Improvements in Hair and other Mattresses.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 25th Nov., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hair and other Mattresses.
I, WALTER WILLIAMSON of 2, Billing Road, Northampton, Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of this 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 relates to the manufacture of stuffed mattresses and has for its
object to ventilate the same and to dispense with the ordinary ties or tufts used to
maintain the mattress at a general level or thickness and which are apt to become
easily detached in use and to substitute for such ties or tufts tubular elastic ties
which serve the same purpose and which also have the additional advantage of
ventilating the interior of the mattress. These elastic tubular ties are made
preferably of lengths of india-rubber tubing having lateral apertures communicating
with the interior of the mattress and provided at the ends with flanges or
enlargements of the same material so that they may be readily drawn through
holes in the casing of the mattress and when so inserted will remain securely fixed
in place.
The invention is applicable to ordinary mattresses and also to those in which the
upholstered or stuffed portion is supported upon springs..
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this
Specification, which represent in Figure 1 a plan view and in Figure 2 a vertical
section of a part of a mattress provided with my improved tubular ties or tufts.
Figure 3 is an elevation of one of the ties or tufts.
A are the tubular ties or tufts each made of a length of india-rubber tubing (or
equivalent elastic and flexible material) having formed at each end a bead-like
flange or head a. bare apertures punched in the sides of the tubes A by which
the inlet and exit of air to and from the interior of the mattress is permitted,
whereby the stuffing is always kept well ventilated or "aired." B is the casing of
the mattress and the stuffing which may be of hair, wool, or other material
generally used for the purpose. The holes in the casing B through which the ties
or tufts are drawn may be merely punched in the casing B, or they may be stitched
or eyeletted to prevent ravelling. The ties or tufts are drawn through these holes
by an instrument applied to their upper end and being of elastic material they
may be easily sprung through the holes in the casing with which their heads or
flanges securely engage in the manner shewn. The clasticity of the tubes in the
direction of their length enables them to yield to a certain extent so as to impart
additional elasticity to the mattress.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The combination, with a mattress, of ventilating ties or tufts formed of lengths
of tubing and provided with lateral apertures and with heads at the ends, said "ties
or tufts being adapted to be drawn through holes in the casing of the mattress and
sprung into engagement therewith, substantially as specified.
DL: 00th 1ntahan 1002
W. WILLIAMSON,
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.