SPRING BEDSTEADS
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT
to Henry Tylor, of Queen Street, Cheapside, in
the City of London, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "SPRING
BEDSTEADS."
Sealed the 30th August 1869, and dated the 16th February 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Tylor at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 16th
February 1869.
I, HENRY TYLOR, of Queen Street, Cheapside, in the City of London,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
SPRING BEDSTEADS," to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is to construct spring bedsteads as distinguished
from spring mattresses by fixing a number of springs between two sets of
laths or bars as hereafter described. The side rails or angles
of the bedsteads are pierced with a series of holes; into these holes pins are
dropped. The pins depend from the ends of stout bars which stretch across
from one side rail or angle to the other. These bars have eyes or their
equivalents fixed on them to hold the lower coils of the springs, and the upper
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page_text: coils of the springs are connected in a similar manner to the
under side of the upper set of laths or bars. These upper laths
are attached to studs fitted on an additional side bar or rail fixed parallel to
and above the side rails or angles first mentioned. There may be a number
of straps on the under side of the upper cross laths through which the long
laths may be passed, their ends being secured to studs in the
ordinary manner to other cross bars fixed parallel to and above the head and
foot angles or rails.
I do not confine myself to the above-described method of fastening the laths -
or bars which confine the springs, but propose to secure them in any con-
venient manner.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Tylor in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 16th
August 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
TYLOR, of Queen Street, Cheapside, in the City of London, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the
the thirty-second
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Henry Tylor, Her special licence that I, the said
Henry Tylor, my executors,
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Henry Tylor, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times thereafter during the term there expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "SPRING BEDSTEADS," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry Tylor, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under or their, or
one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
in what manner the same was
to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office
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page_text: within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of
the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE that I, the said Henry Tylor 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 state-
ment thereof, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed,
that is to say:-
The object of my Invention is to construct spring bedsteads as distinguished
from spring mattresses by fixing a number of springs between two sets of
laths or bars as hereafter described. The side rails or angles
of the bedstead are pierced with a series of holes; into these holes pins are
dropped. The pius depend from the ends of stout bars which stretch across,
from one side rail or angle to the other. These bars have eyes or their
equivalents fixed on them to hold the lower coils of the springs, and the upper
coils of the springs are connected in a similar manner to the
under side of the upper set of laths or bars. These upper laths
are attached to studs fitted on an additional side bar or rail fixed' parallel to
and above the side rails or angles first mentioned. There may be a number
of straps on the under side of the upper cross laths through which the long
laths may be passed, their ends being secured to other cross bars fixed parallel
to and above the head and foot angles or rails.
I do not confine myself to the above-described method of fastening the laths
or bars which confine the springs, but propose to secure them in any con-
venient manner.
The Invention will be fully understood by referring to the accompanying
Drawing, which is a perspective view of a bedstead fitted with my improve-
ments, as above described. a, a, are the ordinary side rails or
angles of the bedstead, and b, b, the short stout bars which rest upon them.
The under side of the stout bars are provided with pins or studs
which drop into holes in the side angles and hold them in position. c, c, are
additional side rails which are firmly attached to the ordinary
side angles by rivets or bolts. These additional side rails c, c, are above
and parallel to the side angles, and serve to support the short or trans-
verse laths d, d, upon which a mattress is placed. The lower coils of the
springs are fastened to the stout bars by eyes as is ordinarily done, and
the upper coils are secured to the short laths d, d, in a similar manner, so
that the springs are held firmly between them in sets. The laths d, d,
are kept in place on the additional side rails c, c, by studs or their equi-

page_text: valents. There are other additional head and foot rails, e, f, fitted to
and above the ordinary head and foot angles g, h, in a similar manner to
'the additional rails above described. These serve to hold and kept the long
laths i, i, in place. These long laths can be laced under and over the short laths
as usual, or they may pass through straps fitted to the under side of the short
laths.
This mode of constructing spring beadsteads offers considerable advantages
both in the strength and rigidity of the bedstead when in use and the facility of
packing it into a small compass for transport.
The springs are secured in sets to the top laths and the bottom bars as before
explained, and each set on being detached from the bedstead can be brought
into close contact with the others and their ends bound together by a cord or
band for compactness.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as my
improvements in spring bedsteads, fitting additional rails parallel to and
above the, ordinary side and end angles, in the manner and for the
purpose herein-before described and represented in the accompanying
Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Tylor, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Sixteenth day of August One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-nine.
HENRY TYLOR. (L.S.)