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J. W. CAMPBELL. JOINT FOR FURNITURE; 6L0.

No. 468,968. Patented Feb. 16, 1892.

Wneisess UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES XV. CAMPBELL, OF GERMANTOWN, ASSIGNOR TO FERGUSON BROTHERS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

JOINT FOR FURNITURE, 84.0.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 468,963, dated February 16, 1892.

' Application filed April 10, 1891. Serial No. 388,350.- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES W. CAMPBELL, of Germantown, in the county of Columbia and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Joints for Furniture and other Vooden Structures, of which the following is a specification.

' The object of this invention is to provide in a simple, effective, and orflamental manner for the making of angular joints between the posts, pillars, columns, or stiles and rails or cross-bars of light 'articles'of furniture, such as easels, screens, clothes-racks, towelracks, &c.

I will proceed to describe my invention with reference to the accompanying drawings and afterward point out its novelty in a claim.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents a side view of two pillars or stiles and a rail or crossbar joined thereto and illustrating my invention. Fig. 2 represents a horizontal section of one of the pillars and stiles and of a portion of the rail or crossbar shown in Fig. 1. Fig-s'-is a face view of the combined socket and saddle which constitutes my invention. Fig. at is a central section of the same, corresponding with Fig. 1. Fig. 5 represents a .blank of sheet metal from which my combined socket and saddle is formed.

My combined socket and saddle consists of a double-sided wrought-metal cup or socket a a for the reception of the end of one of two pieces, as the rail or cross-bar A, of wood or other material, and a concave saddle 5 b formed by the extension of the exterior portions 1) of the double sides or walls of said cup or socket in such form that their edges 1) conform to the sides of another piece, as one of the pillars or stiles B. This combined socket and saddle is made from a blank of brass or other sheet metal of an approximately elliptical form, substantially like that shown in Fig. 5, by cupping the central portion, (indicated by a dotted circle in Fig. 5,)

in the manner shown in Fig. 4, to form the inner wall a and bottom of the socket and afterward turning back the marginal portions to form the outer wall I) of the cup or socket and at the same time form the saddle 1) b the edges of which conform toand fit against the pillar or stile B. The bottom or base of the cup or socket has a central hole 0 for the reception of a screw.

The end of the cross bar or railA does not require to be cut to fit the upright or stile B, but is merely sawed off straight and inserted into the socket a a, the fiat hollow or base a of which constitutes an abutmentfor the said end, while the edges b of the saddle come against the upright or stile'B, A screw 61,.

screwed through the upright B, through the hole c'of the socket, brings the rail or crossbar tight to the abutment a and the saddle tight to the upright or stile.

It is obvious that in any part of a structure in which a horizontal portion projects in both directions from an upright portion the socket will receive the upright portion and the saddle will lit the horizontal portion.

That I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combined socket and saddle herein described, constituting a joint-piece for furniture and other articles, comprising a socket for the reception of a bar and a concave saddle for the reception of a bar extending at right angles to the bar to be received in the socket, the said joint-piece consisting of wrought metal doubled upon itself to form the wall of the socket, perforated, as at c, and having the outer portion of the doubled wall extended to form the wall of the concave saddle, substantially as set forth.

JAMES W.,OAMPBELL.

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