An Improvement in Spring Mattresses.
Year: 1897

page_text: An Improvement in Spring Mattresses.
I, TOM MELLOR, of 1, Chapel Street, Glossop, in the County of Derby, Joiner;
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to the construction of metal framed wire woven spring
mattresses for which Letters Patent No. 16,386 of A.D. 1896, were granted to me
and the object of this invention is to render such mattresses applicable directly
to the ends of the bed and thus to dispense with the use of the side bars upon which
my spring mattresses have hitherto been placed.
By this means, without raising the ordinary height of the woven wire work
above the floor I can gain about five or six inches of clear space at the sides for
cleaning beneath the bed, besides rendering the bed lighter, to move or transport.
I provide each of the corner sockets which are fixed to the end rails of the
mattress frame with a taper plug similar to that at each end of the sides of the
bed, corresponding with the sockets at each side of the ends of the bed, the said
plug being made or fitted preferably at the bottom of the leg or foot of the corner
socket.
Thus the mattress itself is supported by the ends of the bed and rests some few
inches above the sockets on the ends of the bed, and as the side bars of the bed
are dispensed with, the space between the mattress frame and the floor at the
bed sides is quite clear, the loose tubular side stays of the mattress frame serving
also as the side bars of the bed.
Dated this 29th day of December 1897.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
Agents for the Applicant,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.
An Improvement in Spring Mattresses.
I, TOM MELLOR, of 1, Chapel Street, Glossop, in the County of Derby, Joiner,
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 the construction of metal framed wire woven spring
mattresses for which Letters Patent No. 16,386 of A.1). 1896, were granted to me,
and the object of this invention is to render such mattresses applicable directly

page_text: to the ends of the bed and thus to dispense with the use of the side bars upon which
my spring mattresses have hitherto been placed.
By this means, without raising the ordinary height of the woven wire work
above the floor I can gain about five or six inches of clear space at the sides for
cleaning beneath the bed, besides rendering the bed lighter, to move or transport.
The invention consists in modifying the corner sockets which are fitted to the
end rails of the of the mattress frame as described in the Specification above
referred to and substantially as illustrated by Figs. 1 and 2 on the annexed
drawings which shew one corner socket in elevation and plan made according to
my present invention.
I provide each of the said corner sockets a which are fixed to the end rails d
of the mattress frame with a taper plug a similar to that at present formed at
each end of the sides of the bed, corresponding with the sockets at each side of the
ends of the bed, the said plug a¹ being made or fitted preferably at the bottom
of the corner socket a, as shewn at Figs. 1 and 2, on the annexed drawings.
Thus the mattress c itself is supported by the ends 6 of the bed and rests some
few inches above the sockets b¹ on the ends of the bed, and as the side bars of the
bed are dispensed with, the space between the mattress frame and the floor at the
bed sides is quite clear, the loose tubular side stays d of the mattress frame serving
also as the side bars of the bed.
And in order to hold these stays d quite firmly in place I prefer to provide a
taper peg or cotter dat each end thereof passing through both the socket a and
the tube or stay d.
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;-
The combination with each socket a of the feet provided with a conical plug a¹
fitting in a socket 1 at the end of the bed substantially as and for the purposes
herein before described.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
Agents for the Applicant, 4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.