A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF ORNAMENTING CASTORS FOR FURNITURE, LAMPS. CHANDELIERS, CORNICES AND CORNICE ENDS. CURTAIN BANDS AND CURTAIN PINS
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Arthur Malins. of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick. Manufacturer, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED
METHOD OF ORNAMENTING CASTORS FOR FURNITURE, LAMPS. CHANDELIERS,
CORNICES AND CORNICE ENDS. CURTAIN BANDS AND CURTAIN PINS."
Sealed the 17th July 1857, and dated the 29th January 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Arthur Malins at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
29th January 1857.
I. ARTHUR MALINS, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Mann-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW
OR IMPROVED METHOD OF ORNAMENTING CASTORS FOR FURNITURE, LAMPS, CHAN-
DELIERS, CORNICES AND CORNICE ENDS. CURTAIN BANDS AND CURTAIN PINS," to
be as follows:-
My Invention consists in ornamenting the said articles, by constructing them
in part of horn or hoof, or other animal substance, or mixture, or composition
having the same or nearly the same physical properties as horn.
In applying my Invention to castors for furniture, I make the bowls. or
rollers of the said castors of horn, the said rollers having a metal tube in their
axis; or I make a foundation or skeleton roller of metal, and insert discs of
The said horn may be stained or
horn in the sides of the said skeleton roller.
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page_text: colored black, or of any colour which can be given to the said horn; and the
said rollers or parts of rollers may be made by any of the processes whereby
horn is or may be fashioned.
In applying the said horn to lamps, chandeliers. cornices and cornice ends,
curtain bands, and curtain pins, I construct such portions of the same as it is
required to ornament wholly or parily of horn; either coloured or of its natural
colour. wish it to be understood that by horn, in the foregoing description,
I mean either horn or hoof, or such other animal substance, or mixture,
or composition as has the same or nearly the same physical properties as
horn.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Arthur Malins in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
28th July 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I. ARTHUR
MALINS, of Birmingham. in, the County of Warwick, Manufacturer. scud
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Leilers
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Arthur Malins, Her special licence that 1, the said Arthur Malins, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Arthur
Malins, 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," A NEW OR IMPROVED
METHOD OF ORNAMENTING CASTORS FOR FURNITURE, LAMPS, CHANDELIERS. CORNICES
AND CORNICE ENDS. CURTAIN BANDS AND CURTAIN PINS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Arthur Malins, 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 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 Arthur Malins, do hereby declare, the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be, per-.

page_text: formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-.
My said Invention .consists in ornamenting castors for furniture, lamps,
chandeliers, cornices and cornice ends, curtain bands and curtain pins, by
.constructing them in part of horn or hoof, or other animal substance, .or
mixture, or composition, as herein-after explained, having the same or nearly
the same physical properties as horn. Or, instead of making parts of the
said article of horn or other similar substance. I sometimes make the said
articles in, the usual way, and add thereto. ornaments made of horn or other
similar substance.
.
I will describe my Invention as carried into effect. by the use of horn,, but
.I.wish it to be understood that the mixtures or compositions .herein-after
referred to may be used in place-of-horn.
In applying my Invention to castors for furniture, I make the bowls or
rollers of the said castors either wholly or parily of horn. When the said
bowls or rollers are made wholly of horn they are attached to the arms of
the casior by an axis, as the ordinary-metallic bowl is attached. But I prefer
to insert and fix a tube of metal, in the hole of the bowl or roller-through
which the axis passes, so that the said axis.shall rub against the said - metal
tube instead of against the horn. I sometimes make a castor bowl or roller
of metal, and insert a disc of horn in either side of the said bowl, so as to
ornament, the said bowl; or I cover the periphery of a metallic or other bowl
or roller with a covering of horn.
In applying my Invention to lamps, chandeliers, cornices and cornice ends.
curtain bands and curtain. pins, I construct portions of the said lamps.
chandeliers, cornices, cornice ends. curtain bands, and curtain pins of horn:
or
construct ornaments of horn, which I attach or append to such parts of
the said lamps, chandeliers, cornices, cornice ends, curtain bands, and curtain
pins as it may be deemed desirable to make of an ornamental character.
The horn employed in carrying my Invention into effect may either be
used in an uncoloured state, or the said horn may be stained black, or stained
or coloured of any desired colour which can be given to the said horn. The
bowls or rollers of castors, and the parts of castors, lamps, chandeliers.
cornices, cornice ends, curtain bands, and curtain pins, made according to
my Invention, may be made by any of the processes whereby horn is or
may be fashioned or worked; but I do not think it necessary to describe
either the methods of staining or colouring horn or the methods of fashion-
ing or working horn which employ in carrying my Invention into effect,

page_text: as the said processes of colouring or staining and fashioning horn are well
known and commonly practised, and constitute no part of my Invention.
Although I prefer carrying my Invention into effect by the use of horn, yei
I do not limit myself thereto, as animal hoof and various mixtures or compo-
sition of animal origin may be used with the same or nearly the same effect.
For example, gelatine when indurated either by heat. or by being impregnated
with the powder of solids insoluble in water. has a considerable resemblance
fo horn and may he used for carrying my Invention into effect, and I regard
all solids having nearly the same physical properties as horn. and of animal
origin, or mainly of animal origin, as comprised in my Invention.
Having now described the nature of my 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. as the same may be varied
without departing from the nature of my said Invention: but I claim as my
Invention the new or improved method of ornamenting castors for furniture.
lamps, chandeliers, cornices and cornice ends, curtain hands and curtain pins.
herein-before described; that is to say. ornamenting the bowls or rollers of
castors for furniture by making the same wholly or partially of horn. hoof, or
other similar, material, and making parts of or ornaments to be attached to
lamps, chandeliers, cornices and cornice ends, curtain bands and curtain pins
of horn, hoof, or other similar material, as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Arthur Malins. have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of Jaly, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Witness.
GEORGE SHAW.
ARTHUR MALINS. (L.S.)