Improvements in Metallic Mantle Board Brackets.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Metallic Mantle Board Brackets.
JOHN WILLIAM DAVIES, FRANK ROBINSON GOUGH, trading as Davies & Co.,
Brassfounders, 39, Regent Place, Birmingham, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
We purpose making and constructing metallic mantle board brackets with an
ornamental or plain scroll as shewn on the drawings left with the Provisional
Specification marked B with a cored band or box attached marked C on the
drawings to receive and hold the tube marked A forming the bar or rod portion of
the mantle board bracket marked No. 1 on the drawings left with the Provisional
Specification and the top portion of the scroll B, will have a neck marked D to
receive a screw or peg to screw or fit into the board marked Q on the drawings left
with the Provisional Specification. We also purpose using metallic rings as shewn
on the drawings left with the Provisional Specification No. 2 marked T with boxes
or cored out ball joints to hold and receive the tube bar marked P-and we in
some cases may use plain or ornamental tube to fit and check inside the metallic
rings as described as shewn on the drawings left with the Provisional Specification
No. 3 marked T F the drawings No. 4 shew the scrolls cast in on piece with
cored out holes on bands marked G to allow a tube to be fitted through same
marked L on the drawings left with the Provisional Specification with cored boxes
or ball joints marked W to receive the tube forming the bar or rod portion of
the mantle board bracket. We purpose making these mantle board brackets in
any description of metal brass iron or copper or part brass and part iron copper or
the like cast stamped or wrought or part cast stamped or wrought or spun.
Dated this 1st day of April 1898.
JOHN WILLIAM DAVIES.
FRANK ROBINSON GOUGH.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Metallic Mantle Board Brackets.
JOIN WILLIAM DAVIES, Brassfounder, FRANK ROBINSON GOUGH, Brassfounder,
both of 37-39, Regent Place, Birmingham, 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:-
Our invention has for its object improvements in metallic mantle board brackets
so as to make them with an ornamental or plain scroll in a cheap and simple
manner.

page_text: In order that our invention may be clearly understood reference must be made to
the drawings left with the Provisional Specification in which
Figure No. 1 represents one end of our bracket attached to a mantle board.
Figures Nos. 2, 3, and 4 are similar views shewing different forms of brackets.
In carrying our invention into practice we form the bracket arm or scroll B
with the cored band or box C to receive and hold the tube or rod A which forms
the bar portion of the manile board bracket as shewn at Figure No. 1. The top of
the scroll B is provided with a neck 1) to receive a screw or peg to screw or fit into the
band or mantle piece Q. The bracket as shewn at Figure No. 2 is formed with a metallic
ring T with boxes or cored out ball joints P and S the former of which holds and
receives the bar A. The parts DTS and P are all held or checked together by a
pin or the like fixed to P which passes through them and screws into Q. The
bracket as shewn at Figure No. 3 is similar to that shewn at No.
except that
instead of the ornamental centre S we use a plain tube F. At Figure No. 4 we
have shewn another form of bracket. In this case we cast the scrolls in one picce
with the cored out bands G for the ends of the centre tube L to fit in. The cored
out boxes or ball joint W receives one end of the rail A. Fitted into the neck
of this joint W is a bar or rod which passes through the tube L and neck D) and
screws or otherwise fits into the band or mantle piece or its equivalent Q by which
means the parts are checked or held together. Instead of the rod which passes
through the various parts to check or hold them together screwing into the part Q
the part D may screw onto the end of this rod and the bracket may be fixed to the
mantleshelf by ordinary screws passing through the flange of the part D.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is: :-
CLAIM.
The improvements in metallic mantle board brackets consisting essentially in
forming such brackets in one part such as B with a neck D and cored out band or
box Cor a number of parts such as D, P, S, and T or D, F, P and T or D, G, L
and W all held together in the manner and for the purpose substantially as hercin
set forth and as shewn upon the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Dated this 15th day of October 1808
JOHN WILLIAM DAVIES.
FRANK ROBINSON GOUGH.
By George Barker,
Fellow of The Chartered Institute of Patent Agents,
Agent for Applicants,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham.