A New or Improved Mattress Preserver.
Year: 1893

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Mattress Preserver.
I, HARRY EDLER of Upton Street, London Road, Manchester, Managing
Director, 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 :-
Hitherto it has been the practice to put paper, canvas, blankets and the like
between a hair or similar mattress and a wire or chain mattress or iron bedstead to
prevent the former rubbing against these latter and so wearing away.
Felt has
been used, but under the friction gives way and fills the room with flutt.
Now this invention consists in taking two layers of textile material, either cotton,
linen or wool or a combination of the same, and introducing between them a layer
of wool, cotton, silk, down or other suitable packing material, all three layers being
then stitched or sewn together and secured at their edges to prevent the packing
material coming out. The article so produced constitutes my improved mattress
preserver and is placed between the hair mattress and the spring mattress or
bedstead. To prevent it from getting out of its place I provide tapes, bands or
their equivalent to secure it to the framework of the wire mattress or to the
bedstead. The surface of the preserver may be ornamented by fancy stitching and
by printed or woven designs.
In order that my improvements shall be more clearly understood I have hereunto.
annexed a drawing in which Fig. 1 is a side view and Fig. 2 a plan view of an iron
bedstead shewing my improved preserver inserted between a spring mattress and a
hair mattress, this latter being shewn removed in Fig. 2.
A designates the iron frame of the bedstead, B the wire or chain mattress and
C the hair mattress. Between B and C my improved preserver D is placed as illus-
trated and being provided with tapes or bands E (seen more clearly in Fig. 2) is held
in position by tying said tapes or bands round parts of the bedstead or frame of the
spring mattress. The preserver so placed and held protects the mattress C from
contact with the wire of the mattress A and being made of cheap materials can,.
when worn, be replaced at small cost. The soft packing affords additional comfort
to the bed.
The preserver is free from smell, produces no fluff and being made from cotton
or similar material may be washed without being taken to pieces and will wear
considerably longer than felt or any of the before-mentioned substances.
By
reason of the open texture of the material of which it is composed and the stitching,
the preserver is well ventilated and rendered healthy to lie upon.
Having thus 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 is :-
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The mattress preserver hereinbefore described, consisting of two layers of textile
material and an intervening layer of packing material, all stitched together and
provided with tapes or bands or other suitable fastenings substantially as and for
the purpose set forth and illustrated on the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 29th day of April 1893.
JOHN G. WILSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.