IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING AND STRENGTH- ENING METAL TUBES AND RODS WITH WOOD, APPLICABLE IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BEDSTEADS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF FURNITURE AND FRAMINGS, AND ALSO IN THE MANUFACTURE OF THE JOINTS OR CONNECTIONS OF THE POSTS AND FRAMINGS OF BEDSTEADS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF FURNITURE AND FRAMES."
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edwin Maw, of the Doncaster Iron Works, York-
shire, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING AND STRENGTH-
ENING METAL TUBES AND RODS WITH WOOD, APPLICABLE IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF BEDSTEADS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF FURNITURE AND FRAMINGS, AND ALSO
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF THE JOINTS OR CONNECTIONS OF THE POSTS AND
FRAMINGS OF BEDSTEADS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF FURNITURE AND FRAMES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edwin Maw at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
22nd December 1857.
I, EDWIN MAW, of the Doncaster Iron Works, Yorkshire, do hereby
declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING AND
STRENGTHENING METAL TUBES AND RODS WITH WOOD, APPLICABLE IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF BEDSTEADS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF FURNITURE AND FRAMINGS, AND
ALSO IN THE MANUFACTURE OF THE JOINTS OR CONNECTIONS OF THE POSTS AND
FRAMINGS OF BEDSTEADS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF FURNITURE AND FRAMES," to.
be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in ornamenting and strengtlı-
ening metal tubes and rods with wood, applicable in the manufacture of
bedsteads and other articles of furniture and framings, and also in the manu-
facture of the joints or connections of the posts and framings of bedsteads, and
other articles of furniture and frames. For these purposes, in ornamenting

page_text: and strengthening metal tubes and rods with wood, where the ornamental
parts of woodwork are to be in the centre or parts intermediate of the length
of a tube or rod, such ornamenting woodwork is turned or carved, or shaped
into the form desired, and the same is placed on the tube or rod of metal so
as to surround or partly to surround it; and in like manner end pieces of
wood are turned, carved, or formed, and placed on the ends of the metal tubo
or rod. Such parts of wood may be of like or different diameters, and they
are combined together by longitudinal bars or pieces of wood, so as to produco
longitudinal ribs or otherwise, external of the metal tubo or rod. By theso
means vory ornamental effects may be produced when combining motal tubes
or rods with wood, applicable in the manufacture of bedsteads and other
articles of furniture and framings.
In constructing the joints or connections of the posts and framings of bed-
stends and other articles of furniture, and other frames, tho male dovetails are
affixed to the posts, and the female dovetails are fixed to the rails, by which a
superior construction of frames is obtained. When the male dovotails are to
be fixed to wood posts, the plates are made with dovetails to fit dovetail
recesses in the posts. Whon fixing the male dovetails on metal posts, they
are cast thereon, or they are made on separate bosses and fixed on the tubes
or metal posts; and the dovetails may be taper, and of a round or oval section.
When casting the female dovetails suitable for their being fixed to the rails,
they are made by preference with parts in the form of angle iron, to fit within
the angle iron of which the rails are made. They may also bo otherwiso
formed when for fixing to angle iron, or to other shapes of rails.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed 2
by the said Edwin Maw in the Great Seal Patent Office, on the
22nd June 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWIN
Maw, of the Doncaster Iron Works, Yorkshire, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters 3
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twenty-first year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me
tho said Edwin Maw, Her special liconce that I, the said Edwin Maw, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others ns I, the said Edwin 3
Maw, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree

page_text: 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 ORNAMENTING AND
STRENGTHENING METAL TUBES AND RODS WITH WOOD, APPLICABLE IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF BEDSTEADS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF FURNITURE AND FRAMINGS, AND
ALSO IN THE MANUFACTURE OF THE JOINTS OR CONNECTIONS OF THE POSTS AND
FRAMINGS OF BEDSTEADS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF FURNITURE AND FRAMES," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Edwin Maw, my executors or.
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, 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 Edwin Maw, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:―
This Invention has for its object improvements in ornamenting and
strengthening metal tubes and rods with wood, applicable in the manufacture
of bedsteads and other articles of furniture and framings, and also in the
manufacture of the joints or connections of the posts and framings of bed-
steads, and other articles of furniture and frames. For these purposes in
ornamenting and strengthening metal tubes and rods with wood, where the
ornamental parts of woodwork are to be in the centre or parts intermediate
of the length of a tube or rod, such ornamenting woodwork is turned, or
carved, or shaped into the form desired, and the same is placed on the tube or
rod of metal so as to surround or partly to surround it, and in like manner
end pieces of wood are turned, carved, or formed and placed on the ends of
the metal tube or rod. Such parts of wood may be of like or different
diameters, and they are combined together by longitudinal bars or pieces of
wood, so as to produce longitudinal ribs or otherwise external of the metal
tube or rod. By these means very ornamental effects may be produced when
combining metal tubes or rods with wood applicable in the manufacture of
bedsteads and other articles of furniture and framings.
Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of the pillar of a bedstead constructed
according to this part of my Invention, and Figure 2 is a transverse section
of the same taken at the line A, B, Figure 1. a is a metal tube, or for
pillars of small size it may be a solid rod; b, b, are wooden ornaments turned

page_text: or carved to a suitable form, and surrounding the tube a; c, c, are longi-
tudinal bars or ribs of wood connecting the ornaments b, b.
. Another part of. my Invention relates to the construction of the joints or
connections of the posts and framings of bedsteads, and other articles of
furniture and other frames, and consists in affixing male dovetails to the posts
or uprights, and female dovetails to the rails or horizontal portions of the
frame; this method of construction is very superior to that usually adopted,
according to which the male dovetails are attached to the rails or horizontal
portions of the frame, and the femalo dovetails to the posts or uprights.
When the male dovetails are to be fixed to wood posts, the plates are made.
with dovetails to fit dovetail recesses in the rails. When fixing the male
dovetails on metal posts they are cast thereon, or they are made on separato
bosses, and fixed on the tubes or mictal posts, and the dovetails may be taper,
and of. a round or oval section. When casting the female dovetails suitablo
for. their being fixed to the rails, they are made by preference with parts in
the form of anglo iron to fit within the angle iron of which the rails aro,
made. They may also be otherwise formed when for fixing to angle iron, or
to other shapes of rails.
Figure 3 is a side view, Figure 4 is a plan, and Figure 5 is a longitudinal
section, of part of a metal post with male dovetails cast upon it, together.
with the female dovetail to which the rail is fixed. a, a, are malo dovetails;
b is the piece in which the female dovetail is formed,, and c is the rail to
which (if the frame is for a bedstead), the laths are attached in the usual
manner. Figure 6 is a transverse section of the parts b and c, taken at the
line A, B, Figure 5. Figure 7 is a side view, and Figure 8 is a plan, of a
plate having male dovetails formed on it, and suitable to be fixed to a wooden
post or pillar...
In witness whereof, I, the said Edwin Maw, have hereunto set my.hand
and seal, this Twenty-first day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
Witness,..
S. CARPMAEL
EDWIN MAW. (L.S.)