IMPROVEMENTS IN METALLIC AND OTHER BEDSTEADS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF FURNITURE."
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Pare, of the Irish Engineering Company,
Seville Iron Works, Dublin, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
METALLIC AND OTHER BEDSTEADS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF FURNITURE."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Pare at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 11th May
1858.
I, WILLIAM PARE, of the Irish Engineering Company, Seville Iron Works,
Dublin, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
METALLIC AND OTHER BEDSTEADS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF FURNITURE," to be as
follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in metallic and other
bedsteads, and other articles of furniture. For this purpose the sockets for
receiving the side and end pieces of the horizontal frame of the bedstead or
other article of furniture are cast or moulded in one piece with the leg or the
pillar; or the entire head or foot of the bedstead or other article of furniture
may be made by casting or moulding the legs or the pillars with the sockets
for receiving the side pieces of the horizontal frame, together with any metallic
work between the legs or pillars, whether wholly of cast or wholly of wrought,
or partly of cast and partly of wrought metal, so as when completed to form

page_text: one piece. The pillars above the horizontal frame may either be cast or
moulded in one piece with the legs and sockets, or they may be attached to
the legs by any suitable joint; or the sockets may be cast or moulded to the
lower ends of the pillars, and the leg may be united to the pillar by any
suitable joint.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Pare in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 11th
November 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
PARE, of the Irish Engineering Company, Seville Iron Works, Dublin, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing dato the Eleventh day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Pare, Her special licence that I, the said William Pare, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Pare, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN METALLIC
AND OTHER BEDSTEADS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF FURNITURE," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said William Pare, my executors or adminis
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Parc, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in metallic and other

page_text: bedsteads, and other similar articles of furniture. For this purpose the
sockets for receiving the side and end pieces of the horizontal frame of the
bedstead or other article of furniture are cast or moulded in one piece with
the legs and the pillars, in place of the legs and pillars being, as has sometimes
heretofore been the case, of solid rods or tubes of wrought metal, and having
the sockets for receiving the side and end pieces of the horizontal frame cast
on or otherwise connected to then.
Figure 1 of the Drawing shows dovetail sockets a, a, (for receiving the side
and end pieces of the horizontal frame of a bedstead,) a leg b, and pillar c, all
cast in one piece, the mould for casting the leg, pillar, and sockets in one piece
may be made of sand or any other suitable material, and the leg and pillar
are made hollow by means of a core, and the sockets a, a, are formed accurately
by means of metal chills in the mould, or they may be moulded in sand. In
place of casting the pillars c which are above the horizontal frame in one
piece with the legs and sockets a, the legs and the sockets may be cast or
moulded in one piece, and the pillars may be attached to them by any suitable
joint, or the sockets may be cast or moulded to the lower ends of the pillars,
and the legs may be united to the pillars by any suitable joint. In place of
casting the sockets in one piece with the legs or pillars in metal, the sockets
may be moulded in one piece with the leg and pillar in glass, china, carthen-
ware, cement, or any other suitable material. In place of forming each leg
separately, the entire head or the entire foot of the bedstead or other article
of furniture may be made by casting or moulding the legs and pillars with the
sockets for receiving the side pieces only of the horizontal frame, the two legs
and pillars of the head or foot of the bedstead being connected together as
heretofore with any suitable metallic work between the legs or pillars (the
metallic work being wholly of cast or wholly of wrought metal, or partly of
cast and partly of wrought metal), so as when completed to form one piece.
Figure 2 of the Drawing shews an entire head or foot of a bedstead, con-
sisting of two legs and pillars and two sockets a, a, (for receiving the side
picces of the horizontal frame,) all made in one piece, the two legs b and
pillars c being united together by the horizontal bar or angle iron d (which is
attached to the legs and pillars in casting in manner well known), and by the
ornamental work e, which may be cast with the legs and pillars; or the orna-
mental work may be of wrought metal, or partly of wrought and partly of cast
metal; or in place of forming the whole of the head or foot of the bedstead in
one piece, the sockets may be cast or moulded with the two legs only, the pillars
being connected to the legs by any suitable joint, and the legs being united by

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bar or angle iron or other suitable metallic work; or the sockets may be cast
or moulded with the pillars, the legs being connected to the pillars by any
suitable joint, and the pillars being united by any suitable metallic work.
"In witness whereof, I, the said William Pare, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
Witness,
JNO. C. PARE,
of the Sevillo Iron Works,
Dublin.
WILL. PARE. (L.S.)