Improvements
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 18th May, 1887.
Specification Accepted, 17th June, 1887.
Improvements Desta S
I THOMAS EDMUND WALE of the Firm of T. E. Wale & Son, of Coventry Road
Small Heath in the County of Warwick, Wholesale Manufacturers of Wire Mattresses,
Bedding etc. do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:-
My invention has for its object improvements in bedstead bottoms whether the
sides are a part of the bedstead or of the mattress by which the greater stability is
obtained in parts which have hitherto been weak and they are at the same time less
complicated and easily adjusted in the various parts which are under strain while
the elasticity in any particular portion of the bottom is secured with additional
strength.
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In order that my invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried into
practice I have appended hereunto three sheets of drawings upon which are illustrated
the various improvements and from which other applications may be easily made.
Figure 1 is a general view of the head and foot of a bedstead with the bottom broken
through the centre showing my improvements applied thereto, each half of the
mattress or bed bottom illustrating a different shaped web.
Figures 2 show various modes of forming the longitudinal supports of bedstead
bottoms.
Figure 3 is a view of the plate hook J¹ detached from the plate of the mattress or
sacking.
Figure 4 is a section through the terminal ends of the mattress when of wood
shewing the clip for attaching to an ordinary bedstead pillar.
Figure 5 is a similar section to Figure 4 but showing the clip for a transverse bar.
Figure 6 is a view of part of a bottom or mattress mounted upon socket castings.
Figure 7 is a section through the terminal end A.
Figure 8 is a section through the terminal end B showing method of tightening
and adjusting the bedstead bottom or mattress.
Figure 9 is a sectional elevation of same on line 1. 2.
Figures 10 and 11 show various sections which may be used for the terminal
ends A and B.

page_text: Figure 12 shows an arrangement of wire to form web bottoms.
Figure 13 shows another arrangement for same.
Figures 14 and 15 are sections of same.
I substitute for the present angle iron sides and ends the Ushaped section C.
Figure 1 which may however be oval as shewn at P Figure 2 and which would be
equally applicable whether the bottom is fast or removeable such as in the case of a
matress as shown at Figure 6 or any of the sections shown by Figure 2 or modifi-
cations thereof may be attached to the bedsteads in the ordinary manner.
There are five sections shown at Figure 2 viz. P the oval, Q the plain plate bent
into the U shape which may however be made thicker at the crown if necessary or
the edges may have an external bend as shown by S or internal ones as shown by T
or a thin plate may be bent or drawn as Ŕ with external or internal curled
edges r³, r².
The sacking or bed bottom is formed as shewn in Figure 12 by the curved corner
shaped pieces of wire D. D. D connected together in rows each single wire having a
hook at each end which is attached to the two wires of the next row." The whole
being hooked or connected together and terminating if necessary in one or more rows
of springs or chains E. E. E. either at one or both ends or a row in the centre. The
sides of the wires D may be connected together transversely as shown by the dotted
lines d¹ d¹.
The covering or sacking may also be formed with lengths of wire in a curved or
serpentine form as shown by F F F in Figure 13 running transversely, the ends
either returning back or cut off and fastened as shown and each row connected
together by the springs chains, or wires G G G. These curves or corrugations give
very free elasticity to the bottom whether fast to the bedsteads or as a separate
mattress.
These webs are applicable to any other articles of a similar nature.
The extreme ends are bolted between the two pieces of wood h¹ and h² as shewn in
Figure 15 but they may be hooked into a cross bar of wood or iron forming part of
bedstead or mattress.
In using these bottoms or bedsteads or ends not specially made for them one end is
attached to the pillars of bedstead by a hooked bolt and nut as shewn by J Figure 4
in which the hook clips the pillar and the other end is passed through a round or
preferably an oblong hole and screwed nut to allow for adjustment in the wood J¹ to
which the mesh or sacking X is attached the other end being held to the bedstead by
the usual clips and tension bolts.
In case of iron clamps or plates forming the terminal ends as shewn by Z¹ Figure 1
the plate hook J Figure 3 is bolted or rivetted on to the iron clamp Z or I may
pass the end through the blank nut 2 Figure 5 which is rivetted on the plate or
tubes Z¹.
The bolts and plates are applicable to woven wire or any other suitable mattress.
The socket castings L', L L and L having the n, oval or other shaped sides L,
the sacking or woven wire Y which may be of any kind and the terminal ends A B
altogether forming a complete separate bottom or mattress or with dovetail castings on
each end of sides L may be dropped into dovetail castings on bedstead pillars thereby
saving the expense of sides to the bedstead as per my previous Patent No. 10426
A.D. 1886. The socket castings L' and L' are so made as to receive the ends of
terminals of mattresses whether they be U shaped as shewn by Figure 11 or oval or
round as shewn by Figure 10 or they may be of two pieces of corrugated iron with
the wire or sacking between them thus affording a firm hold.
The socket castings L' and L³ may slide on to the side L as shewn at Figure 7 or
may be cast on in chills or moulds. The socket castings L and L* slide along and
are drawn back tight by the tension bolts and which pass through the blank
snug Figure 8 which may also be cast chilled or put on the side L separately.
The bolt passes through the screwed snug 18 cast on the socket L* the whole being on
the inner side and adjusted by the handle N.
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page_text: When the mattress is separate from the bedstead the flange is provided on the
inner side of the whole of the sockets to prevent the mettress from slipping off.
In using the tube A' Figure 10 for the terminal bars A and B of mattress the ends
of the bars are held in the socket casting L' by the projecting nut A³ on the under-
side which is the nut holding the plate A³ for securing the woven wire or sacking to
the tube and which fits in the recess A' in the socket the result being that as
soon as the sacking is tightened the nut prevents the tube from moving round or
coming out.
The various parts herein mentioned may be used together or separately such for
instance as the new sacking with known sides or the new sides with known sacking
or the bolts with other old parts &c. as will be obvious to practical men.
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
then is :-
First The improvements in bedstead bottoms whether fast or loose the special
sections shown at Figure 2 viz. P. Q. R. S and T as sides and ends substantially as
herein set forth.
Second-The elastic sacking for bed or other bottoms consisting of the metallic
curved corner wire links hooked together with or without springs substantially as
herein set forth.
Third The elastic sacking for bed or other bottoms of the serpentine or curved
lines of spring wire connected together substantially as herein set forth.
Fourth-The twisted plate hook and hooked bolts and nuts connecting the
mattresses to bedsteads substantially as set forth in Figures 3, 4 and 5.
Fifth-The socket castings Land L* for elevating and adjusting the tension of
the wire webbing substantially as herein set forth.
Sixth-The improvements in bedstead bottoms and their parts whether fast or
loose substantially as herein set forth.
1000
GEORGE BARKER,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham,
Agent for Applicant.