Improvements in Wire Fabric or Netting for Spring Mattresses and for other purposes.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Jan., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 25th Oct., 1890-Accepted, 29th Nov., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wire Fabric or Netting for Spring Mattresses and
for other purposes.
We, WILLIAM WATERHOUSE and THOMAS WALLEY BLANTERN, of the Pioneer
Works, Acock's Green, near Birmingham, Warwickshire, Wire Workers & Manu-
facturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to wire fabric or netting for spring mattresses or bed
bottoms or for fencing or other purposes to which wire fabric or netting is applied
our object being to simplify the manufacture of the same.
In carrying out our invention we make the said fabric or netting of lengths of
wire bent into a zig-zag form and so shaped at their meeting points or angles as to
engage with each other and be connected together side by side. This connecting of
the lengths of zig-zag wires together can be effected in various ways such as
by every alternate length having each of its points or angles bent into a hooked
form so as to close over the loops or angles of the next lengths; or the points or
angles of every alternate length of zig-zag wire may be bent or formed into an eye
or loop through which the adjacent zig-zag lengths of wire pass. In some cases, and
more particularly for spring mattresses, we combine coiled springs with the said
zig-zag lengths of wire in the fabric or netting, these coiled springs running along
parallel with the zig-zag wires and engaging with their eyes or loops so as to connect
them together.
In using the said wire fabric or netting in a spring mattress we prefer for the
zig-zag lengths of wire to run across the mattress from side to side the ends of the
fabric being connected to the mattress frame by coiled springs as usual.
Dated this 24th day of January 1890
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wire Fabric or Netting for Spring Mattresses and
for other purposes.
We, WILLIAM WATERHOUSE and THOMAS WALLEY BLANTERN, of the Pioneer
Works, Acock's Green, near Birmingham, Warwickshire, Wire Workers and Manu-
facturers, 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:
This invention relates to wire fabric or netting for spring mattresses or bed
bottoms or for fencing or other purposes to which wire fabric or netting is applied
our object being to simplify the manufacture of the same.
In carrying out our invention we make the said fabric or netting of lengths of
wire bent into a zig-zag form and so shaped at their meeting points or angles as to
engage with each other and be connected together side by side. This connecting of
the lengths of zig-zag wires together can be effected in various ways such as by
every alternate length having each of its points or angles bent into a hooked form
so as to close over the loops or angles of the next lengths; or the points or angles
of every alternate length of zig-zag wire may be bent or formed into an eye or loop
through which the adjacent zig-zag lengths of wire pass. In some cases, and more
particularly for spring mattresses, we combine coiled springs with the said zig-zag
lengths of wire in the fabric or netting, these coiled springs running along parallel
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page_text: with the zig-zag wires and engaging with their eyes or loops so as to connect them
together.
In using the said wire fabric or netting in a spring mattress we prefer for the
zig-zag lengths of wire to run across the mattress from side to side the ends of the
fabric being connected to the mattress frame by coiled springs as usual.
On the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 represents one side and Fig. 2 the other side of a piece of wire fabric or
netting constructed according to this invention and Fig. 3 shews parts of the wires
of the same separately in plan and edge views; Figs. 4, 5 and 6 are similar views
of a modification of our invention; Figs. 7, 8 and 9 are similar views of a further
modification; Figs. 10, 11 and 12 represent in inverted plan, plan, and edge view
respectively a further modification of our invention; Figs. 13, 14 and 15 are similar
views of a further modification, when the said fabric or netting is in use for
mattresses.
Figs. 2, 5, 8, 11 and 14 represent the top side of the fabric or netting and
Figs. 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10 and 13 the underside of the same.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all the
figures of the drawings.
The said zig-zag lengths of wire of which the fabric or netting is composed are
marked respectively A and B ; they extend right across the netting from side to side
or from end to end either in long or short lengths but by preference the former. The
wires A are simply bent backwards and forwards so as to form loops or angles a
lying in the same plane and the wires B which lie alongside the wires A are similarly
bent backwards and forwards (see Figs. 1, 2 and 3) but each of their loops or angles b
is bent into a hooked form as shewn and engages with and is closed over the
adjacent loop or angle a of the wires A thus making the continuous wire fabric or
netting.
The angles a of the wires A may (as shewn by Figs. 3, 4, 5 and 6) be bent round
to form eyes for the hooked angles of the wires B to engage with; or (as in the
modification illustrated by Figs. 7, 8 and 9) the wire fabric may be composed of
lengths of zig-zag wire B each of which has one side only of its loops or angles b
bent up into hooks to engage with plain eyes or loops of the next length, instead of
using alternate lengths of plain zig-zag wire à and hooked zig-zag wires B as in
Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.
b
In the further modification shewn by Figs. 10, 11 and 12 alternate lengths of zig-
zag hooked wires B are used in combination with links C with which the hooked
angles engage; and in the modification shewn by Figs. 13, 14 and 15 springs D
are used with the lengths of zig-zag hooked wires B instead of or in addition to the
links C or wires A.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
1. In wire fabric or netting for spring mattress or for other purposes the employ-
ment of zig-zag lengths of wire bent at their angles into hooks which engage
with other zig-zag wires or with springs or links in the manner substantially as
hereinbefore set forth.
2. Wire fabric or netting for spring mattresses or for other purposes made of
zig-zag lengths of wire B looked at their angles and engaging with other zig-zag
lengths of wire with links or springs either alone or in combination in the manner
substantially as bereinbefore set forth and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 24th day of October 1890
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY
Agent for the Applicants.