Improvements in Beds and Mattresses, also Applicable to Chairs, Lounges, and similar Articles of Furniture.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 17th May, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 16th Mar., 1891-Accepted, 16th May, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Beds and Mattresses, also Applicable to Chairs,
Lounges, and similar Articles of Furniture.
I ANTON SCHON of 26 Woodland Road New Southgate in the County of
Middlesex Merchant do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of my invention is to provide a mattress or bed leveller which is also
applicable to bed bottoms, combined bedstead and spring mattress as well as to
springs and seats for chairs lounges etc.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried
into practice I shall now proceed to describe same.
I make the said leveller by placing two canes, sticks rods or strips of wood or
metal or any other suitable material longitudinally and parallel to each other
and so far apart as the width of the bed for which the leveller is intended
requires. Then I lay transversely to them and at regular distances two other canes
etc. which I fix close together near their ends securely on to the longitudinal
canes etc., by means of wire, thread, metal clips or by any other suitable arrange-
ment, thus forming a kind of grill. I then insert longitudinally between the pairs
of transverse canes etc. two other canes etc. thus forcing the transverse canes etc.
apart which thus gives them an oval shape. This apparatus will when laid either
on the laths of the bedstead or between any mattresses that may be used fill up the
sagging of the bed. Should however this not be enough to level the bed sufficiently
I push the two canes etc. inserted between the transverse canes etc. one on each
side thus increasing the space between the transverse canes and regulating it as
required for use and thereby making the leveller springy or elastic. If this
elasticity be objected to a cane etc. of sufficiently large dimension placed longi-
tudinally in the centre will render the leveller quite firm.
Should this leveller be intended as a bed bottom or spring mattress I make
the leveller of the exact size of the bedstead frame to which it is then securely
fixed. If I make a combined bedstead and spring mattress I may dispense with
one of the two transverse canes etc. viz.: the lower one and fix the ends of the
canes etc. into the sides of the bedstead into which they fit by means of holes
provided in the side bars or I may hold them down by means of another bar
or bars of metal or wood and which is then screwed down on to the side bars.
The spring arrangement for seats of chairs lounges etc. is the same.
The leveller may also be used for seatings of chairs lounges etc. instead of the
cane-webbing, wood or iron seatings now in use.
Dated this 16th day of Max 1800
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Beds and Mattresses, also applicable to Chairs,
Lounges, and similar Articles of Furniture.
I ANTON SCHON of 26 Woodland Road New Southgate in the County of
Middlesex Merchant do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
The object of my invention is to provide a mattress or bed leveller which is

page_text: also applicable to bed bottoms combined bedstead and spring bottom or mattress,
as well as to springs and seats for chairs lounges and similar articles of furniture.
In order that my invention, may be clearly understood and more easily carried
into practice I shall now proceed to describe the same and for that purpose shall
refer to the several figures on the annexed sheet of drawings the same letters of
reference indicating corresponding parts in all the figures.
I make the said leveller by placing two canes, sticks rods or strips of wood or
metal or of any other suitable material a longitudinally and parallel to each other
and so far apart as the width of the bed for which the leveller is intended requires
as shewn in Fig. 1 to 9 then I lay transversely on to them and at regular distances
two other canes which I fix close together near their ends securely on to the
longitudinal canes a by means of wire thread metal clips or by any other suitable
arrangement as shewn at c Fig. 1 or I may fix the transverse canes b into holes d
Fig. 2 provided in the longitudinal canes a for this purpose thus forming a kind of
grill as Fig. 1 & 2 I then insert longitudinally between the pairs of transverse
canes two other canes e as shewn in Fig. 3 thus forcing the transverse canes
apart which gives them an oval shape as shewn in Figs. 7 to 10. Or I may fix the
transverse canes 6 singly and at regular distances into holes d provided in the
longitudinal canes a as shewn in Fig. 4 or on to them as above described inserting
the two other canes e in such a manner that the transverse canes b are alternately
above and below these other canes e as in Fig. 5.
This apparatus will when laid either on the laths of the bedsteads or between any
mattresses that may be used fill up the sagging of the bed. Should however this
not be enough to level the bed sufficiently I push the two canes e inserted between
the transverse canes bone on each side as in Fig. 6 thus increasing the space
between the transverse canes as shewn in Fig. 9 and regulating it as required for
use and thereby making the leveller springy or elastic. If this elasticity be
objected to a cane or a piece of wood f. round or square of sufficiently large
dimension placed longitudinally in the centre as in Fig. 9 will render the leveller
firm. Should this leveller be intended as a bed bottom or spring bottom or mattress
I make the leveller of the exact size of the bedstead frame g as in Fig. 10 to which
it is then securely fixed. If I make a combined bedstead and spring bottom or
mattress I may dispense with one of the two transverse canes b viz.: the lower one
and fix the ends of the upper canes 6 into the sides of the bedstead frame g.
which they fit by means of slots or holes provided in the side bars as shewn in
Fig. 11 or I may hold them down by means of another bar or bars i of metal or
wood and which is then screwed down as at ; Fig. 12 or bolted or fixed in any
other suitable manner on to the side bars g. The spring arrangement for seats,
seats of chairs lounges and similar articles is the same.
into
The leveller may also be used for seatings of ordinary chairs lounges and the
like as herein before described with reference to Fig. 1 to 12 or as shewn in Fig. 13
instead of the cane webbing wood or iron seatings or bottoms now in use the canes b
being fixed into holes or slots as herein before described with reference to Fig. 11
to 12 with or without the canes e which are fixed crossways into the frame k under
the canes b which they support.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1st. A bed or mattress leveller which may be either rigid or springy and which
can be regulated as required substantially as and for the purposes herein before
described.
2nd. A bed or mattress leveller applicable for bed bottoms or to be used as a
spring bottom or mattress substantially as herein before described with reference to
Fig. 10, 11 & 12.
3rd. Improvements in combined bedsteads and rigid or spring bottom or mattress

page_text: constructed substantially as herein before described and illustrated by Fig. 7 to 12
of the accompanying drawings.
4th. Improvements in spring bottoms or seatings suitable for upholstered chairs,
lounges and the like articles as herein before described.
5th. Improvements in seatings for ordinary chairs, lounges and the like as
illustrated as shewn in Fig. 13.