IMPROVEMENTS IN FENDERS
Year: 1885

page_text: We THOMAS KENDRICK of 68 Summer Lane Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Manufacturer and WILLIAM GIBSON of 318 Victoria road Aston in the
same County Manager do hereby declare the nature of our said invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN FENDERS and in what manner the same is to be performed, to
be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement,
reference being had to the drawings hereunto annexed and to the letters and figures
marked thereon that is to say :-
The object of this invention is to supply a strong easily applied and satisfactory
corner or angles to fenders by a process other than those usually employed, namely
soldering or chilling For this purpose we provide a corner or angle piece of cast
iron or other metal (Fig. 1 letter a) of a shape or conformation corresponding with
the moulding of brass or other tube (b) forming the bottom rod of the fender, upon
which the said bottom rod is to be slipped and secured in a manner herein after
described, In the angle of the said corner piece a hole is drilled and tapped to
receive an upright rod (c) screwed at each end. Over this rod is placed a mount (d)
Fig. 2 fitting upon top of mouldings (b b) covering the mitre of the said mouldings
and forming a secure base for the complete corner, In the inside or recessed part
of the top of this mount are drilled two or more holes passing through the
moulding (b) into the corner or angle piece (a) into which are fixed screw pins
firmly securing the corner.
We next employ a corner or angle plate (c) Fig. 2 provided with two pummels
drilled to receive the upright rod (c) and drilled on each side with two holes to
receive screws for fastening the plain or ornamental plates which form the body of
the fender, The pummels upon the corner plate (e) are slotted at right angles to
receive the said plain or ornamental plates, thus securing additional firmness and
stability.
The flat plates forming the body of the fender being secured in the manner
described above, the top rod or moulding (f) Fig. 5. is next passed onto the plate
and secured by a new method which we claim as a part of our invention that is to
say. The tube or moulding forming the top rod is slotted in the usual way
throughout its entire length on the under side and the plate upon which it is to be
fixed is pierced with holes at a distance from the top equal to the inside diameter
of the tube or top rod; into these holes are fitted small pegs of iron or other

page_text: material which the tube being slipped onto and along the plate effectually prevent
the top rod coming off without being passed off the plate in the same way it
is fitted on.
The front and ends of the body of the fender attached to the corner plates, as
described above, being passed over the upright rod (c) onto the mount (d) the tubular
pillar shewn in Fig. 4. is then placed upon and inside of the recessed part of the
bottom mount (d) and is constructed to fit closely to the flat plates forming front
and end of fender and to receive the tubes on top rods Fig. 7.
A top mount as shewn in Fig. 6 and lettered (g) in Fig. 7. with hole to receive
the perpendicular rod (c) and also constructed to fit upon the top rods of the
fender is then placed upon the tubular pillar and the whole is firmly screwed
together with a knob as shewn in Fig. 7.
The process is then complete and the whole corner, as seen in perspective
presents the appearance shewn in Fig. 7.
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
Firstly the entire principle and construction of the corner for brass or other
fenders and
Secondly the method of securing the top rods of the same substantially as herein
set forth and specified.