Improvements in Distensible o: Woven Wire Mattresses and Bed-bottoms, Sackings, and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Feb.,
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1000
Complete Specification Left, 26th Nov.. 1894-Accepted, 29th Dec.,
1894
DOLO
1034
Complete Specification Left, 26th Nov.. 1894-Accepted, 29th Dec., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Distensible o: Woven Wire Mattresses and
Bed-bottoms, Sackings, and the like.
We, WILLIAM PARISH HOSKINS and WILLIAM MARRIAN HOSKINS, both
of Upper Trinity Street, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturers, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to distensible and resilient woven wire mattresses, bed
bottoms, sackings and the like, and has for its object, the prevention of sagging
in the middle or at both ends and middle, or at intermediate points in the sacking
or bed bottom.
Mattresses as now constructed, after use, become in parts disorganized in their
constitution, that is, portions of the sacking become relaxed in tension, hence a
tendency of the same to sag at those parts where the greatest strain comes. The
result is that in consequence of this defect, users roll towards the middle of the
mattress, which, in the case of a double bed, is undesirable when the same is
occupied by two persons.
By our invention, the mattress or sacking, as hereinafter described, is endowed
with properties which obviate the defect or defects hereinbefore referred to, and
this we accomplish by making up the mattress or sacking of a series of three or
more distensible and resilient longitudinal sections, of which the middle section. or
both the middle and end stripe, sections are under greater tension than the inter-
mediate or both end and intermediate stripe sections.
Thus, in carrying out one form of our invention, we take an ordinary frame
with fixed and tensioning ends connected by sides, and we distend between the
said ends, three stripe sections of distensible and resilient woven wire fabric'two
of which form body sections and comprehend nearly half the breadth of the
frame, and between these body sections is a narrower and middle stripe section
made either of the same sacking as the body sections or of a dissimilar and
stronger material.
Thus the body sections are made of one material and are endowed with the
usual tension or stretched from end to end to a medium degree of taut, whilst
the middle stripe section is under greater tension and before being stretched and
connected to the frame, the same is preferably of less length than the body
sections.
The sacking is thus made up of three parts, with the body sections under less
restraint or distended to a less degree than the middle one.
These stripe sections may be connected to each other by lacings or their
equivalents either crossed or otherwise, and the said sections may be brought with
their opposed edges at short distances apart, or they may be brought up contiguous
or nearly so with each other.
According to a further form of our invention, instead of making up a mattress
of three stripe sections, as described, we may make the same up of five stripes,
iz., two broad or body stripes of distensible and resilient woven wire fabric and
hree intermediate narrow sections under greater tension than these body stripes
nd made either of the same sacking as the said body stripes or of a dissimilar
and stronger material.

page_text: One of these tight-tensioned stripes is placed in the middle of the mattress and
between the body sections, whilst the other two are disposed one upon either side
of the bed bottom or upon the opposite outside edges of the said body stripes.
The adjacent edges of the said sections may be brought up contiguous to one
another or there may be a short distance between them, and the whole of the
said stripes may be connected together by cross or other lacings or connections.
Or according to a further form of our invention, a mattress or bed-bottom is
made up of any number of broad and narrow section stripes arranged alternately,
with the narrow and tight-drawn or highly-tensioned stripes coming between the
broad body sections and connected thereto by lacings as described.
When the broad body sections and the tight-drawn and narrower stripes are
made of different sackings or from different fabrics, we prefer that the latter
stripes should be made of a stouter or stronger mesh than the former, that is that
they may be made of a sacking having large coils or formed from stout wire.
We propose that the lacings which connect the body sections to the taut or
tightly distended sections of the mattress should not be drawn up tight, thereby
allowing each of the said broad and loosely distended sections to sag or give
to the weight of a person lying thereon, and by the sagging only of the parts
of a mattress lain upon and also by the tensioned stripes intervening between the
broader ones, the occupant or occupants of a double bed are provided from rolling
towards the middle.
Instead of the lacings passing through the mesh at the respective edges of the
stripes, the same may be passed through eyes or rings carried by the said edges,
and instead of the presented edges of the stripes being united by loose or other
lacings the said edges may be united by metallic cleats, or metallic branched
connections.
The lacings are preferably made of hemp or cord or of textile material.
It is understood that the tension bar of the end bars carrying the mattress is
an addition to the framing bar at that end, and the tensioning of the mattress as a
whole is bodily performed by screws passing through the said tension bar and
through the fixed end bar carrying it.
Dated this 22nd day of Wahrany 1001
WILLIAM PARISH HOSKINS,
WILLIAM MARRIAN HOSKINS,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Distensible or Woven Wire Mattresses and
Bed-bottoms, Sackings, and the like.
We, WILLIAM PARISH HOSKINS and WILLIAM MARRIAN HOSKINS, both
of Upper Trinity Street, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturers, 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 distensible and resilient woven wire mattresses, bed-
bottoms, sackings and the like, and has for its object, the prevention of sagging
in the middle or at both sides and middle, or at intermediate points in the sacking
or bed bottom.
Mattresses as now constructed, after use, become in parts disorganized in their
constitution or distorted in figure, that is, portions of the sacking become relaxed

page_text: in tension, and lose their spring qualities, hence a tendency of the same to sag
at those parts where the greatest strain comes. The result is that in consequence
of this defect, occupiers of beds are apt to roll towards the sagged parts of the
mattress, which, in the case of a double bed, is undesirable, especially when the
same is occupied by two persons.
By our invention, the mattress or sacking, as hereinafter described, is endowed
with properties which obviate the defect or defects herein before referred to, and
this we accomplish by making up the mattress or sacking of a series of three or
more distensible and resilient longitudinal strips or sections, of which the middle
section, or both the middle and side stripe sections, are under greater tension
than the intermediate, or both side and intermediate stripe sections.
Thus, in carrying out one form of our invention, we take an ordinary frame,
with fixed and tensioning ends connected by sides, and we distend between the
said ends, three stripe sections of distensible and resilient woven wire fabric, two
of which form body sections and comprehend nearly half the breadth of the
frame, and between these body sections is a narrower and middle stripe section,
nade either of the same sacking as the body sections or of a dissimilar and
stronger material.
Thus the body sections are made of one material, and are endowed with the
usual tension, or stretched from end to end to a medium degree of taut, whilst
the middle stripe section is under greater tension and before being stretched and
connected to the frame, the same is preferably of less length than the body
sections.
Thus the sacking may be made up of three parts, with the body sections under
less restraint, or distended to a less degree than the middle one.
These stripe sections may be connected to each other by lacings or their
equivalents, either crossed or otherwise, and the said sections may be brought
with their opposed edges at short distances apart, or they may be brought up
contiguous or nearly so with each other.
According to a further form of our invention, instead of making up a mattress
of three stripe sections, as described, we may make the same up of five
stripes, viz. two broad or body stripes of distensible and resilient woven wire
fabric, and three intermediate narrow sections under greater tension than these
body stripes, and made either of the same sacking as the said body stripes, or of a
dissimilar and stronger material.
One of these tight-tensioned stripes is placed in the middle of the mattress
and between the body sections, whilst the other two are disposed one upon either
side of the bed bottom, or upon the opposite outside edges of the said body
stripes. The adjacent edges of the said sections may be brought up contiguous
to one another, or there may be a short distance between them, and the whole of
the said stripes are connected together by cross or other lacings.
Or according to a further form of our invention, a mattress or bed-bottom is
made up of any number of broad and narrow section stripes arranged alternately,
with the narrow and tight-drawn or highly-tensioned stripes coming between the
broad body sections and connected thereto by lacings as described.
When the broad body sections and the tight-drawn and narrower stripes are
made of different sackings or from different fabrics, we prefer that the latter
stripes should be made of a stouter or stronger mesh than the former, that is,
they may be made of a sacking having large coils or formed from stouter wire.
The lacings which connect the body sections to the taut or tightly distended
sections of the mattress may not be drawn up tight, thereby allowing each of the
said broad and loosely distended sections to sag or give to the weight of a person
lying thereon, and by the sagging only of the parts of a mattress lain upon, and
also by the tensioned stripes intervening between the broader ones, the occupant
or occupants of a double bed are prevented from rolling towards the middle or
parts of the sacking.
Instead of the lacings passing through the mesh at the respective edges of the

page_text: stripes, the same may be passed through eyes or rings carried by the said edges,
and instead of the presented edges of the stripes being united by loose or
other lacings the said edges may be united by metallic cleats, or metallic
branched connections.
It is understood that the tension bar of the end bars carrying the mattress is
an addition to the framing bar at that end, and the tensioning of the mattress as
a whole is bodily performed by screws passing through the said tension bar and
through the fixed end bar carrying it.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a bed bottom or sacking
frame, provided with a distensible and resilient sacking made in accordance with
one form of our invention. The said sacking is made up of a series of side-by-
side and separated sectional lengths stripes or broad stripes, united one to another
at the edges by lacings, and with the middle stripe, or both the middle and outer
stripes, drawn tighter, or having greater tension imparted to it or them, than the
intermediate ones.
Figure 2 represents a portion of the sacking Figure 1 upon an enlarged scale,
showing the lacing cords, crossing each other and passed alternately through
rings passed or threaded around the edging strands of the sections or stripes.
Figure 3 is a cross section of the said sacking upon the dotted lines x-x
Figure 2.
a, a', a² are stripes or sectional lengths of distensible and resilient woven wire
fabric, with the middle section a, preferably drawn up to a greater tension than
the other sections, although the end sections may be drawn up to the same
or a like tension as the middle one, which sections or stripes or strips, which are
separated from each other by intervening spaces, are connected or united together
by metallic or textile lacings b, crossing each other, and passing through rings or
eyes c, threaded upon the strands or thickened edgings at, of the sections or
strips a, a', a².
We wish it to be understood that we do not confine ourselves to the number
of stripes or sections employed, nor to the disposition or location of the tensioned
sections, as these may be varied without departing from the nature of our
invention. Further we do not confine ourselves to the particular forms of lacings,
nor to the means of connecting the side-by-side stripes together, as will be
hereinafter shown.
Figure 4 represents another form of tying the. strips together by lacing. In
this arrangement the metallic or other cords b, are threaded directly through the
strands a, at the opposed edgings of the two adjacent stripes or sections.
Figure 5 is a transverse section of the same through the dotted lines x-x
Figure 4.
Figure 6 represents a further form of lacing for connecting the side-by-side
stripes or sections together, in which a, a¹, are stripes, with their selvage or
strand edgings a*, connected together by double lacing cords b, b, (which may be
metallic or otherwise) threaded through rings or eyes c, c', which both tie the
lacings together and to the strand edgings of the stripes respectively, so that
the cords in this form run in the same longitudinal direction, but without crossing
one another.
Figure 7 represents a like form of metallic lacing as Figure 6, but without the
employment of connecting or tying rings, that is, the material of the cords,
bands or lacings are made to infibulate or connect each other together, and
also the contiguous strips, separated by intervening spaces, by the said lacings
passing through the helices of the edgings of the said strips.
a, a', are strips of fabric, with edgings at, connected together by lacings b,
infibulated one with another at 6', and connected to or threaded through the
edgings by loopings b³.
Figure 8 represents a further modified form of our invention, in which the
edges of the strips or bands composing the body fabric are connected together
by metallic cleat connectings in the form of spiral springs.

page_text: a, a' are strips of metallic body fabric, a are the edgings and bare metallic
cleats, secured to the edgings a', by wrappings or loops b³.
Instead of the sections or stripes being made of woven wire, they may be made
up of chain or other like distensible sacking lengths.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said.
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
First. Forming or making-up metallic sackings, or woven wire metallic
sackings, or bed-bottoms, of or from a series of stripes or longitudinal sections
of wire fabric or distensible metallic sackings, united together by lacings,
metallic cleats or metallic connections, substantially as described and set forth.
Secondly. Forming or making up metallic sackings, or woven wire metallic
Backings, or bed bottoms, of or from a series of stripes or longitudinal sections of
wire fabric or distensible metallic sacking, tensioned to varying degrees of taut,
substantially as and for the purpose as described and set forth.
Thirdly. The improvements in the body meshes of woven wire or distensible
metallic sackings, substantially as described and set forth.
Dated this 24th day of November 1894.
WILLIAM PARISH HOSKINS,
WILLIAM MARRIAN HOSKINS,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicants.