An Improvement in Metallic Bird-cages and other articles of Wire Work.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Sept., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 7th June, 1893-Accepted, 8th July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Metallic Bird-cages and other articles of
Wire Work.
I, THOMAS MIDDLETON of 45 Paddington Street, in the City of Birmingham,
Wire Worker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-—
This invention has reference to wire work goods, such for example as bird-cages
baskets, flower-stands, fire-guards, letter-racks, music racks, and fenders, and has
for its object, a means whereby such wire goods, are given a highly ornamental
appearance, and great strength and rigidity imparted to them.
Now, this said improvement consists, in interposing between the lengths or strands
of wire of which the body or other part of the said article or articles, is, or are
built up, coloured beads, nails, blocks, rings or any other like ornamental distance
pieces, in such a manner, so as to form a rigid and ornamental band, edging, or
beading, around the said body, or other part, thus connecting and staying the said
lengths or strands of wire together, and giving great strength, stability, and
elegance to the wire work article built.
In carrying out my invention, in connection with a bird-cage, I build-up on a
suitable and ornamental base, a cage-body, which is constructed of lengths or
strands of wire, preferably disposed in a vertical direction, and at equi-distances
apart, and which have small loops or eyes, formed at intermediate distances in
them, the loops or eyes of every strand, being opposite each other, and through
which a strand of wire is horizontally passed, and onto which said strand, distance
pieces such as coloured beads, ornamented blocks and the like are threaded.
These said distance pieces which are equal in thickness, to the space between.
the one length of wire and the other, firmly fit between the said wires, and when
in combination, form a rigid and ornamental band, which gives great strength and
stability to the body of the cage.
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If required one, two or any number of these bands may be arranged around the
cage body, and also the doors or entrances, and the boundary edges of the cage,
may be fitted with beads, or ornamental distance pieces, in a suitable manner,.
which will give great strength as well as elegance to the cage.
In applying my invention, in connection with baskets, flower-stands, fire-guards,
music and letter-racks, fenders and other articles of wire work, the arrangement of
interposing ornamental distance pieces, and forming them into a rigid band, edging
or beading, which will give strength and elegance to the said articles, will differ in
no essential respect to its arrangement in respect of bird cages as before described..
Dated this 23rd day of September 1892.
KIDDIETAN
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Metallic Bird-cages and other articles of
Wire Work.
I, THOMAS MIDDLETON of 45 Paddington Street, in the City of Birmingham,
Wire Worker, 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 principally to parallel and interspaced wire-work goods,.

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page_text: Secondly-In the bodies of wire-worked articles such as described, the general
construction, arrangement and combination of the parts substantially as described
and set forth.
Thirdly-In the corner or border uprights of bird cages and other like wire-
worked articles, threading upon the same, a series of ornamental blocks, whereby
an ornamental appearance is imparted to the articles, substantially as described and
set forth.
Dated this cal
1000
THOMAS MIDDLETON,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.