Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Sept.. 1886.
Complete Left, 14th June, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 15th July, 1887
We ALFRED HENRY GRIFFITHS Managing Director of Evered and Company
Limited of Surrey Works Smethwick in the County of Stafford Manufacturers and
EDGAR SMALLWOOD of Victoria Road Stechford near Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Manager of Works do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be
as follows:-
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This invention has reference principally to such metallic bedsteads cots and couches
and ships' berths as are provided with sackings or mattresses made of woven wire or
other metallic fabric or sacking but non metallic sackings or mattresses may be used
with the improvements constituting this invention.
This invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in constructing
those parts of the bedstead or other frame to which the metallic sacking or other
sacking is connected and the appliances for fastening the said sacking to and adjusting
its tension on the frame.
We will describe the said invention in connection with a metallic bedstead provided
with a metallic or woven wire sacking or mattress.
Instead of making the bedstead frame of angle bars as usual we make the said frame
preferably of tubes. On the ends of each of the tubes constituting the sides of the
bedstead frame we cast dovetail joints for engaging with the corner blocks on the
pillars of the bedstead the dovetail joints on the sides of the bedstead frame being
cranked in a special manner in order to depress the said sides below the level of the
head and foot pieces to which the metallic sacking or mattress is connected. The end
tubes constituting the head and foot pieces of the frame are connected to the corner
blocks on the pillars in the ordinary way and on the foot piece two or more bands are
cast by chill casting each chilled band being provided on its upper side with a solid
stud or button having an undercut head and on the head piece of the frame similar
bands are cast but without studs or buttons. Plain holes in the direction of a diameter
are made through the said bands and the tube of the head piece. Into these holes

page_text: tension screws are passed for the purpose herein after described the said screws having
square or hexagonal shaped heads.
We enclose each end of the metallic woven fabric constituting the mattress or
sacking between and fasten it to straps of wrought iron. The straps of wrought
iron at the foot end of the mattress or sacking have holes at their outer edges for
passing onto or engaging with the studs or buttons on the chilled bands at the foot
piece of the bedstead frame. The straps of wrought iron at the head end of the
mattress or sacking have on their underside screwed lugs constituting screw boxes
the said screw boxes being of a size suitable for receiving the tension screws on the
head piece of the frame.
In connecting the metallic woven sacking or mattress to the bedstead frame the
holes in the straps at the foot end are passed onto or engaged with the studs or
buttons on the foot piece of the bedstead frame and the tension screws at the head
piece of the said frame are engaged with the screwed holes or screw boxes on the
straps at the head end of the sacking or mattress and by means of a spanner applied to
the heads of the tension screws the said sacking or mattress may be tightened to the
required degree or the tension of the said sacking or mattress reduced.
The tension screws on the head piece of the frame may be dispensed with and the
said head piece and foot piece be constructed alike that is each end piece is provided
with headed studs or buttons for engaging with holes in each end of the metallic
sacking or mattress.
The arrangements of parts described may be applied to a complete independent
sacking or mattress frame capable of being fitted to a bedstead of a special manu-
facture. For this purpose the sides and ends are jointed together by dovetail joints
but in addition to the ordinary joints we cast on the cranked castings on the side
pieces of the frame he-dovetails for taking into she dovetails in the corner blocks on
the pillars or bedstead ends of a special kind.
The improvements described are applied to metallic cots couches and ships' berths
substantially as herein before described with respect to a metallic bedstead.
Dated this Twenty ninth day of September 1886.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants.

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Ships' Berths.
We ALFRED HENRY GRIFFITHS Managing Director of Evered and Company
Limited of Surrey Works Smethwick in the County of Stafford, Manufacturers and
EDGAR SMALLWOOD of Victoria Road, Stechford near Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Manager of Works, do hereby declare the nature of the said 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 has reference principally to such metallic bedsteads, cots and couches
and ships' berths as are provided with sackings or mattresses made of woven wire or
other metallic fabric or sacking but non-metallic sackings or mattresses may be used
with the improvements constituting this Invention.
This invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in constructing
those parts of the bedstead or other frame to which the metallic sacking or other sacking
is connected and the appliances for fastening the said sacking to and adjusting its
tension on the frame.
We will describe the said invention in connection with a metallic bedstead provided
with a metallic or woven wire sacking or mattress.
Instead of making the bedstead frame of angle bars as usual we make the said frame
preferably of tubes. On the ends of each of the tubes constituting the sides of the
bedstead frame we cast dovetail joints for engaging with the corner blocks on the
pillars of the bedstead, the dovetail joints on the sides of the beadstead frame being
cranked in a special manner in order to depress the said sides below the level of the
head and foot pieces to which the metallic sacking or mattress is connected. The
end tubes constituting the head and foot pieces of the frame are connected to the
corner blocks on the pillars and on the foot piece two or more bands are cast by
chill casting each chilled band being provided on its upper side with a solid stud or
button having an undercut head and on the head-piece of the frame similar bands are
cast but without studs or buttons. Plain holes in the direction of a diameter are made
through the said bands and the tube of the head piece. Into these holes tension screws
are passed for the purpose hereinafter described, the said screws having square or
hexagonal shaped heads. We enclose each end of the metallic woven fabric
constituting the mattress or sacking between and fasten it to straps of wrought iron.
The straps of wrought iron at the foot end of the mattress or sacking have holes at their
middle or outer edges for passing onto or engaging with the studs or buttons on the
chilled bands at the foot piece of the bedstead frame.
The straps of wrought iron at the head end of the mattress or sacking have on their
underside screwed lugs constituting screw boxes the said screw boxes being of a size
suitable for receiving the tension screws on the head piece of the frame.
In connecting the metallic woven sacking or mattress to the bedstead frame the
holes in the straps at the foot end are passed onto or engaged with the studs or buttons

page_text: on the foot piece of the bedstead frame and the tension screws at the head piece of the
said frame are engaged with the screwed holes or screw boxes on the straps at
the head end of the sacking or mattress and by means of a spanner applied to the
heads of the tension screws the said sacking or mattress may be tightened to the
required degree or the tension of the said sacking or mattress reduced.
The tension screws on the head piece of the frame may be dispensed with and the
said head piece and foot piece be constructed alike that is, each end piece is provided
with headed studs or buttons for engaging with holes in each end of the metallic
sacking or mattress.
The arrangements of parts described may be applied to a complete independent
sacking or mattress frame capable of being fitted to a bedstead of a special
manufacture. For this purpose the sides and ends are jointed together by dovetail
joints but in additional to the ordinary joints we cast on the cranked castings on the
side pieces of the frame he-dovetails for taking into she dovetails in the corner blocks
on the pillars or bedstead ends of a special kind.
We will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying Drawings the
manner in which the said invention is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in elevation the head end of a metallic bedstead containing these
improvements, the tension screws for the sacking being omitted; Figure 2 represents
in elevation and plan (partly in horizontal section) the head piece of the bedstead
frame (together with the tension screws) detached from the pillars; Figure 3
represents in plan of underside and elevation of underside the compound strap at the
head end of the sacking or mattress ; Figure 4 represents in elevation the foot end of the
bedstead Figure 5 represents in plan and elevation the foot piece of the frame
separately; Figure 6 represents the compound strap at the foot end of the sacking or
mattress; Figure 7 represents in perspective a portion of the bedstead together with the
sacking or mattress and fixing and tension arrangement of the same and Figure 8
represents a cross section of the tension arrangement at the head end of the bedstead
frame.
Figure 9 represents in perspective a modified arrangement for fastening the sacking
to the frame.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of the
Drawings.
a, a are the corner blocks on the pillars 6, 6 of the bedstead and c, c are the side
pieces and de the head and foot pieces of the bedstead frame, the said side and head
and foot pieces c, d and e being made preferably of tubing as represented. They may
however be made of angle or other bars. On the ends of each of the tubes constituting
the sides c of the bedstead frame, dovetail joints f, f (see Figures 7 and 9) are cast for
engaging with the corner blocks on the pillars. The said dovetail joints ff are
cranked downwards in order to depress the sides c of the bedstead frame below the
level of the head and foot pieces d, e to which the metallic (or other) sacking_or
mattress is connected as represented in the perspective views Figures 7 and 9. The
end pieces d and e of the frame are connected to the pillars b, b by chill castings
at h, h Figures 1 and 4. The head piece d of the frame has cast upon its ends and
upon its middle by chill casting, bands marked i, k, i. In the said bands i, k, i, cross
holes 1,7 are made for the tension screws m, m at the head end of the sacking to pass
through. The said holes 11 are lined with pieces of wrought iron tubing for preventing
the chilled holes from stripping or injuring the tension screws m, m. The end bands i, i
of the head piece d of the bedstead frame as well as the end bands of the foot piece e
are strengthened by pegs or pieces of wrought iron n which are embedded in the chilled
castings the ends of the said wrought iron pegs or pieces n projecting from the said
castings. The end bands of the head piece d and foot piece e are connected to the
pillars b, b by chill castings at hh.
The foot piece e of the frame is provided with similar chilled bands p, q,p each
chilled band having on its upper side a solid stud or button r with an undercut head
for the foot strap of the sacking to engage with; s, t are straps of wrought iron at the
ends of the sacking or mattress.u. Between the two parts of each strap the end of

page_text: the sacking is held by rivetting the said parts together. On the head strap screwed
lugs or screw boxes w, w are secured for receiving the tension screws m, m of the
sacking or mattress and in the foot strap t holes x, x (see Figure 6) are made
for engaging with the studs or buttons r, r on the foot piece e of the bedstead frame.
The said screw boxes w may either be rigidly fixed to the underside of the head straps
of the sacking or so connected thereto that they are capable of a slight lateral motion
on the said strap. We prefer to use the latter arrangement as shown in Figure 8A
where the screw box w has at its top the cross bar w² which is connected to the underside
of the straps by the loops on which the said cross bar is capable of sliding
laterally as will be understood by an examination of the Drawing.
In connecting the sacking or mattress to the bedstead frame, the foot end of the
sacking is first engaged by means of its strap with the headed studs or buttons r, r, r
on the foot piece e of the frame and the tension screws m, m having been passed
through the holes 1, 1, in the bands i, k, i at the head piece d of the bedstead frame are
engaged with the screwed lugs or screw boxes w, w on the head straps of the sacking
or mattress (see Figure 8) and by means of a screw spanner applied to the heads of
the tension screws m, m the said sacking or mattress may be tightened to the required
degree by the advance of the screw boxes w, w upon the rotating screws m, in the said
screws having no advancing notion as their heads take a bearing against the chilled
bands on the head piece d as seen in Figure 8. By rotating the tension screws m, m
in a direction contrary to that by which the tightening of the sacking is effected the
tension on the sacking may be reduced.
Figure 9 represents in perspective the arrangement in which the tension screws are
omitted. In this case both the sacking straps and t have holes (see Figure 6)
made in them and all the chilled bands on the head and foot pieces of the bedstead
frame are furnished with headed studs or buttons r, r for the holes in the sacking
straps s,t to be engaged with as represented in the said Figure 9.
Figure 10 represents in perspective a complete independent sacking frame provided
with the first described tension arrangement and also with dovetail blocks according
to this invention; Figure 11 represents in side elevation and plan of upper side one
of the dovetail blocks drawn to a larger scale and Figure 12 represents in side
elevation and plan of underside another of the dovetail blocks of the independent
sacking frame.
It will be seen by an examination of Figure 10 that the parts of the independent
sacking frame are connected together by he dovetails on the ends of the head and
foot pieces taking into she-dovetails, in the tops of the cranked dovetail blocks f,f
but in addition to the dovetail joints described we form on the dovetail blocks f,f,
cast on the ends of the side pieces of the frame, he dovetails y, y for taking into she
dovetails in the corner blocks on the pillars or bedstead ends which corner blocks are
constructed for receiving the said he dovetails y, y. The he dovetails y, y on the
dovetail blocks f₁f are situated near the bottoms of the said blocks so that by
depressing the he-dovetails y, y into the she dovetails in the corner blocks on the
bedstead pillars the independent sacking frame is connected to the said pillars, the
head and foot pieces of the said independent sacking frame when so connected to
the bedstead being situated at a higher level than the bedstead frame to which the
sacking frame is applied.
The improvements described and illustrated are applied to metallic cots, couches
and ships' berths substantially as herein before described and illustrated with respect
to a metallic bedstead.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this Invention and
the manner in which the same is to be performed we declare that we claim as the
said invention of " Improvements in metallic bedsteads, cots, couches and ships'
berths "
First Cranking downwards at right angles or nearly at right angles to the side
tubes or bars of the bedstead or other frame, the dovetail joints cast on the said side

page_text: tubes or bars for the purpose of depressing the sides of the frame below the level of
the head and foot pieces or ends of the said frame substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated in Figures 7 and 9 of the accompanying drawings.
Secondly The construction of the ends of the sacking or mattress and the
appliances for fastening the said sacking or mattress to and adjusting its tension on
the bedstead or other frame, or the independent sacking frame, herein before described
and illustrated in Figures 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7 and 8 of the accompanying Drawings;
that is to say, casting or forming on the head and foot pieces of the sacking frame,
two or more bands the bands at one end of the frame being provided with studs or
buttons having undercut heads for holes in the sacking bar or strap at one end of the
sacking or mattress to engage upon and the bands at the other end of the frame being
provided with cross holes through which tension or adjusting screws are passed the
said screws also engaging with screwed lugs or screw boxes on the sacking bar or
strap at the opposite end of the sacking or mattress, the several parts being constructed
and combined together and operating substantially as described and illustrated.
Thirdly The modification hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figure 9 of the
accompanying Drawings in which the head and foot pieces of the bedstead or other
frame, or independent sacking frame, are provided with headed studs or buttons for
holes in the end bars or straps of the sacking or mattress to engage upon.
Lastly The construction of the corner blocks or dovetail joints of an independent
sacking frame for the purpose and substantially as hereinbefore described and
illustrated in Figures 10, 11 and 12 of the accompanying Drawings.
Dated this Tenth day of June 1887.
ALFRED HENRY GRIFFITHS.
EDGAR SMALLWOOD.