Improvements in Attachments for Distensible Mattresses and Sackings.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Attachments for Distensible Mattresses and
Sackings.
1, BERNARD RICHARD PEYTON, Managing Director, of Peyton and Peyton
Limited, of Bordesley Works, in the City of Birmingham; Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows;-
This invention relates to connecting and tensioning attachments for distensible
mattresses and woven wire or other metallic sackings for seats, bed bottoms and
other similar purposes.
i
Usually woven wire mattresses of that type in which in the ends are provided
with reinforcing rods or wires by which they are suspended, through the medium
of hooks, rings, cleats or like expedients, from the ends of the mattress frame are
apt to camber or drag out in the middle owing to the said reinforcing wires being
unsupported at that part, unless they are tied throughout their whole lengths.
The object of this invention is to provide means for drawing in the middle parts
of the reinforcing end or tie bars, and this I propose to effect by the employment
of tensioning devices combined with hooks or equivalent connections.
One form of my improved attachment consists of a headed screw 'bolt, the
wormed fore part of which takes through a screwed 'eye of an upwardly cranked-
arm carrying a hook which comes in the same vertical plain as the fore end of the
bolt or pin. Two or more of these bolts are passed through holes in the vertical
webs of the end angle bars of a mattress framing and then through the screwed
eyes of the hook connections, whose hooks are made to engage either with the
wires or rods passing through the fabric, or with the fabric itself, or with rein-
forcing or thickened edges or end parts of the same. As the screw is turned in
either one direction or other, the screwed eye of the hook through which the said
screw passes, is traversed either forwardly or backwardly, and the mesh or sacking
is slackened or tensioned accordingly.
As a modification, portions of the tie rods or reinforcing wires may be bent
into loops which are internally screwed for the wormed ends of the bolts or pins
to pass through, or the wormed loops or screw boxes may be separately formed
and attached to the tie wires by cleats, clips, or equivalent expedients.
Dated this 11th day of March 1898.

page_text: declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention relates to connecting attachments for distensible mattresses and
woven-wire or other metallic sackings for seats, bed bottoms and other similar
purposes, and particularly to woven-wire mattresses of that type in which the ends
are provided with reinforcing rods or wires by which they are suspended through
the medium of suitable connection attachments from the ends of a mattress or
bedstead frame.
The present invention has for its object, to provide improved attachments_com-
bining means for both connecting the mattress sacking to the frame and also
tensioning it.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a topside plan of a bed-
bottom or mattress in which the reinforcing end rods of the mesh are connected
to the framing and restrained or tied in by means in accordance with one form of
my invention.
Figure 2 represents, upon an enlarged scale, a corner part of Figure 1.
Figure 3 is a cross section of Figure 2 upon the dotted line, and upon a still
further enlarged scale.
Figure 4 is an elevation of a portion of the end member of the mattress frame.
Figure 5 represents a plan of the hooked part of the improved connecting and
tensioning device.
Figure 6 is a section thereof, taken through the screwed eye, and Figure 7 is an
end elevation.
Figure 8 shows an elevation of the tensioning screw employed with the hook
part.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the said
Figures 1 to 8.
This form of my improved attachment or connection consists of two primary
parts, viz., a headed tension screw a, and a double hooked frame b, provided with
an internally wormed eye or loop bl. The said screw, of which any suitable num-
ber may be employed, is passed through a plain hole c¹, in the vertical, web ²,
of the end rail c³, comprising a portion of the mattress frame e, with its head a'.
taking an abutment or bearing against the outer face of the said web whilst its
inner and screwed end a², takes through the wormed eye b¹, disposed at the middle
of the end 62, of the hooked connection b, which is fashioned from wire, with the
hooked terminations 63, thereof engaging over the end or reinforcing wires d',
of the mattress or body mesh d.
In operation, the attachment of the mattress to the end of the framing is effected
by the employment of a series of such connections, preferably arranged as repre-
sented in Figure 1, and in order to tension or slacken the sacking or fabric, the
screws are turned in one direction or the other whereupon the screwed eyes of
the U-shaped hooked connections are traversed either backwardly or inwardly
and the end wires of the mesh are accordingly either drawn closer to the end
angle iron or allowed to move away therefrom.
Figure 9 represents another form of connection in accordance with my invention.
Figure 10 is a cross section of Figure 9 upon the dotted lines ¹.
Figure 11 represents an edge view and front elevation of one of the screw-eyed
and hooked connections employed in the arrangement.
In this arrangement Figures 9, 10 and 11, a is the headed screw pin or bolt,
the wormed fore part a², of which takes through a screwed eye, of an upwardly
cranked arm 62, carrying a hook 63, which comes in the same vertical plane as the
fore end of the bolt or pin. A series of such bolts are passed through plain
holes c', in the vertical webs c³, of the end angle bars c³, of a mattress framing c,
and then through the screwed eyes b¹, of the hook connections b, whose hooks may
be made to engage either with the wires or rods d', passing through the fabric d,

page_text: or with the fabric itself, or with reinforcing or thickened edges or parts of the
same.
Figure 12 represents an elevation and Figure 13 a cross section on the dotted
line, of a modification of this last form, in which the hook connections b, instead
of being fashioned from twisted wire, are made in a solid piece, either by casting
or stamping, with the inside screwed hole 6¹, made through a flat part b², from the
top edge of which the hook b³, proceeds.
Figure 14 represents an elevation and Figure 15 a cross section on a³, Figure 14
of another modification. In this arrangement a headed screw pin a, passes through
the angle iron c, and its inner end takes through the screwed eye b1, of the con-
nection fitting b, but instead of the latter being provided with a hook or hooks as
in the previous forms, it is secured to the end rod d', of the sacking d, by coiling
the end parts of the wire length from which the fitting is fashioned, into plain
eyes or loops b³, disposed at right angles to the plane of the screwed eye b¹, and
through which the said wire d¹, is passed.
Figure 16 is an elevation and Figure 17 a sectional view upon the dotted lines at,
representing another form of my invention, according to which portions of the tie
rods or reinforcing wires d', are fashioned or bent into integral loops b¹, which are
internally screwed for the wormed ends of the bolts or pins to pass through, or
these wormed loops or screw boxes may be separately formed and attached to the
tie wires by cleats, clips, or equivalent expedients.
Figure 18 is an elevation and Figure 19 a section upon the dotted lines a, of
a variation of this last part of my invention. In this form, the screwed eyes or
holes b, are formed through flattened parts d², of the tie rods d, instead of pro-
ducing the said eyes by bending the wire. These said integral eyes may also be
produced by slitting portions of the tie wires at intermediate points such as repre-
sented at, Figure 20 and then opening out the said slit parts by suitable tools
into the eyed form represented by the dotted lines, in the said figure.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
First: A combined connection and tensioning attachment for distensible
mattresses and sackings, consisting of a hooked and screw-eyed element, the hooks
of which engage with the mesh or with the end cross wire of a mesh, and a headed
screw pin, passing through a framing member of a mattress or the like and taking
into the wormed eye of the hooked part, substantially as described and set forth
in Figures 1 to 13.
Secondly: A combined connection and tensioning attachment for distensible
mattresses and sackings, consisting of a screwed eye or loop attached to, or formed
out of, or within, the end cross wire of the mesh, and a headed screw pin, passing
through a framing member of a mattress or the like, and taking into the said
wormed eye or loop, substantially as described and set forth in Figures 14 to 20.
Dated this 4th day of November 1898.
BERNARD RICHARD PEYTON,
By Henry Skerrett,
24, Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.