AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN TUBES OR RODS PRODUCED BY A NEW METHOD OR METHODS OF MANUFACTURING OR OP MANUFACTURING OR BY A NEW ME- THOD OR METHODS OF MANUFACTURING AND IN THE CONSTRUCTION OR IN THE. CONSTRUCTION ONLY AND FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME WITH VARIOUS OTHER IMPROVEMENTS INTO PARTS OF BEDSTEADS AND OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1827

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
WALTER WINFIELD, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Brass Founder,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth,.
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Fourth day of December, in the eighth year of His reign,.
did, for Himself, His heirs and succesors, give and grant unto me, the said.
Robert Walter Winfield, His especial licence that I, the said Robert Walter
Winfield, my exors, adiñiors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Robert
Walter Winfield, my exors, adiñors, or assigns, should at any time agree:
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN TUBES OR RODS PRODUCED
BY A NEW METHOD OR METHODS OF MANUFACTURING OR
OP MANUFACTURING OR BY A NEW ME-
THOD OR METHODS OF MANUFACTURING AND IN THE CONSTRUCTION OR IN THE.
CONSTRUCTION ONLY AND FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME WITH VARIOUS OTHER
IMPROVEMENTS INTO PARTS OF BEDSTEADS AND OTHER ARTICLES;" in which said.
Letters Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Robert Walter
Winfield, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to
describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner:
the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in His.
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and

page_text: immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by
the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Robert Walter Winfield, do' hereby declare that the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly
described and ascertained in and by the Drawing hereunto annexed, and the
following description thereof (that is to say):-
My said improved tubes and rods may be constructed in various ways, some
examples of which I shall proceed to afford by a description of the different
Figures contained in the annexed Drawing.
Figure 1 is a longitudinal section, and Fig. 2 a cross section, of one of my
said tubes or rods, consisting of a metal tube, which may either be formed of
one or more concentric layers of metal or compositions of metals. Within the
said external tube, so formed, I inclose two or more segments of wood, formed
either in halves, as shewn in the Figures, or in three or more segments, as may
be requisite for the purpose or purposes the said tubes and rods may be
designed for. In order to prevent the said wooden segments from sliding upon
each other longitudinally, I can insert a sufficient number of wooden or metal
pegs or pins, answering the purpose of dowels, between the different surfaces in
contact, and as shewn in both of the Figures; or I can insert a cylinder of
wood, having a hole made throughout its length, instead of employing several
segments as above mentioned.
I can, either or not as may be required, insert
another tube or rod of metal within the said longitudinal hole formed in the
wood, and as shewn in the said Drawings or Figures, and which said metal
rod or tube may be either round, as shewn, or of a square, flat, triangular; or
any other shape required. I can also form solid or hollow screws upon
or within the ends of the said metal tubes or rods, and as shewn in the
Figures, or I can form screws externally or internally along their entire
lengths.
:
Figure 3 is a cross section of a cylindrical metal tube formed as above men-
tioned; and containing four segments of wood within it, two of which are shewn
as being rebated at their edges, and the other two are plain or flat.
Figure 4 exhibits another method of forming tubes and rods of two flat bars
of iron, or any other fit and proper metal, or compositions of metals, formed
into two semicylinders, and enclosed within an external metal tube. These
may be filled up with solid cylinders of wood, or with two or more segments of
the same, and have a metal rod or tube inserted in their centre, as shewn, or not,
as may be required in use.
Figure 5 represents another method of combining my said tubes or rods,

page_text: they consisting of two hollow segments of metal, and a straight flat bar of the
same, combined within an external metal tube.
Figure 6 shews a square tube of metal enclosing a straight flat bar of metal
placed diagonally across it, and two triangular bars of wood filling. up the
interstices on each side of the flat metal bar. I can also occasionally place
the flat bar across, parallel with either of the sides of the square metal tube,
when necessary, and either fill up the interstices with wood or not.
Figure 7 represents a hollow retangular metal casing or tube, with its
edges formed into hollows and filled up with two corresponding bars of wood,
having also a metal tube or rod in its centre.
Figure 8 is a square hollow metal casing or tube, with a rebate or groove
formed along its upper face on one side of it, and filled up with two rectangular
bars of wood, and either a solid bar or a hollow tube of metal in its centre ;
and Figure 9 is a similar combination, with a different central part, consisting
either of a solid metal plate with an enlarged or thickened part formed in its
middle, and shewn in Figure 10, or of two similar parts like that shewn in
Figure 11, combined as shewn in Figure 12, and as represented in their places
in Figure 9.
I have thus given various methods of manufacturing my said tubes and rods,
not, however, intending to confine myself to those particular methods only,
but to vary them according to the different purposes they are to be applied to.
I shall now proceed to afford some examples of manufacturing them into
parts of bedsteads and other articles.
Figure 13 represents a tapering compound metal pillar and foot, forming a
bedpost, when combined with the rails of a bedstead, in the following manner:
-A metal rod or bar is passed through the centres of the pillar and of the
foot, the ends of which rods or bars are formed into screws, which enter into
screwed holes made in the rails, testers, or other parts they are to be united
with; or they may have female screws formed at their ends to screw upon
male screws proceeding from the parts they are to be united with. The head,
foot, and side rails, cased with metal in the manner above described, may be
united with the posts by means of solid and hollow dovetails with stops to
them, as shewn in Figures 13, 14, and 15.
Figure 16 exhibits a method of manufacturing or combining my said com-
bined rods or tubes, so as to form a curtain rod. This I effect by passing a
metal rod through the external rods or tubes, the ends of which are formed
into screws which are passed into screwed holes made in the centres of the
balls to receive them.
Figure 17 shews the method of uniting them with the pulley frames, so
as to form a French pulley rod. I enclose. within.the..external tube or rod

page_text: another rod or tube of metal, having either male or female screws formed upon.
or within each end of the said inner rod or tube, and which screws can be.
screwed into or upon other corresponding screws made in or upon the inner
ends of the said pulley frames to receive them.
Figure 18 represents the method by which I combine my said compound
tubes or rods, so as to form cornice-poles for curtains, and which may be
effected in similar ways with the French curtain rods last described, that is, by.
means of male or female screws formed upon or within internal rods or tubes,
which enter into corresponding male or female screws formed upon the inner.
ends of the balls or other ornaments by which the ends of the said cornice-poles
are terminated.
Figure 19 shews the method of uniting my said tubes or rods with the
proper additional metallic parts necessary to form rods for ballustrades, and in
which method I can employ any of the above-described screws which are best
adapted to the required purposes for which they are intended to be used, and
which it is therefore unnecessary to particularize herein.
I do not mean or intend hereby to claim as my Invention any of the various
methods which have heretofore been employed in forming, uniting, or com-
bining the wooden or metal tubes or rods which have or have not been made
the objects of Patents heretofore. But I do hereby claim as my Invention,
and the objects of my said Patent, the particular methods of forming them,
and of combining the tubes or rods so formed in the different methods herein
-set forth and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Walter Winfield, have hereuto set
my hand and seal, this Fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.
ROBERT WALTER (L.S.) WINFIELD.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fourth day of June, in the year
of our Lord 1828, the aforesaid Robert Walter Winfield came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statuté made for that purpose..