Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Sept., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 28th June, 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 3rd Aug., 1888
I, EDWARD ROWCLIFFE BILLINGTON, of 13 Hope Street, Liverpool, in the County
of Lancaster, Mattress Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my said invention
to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the construction of articles for holding infants, namely
perambulators and bassinettes, or cots and has chiefly for its object to provide
means for giving the bodies of articles of this type used by infants elasticity and
pliability.
To this end the body of the bassinette, cot, or perambulator is made of a woven
wire material consisting preferably of interwoven spiral wires or springs having a
rigid rim to which the woven wire material is secured and held. The body so made
may be fashioned to any configuration that may be required.
Å body constructed as above stated may be mounted, or supported either upon a
carriage, or a frame in any convenient way and so adapted to serve as a perambulator
or a bassinette, or cot.
The woven wire material may be used, or arranged in the body of the article to
which it is to be applied in such a way that the line of its greatest degree of elasticity,
or stretch lies in the direction of the length of the body, or it may lie conversely
with the above, or diagonally thereto; but by preference I arrange it so that the
greatest degree of stretch, or elasticity lies from side to side.
If found desirable there may be provided with the body stiffening bars, or strips
for the purpose of limiting the degree of pliability, or elasticity.
Dated th: 27th day of Santamber 1007

page_text: I, EDWARD ROWCLIFFE BILLINGTON, of 13 Hope Street, Liverpool, in the County
of Lancaster, Mattress Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my 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 relates to the construction- of articles for holding infants, namely
perambulators and bassinettes, or cots, and has chiefly for its object to provide
means for giving the bodies of articles of this type used by infants elasticity and
pliability.
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To this end the body of the bassinette, cot, or perambulator is made of a woven
wire material consisting preferably of interwoven spiral wires or springs having
rigid rim to which the woven wire material is secured and held. The body so made
may be fashioned to any configuration that may be required.
A body constructed as above stated may be mounted, or supported either upon a
carriage, or a frame in any convenient way, and so adapted to serve as a perambulator
or a bassinette, or cot.
The woven wire material may be used, or arranged in the body of the article to
which it is to be applied in such a way, that the line of its greatest degree of elasticity
or stretch, lies in the direction of the length of the body, or it may lie conversely
with the above, or diagonally thereto; but by preference I arrange it so that the
greatest degree of stretch or elasticity lies from side to side.
If found desirable there may be provided with the body stiffening bars or straps
for the purpose of limiting the degree of pliability, or elasticity.
In the drawings which serve to illustrate my invention, Figure 1 is an elevation
and Figure 2 an end view of a bassinette; and Figures 3 and 4. are respectively
elevation and end view of a perambulator, and Figure 5 illustrates a cross section of
the rim.
Referring to the drawings, A designates the body of the bassinette and perambulator,
and B is the rigid rim to which the body is attached, and by which it is held. The
bassinette body is suspended from the frame h by bars d, which are secured to the
rim B, whilst the perambulator body is suspended by bars d to the C springs e of its
-frame.
The kind of woven wire material which I prefer to employ, as already stated, is that
which is most commonly employed for mattresses, usually. termed "
woven wire
mattresses,” the wires forming the material being spiral wires whose convolutions
engage with or are woven into the convolutions of the adjacent wire or wires.
I have hereinbefore stated that I prefer to arrange the material so that the line of
greatest degree of stretch or elasticity lies from side to side; that is to say, the axes
of the spiral wires forming the material run transversely to the direction of the
length of the bassinette or perambulator; the reason I prefer this method of construc-
tion is, mainly, because I find the formation of the body, if made in one uncut piece,

page_text: can more easily and effectively be fashioned to the desired.contour : As an instance
of a facility so afforded; I will describe the effect of this arrangement with relation to
the gathering in of the material at those parts where less area is required. In the
formation of body shown in the drawings the greatest width of material will lie over
the surface from end to end of the parabola-shaped body, consequently at this point
the axes of the spirals will lie farthest apart, whilst at all parts of the surface, other.
than along this line, the spirals will radiate in the direction indicated by the shading
lines of the drawing, and consequently an accumulation of wires will occur at the
rim, and gathering in of material will have to take place at that point, and the arrange-
ment of the wire in the way described renders such gathering in of the metal easier
and more readily done than if arranged in any other way.
The edges of the spirals are secured to the rim B in the manner shown in Figure 5,
wherein is a split tube, and 2 is a wire round which the ends or edges of the wire
spirals are lapped, and to which they are bound by wire in any known way. The
wire 62 is connected to the edges of the wire spirals first, and then is inserted into the
tube b', which is previously opened out sufficiently to receive it, then pressed to, until
its edges take the position shown in the figure.
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
1. A perambulator or bassinette body composed mainly of woven wire material,
substantially as described.
2. A perambulator or bassinette body, composed mainly of woven wire material,
constructed of interwoven spiral wires, such wires having their axes arranged trans-
versely to the direction of the length of the body, and having its edges secured to a
rim B, substantially as set forth.
3. The perambulator or bassinette body A, constructed of woven wire, and provided
with a rim B having supporting bars or straps d connected thereto as set forth with
reference to the drawings hereto annexed.
4. The means substantially as set forth with reference to figure 5 by which the
woven wire material forming the body A is held by and secured to the rim B.
Dated this 27th day of June 1888.
EDWARD ROWCLIFFE BILLINGTON.
By Cheesbrough & Royston,
15, Water Street, Liverpool.
Patent Agents.