IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTOMS FOR BEDS, AND IN SPRING OR ELASTIC PARTS OF FURNITURE AND CARRIAGES FOR LYING, SITTING, OR RECLINING UPON OR AGAINST
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Thomson King, of Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTOMS
FOR BEDS, AND IN SPRING OR ELASTIC PARTS OF FURNITURE AND CARRIAGES
FOR LYING, SITTING, OR RECLINING UPON OR AGAINST." A communication
from abroad by Chester Dana Flynt, of Brooklyn, in the State of New York,
one of the United States of America.
Sealed the 12th August 1879, and dated the 17th February 1879.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Thomson King, at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th February 1879.
JOHN THOMSON KING, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Patent Agent.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTOMS FOR BEDS, AND IN SPRING OR ELASTIC PARTS OF
FURNITURE AND CARRIAGES FOR LYING, SITTING, OR RECLINING UPON OR AGAINST."
[A communication from abroad by Chester Dana Flynt, of Brooklyn, in the State
of New York, one of the United States of America.]
The object of the said Invention is to so construct or form a bed or couch
bottom, chair seat or back, or other parts of furniture or carriages to be used for
sitting, lying, or reclining upon or against, so as to have an equally and uniformly
resilient surface.
In carrying my Invention into practice I proceed as follows:-
First. To form a bottom, back, side, or other desired spring or elastic surface, I
combine metal bands or springs interwoven or interlaced and secured at each end
to a frame and covered with suitable material, with metal supporting springs
resting on carriers, and acting against the uncovered surfaces of the said metal
bands or springs. The interlaced or interwoven metal bands or springs are curved
at each end, and the curved portions are so connected to the frame as to
prevent any undue bending strain coming on any one part of such metal bands or
springs.
Second. I employ in combination with the improvements described under the
above first head, wires or their equivalents so arranged and attached to the inter-
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page_text: secting metal bands or springs as to retain them in longitudinal and transverse
position.
Third. I construct or form metal bands or springs under the above first and
second heads, with suitable openings through which they may be interlaced so as
to form an even surface.
Fourth. I construct or form supporting springs to be employed under the above
three heads in a novel manner, that is to say, the said supporting springs are
constructed or formed out of ribands or strips of steel bent or shaped alternately
backwards and forwards, so as to be conical or nearly conical in outline.

page_text: metal bands or springs having openings therein, the transverse ones may be per-
forated. The above improvements are used in combination with those set forth
under the first head.
Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6, illustrate the fourth part of my Invention, here the inter-
lacing springs are supported by carrying springs made of ribands or strips of steel
bent or shaped alternately backwards and forwards so as to be conical or nearly so
in outline as shown by the dotted lines.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention in such manner that,
others will be enabled to carry my improvements into effect I claim,―
The improvements in spring bed bottoms, and spring or elastic parts of furnituro
and carriages, substantially as described under the above four heads for the purposes
set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Thomson King, have hereunto set my.
land and seal, this Fifteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord Onė.
thousand eight hundred and seventy nine.