Improvements in Brackets for Leaf and other kinds of Tables, Bed- stead Brackets, Lamp Brackets, and the like.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Aug., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 27th May, 1889-Accepted, 29th June, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Brackets for Leaf and other kinds of Tables, Bed-
stead Brackets, Lamp Brackets, and the like.
WILLIAM AMBROSE JONES Cabinet Maker 204 High Street Bangor North Wales
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its principal object a new or improved method of manu-
facturing brackets for Leaf and other kinds of tables, beadstead brackets, lamp brackets
and the like.
Brackets generally are now so made, that they are moved out of the position they
may have been set to, very easily, and by being unknowingly so moved often are the
cause of breakage of articles placed on the leaf or leaves they support-Now I propose
baving two small plates or wheels which can be made circular square, octagonal or
any desired shape; each of these two small plates or wheels has slots or teeth so
formed that one fits into the other exactly when the arm which is connected with the
same directly or indirectly is fixed at the desired angle; the upper or lower wheel or
plate (as preferred) is fixed, the other wheel or plate being left loose, but is kept
closely fitting on the fixed one by means of a spring or springs concealed or open.
The Brackets can be made of any kind of metal or composition or parts can be of
metal or composition and parts of wood or any other material.
Dated this Twenty fourth day of August One thousand eight hundred and
eignty eigne
WILLIAM AMBROSE JONES,
204, High Street, Bangor, North Wales, Cabinet Maker.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Brackets for Leaf and other kinds of Tables, Bed-
stead Brackets, Lamp Brackets, and the like.
WILLIAM AMBROSE JONES No. 204 High Street Bangor North Wales Cabinet
Maker, 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 has for its principal object a new or improved method of manu-
facturing brackets for Leaf and other kinds of tables bedstead brackets, lamp brackets
and the like.
Brackets generally are now so made that they are moved out of the position they
may have been set to very easily and by being unknowingly so moved often are the
cause of breakage of articles placed on the leaf or leaves they support-Now I propose
having two small plates or wheels which can be made circular square octagonal or any
desired shape, each of these two small plates or wheels has slots or teeth so formed
that one fits into the other exactly when the arm which is connected with the same
directly or indirectly fixed at the desired angle the upper or lower wheel or plate
(as preferred) is fixed, the other wheel or plate being left loose, but is kept closely
fitting on the fixed one by means of a spring or springs, concealed or open.
The brackets can be made of any kind of metal or composition or parts can be
made of metal or composition, and parts of wood or any other material.
In order that my Invention may be better understood I will describe it as applied
to a bracket for an ordinary Leaf table as shown more clearly by the accompanying
Drawings.
Figures I, II, and III represent respectively an ordinary Leaf table bracket made
in accordance with my Invention.

page_text: In Figures I, II, and III, A represents the fastening plate, which is screwed fast
to the side or end of the table by means of screws, or by any other approved method.
C represents the plate on which the leaf of the table rests when in use and D is the
under supporting rib of the bracket and is fastened to the plate C and to the rod E by
means of a rivet or other approved method; the rod E Figures I and II has a
shouldered end at F, which fits into a circular hole G in the lower horizontal part A¹
of the fastening plate A and is afterwards clenched or the rod E Figure III may have
a screw hole F¹ drilled in it and afterwards be secured to the horizontal part A¹ of the
fastening plate A by means of a screw F³.
The rod E has a circular octagonal or other shaped plate H fastened on to it as
shown (or if preferred this plate may be part of the rod E) having as many radiating
grooves J as desired; the rod E is continued up and fastened, either clenched or
screwed, as may be preferred, to the plate C.
Fitting on the rod E is a toothed plate K which is so made that when pressed down,
the teeth fit exactly into corresponding grooves in the plate H; the tooth plate K has
a projecting part L which works vertically in a slot M in the fastening plate A.
The two plates H and K are kept close together by means of a spring which may
be worked openly as a spiral spring see N, Figure I or as a flat spring see NI,
Figure Il, or as a concealed spring see N2, Figure III; in the latter case there is a
tube O, Figure III, fastened to the plate K, Figure III, and fitting at the upper end
into a circular hole P Figure III in the upper horizontal arm of the fastening plate A
Figure III.
The rod E, plate II, supporting arm C and rib D being all fast together move
simultaneously and can be moved and left at any desired angle by the plate K (which
works vertically only) toothing into the plate H.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is;
;
"An improved method of constructing Brackets (for Leaf and other kinds of
Tables, for bedsteads, for lamps and the like) which will remain fixed at desired
angles, by means of two plates, one having grooves and the other having teeth corre-
sponding and which two plates exactly fit one on the other; one of which plates is
so arranged as to rotate with the moveable part of the bracket, while the other has
simply a vertical motion and works in a groove in the fastening plate of the bracket
and is kept closely fitting on to the other plate by means of any kind of springs
concealed or exposed substantially as described.
Dated this Twenty-fourth day of May 1889.