US763957A - Sectional column. - Google Patents

Description

No. '763,957. PATENTBD JULY 5, 1904.

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SEGTIONAL COLUMN.

APPLICATION FILED NOT-1'7, 1903.

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JAMES D. BUCKLEY, OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS.

SECTlONAL COLUMN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 763,957, dated July 5, 1904.

Application filed November 17, 1903. Serial No. 181,549. (No model.) 7 i To mZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES D. BUoKLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fort North, in the county of Tarrant and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sectional Columns, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the construction of that type of columns comprising independ-, ent sections approximately wedge form in cross-section which are assembled and secured together in a suitable manner to constitute the article.

The column as constructed in accordance with my invention is known as the Tuscan beaded-face column, and the sections are separately formed, so that when secured together the column is in finished condition, ready to set up. It is common to construct columns in sections and after the sections have been assembled to turn the column as a finishing operation. Sectional columns made of sections provided with beads have also been invented. However, the manufacture of the columns, as above described, is exceedingly expensive owing to the various operations necessary to complete the same. It is, therefore, an essential and fundamental feature of my invention to provide a beaded column composed of sections which are of a form which may be cheaply manufactured and which when assembled will constitue a completed article.

For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acquire aknowledge of the details of construction of the means for effecting the result reference is to be hadto the following description and drawings hereto attached.

l/Vhile the essential and characteristic features of the invention aresusceptible of modification, still the preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a column embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view through the column. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one of the sections comprising the column.

elevation of one of the sections of the column,

showing the exact structure thereof.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

The invention relates to columns constructed of wood more especially. The invention, as before mentioned, resides in the exact form of the separate sections of the column, which section comprises in itself a finished article, which when assembled and secured to sections of like form constitutes what is known as a swell-tapered beaded column. Each of the sections 1 is provided with a straight inner face 2 and is of wedge form, so that when the sections are placed together the column will be of a circular form, as will be readily understood. The sides 3 of the sections are adapted to meet, and any suitable fastening means may be utilized to secure the sections together. In certain instances the sections are glued and in other instances the same are nailed or similarly held together. The outer face of the sections is convex, as shown at 4:, so as to provide the bead-face feature of the column. To give the swell-tapered effect, the convex or outer face of the sections tapers slightly toward the upper end, as will be easily noted by reference to Fig. 4 of the drawings. The convex faces of the sections when the latter are secured together serve to conceal any space between the several sections due to the roughness or any slight irregularity upon the faces3 thereof. Since the inner faces 2 of the sections are straight in their longitudinal extent, the bore of the column is of equal diameter throughout the length of the same. The sections 1 of course are of exactly the same formation and when turned out from the mill are completed in themselves, as before premised.

It will be seen from the foregoing that the column is advantageously constructed not only from an economical standpointas to the cost of the column itself, but, further, the sectional structure of the article admits of transportation of the separate sections in such a Fig. 4 is a side l manner as to economize to a great extent also.

tions or slats having an outer protuberant face of approximately convex form; a rear, flat, unbroken face; and fiat unbroken sides ex tended from the outer face to the rear face.

In testimony whereofl aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES D. BUCIQLEY.

WVitnesses:

B. WV. OWENS, HARRY A. BUCKLEY.

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