A Method of Attaching Brass and other Ornaments to Rails and Parts of Metallic Bedsteads, Cots, and other Articles of a like Manufacture.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Jan., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 19th Sept., 1896-Accepted, 24th Oct.. 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Method of Attaching Brass and other Ornaments to Rails and
Parts of Metallic Bedsteads, Cots, and other Articles of a like
Manufacture.
We, FREDERICK HOSKINS, of the Firm of Hoskins and Sewell, of Bordesley,
in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer, and JOSEPH WILLIAM LAWRENCE, of
Coventry Road, Small Heath in the City of Birmingham, Tool Fitter, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the attaching of ornaments to the rails or parts of
metallic furniture such as bedsteads, cots, screens, fenders and the like.
We will describe our invention in connection with the ornamentation of the rails
of metallic bedsteads.
In carrying out one form of our improvements, we take a frame of horizontal
and vertical rails intersecting one another or coming together at points and being
secured together by chilled bosses or rosettes, which form centre junctions to the
rails. Radiating from the sides of these bosses and coming between the rails are
screw-ended wires or rods, laid in and secured in position during the casting of the
junctions.
Upon these wires or rods, ornaments are threaded or strung and secured thereon
or in position by terminals or end parts screwing upon the ends of. the rods and
preferably socketting into the outer open ends of the attached ornaments. Thus
the ornament may consist of a leaf with an axial hole through its middle flared at
its outer end, which ornament is made up of two shells with the edges brought
together thus forming as it were a hollow metal ornament with the foot end shaped
to the contour of the junction buss so as to prevent rotation, although rotation may
be prevented by a pin, extension, or snug on the foot end of the ornament taking
into a hole in the junction boss or vice versa.
in character with the ornament so as to appear to form a part of a leaf or
The affixing terminals are formed
the like.
Single ornaments, when attached, may be made to fill up the space included
between the rails adjacent to the junction bosses.
Instead of employing single leaf or like ornaments, two or more ornaments may
come between each pair of rails, which may be disposed horizontally, vertically or
obliquely or in a combination of the said directions.
In carrying out a development of our method of attaching ornaments, the rods or
wires may be carried by or directed through the rods themselves instead of being
carried by the bosses, so that the rails are thus embellished or ornamented instead
of the junction chills.
As a still further form, the ornaments may come upon the outer sides of the rails
and form terminals or finals to chill or other casting connecting the rails of a frame
together. The shell ornament is socketted or made hollow at its foot end so as to
fit onto a corresponding rib on the chilled junction, whilst the said ornament or fina!
is secured by a laid-in and screwed-ended wire passing up an axial hole in the
ornament and fitted with a screwing down knot or its equivalent. As a further
development, the ornaments may come at outside angles of the rails or members
forming the head and foot ends or other parts of bedsteads required to be
embellished by added ornaments, which are preferably of brass and made either by
casting or from sheet metal stampings or otherwise.
Our invention is applicable to the attachment of winged and all other ornamente.

page_text: The inner or foot ends of the ornaments are in all cases shaped to follow the contour
of the parts to which they are to be attached.
The application of our invention to the attachment of ornaments to all parts of
metallic cots, screens, fenders and other articles of a like manufacture differs in no
essential respect from its application to metallic bedsteads as herein described.
Dated this 22nd day of January 1896.
FREDERICK HOSKINS,
JOSEPH WILLIAM LAWRENCE,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicants.
A Method of Attaching Brass and other Ornaments to Rails and
Parts of Metallic Bedsteads, Cots, and other Articles of a like
Manufacture.
We, FREDERICK HOSKINS, of the Firm of Hoskins and Sewell, of Bordesley,
in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer, and JOSEPH WILLIAM LAWRENCE,
of Coventry Road, Small Heath in the City of Birmingham, Tool Fitter, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
This invention relates to the attaching of ornaments to the rails or parts of
metallic furniture such as bedsteads, cots, screens, fenders and the like.
We will describe our invention in connection with the ornamentation of the rails
of metallic bedsteads.
In carrying out one form of our improvements, we take a frame of horizontal and
vertical rails intersecting one another or coming together at points and being
secured together by chilled bosses or rosettes, which form centre junctions to the
rails. Radiating from the sides of these bosses and coming between the rails are
screw-ended wires or reds, laid in and secured in position during the casting of the
junctions.
Upon these wires or rods ornaments are threaded or strung and secured thereon
or in position by terminals or end parts screwing upon the ends of the rods
and preferably socketting into the outer open ends of the attached ornaments.
Thus the ornament may consist of a leaf with an axial hole through its middle
flared at its cuter end, which ornament is made up of two shells with the edges
brought together thus forming as it were a hollow metal ornament with the foot end
shaped to the contour of the junction boss so as to prevent rotation, although
rotation may he prevented by a pin, extension, or snug on the foot end of the
ornament taking into a hole in the junction boss or vice versa. The affixing
terminals are formed in character with the ornament so as to appear to form a part
of a leaf or the like.
Single ornaments, when attached, may be made to fill up the space included
between the rails adjacent to the junction bosses.
Instead of employing single leaf or like ornaments, two or more ornaments may
come between each pair of rails, which may be disposed horizontally, vertically or
obliquely or in a combination of the said directions.
In carrying out a development of our method of attaching ornaments, the rods or
wires may be carried by or directed through the rails themselves instead of being
carried by the bosses, so that the rails are thus embellished or ornaments instead of
the junction chills.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a part of a bedstead end rail,

page_text: with ornaments included in the angles formed by the intersecting horizontal and
vertical rails, and secured in position by our method of attachment.
Figure 2 represents another form of ornamentation.
Figure 3 represents a portion of the meeting rails with the junction boss or chill
and screw ended rods or pegs radiating therefrom, naked or before the metallic
ornaments or trimmings are applied.
Figure 4 represents one of the detached ornaments of the example shown in
Figure 1, and its securing nut separately, and
Figure 5 is a like view of a part of the example shown in Figure 2.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in Figures 1 to 5 of
the drawings.
a and are vertical and horizontal rails, secured together by chilled junction
bosses c, which have laid within them screw-ended rods or pegs d, upon which shell
or other ornaments e, are threaded and secured by nuts or terminals, screwing onto
the pegs d, and taking.into the socketted ends e, of the hollow axial parts e of the
ornaments, which are prevented from twisting or turning out of their assigned
positions upon the pegs by seatings e, e, which slightly embrace parts of the rods
and chill.
As a still further form, the ornaments may come upon the outer sides of the rails
and form terminals or finals to chill or other castings connecting the rails of a frame
together. The shell ornament is socketted or made hollow at its foot end so as to
fit onto a corresponding rib on the chilled junction, whilst the said ornament or
final is secured by a laid-in and screwed-ended wire passing up an axial hole in the
ornament and fitted with a screwing down knob or its equivalent.
Figure 6 represents one example of this last form of our invention and Figure 7
another one.
Figure 8 represents a front elevation of the parts of the example shown in
Figure 7 separately.
Figure 9 shows an edge view of the said parts separately and
Figure 10 is a topside plan of the shell separately, showing the axial hole through
the middle.
In Figures 6 to 10, a and b are the meeting rails and is the chill junction of the
same, having a laid in screwed ended rod d, directed vertically from its top and
upon which a shell trimming or other ornament e, is slipped or secured by a screwed
or other terminal, and is kept rigid or in its assigned position by the reatings e³,³,
socketting over the rails and the chill.
Figure 11 represents an elevation of a further example of our invention, Figure 12
an edge view of the same and Figure 13 the parts separated.
a and are the rails, e the chill, d the screwed pegs, e the ornaments and the
securing nuts.
As a further development, the ornaments may come at outside angles of the rails
or members forming the head and foot ends or other parts of bedsteads required to
be embellished by added ornaments, which are preferably of brass and made either
by casting or from sheet metal stampings or otherwise.
Fig. 14 is a section on the dotted line a Fig. 2.
Our invention is applicable to the attachment of winged and all other ornaments
and the inner or foot ends of the oruaments are in all cases shaped to follow the
contour of the parts to which they are to be attached.
The application of our invention to the attachment of ornaments to all parts of
metallic cots, screens, fenders and other articles of a like manufacture differs
in no essential respect from its application to metallic bedsteads as herein
described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
ion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
laim is.-
First. Attaching brass and other ornaments to parts of metallic bedsteads, cots

page_text: and articles of a like manufacture by threading or slipping the same over screw-
ended rods, pegs or wires, made fast within the chills or to the rails or parts of the
article, and securing the said ornaments in position by nuts or equivalents,
substantially as described and set forth.
Secondly. Attaching brass and other ornaments to parts of metallic bedsteads,
cots and articles of a like manufacture by threading or slipping the same over
screw-ended rods, pegs or wires made fast within the chills or to the rails or
parts of the article, and preventing the said ornaments from turning out of their
assigned positions by seatings on them socketting over parts of the said rails and
chills, which ornaments are secured on the pegs by nuts or equivalents, substantially
as described and set forth.
Thirdly. The system of securing added ornaments to metallic bedsteads and
articles of a like manufacture, substantially as described and set forth.
Dated this 18th day of September 1896.
FREDERICK HOSKINS,
JOSEPH WILLIAM LAWRENCE,
By Henry Skerrett,
24 Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicants.