Improvements in Woven Wire or other like Elastic Metallic Mattress Frames or Bed Bottoms.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 16th May, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 16th Feb., 1891-Accepted, 21st Mar., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Woven Wire or other like Elastic Metallic
Mattress Frames or Bed Bottoms.
I, EDWARD ROWCLIFFE BILLINGTON, of 2, Cambridge 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 that kind of mattresses or bed bottoms in which woven
wire or other like web or metallic meshwork of elastic nature is held under tension
in and by a framework; and the object of the invention is to construct such frames
with iron or steel end bars to which the metallic elastic material is secured, and
held, in such a manner that when the mattress is made up, that is completed, it shall
not sway about diagonally or move out of its normal shape, or in other words, it
shall remain, when made up, in a flat and even condition.
Heretofore I am aware mattress frames, of the nature above referred to, have been
constructed with metallic end bars, by which the metallic elastic material is
supported, but so far as I am aware, the objections above named with respect to
the tendency of the mattress to become distorted diagonally has always accompanied
such mattresses.
According to this invention I construct mattress frames or bed bottoms which
have not the above defects as follows:-I employ side bars (preferably of wood);
metallic corner brackets; and metallic end bearer bars. The end bars which may
be of form are rigidly secured to the said brackets by rivets, two or more rivets
being used at each of the two joints to render such joints immovable; whilst the
side bars ship into sockets or recesses in such brackets. Thus it will be seen the
frame may be said to be composed of four separable elements, two of which are
the two end bars with their brackets attached; the other two being simply the two
side bars.
The brackets, by preference, are made of skeleton form, the sockets for the side
bars being below, and the end bars being attached to the upper part thereof. One
pair of course of such brackets, in an adjustable mattress frame, would be provided
with means for the usual adjusting screw or device, whilst the others, when applied
to the ends of said bars, cannot move thereon.
Di. 15th don of Mov 1800
CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON,
15, Water Street, Liverpool, Applicant's Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Woven Wire or other like Elastic Metallic
Mattress Frames or Bed Bottoms.
I, EDWARD ROWCLIFFE BILLINGTON, of 2, Cambridge Street, Liverpool, in
the County of Lancaster, Mattress Manufacturer, 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 that kind of mattresses or bed bottoms in which woven
wire or other like web or metallic meshwork of elastic nature is held under tension
in and by a framework; and the object of the invention is to construct such frames
with iron or steel end bars (to which the metallic elastic material is secured and
held) and wood side bars in such a manner that when the mattress is made up, that
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page_text: is completed, it shall not sway about diagonally or move out of its normal shape, or
in other words, it shall remain, when made up, in a flat and even condition.
Heretofore, I am aware, mattress frames of the nature above referred to, have
been constructed with metallic end bars, by which the elastic metallic material is
supported, but so far as I am aware, the objections above named, with respect to
the tendency of the mattress to become distorted diagonally, have always accom-
panie such mattresses.
According to this invention I construct mattress frames or bed bottoms which
have not the above defects as follows:-I employ side bars of wood; metallic corner
brackets; and metallic end bars rigidly secured to the said brackets by rivets or
like means.
The end bars may be of form, and their rigid connection to the said
brackets may be made by two or more rivets at each of the two joints whereby said
joints are rendered.immovable; whilst the side bars ship into sockets or recesses in
such brackets. Thus it will be seen the frame may be said to be composed of four
separable elements, two of which are the two end bars with their brackets rigidly
attached; the other two being simply the two side bars.
The brackets, by preference, are made of skeleton form, the sockets for the side
bars being below, and the end bars being attached to the upper part thereof. One
pair of course of such brackets, in an adjustable mattress frame, would be provided
with means for the usual adjusting screw or device, whilst the others, when applied
to the ends of said bars, cannot move thereon.
In the drawings which serve to illustrate this invention Figure 1 is a longitudinal
sectional elevation shewing the improved mattress, whilst Figure 2 is a plan of one
end of the mattress.
Referring to the drawings, a designate the end bars; are the brackets; i are
the side bars; and o represents a portion of the metallic springs or meshwork which
is held, i.c. clamped, by the two end bars a under tension in a known way.
The end bars a fit closely in the sockets in the upper part of the brackets a, and
are rivetted in position rigidly to such brackets by two or more rivets, designated, c,
in the drawings. The brackets fit over or outside the wood side bars i. Those at
the right hand end of the mattress in Figure 1 fit onto the ends of the bars i and
constitute the "fixed brackets, whilst those at the other end are the adjustable
ones, sliding on the side bars, the adjustment being effected by the screw bolts d'in
the ordinary way, the outer end of such bolts being supported by the projecting
cleet or snug fixed to the end of the side bars as shewn.
The side bars shewn are of wood, but the invention is not restricted to the precise
form of end bar or of brackets, illustrated, or to the particular means employed in
securing the end bars to them, as any equivalent means may be used to effect the
end, so long as it provides a rigid or immovable connection.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The herein described mattress frame or bed bottom, that is to say, a mattress
frame or bed bottom wherein diagonal or angular distortion does not take place, and
consisting of metallic end bars (which hold the web or meshwork) and corner
brackets rigidly or immovably connected together, and side bars of wood, onto or
into which said brackets fit, and disposed below said end bars; substantially as
set forth and shown for the purposes specified.
CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON,
15, Water Street, Liverpool, Applicant's Patent Agents.