A New and Improved Mode of Attaching Brass or other Metal Strips or Mouldings to the Front or Face of Metallic Bedstead Pillars or Posts.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Oct., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 29th May, 1900-Accepted, 21st July, 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New and Improved Mode of Attaching Brass or other Metal Strips
or Mouldings to the Front or Face of Metallic Bedstead Pillars or
Posts.
I, GEORGE HIGGS, of Heath Road, Penketh, near Warrington, in the County of.
Lancashire, Manager for a Firm of Metallic Bedstead Manufacturers, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The pillars of metallic bedsteads are usually attached to the inner portion or
rail by castings which go round the said pillars, and which are called band chills.
What I propose to do is to make the aforesaid band chills or castings thicker than
usual, and to have drifts made of steel or malleable iron of the exact shape of the
section of the brass or other metal strips or mouldings which I desire to attach
to the front of the pillars. These drifts I shall lay adjoining to the pillars, in
the mould or chill into which the melted iron for the band chills or castings is
poured; after pouring in the melted iron, the drifts which are laid in the chills or
castings will be withdrawn from the same after the iron has set, but before it is
cold. There will thus be left in each chill casting adjoining the pillar, a hole the
exact section of the metal strip or moulding to be attached to the front of the pillar.
The hole or drift in the band chill nearest to the top of the pillar will be made as
deep again as the corresponding hole or drift in the band chill nearest to the
bottom of the pillar, thus, after inserting one end of the metal strip or moulding
in to the drift or hole in the top band-chill on the pillar, it will be partly with-
drawn and inserted into the shallow drift or hole in the bottom band chill on the
pillar, and thus will be firmly held at both ends to the front of the pillar, and will
only require in addition a pin or screw to attach it immovably to the front of the
pillar.
I claim that by inserting the ends of the brass or other metal strips or mould-
ings into the drift holes made in the cast iron chills, I am enabled to fix the afore-
said strips or mouldings firmly to the front of the pillars, and to hide the rough
ends of the said strips or mouldings, and by varying the patterns of the drifts I
am enabled to attach to the pillars any pattern of strip or moulding that I think
proper.
In the case of bedsteads with extended foot rails, I cast upon the pillar, near to,
but above, the corner chill which carries the angle irons of the bedstead, a chill
with the aforesaid drift inserted purposely to carry one end of the strip or
moulding.
In the case of bedsteads with not extended foot rails, the special band chill
will not be required, there being two band chills already on each pillar.
In the case of bedsteads with loose pillars or with pillars to which the rails of
the bedsteads are not attached by castings, I cast two chills with the drift holes
in them on each pillar specially to carry the ends of the strips or mouldings of
brass or other metal.
If it is desired to continue the strips or mouldings down the pillars as far as

page_text: the castings upon the pillars which carry the angle irons of the bedsteads, then the
castings which carry the angle irons will have drifts inserted into them before
being cast, so as to make the required section of hole in the same manner as that
made in the band chill or chills, as explained in the first part of this specification.
Dated this Tenth day of October 1899.
A New and Improved Mode of Attaching Brass or other Metal Strips
or Mouldings to the Front or Face of Metallic Bedstead Pillars or
Posts.
I, GEORGE HIGGS, of Heath Road, Penketh, near Warrington, in the County of
Lancashire, Manager for a Firm of Metallic Bedstead Manufacturers, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention has relation to a method of ornamenting or trimming the pillars
or posts of metallic, bedsteads by the employment of attached strips, mouldings or
like embellishments made of brass or other metal preferably dissimilar to that
from which the pillars themselves are made, whereby a novel and elegant appear-
ance is obtained; which said ornamental mouldings or strips are attached to the
said pillars or posts in a simple manner.
According to one form of my invention, as applied to the ornamentation or
embellishment of the fronts or faces of the end-rail corner pillars of a metallic
bedstead by means of attached brass strips or mouldings, the said mouldings,
which may be of any pattern, configuration or section as may be desired, are
attached by introducing their ends into correspondingly shaped recesses or sockets
formed or left in suitable parts of the band or other chills surrounding the said
pillars, and are then immovably secured to the said pillars by small screws or
otherwise.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a front elevation of the
foot-end rail of a metallic bedstead, the faces of the corner pillars of which are
embellished by ornamental brass or like mouldings or strips attached and secured
thereto in accordance with one form of my invention.
Figure 2 represents a front elevation of one of the ornamented corner pillars
upon an enlarged scale, and Figure 3 is a side elevation thereof.
Figure 4 represents a cross section of the said pillar and attached moulding
upon the dotted line a.
Figure 5 is a cross section of the pillar without the moulding, but showing the
shape of the recess or socket which is formed in the chill to receive the end of
the moulding, and which corresponds to the section of the said moulding.
Figure 6 represents a side elevation of the pillar separately, but with parts
of the chills in vertical section to slow position and relative depths of the sockets
into which the opposite ends of the ornamental moulding are introduced.
Figure 7 is a similar view to that represented in Figure 6, but with the mould-
ing (which is also represented in vertical section) shown attached to the front of
the pillar.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the said Figures 1
to 7.
a is the end rail of a bedstead and b are the corner pillars thereof, the fronts of

page_text: which are each embellished by two attached mouldings or ornamental strips c,
preferably of brass or like metal. For the connection of these mouldings the
chills d,d, and e, e, are respectively formed with recesses or sockets f,; the
sockets f in the upper chills being formed in the undersides, whilst the sockets f³,
in the lower chills are made within the top sides of the same, so that the open
mouths of each pair of sockets are presented to one another. Further, the upper
sockets which are of an outline shape corresponding to the cross section of the
mouldings to be employed, are made at least double in depth to the lower ones.
The ornamental mouldings c are connected to the said pillars by first introducing
their upper ends c', into the deeper sockets f¹ in the top chills, and then, after
placing them flat against the faces of the pillars, allowing them to drop vertically
so that their lower ends, engage with the sockets f in the bottom chills, whilst
they are immovably secured, after attachment, either by means of small screws,
passed through them and screwing into holes formed in the pillars, or in any other
suitable manner.
I propose to form the sockets for the reception of the ends of the moulding,
during the process of casting the chills (which may be rather thicker than usual) by
laying within the moulds in which the said chills are cast, and adjacent to the
pillars, drifts made of steel or malleable iron and having a cross section corres-
ponding to that of the moulding to be attached; after pouring in the molten iron,
and as soon as the iron has set but before it is cold, the said drifts are removed
and there is thus left in each chill, a recess or socket of the shape required. These
sockets, in addition to connecting the moulding also serve to conceal the rough
ends of the said mouldings and thereby impart neatness and finish to the pillar
as a whole, whilst by varying the shapes of the drifts employed, provision is made
for attaching to the pillars, mouldings or strips of any pattern or section.
The mouldings or attached strips may be made of thin sheet metal, with a backing
or reinforcement of wood or the like, such as represented in cross section in
Figure 8, in which b is the pillar, e the attached thin metal strip and c' the wooden
or other backing.
The pillars may in some cases, be provided with more than one attached strip
or moulding, such, for instance, as the arrangement represented in front elevation
in Figure 9 and in cross section in Figure 10, where the face of the pillar b, is
ornamented by a pair of narrow strips or mouldings c, with the top and bottom
chills each having a pair of corresponding seatings for the opposite ends of the
said strips to take within.
Or, in the case of square or angular pillars, some or the whole of the corners may
he ornamented by mouldings or strips attached and secured in accordance with
my invention. Thus, Figure 11 represents a front elevation and Figure 12 a cross
section of a square iron pillar or post b, in which each corner is ornamented
by an angular moulding or length of brass or other metal c, attached by inserting
the opposite ends e¹, c, within corresponding sockets or recesses f, in the chills de.
These corner mouldings c, may also be made of thin brass and have backings or
supports c, made of wood or the like, as represented in Figure 13, whilst Figure 14
represents a sectional view of a round pillar b, to which a series of these wood-
backed mouldings are connected by means of corresponding sockets in the chills.
Solid or hollow mouldings or ornamental strips of any number and of any pattern
or section may be arranged around and secured to a round or other sectioned
pillar in like manner.
Mouldings may be attached to either or all of the faces of square or angular
pillars.
Instead of attaching the mouldings or engaging the same with the sockets in the
chills by first sliding the one end into the upper socket and then allowing the
lower end to fall into the bottom socket, the opposite ends may be sprung into
the said sockets or recesses, as represented in Figure 15, in which case each of
the sockets may be of the same or a like depth.
The faces of the back or sides of the pillars may be embellished by attached

page_text: mouldings or ornaments secured in like manner as herein described in connection
with ornaments applied to the fronts of such pillars.
Instead of using small screws to prevent longitudinal displacement of the
mouldings after they have been applied to the pillars, I may form a small hole or
holes in the pillar and then buldge or displace a portion of the metal of the
moulding into it or them from the front by a punch or otherwise.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is: -
First Ornamenting the pillars or posts of metallic bedsteads by means of
attached mouldings, strips or embellishments whose ends are engaged within
sockets or recesses formed in the chills surrounding the said pillars, or within
attachments secured to the said pillars substantially as herein described, and also
as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Secondly-Ornamenting the pillars or posts of metallic bedsteads by means
of mouldings, strips or embellishments, which are attached by engaging or intro-
ducing their ends into sockets or recesses formed in the chills of the pillars or in
attachments to the said pillars, and them immovably secured by small screws, or
by displacing a portion of the metal into a sinking or hole in the pillar, or by
equivalent means substantially as herein described and also as set forth in the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 28th day of Max 1900
GEORGE HIGGS.
By Henry Skerrett,
24, Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.