Improvements Pertaining to the Attachment of Woven Wire Mattresses to Metallic Bedstead and Cot Framings.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Mar., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 28th Dec., 1899-Accepted, 3rd Feb., 1900
Improvements Pertaining to the Attachment of Woven Wire
Mattresses to Metallic Bedstead and Cot Framings.
We, HOYLAND AND SMITH LIMITED, Bedstead Manufacturers, and Jonn
WILLIAM HOYLAND, Bedstead Manufacturer, both of Soho Works, Western
Road, Spring Hill, in the City of Birmingham, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:
This invention pertains to the attachment of woven wire mattresses to the
framings of metallic bedsteads and cots, and consists in the improvements
hereinafter described for uniting, binding or tying together the terminations
of the longitudinal helixes or strands of wire of which the said mattresses are
formed, and for the connection of them bodily, so as to be easily attached and
detached, to and from the head and foot ends of the tubular or angle-iron main
framing.
In carrying the invention to effect, the ends (not the sides) of a woven wire
mattress length are each flattened or hammered down for a short distance and
are wrapped around, or rolled upon, a rod or bar length, preferably of a circular
section, of the entire width of the mattress and of about or an inch in
diameter, the wrapping or rolling on being at least once completely round the
rods. The latter are then ench encased in an open tube of the same section
as the rod and of the same length, which is slipped on endwise to enclose also
the mattress wrappings, and these tubes are then if it is found necessary closed
tightly over and around the said rods and wrappings so as to clip tight, the
open joint of the tube admitting of the passage of the ends of the strands of
which the mattress is composed. The said open tubes can be so slipped on from
the ends as not to require any after closing, but if it should be that they require
closing they can be either closed by hand tools or under a press.
Hooks of stout wire are then placed around the said tubes so as to for the
most part embrace them, especially at the point where they are open, and the
other ends of these hooks are so formed as to engage the tubular or angle-
sectioned frame bars upon the head and foot ends of a bedstead. In a somewhat
similar way clips or clamps can embrace the tubular mountings to the mattress
ends and be connected to the frame bars.
Such a method of uniting the cut-off ends of a woven wire mattress and con-
necting them to the head and foot ends of a bedstead is extremely cheap.
simple and effective and is distinctly applicable to a bedstead whose main
framing is a fixture.

page_text: Improvements Pertaining to the Attachment of Woven Wire
Mattresses to Metallic Bedstead and Cot Framings.
We, HOYLAND AND SMITH LIMITED, Bedstead Manufacturers, and Joy
WILLIAM HOYLAND, Bedstead Manufacturer, both of Soho Works, Western
Road, Spring Hill, in the City of Birmingham, 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 pertains to the attachment of woven wire mattresses to the
framings of metallic bedsteads and cots, and consists in the improvements
hereinafter described for uniting, binding or tying together the terminations
of the longitudinal helixes or spiral strands of wire of which said mattresses
are formed, and for the connection of them bodily so as to be easily attached
and detached to and from the head and foot ends of the tubular or angle-iron
main framing of a hedstead or cot.
In Fig. 1 of the accompanying sheet of drawings a perspective view shows
in diagram a woven wire mattress with the invention applied or carried out at
its ends, whilst in Fig. 2, on an enlarged scale, a longitudinal section of one
of the said ends is shown.
In the application of the invention the ends a², a³, of a woven wire mattress
length, a, are flattened or hammered down for a short distance as shown by
the diagram Fig. 3. These flattened down ends are then wrapped around or
rolled upon a rod or bar length, e, preferably of a circular section as shown,
running the entire width or breadth of the mattress. This rod or bar length
is about of an inch or an inch in diameter, and the wrapping or the rolling
of the mattress ends upon them are at least once completely round the said
rods. In Fig. 2 the wrapping is nearly twice round the rod. but in Fig. 4 it
is wrapped round the rod once only. The said rods are then each encased in
an open tube of the same cross-sectional figure as the rods and of the same
length, which is slipped on each rod endwise, or from the end, to enclose or
encircle also the mattress wrappings. These open tubes are then tightly closed
over and around the said rods and wrappings so as to clip tight the latter
between the rods and themselves, the open joint of the tubes admitting the pas-
sage of the smashed down ends of the strands of which the mattress is composed.
The open tubes can be so slipped on to the rods and wrappings from the
ends as not to require any after closing, but if it should be that they require
closing this can be either done by hand tools or under a press
Fig. 5 shows a method of attaching a mattress end, united as in Fig. 2. to an
angle iron frame bar of a bedstead. Hooks g of stout wire pass at one end q³
round the open tube d so as to for the most part embrace it, especially at the
point where it is open, and the other ends of these hooks are formed to engage
holes in the angled sectioned frame har h forming part of either the head or
foot end of a bedstead. The hook ends g pass through the open work part of
the woven wire mesh.
In a somewhat similar way as shown in Fig. 5, clips or clamps can be made
to embrace the tube d and be connected to the bedstead frame bar.
Such a method of uniting and tring-up the cut off ends of a woven wire
mattress. for their connection to the head and foot ends of a bedstead. is extremely
cheap, simple and effective, as also is the method shown in Fig. 5 of connecting
the said united or tred ends to an angle framing, especially having regard to
a bedstead whose main framing is a fixture with the posts or pillars,

page_text: 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. In woven wire mattresses, uniting and binding or tying together the
ends or terminations of the longitudinal helixes or strands, in the manner
described and set forth.
Second. The method herein described for uniting and binding or tying together
the ends of a woven wire mattress, and the devices set forth in Fig. 5 for
attaching the said united and bound ends to one of the members of the main
framing of a bedstead or cot.
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W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
11, Burlington Chambers, New Street, Birmingham,
Patent Agents for the Applicant.