Improvements in Metallic Bedsteads.
Year: 1896

page_text: We, STEPHEN WILKES and STEPHEN HENRY WILKES, both of The Atlas
Bedstead Works, Bilston, in the County of Stafford, Metallic Bedstead Manu-
facturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to those metallic bedsteads in which the two side
and two end angle irons bars or tubes form the frame of the coiled wire or other
spring bed bottom or mattress. Heretofore the said end bars of the said frame
have sprung from the roots of the dovetailed corner chills of the frame where
they meet the corner chills on the pillars of the bedstead ends, so that the said
end bars have been located some little distance within the bedstead ends and
there has therefore been an open space at the foot and another open space at
the head of the bedstead between the said end bars and the bedstead ends, which
spaces have not been covered by the spring bottom thus making the spring
bottom considerably shorter than the distance between the bedstead ends.
According to this invention we locate the said end angle irons bars or tubes
about in a line with the corner pillars of the bedstead by carrying the said end
angle irons bars or tubes by brackets' forming parts of the corner chills. We
are thus enabled to make the spring bed bottom or mattress of the bedstead
considerably longer than heretofore so as to occupy all or nearly all of the
available space between the bedstead ends.
Instead of the said brackets which carry the end angle irons bars or tubes
being cast with the corner chills as above described, these said angle irons bars
or tubes may be carried by wrought iron or other brackets from the side angle
irons bars or tubes as will readily be understood.
Deted this 11th do of Lul 1906
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.
Certain Improvements in Metallic Bedsteads.
We, STEPHEN WILKES and STEPHEN HENRY WILKES, both of The Atlas
Bedstead Works, Bilston, in the County of Stafford, Metallic Bedstead 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 has reference to those metallic bedsteads in which the two sides
and two end angle irons bars or tubes form the frame of the coiled wire or other
spring bed bottom or mattress. Heretofore the said end bars of the said frame
have sprung froin the roots of the dovetailed corner chills of the frame where they
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page_text: meet the corner chills on the pillars of the bedstead ends, so that the said end bars
have been located some little distance within the bedstead ends and there has
heretofore been an open space at the foot and another open space at the head
of the bedstead between the said end bars and the bedstead ends, which spaces
have not been covered by the spring bottom thus making the spring bottom
considerably shorter than the distance between the bedstead ends.
We will describe our invention by referring to the accompanying drawing on
which Fig. 1 is a sectional side elevation of a portion of a metallic bedstead
constructed according to this invention; Fig. 2 is an end view of the same; Fig. 3
is a plan of the same; Fig. 4 is a sectional side elevation Fig. 5 is an end elevation
and Fig. 6 is a plan of a portion of a metallic bedstead illustrating a slightly
modified form of our invention.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all the
figures.
A' A' are the two angle iron sides (or side bars or tubes) of the bedstead; B is
one of the end angle irons (or end bars or tubes) of the bedstead and C¹ C³ are the
two corner pillars.
According to this invention we locate the end angle irons bars or tubes B about
in a line with and between the corner pillars C₁ of the bedstead by carrying
each of the said end angle irons bars or tubes B by two brackets D' D forming
parts of the corner chills d d which are cast with the sides A A2 and which have
the dovetailed tongues f to engage with the usual castings c¹³ on the pillars C C
We are thus enabled to make the spring bed bottom or mattress of the bedstead
considerably longer than heretofore so as to occupy all or nearly all the available
space between the bedstead ends. The said end angle iron B or bar or tube may
either be on a level with the sides A' A' as in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, or be raised a short
distance above the level of the sides A' A' as shewn in Figs. 4, 5 and 6, so as to
raise the level of the spring bed bottom or mattress E. This is accomplished by
making the two side brackets D' D' cranked upwardly to the required height as
shewn in Figs. 4 and 5.
Instead of the brackets D' D' which carry the end angle irons bars or tubes B
being cast with the corner chills d¹ d as above described these angle irons bars or
tubes B may be carried by wrought iron or other brackets separate from the said
angle irons A¹ A or bars or tubes as will readily be understood.
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 metallic bedsteads of the kind in which the two sides and two end angle
irons bars or tubes form the frame of the coiled wire or other spring bed bottom
or mattress, carrying each of the said end angle irons bars or tubes forward
between the corner pillars by two brackets such as D1 D2 forming parts of the
dovetailed corner chills which are cast with the bedstead sides substantially as
herein before described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
2. The improvements in metallic bedsteads herein before described with reference
to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 15th day of April 1897.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.