IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF MATTRESSES
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Eliza Walton, of No. 58, Colebrook Row, Islington,
in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF MATTRESSES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Eliza Walton at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with her Petition, on the
1st February 1867.
I, ELIZA WALTON, of No. 58, Colebrook Row, Islington, in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF MATTRESSES," to be as follows:-
The improved mattress is made with a continuation of strips corrisponding
with the border of the sides 12 inches apart, and thereby forming divisions;
it is made of striped bedtick, requires neither tufts nor strings, but is simply
filled from the bottom with the same description of material as is now used
in ordinary mattresses (each division being left open for the purpose).

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Eliza Walton in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
3rd June 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ELIZA
WALTON, of No. 58, Colebrook Row, Islington, in the County of Middlesex,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the First day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Eliza Walton, Her special licence that I, the said Eliza-
Walton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Eliza Walton, 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 MANUFACTURE OF MATTRESSES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Eliza Walton, my executors or admini-
strators, 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 Eliza Walton, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
The train mattrass is to be made with a continuation of straps corre-
sponding with the border of the sides twelve inches apart, made of striped
bedtick; it requires no tufts or string, but simply filled from the bottom, each
division left open for the purpose of being filled with the usual materials for
beds of mattresses; they are to be made from 12 inches square and upwards;
they are suitable for travelling by sea or land, and can be made with water-
proof covering, and used as a life belt in cases of necessity when filled with
down or feathers prepared for the purpose.

page_text: The above mattresses are much more durable than anything hitherto
invented, and are constructed at considerable less cost.
In witness whereof, I, the said Eliza Walton, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Third day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
ELIZA WALTON. (L.S.)