IMPROVEMENTS IN UNITING AND SECURING TOGETHER OR ORNAMENTING CERTAIN PARTS OF METAL BEDSTEADS AND OTHER FURNITURE IN METAL, AND ALSO IN THE FORMATION OF CARPONS GRID AND MAY RAILING
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Pitt, of Birmingham, in the "County of
Warwick, Bedstead Maker, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
UNITING AND SECURING TOGETHER OR ORNAMENTING CERTAIN PARTS OF METAL
BEDSTEADS AND OTHER FURNITURE IN METAL, AND ALSO IN THE FORMATION OF
CARPONS GRID AND MAY RAILING"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Pitsat the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 9th October
1866.
1, GEORGE PITT, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Bedstead
Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN UNITING AND SECURING TOGETHER OR ORNAMENTING CERTAIN PARTS OF METAL
BEDSTEADS AND OTHER FURNITURE IN METAL, AND ALSO IN THE FORMATION OF
SCREENS, GRILLES, AND METAL RAILING," to be as follows, that is to say:-
The parts to be united or ornamented, say, for instance, the volutes of a scroll,
are first tinned or coated with solder, & in some instances then laid between
moulds, in which inay be run spelter, tin, pewter, lead, or other soft metal;
by this process a boss or lump, a rosette, or other device is formed, which
holds the two parts of the separate volutes firmly together. These bosses or
lumps may be enriched by covering with brass or other superior metal in the
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page_text: shape of castings or stampings attached in any convenient manner. Some
forms of junction require no mould, the joints or knuckles themselves forming
the mould into which the soft metal may be run after the parts to be united
shall have been coated with tin or solder.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Pitt in the Great Seal Patent Oflice on the 8th
April 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
PITT, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Bedstead Maker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of Her
reign, did for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said George Pitt, Her special licence that I, the said George Pitt, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George
Pitt, 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
UNITING AND SECURING TOGETHER OR ORNAMENTING CERTAIN PARTS OF METAL
BEDSTEADS AND OTHER FURNITURE IN METAL, AND ALSO IN THE FORMATION OF
SCREENS, GRILLES, AND METAL RAILING," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said George Pitt, by an instrument in writing under my hand
and seal, 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 George Pitt, do hereby declare the
nature of my 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 (that is to say):-
The parts to be united or ornamented, say (for instance), the volutes of
a scroll, are first tinned or coated with solder, and in some instances then laid
between moulds in which may be run spelter, tin, pewter, lead, or other soft

page_text: metal; by this process a boss or lump, a rosette, or other device is formed,
which holds the two parts of the separate volutes firmly together. These
bosses or lumps may be enriched by covering with brass or other superior
metal in the shape of castings or stampings attached in any convenient
manner. Some forms of junction require no mould, the joints or knuckles
themselves forming the mould into which the soft metal may be run after the
parts to be united shall have been coated with tin or solder.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I claim as my Invention the improve-
ments in uniting and securing together or ornamenting certain parts of metal
bedsteads and other furniture in metal, as also the formation of screens,
grilles, and metal railing, in manner herein more fully set forth and
specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Pitt, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
GEORGE PITT. (L.S.)