A NEW SPRING MATTRESS OR PLATFORM FOR BEDDING
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Fox, Upholsterer, of 77, Bishopsgate
Street Within, Parish of St. Ethelburga, in the City of London,
for the Invention of "A NEW SPRING MATTRESS OR PLATFORM FOR
BEDDING."
Sealed the 30th June 1874, and dated the 21st January 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Fox at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
21st January 1874.
I, THOMAS Fox, Upholsterer, of 77, Bishopsgate Street Within,
Parish of St. Ethelburga, in the City of London, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "A NEW SPRING MATTRASS OR PLATFORM
FOR BEDDING," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists of a spring mattrass or platform for bedding
and is formed on a portable frame by longitudinal webs attached by
brass spindles to spiral springs in jointed iron cases at the head of frame,
to which a cross support and movement is given by the webs resting

page_text: upon continuous cords passing thro' pullies in jointed frames attached
to horizontal spiral springs; the movement thus produced by pressure
upon the long webs is divided by the pressure on the cross ropes, &
such clasticity is again divided thro'out the length crossways causing
a tightening of the cords, whereby a greater support is given to the body
where the pressure is less. The whole when out of use returning to a
flat surface, & when occupied adapting its-self to the form of the body
with an equal pressure on all parts.
In case of need the elasticity of any special part may be regulated
by screw nuts attached to the springs without affecting any other
SPECIFICATION in pursuanco of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Fox in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 16th July 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
Fox, Upholsterer, of 77, Bishopsgate Street Within, in the Parish of
St. Ethelburga, in the City of London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto him, the said Thomas Fox, Her special licence that
he, the said Thomas Fox, his executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as he, the said Thomas Fox, his 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 thercin 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 SPRING MATTRESS OR PLATFORM
FOR BEDDING," upon the condition (amongst others) that he, the said
Thomas Fox, his executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under his, 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

page_text: Figure 5 section of side rail T with pulley U and hinging plate W to
receive continuous wire rope.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Fox, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this 16th day of July, in the year of our Lord
1874.