Improved New Furniture.
Year: 1897

page_text: JOSEPH BRAUN, 33, Aspland Grove, Amhurst Road, Hackney, North London,
Bamboo Furniture Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
To make furniture by easy and cheap process, from round hardwood poles, and
panels inserted between the poles. Panels to be inserted in the grooves cut by
planes or machinery in the poles. Panels may be glued into the grooves. Poles to
be dowelled and screwed together. Also on joints may be screwed on brass plates,
for strength and ornament. Panels may be from two pieces of wood, glued flat
across the grains of the wood, or of single piece of wood.
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Improved New Furniture.
I, JOSEPH BRAUN, of 33, Aspland Grove, Amhurst Road, Hackney, London, N..,
Bamboo Furniture Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
My invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of art furniture, and
consists of improvements in the class of material employed, and in the manner of
forming and fixing the joints of same, and has for its objects, to lessen the cost of
manufacture, and enhance the strength and ornamental finish of the article so
made, as compared with similar articles hitherto made and used.
My invention applies more particularly to such articles of furniture as cabinets,
wardrobes, chests of drawers, box-ottomans, boxes, work and other tables, and the
like, which conveniently lend themselves to the employment of fancy or decorative
panels or plain surfaces, although my improved method of forming the joints in
the frames of such furniture applies also to the manufacture of chairs, stools, and
the like, and in order that the said improvements constituting my invention may
be more clearly understood, I have hereunto appended a sheet of drawings, of
which,
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a corner portion of a rectangular piece of cabinet
furniture, according to my invention, which, in combination with the part sectional
plan view Fig. 2 and the sectional elevation Fig. 3, will suffice to make the prin-
ciple of my invention fully understood, while Fig. 4 is a section of one of the com-
pound panels employed by me in the manufacture of such and like furniture.
For the purposes of my invention I prefer to construct the framework of my
improved furniture of any kind or combination of kinds of wood, first rendereil
(by turning or otherwise) into circular formation in cross section, after the manner

page_text: of a curtain pole, and of such timber I form the vertical members, such as A, and
the horizontal members such as B and C, the latter of which B and C, may have
their ends rendered concave as at D, by the use of suitable tools, so that they may
fit against the outer surface of the member A, as shewn in Figs. 1 and 2. Or the
ends of B and C may be formed in the shape of the letter ✓ so as to fit into a
V-shaped recess in the member A, as shewn in Fig. 3, and I may effect perfect
fixation between B and A, and C and A by the means of glue or other cement with
or without the combination of dowels, pins, or the like E, engaging with like
recesses in A, or when more convenient or desirable I may, in lieu of such dowels
or pins, employ long wood screws such as F, passing through A into B or C. Such
an arrangement by the use of dowels is shewn in full lines, and the use of screws
by dotted outline in Fig. 3, and I may in certain cases, or where the style and
other considerations of the furniture lends itself thereto, further strengthen such
joints by the employment of metallic or other ornamental binding plates G,
screwed or otherwise connected to A B and C, as shewn by dotted outline in Fig. 1
and full lines in Fig. 2.
In cabinets, wardrobes, chests of drawers, box-ottomans, and other like articles
of furniture, which lend themselves to the employment of panels, I form in the
members A, B and C, suitable grooves such as H, in which I insert panels such
as J, formed of any kind of wood or combination of several kinds of wood, and
consisting of two or more thicknesses such as a, b, c, glued or otherwise cemented
together Hatwise, with the grain of one layer lying at right angles, diagonally, or
otherwise opposed to the direction of the grain of that of its neighbour or neigh-
bours, as at Fig. 4, and where advisable the centre and inner of such layers may
be of inferior wood, such as fir, while that intended to be the outer surface of the
panel J may be of superior wood, such as maple, mahogany, walnut or the like,
most suitable to harmonize with the ebonized or other color of the wood forming
the members A, B, C.
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:-
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1st. In the manufacture of art furniture, the employment of any kind or kinds
of wood, circular or thereabouts in cross section, in the formation of the members
of the frames such as A, B, C, connected together by the means of glue or other
cement, and dowels or pins such as E, or screws such as F, or both, and with or
without the use of plates such as G, substantially as herein described and shewn
-by the accompanying drawings.
2nd. In the manufacture of art furniture, the frame or frames of which is or are
constructed and arranged as characterized by the preceding claim, the use and
application of panels such as J, composed of two or more thicknesses of like or
dissimilar wood such as a, b, c, the said panels being set in grooves such as H in
the horizontal and vertical members such as A, B and C of such frame or frames,
substantially as herein described and shewn by the appended drawings.
Dated this 21 der of January 1900
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
1, Broad Street Buildings, Liverpool Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.