in the Great Seal Patent Office,
on the 30th March, 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
JOSEPH BARKER, of Kennington Lane, in the County of Surrey, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of October in the year of our
Lord, One thousand eight hundred and fifty two, in the sixteenth year
of Her reign, did for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Joseph Barker, Her special licence that I, the said
Joseph Barker, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Joseph Barker, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and, vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle
of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I; the said Joseph Barker, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Barker, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof (that is to say):
This Invention consists of employing for each fastening two half
screws, one half being affixed to one part of a bedstead or other frame
or article, and the other half to the other part, so that when brought
together the fastening is complete-by--the use of a nut or nuts; and in

page_text: order that
my Invention may be most fully understood and readily car-
ried into practice, I will proceed to describe the means pursued by me.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1, shows a plan and section of two parts of the frame of a
bedstead coming together at right angles, and combined and secured
according to my Invention, and Figure 2, shows the parts separately;
Figure 3, shows a side view, and Figure 4, a plan of like means of con-
necting two rails when they come together end to end; Figure 5, shows
a plan; Figure 6, a side view; Figure 7, an end view of a fastening,
the parts of which are not permanently fixed to the rails; and Figure
8, shows the two parts of the fastening which are applied to one rail
separately. In all these figures the same parts are indicated by the
same letters of reference; a, a, are the rails or parts of rails to be con-
nected or joined together; b, b, are the halves of screws which are
respectively affixed to the rails a, a, when the rails are to be combined
according to Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4, whether they come together at a
right angle or other angle, or end to end.
In bedsteads and other frames where uprights are required, the nuts
are formed or fixed in the ends of the uprights c, c, as shown at Figure
1, but where no uprights are required, then screw nuts, d, d, such as
shown at Figures 3 and 4, are employed to bring and retain the parts
together.
In respect to the fastening shown at Figures 5, 6, 7, and 8, it differs
only from the preceding ones, inasmuch as the half screws are not abso-
lutely affixed to the rails, but the parts b', b', in which the screws are
held, are fixed to the rails, and the half screws are formed as shown, so
that they fit into the parts b', 6', and then receive the screw nuts to bind
the parts together.
I would remark, that the parts above described may be of wood or
metal, but for most purposes, whether the rails be of wood or metal,
I believe it will be desirable to employ metal screws and metal nuts.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of

page_text: performing the same, I would have it understood that I do not confine
myself to the details as shown, so long as the peculiar character of the
Invention be retained; but what I claim is the combination of parts
herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Barker, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of March in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
J. BARKER. (L.S.)
Witness, S. CARPMAEL.