IMPROVE- MENTS IN METALLIC BEDSTEADS & COTS
Year: 1885

page_text: JAMES MIDDLETON Metallic Bedstead Manufacturer residing at South Road
Smethwick, and PHILIP HENRY MIDDLETON General Manager, residing at Regent
Street Smethwick do hereby declare the nature of our invention for IMPROVE-
MENTS IN METALLIC BEDSTEADS & COTS to be as follows:-
:-
For the purposes of our invention we make use of the extended Corner Block
now in use for Foot Rails or any similar appliance, but cast or fix it to the Frame
or Pillar upon such an angle that it will carry a side rail, in addition to the foot
rail, either supported by the Corner Block, or by attachments to the pillar
and where a valance or curtain may be required such valance or curtain may
be suspended from the lower rod of Side Rail, or by a single loose or fixed Rod
terminating at each corner Block.
The extension may be applied to the back of Head Rail where necessary.
JAMES MIDDLETON.
PHILIP HENRY MIDDLETON.
Improvements in Metallic Bedsteads and CouS.
JAMES MIDDLETON, Mettallic Bedstead Manufacturer residing at Albany House
South Road, Smethwick, and PHILIP HENRY MIDDLETON, Foreman at Bedstead
Works, residing at Regent Street Smethwick do hereby declare the nature of our
invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN METALLIC BEDSTEADS AND COTS and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
For the purposes of our Invention we make use of the extended corner block
now in use for Foot Rails or any similar appliance, but cast or fix it to the frame

page_text: or pillar upon such an angle that it will carry a side rail, in addition to the Foot
Rail, either supported by the corner block, or by attachments to the pillar-and-
where a valance or curtain may be required such valance or curtain may be
suspended from the lower rod of side rail, or by a single loose or fixed rod
terminating at each corner block. The extension may be applied to the back of
Head Rails where necessary.
We will now proceed to describe the accompanying Drawings.
Figure 1 represents a plan of the Corner Block with the position of the valance
rod, and extended Rail.
A, A are the Angle Irons of the Bedstead, B B are the male parts, and C C are
the female parts of the dovetails, the whole forming the Corner Blocks, D, D are
portions of the pillar, E E are the valance or curtain rods, and F, F represent the
extended rail of the Bedstead.
This Figure shews the exact angle of the Corner Block, when the extended rail
is required to be at the same distance from the Angle Iron upon either side; but
if the side rail should be required to vary in distance with the Foot or Head Rail;
the angle of the Corner Block may be altered as the case may be.
The valance or curtain rods E, E are shewn as, simply ending against the Corner
Block, as we may either cast it into the same or attach it in any ordinary method
when required to be loose.
The rods F F represent the position of the extended rail of the Bedstead from
the Angle Iron of the same.
Figure 2 represents the Corner Block in elevation, independent of any attach-
ments of the valance or curtain rods or of the extended rail of the Bedstead or Cot.
The letters correspond with those of Figure 1.
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
First. An extended side and Head Rail as described and represented in Figure 1
and marked F F.
Secondly. An extended Corner Block, cast upon an angle from the line of rail as
described and represented in Figures 1 and 2.
Thirdly. A rod to carry a valance or curtain, sustained by the Corner Block as
described and represented in Figure 1 and marked E. E.
Dated this Fourth day of December 1885.