Improved Joint or Connection for Tables, Stands, Staging, Fencing, and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left 21st Sept. 1893-Accepted. 21st Oct.. 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Joint or Connection for Tables, Stands, Staging, Fencing,
and the like.
We, HENRY EDWARD MORRIS and ALFRED ERNEST MORRIS both of 10 Fore
Street Hertford Cabinet Makers & Upholsterers do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
The above plate is made in two parts with the oblique edges bevelled so that
when together form a level plate.
The same are applicable to the manufacture of wood and iron framing for tables,
stands, staging, fencing &c., so as to make same portable. By fixing one part of
plate to side of standard, and the other part to rail (which is cut with a shoulder
to abutt the standard), and dropping the rail from above the plate on the
standard, the edge of the plate on the rail dropping behind the edge of that on
the standard; thus fixing the standard-rail firmly together.
Dated this 11th day of February 1893
HENRY EDWARD MORRIS.
ALFRED ERNEST MORRIS.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Joint or Connection for Tables, Stands, Staging, Fencing,
and the like.
We, HENRY EDWARD MORRIS, and ALFRED ERNEST MORRIS, of 10 Fore
Street, Hertford, 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 an improved joint or connection for tables stands staging
fencing and the like and comprises two plates having inclined bevelled edges, these
plates being adapted to fit together and tightly connect the two parts to which
they are respectively attached."
The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings,
in which
Figure 1 is a perspective view of part of a frame or stand the parts of which are
connected together according to our invention.
Figure 2 is a detached view of a portion of one of the legs of the stand.
Figures 3, 4 and 5 are views of two of the rails of the frame and
Figures 6 and 7 are respectively an elevation and plan of the two plates these
plates being shown separated from each other in Figure 6 and in their operating
or engaging position in Figure 7.
Like letters indicate like parts throughout the drawings.
A and B are the two plates two of the former of which as shown particularly in
Figure 2 are secured to the outer sides of each deg F by screws or equivalent A'
and one of the latter namely B is secured by screws or equivalent B₁ to the
appropriate end of each rail C or D to be attached to the leg as shown in
Figures 3, 4 and 5. The plates A and B are substantially one the reverse of the
other as regards their inclined bevel edges A³ B³, so that these edges may engage
with each other when the rails C and D are fitted down on to the legs F or the
legs fitted up to the rails CD.
The rails C and D are preferably formed with shoulders C¹ D' fitting against the
inner surfaces of the legs F as shown in Figure 1 so as to form a rigid structure
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page_text: the incline of the edges A³ B³ tending to draw the shoulders C'D' tightly against
the legs F. The rails C and D are arranged so that the ends of D may overlap the
ends of C as shown in Figure 1, or vice versa, or if desired the meeting ends of
C and D may be mitred together.
As there may be a tendency for the legs to be split by the strain upon the
screws A when the frame is fitted together, we prefer to provide against this
contingency by interposing between the plates A and the adjacent part of each
leg F a metal plate E which may conveniently be in-the form of an angle plate as
shown in the accompanying drawings, so that one such angle plate may serve for
each leg, the two plates A pertaining to that one leg being secured at the outside
of the leg and the screws A² passing through A and E substantially as shown in
Figure 2; or the upper part of each leg may be surrounded on all four sides by a
plate which may conveniently be in the form of a socket or ferrule. The screws A'
and B are countersunk into the plates A and B so that their heads may not
project beyond the surfaces of these plates and prevent the easy fitting together of
the parts.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is ;-
1. Fastening the parts of tables stands staging fencing and other structures
together by means of two plates having oppositely bevelled and inclined edges.
2. A fastening for connecting together the parts of tables stands and other
structures consisting of two plates such as A B having oppositely bevelled
and inclined engaging edges substantially as described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
3. A table stand or other structure the parts of which are fitted together and
rendered readily separable by means of plates such as A B each pair of which has
oppositely bevelled and inclined edges substantially as described.
4. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the complete joint
substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this Eighteenth day of Sentember 1893.
H. E. MORRIS.
A. E. MORRIS.
W. P. Thompson & Boult,
Agents for the Applicants.