IM- PROVEMENTS IN THE SACKINGS OF METALLIC AND OTHER BEDSTEADS, SOFAS, 1 COUCHES, AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES, WHICH SAID IMPROVEMENTS MAY ALSO BE APPLIED TO THE SEATS OF CHAIRS, RAILWAY CARRIAGES, AND OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Geering, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Metallic Bedstead Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN THE SACKINGS OF METALLIC AND OTHER BEDSTEADS, SOFAS,
1 COUCHES, AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES, WHICH SAID IMPROVEMENTS MAY ALSO BE
APPLIED TO THE SEATS OF CHAIRS, RAILWAY CARRIAGES, AND OTHER ARTICLES."
A communication from abroad by Thomas Tunnington, of Elyria
Lorian, County Ohio, United States of America.
Sealed the 26th January 1866, and dated the 5th August 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Geering at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 5th
August 1865.
I, HENRY GEERING, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Metallic
Bedstead Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE SACKINGS OF METALLIC AND OTHER BEDSTEADS, SOFAS,
COUCHES, AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES, WHICH SAID IMPROVEMENTS MAY ALSO BE APPLIED
TO THE SEATS OF CHAIRS, RAILWAY CARRIAGES, AND OTHER ARTICLES," to be as
follows:-
The said Invention consists in arranging, in the manner herein-after explained,
the parts of the sackings of metallic and wooden bedsteads, sofas, couches,

page_text: and other like articles, and the seats of chairs, railway carriages, and other
articles, whereby an efficient and inexpensive elastic sacking or seat is pro-
duced. I will describe the said Invention with reference to an elastic sacking
for a bedstead. I take a strip or lath of metal or wood of a length nearly
equal to the breadth or length of the bedstead, with which the sacking is to
be used, and near either end of the said strip or lath I fix a metallic clip or
band, the upper side of the said clip entering a groove or recess in the said
lath. To the lower part of the said clip, one end of an elastic band or web is
fastened in the manner herein-after explained, the other end of the said web
or band carrying a hook by which it is connected to the side or end rail of the
bedstead by engaging in holes in the said side or end rail. The elastic band
or web is connected to the metallic clip at either end of the strip or lath in
the following manner :-The metallic clips are made of a depth somewhat
greater than the thickness of the strip or lath, the lower side of the said clip
being made much broader than the upper part by which it is hung to the strip
or lath. The inner or upper-face of the lower part of the clip is inclined to
the plane of the strip or lath to which the clip is connected. In fastening the
elastic band or web. to the clip, the doubled end of the band or web is placed
between the lower side of the clip and under side of the strip or lath, and drawn
forcibly between the said parts. The said doubled part of the band or web is
thereby wedged between the said clip and strip or lath and fixed firmly in its
place. When the elastic band or web is expanded the upper part of the clip
swivels or turns slightly upon the strip or lath as a centre, and contracts the
space between its lower side and the strip or lath, thus the more the band or
web is pulled and expanded the tighter its end is wedged between the clip
and strip or lath. I apply as many of the elastic strips or laths constructed in
the manner described as are necessary to form the sacking, the said strips
being fastened to the side or end rails at the proper distances apart by the
hooks at the ends of the elastic bands or webs. When a weight is applied to
the sacking the bands or webs are expanded, and a highly elastic sacking
thus produced. I do not limit myself to the arrangement described for fasten-
ing the elastic webs to the side rails of the bedstead, as other arrangements
may be employed for that purpose.
The application of the said Invention to the sackings of sofas and couches,
and to the seats of chairs and railway carriages, does not differ in any essential
respect from its application to the sackings of bedsteads already described.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Geering in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 30th
January 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
5 GEERING, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Metallic Bedstead
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of August in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Henry Geering, Her special licence that I, the said Henry Geering, my ex-
ecutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry Geering,
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
therein 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE SACKINGS OF METALLIC
AND OTHER BEDSTEADS, SOPAS, COUCHES, AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES, WHICH SAID IM-
PROVEMENTS MAY ALSO BE APPLIED TO THE SEATS OF CHAIRS, RAILWAY CARRIAGES,
AND OTHER ARTICLES," a communication to me from abroad by Thomas Tunning-
ton, of Elyria Lorian, County Ohio, United States of America, upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry Geering, my executors, or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Geering, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed; to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
The said Invention consists in arranging in the manner herein-after.
explained the parts of the sackings of metallic and wooden bedsteads, sofas,
couches, and other like articles, and the seats of chairs, railway carriages,
and other articles, whereby an efficient and inexpensive elastic sacking or seat
is produced.
I will describe the said Invention with reference to an elastic sacking for a
bedstead. I take a strip or lath of metal or wood of a length nearly equal to the

page_text: breadth or length of the bedstead with which the sacking is to be used, and
near either end of the said strip or lath I fix a metallic clip or band, the
upper side of the said clip entering a groove or recess in the said lath. To
the lower part of the said clip one end of an elastic band or web is fastened
in the manner herein-after explained, the other end of the said web or band
carrying a hook by which it is connected to the side or end rail of the bed-
stead by engaging in holes in the said side or end rail. The elastic band or
web is connected to the metallic clip at either end of the strip or lath in
the following manner :-The metallic clips are made of a depth somewhat
greater than the thickness of the strip or lath, the lower side of the said clip
being made much broader than the upper part by which it is hung to the
strip or lath. The inner or upper face of the lower part of the clip is inclined
to the plane of the strip or lath to which the clip is connected. In fastening
the elastic band or web to the clip the doubled end of the band or web is placed
between the lower side of the clip and under side of the strip or lath and
drawn forcibly between the said parts. The said doubled part of the web or
band is thereby wedged between the said clip and strip or lath and fixed firmly
in its place. When the elastic band or web is expanded the upper part of the
clip swivels or turns slightly upon the strip or lath as a centre, and contracts
the space between its lower side and the strip or lath, thus the more the band:
or web is pulled and expanded the tighter its end is wedged between the clip
and strip or lath.
.
I apply as many of the elastic strips or laths, constructed in the manner
described, as are necessary to form the sacking, the said strips being fastened
to the side or end rails at the proper distances apart by the hooks at the ends
of the elastic webs or bands. When a weight is applied to the sacking
the bands or webs are expanded, and a highly elastic sacking thus pro-
duced.
I do not limit myself to the arrangement described for fastening the elastic
webs or bands to the side rails of the bedstead or other article, as other
arrangements may be employed for that purpose.
.
Having explained the nature of the said Invention I will proceed to
describe, with reference to the accompanying Drawing, the manner in which
the same is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in side elevation (partly in section), and Figure 2, in
plan, the end of a wooden lath for a bedstead or other sacking constructed
according to the said Invention.
a, is the lath, near the end of which is a metallic clip or band b, the upper
side entering a groove or recess in the lath as indicated in dotted lines. The

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lower side of the clip b is made much broader than the upper part, its inner
or upper face being inclined; c is the elastic band or web, the free ends of
which are fastened between the clip 6, 63, and lath a, and the looped end
carries a hook d, by which the band or web is hooked or connected to a bar e
running along the end or side of the angle iron or framing of the bedstead
or other article. In fastening the elastic band or web c to the clip.b, b³, the
doubled end is placed between the lower side of the clip and under side of
the strip or lath a, and drawn forcibly between the said parts. The doubled
part or free ends of the band or web are thereby wedged between the 'clips
and strip or lath, and fixed firmly in their place. Both ends of the lath are
constructed in the way described and illustrated. When the elastic band or
web c is expanded by a weight or pressure applied to the sacking the upper
part of the clip b, 62, swivels or turns slightly upon the strip or lath a as a
centre, and contracts the space between its lower side and the strip or lath.
The free ends of the elastic band or web are thus wedged firmly between the
clip and strip or lath.
:
Figures 3, 4 and 5, represent a modification of the arrangement described,
in which circular or nearly circular bands of vulcanized india-rubber are used
instead of flat india-rubber bands or elastic webs. Figure 3 being a plan of
the sacking of a metallic bedstead made according to this modification.
Figure 4 a section of the end of a portion of the sacking, and Figure 5 an
under side view of one of the laths of the same. The said Figures 4 and 5
are drawn to a larger scale than Figure 3; 9, 9, are the circular or nearly
circular bands or short tubes of vulcanized india-rubber fixed to the ends of
the laths h by the metallic-loops i, the said loops i being screwed to the under
side of the laths (see Figure 5,) after they have been passed through the said
circular bands or short tubes g. Passed through each of the said bands or.
short tubes g is a hook k by which the said bands or tubes are fastened to the
angle iron or framing of the bedstead. The said hooks are hooked
underneath the bars m fixed by rivetting on the end rails for fastening the
longitudinal strips or laths, and underneath short bars or staples n on the side
rails for fastening the cross strips or latus, as illustrated in Figure 3. On a weight
or pressure being applied to the sacking the elastic bands or short tubes 9 are
elongated in the manner represented in Figure 4, and a highly elastic sacking
thus produced. On the weight or pressure being removed the bands or short
tubes return to their normal figure. Instead of rivetting the bars m, n, to
which the sacking is connected to the rails or framing, as described and repre-
sented, the lower parts of the said bars may be made of a hook shape and be
slipped or hooked on the rails. The last described arrangement is particularly

page_text: useful for applying the improved sacking to old bedsteads. Although I have
described and represented the elastic sacking as applied to wooden laths, yet
it is equally applicable to metallic laths.
The application of the said Invention to the sackings of sofas and couches,
and to the seats of chairs and railway carriages, and other similar articles does
not differ in any essential respect from its application to the sackings of bed-
steads herein-before described and illustrated in the Drawing.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I do
not limit myself to the precise details herein described and illustrated, as the
same may be varied without departing from the nature of the said Invention ;
but I claim as the said Invention the arrangements of the parts of sackings
for metallic and other bedsteads, sofas, couches, and other like articles;
substantially in the manner herein-before described and illustrated in the
accompanying Drawing, and the application of the said arrangements to the
seats of chairs, railway carriages, and other articles.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Geering, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
HENRY GEERING. (L.s.)