AN IMPROVEMENT OR INPROVEMENTS IN METALLIC AND OTHER BEDSTEADS, WHICH IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS MAY BE APPLIED TO OTHER ARTICLES OF FURNITURE AND TO FRAMEWORK GENERALLY
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Hulse, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Smith, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT OR INPROVEMENTS
IN METALLIC AND OTHER BEDSTEADS, WHICH IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS
MAY BE APPLIED TO OTHER ARTICLES OF FURNITURE AND TO FRAMEWORK
GENERALLY."
Sealed the 8th August 1856, and dated the 26th May 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Hulse at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 26th
May 1856.
1, WILLIAM HULSE, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Smith, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT OR
IMPROVEMENTS IN METALLIC AND OTHER BEDSTEADS, WHICH IMPROVEMENT OR
IMPROVEMENTS MAY BE APPLIED TO OTHER ARTICLES OF FURNITURE AND TO FRAME-
WORK GENERALLY," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists of the method herein-after described of constructing
the junctions of metallic and other bedsteads, and other articles of furniture
and framing; junctions made according to my Invention are strong and
inexpensive.
I will explain my Invention as applied to effect the junction of the pillar

page_text: and side rails of a bedstead. I place upon the pillar a block, having two short
square arms extending horizontally therefrom; the said arms serve for the
angle iron forming the side rails to bear against, the said angle iron bearing on
the upper horizontal and outer vertical face of the arm; the end of the angle
ir abuts against the corner block. I aflix a conical pin or plug underneath
the horizontal part of the angle iron, and near the end thereof; the said pin or
plug engages in a conical hole in the arm, and secures the rail or angle iron
thereto.
In applying my Invention to the pillars of wooden bedsteads, I attach the
corner block described to the wooden pillar in a diagonal direction, and affix
the said corner block by passing a screw through the said block into the pillar,
the said screw engaging in the pillar in the direction of its longest diameter.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Hulse in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
6th November 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
HULSE, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Smith, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by IIer Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, tho said
William Hulse, Her special licence that I, the said William Hulse, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Hulse, 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT OR
IMPROVEMENTS IN METALLIC AND OTHER BEDSTEADS, WHICH IMPROVEMENT OR
IMPROVEMENTS MAY BE APPLIED TO OTHER ARTICLES OP FURNITURE AND TO
FRAMEWORK GENERALLY," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
William Hulse, my executors or administrators, 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

page_text: 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 Hulse, do hereby declare tho
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention consists of the method herein-after described and illustrated
in the accompanying Drawing of constructing the junctions of metallic and
other bedsteads, and other articles of furniture and framework generally.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents, in plan, a metallic
junction or corner block for wood or non-metallic bed pillars or posts, or other
articles of furniture, the said corner block being constructed according to my
Invention; and Figure 2 represents a section of the same taken through the
line a, Figure 1. Figure 3 represents, in side elevation, the angle iron or rail
to be fitted to the corner block; and Figures 4 and 5 represent portions of the
same. Figure 6 represents, in plan, a portion of a bedstead, the corner blocks
of which are constructed according to my Invention. b is a block, which is
attached to the pillar or post of the bedstead or other article in the manner
herein-after explained. The said block b is provided with two horizontal
arms c, d, situated at right angles to each other. The angle iron, forming the
side and end rails of the bedstead, or other article, bears upon the arms c, d, on
their upper horizontal faces as well as their vertical faces c', d'. The ends
of the angle iron abut against the shoulders 6, 6", of the corner block. I
affix a conical pin or plug of either of the shapes shown in Figures 4 and 5
on the under side of the horizontal part of the angle iron, as represented in
Figure 3, in which Figure the pin or plug is marked e. A nut is placed
upon the cylindrical top of the pin er peg e, and by rivetting the said
peg, as
shown at g, the said peg is secured to the angle iron. The angle iron,
Figure 3, is placed upon the arm c, the pin or peg e entering the hole h; a
similar pin or peg on the angle iron placed upon the arm d enters the hole i.
The block b may be attached to the non-metallic bed pillars or posts in the
manner shown in Figure 6. A screw k passes through the said block b, and
entering the pillar secures the said block thereto. The hole in the corner
block through which the screw passes is shown at m in Figure 2, and is
indicated in dotted lines in Figure 1. The bed pillar or post, and screw 2, are
also indicated in dotted lines in Figure 1. In applying my new or improved
corner block to metallic bedsteads having cylindrical or nearly cylindrical
pillars, I prefer to carry my Invention into effect in the manner illustrated in

page_text: Figures 9 and 10; Figure 9 being an elevation, and Figure 10 a plan; the
said Figure 10 also representing the angle iron in section. t, u, is the tube
or rod constituting the pillar of the bedstead, which may either be in one
piece, or the parts t, u, may be in two pieces joined together by the corner
block v, which I cast on the tube or tubes t, u, by introducing the said tube
or tubes t, u, into a mould, into which molten iron being poured, there is cast
upon the said tube t, u, the block v with its arms w, x. As the casting of the
block upon the tube or tubes t, u, is effected by methods well known and
commonly practised, and which constitute no part of my Invention, I do not
think a further description of the same necessary.
I attach the laths n, n, Figure 6, constituting the sacking of a metallic
or wooden bedstead, or other article, in the following manner:-Figure 7
represents, in plan and side elevation, a button consisting essentially of two
cylindrical parts o, p, eccentric to one another. On the part p is a square
shoulder q, and on the part o is a tongue r. The button, Figure 7, is passed
through the hole s in the angle iron, Figure 8. The lath has a circular hole
in it of the size of the shoulder p, the said lath is dropped upon the said
shoulder p. The end of the lath is indicated in dotted lines in Figure 8.
A washer, indicated in dotted lines in Figure 7, is placed upon the square
shoulder q, and fixed thereon by rivetting or otherwise. By turning round the
button the tongue r is turned under the rail, and the said button can no
longer rise from its place, and the lath is tightened by the shoulder p, on
which it fits, receding during the rotation of the button towards the outer
edge of the rail.
Although I have only described my Invention in its application to a metallic
or other bedstead, yet my said Invention may be applied to other articles of
furniture, as well as to the construction of framework in general; but as the
application of my said Invention to articles of furniture other than bedsteads,
and to framework other than the sacking of metallic or other bedsteads, in no
respect differs from its application to bedsteads herein before explained, I do
not think it necessary to give further details.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that I do not limit
myself to the precise details herein described and represented, as the same
may be varied without departing from the nature of my said Invention; but
I claim as my Invention,-
Firstly, the methods herein-before described and illustrated in the ac-
companying Drawings of constructing the junctions of metallic and other
bedsteads, and other articles of furniture and framework generally.

page_text: Secondly, the method, berein-before described and illustrated in the accom-
panying Drawings, of connecting laths to the rails of bedsteads and other
articles of furniture.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Hulse, have hereunto set my
band and seal, this Fifth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
WILLIAM IIULSE. (L.s.)