Improvements in the Manufacture of Metallic Bedsteads, Cots, and such like Articles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Jan., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 29th Oct., 1895-Accepted, 7th Dec., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Metallic Bedsteads, Cots, and
such like Articles.
SAMUEL WILSON of the Firm of Wilson Bros. & Co. Ledsam Street
Birmingham Bedstead Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to cheapen and simplify the manufacture of
metallic bedsteads and is specially suited for such bedsteads as have woven wire or
other distensible bottoms and have protecting side rails such as ships berths
epileptic, children's, cot, bedsteads and such like.
In carrying out this invention instead of fixing the longitudinal angle or tubular
side supporting bars which form the frame of the bedstead bottom at the same level
or below the level of the wire or other bottom as is usual I fix the said angle
or tubular side supporting bars at a higher plane than the wire or other bottom.
The wire or other bottom I attach in the usual manner but preferably as
described in Letters Patent granted to me April 22nd 1893 No. 8149.
These elevated side bars may be of bent outline with a removable supplementary
protecting bar in order to facilitate getting in and out of the bedstead.
This invention is equally applicable to rigid or fast one piece bedstead or
mattress bottoms, the wire bottom being on a lower level than the side supporting
bars.
Dated this 28th day of January 1895.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Metallic Bedsteads, Cots, and
such like Articles. :
SAMUEL WILSON Ledsam Street Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Bedstead 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 :-
The object of this invention is to cheapen and simplify the manufacture of
metallic bedsteads and is especially suited for such bedsteads as have woven wire
or other distensible bottoms and have protecting side rails such as ships berths,
epileptic childrens cot, bedsteads and such like.
In carrying this invention out instead of fixing the longitudinal angle or tubular
side supporting bars which form the frame of the bedstead bottom at the same
level or below the level of the wire or other bottom as is usual, I fix the said angle
or tubular side supporting bars at a higher plane than the wire or other bottom.
The wire or other bottom I attach in the usual manner, but preferably as described
in Letters Patent granted to me and dated April 22nd 1893. No. 8149.
These elevated side bars may be of a bent outline with a removeable
supplementary protecting bar in order to facilitate getting in and out of the
bedstead.

page_text: This invention is equally applicable to rigid or fast one piece bedstead or
mattress bottoms the wire bottom being on a lower level than the side supporting
bars.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing is a representation in perspective of
portions of the end of bedstead and the side supporting bars, a. a. are the rail and
pillar of end, b. b. are the side supporting bars c. c. shews the junctions of the side
bars when required to be loose, d is the wire mattress.
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Figure 2 shews the side bars of a bent outline, a. a. are the end pillars of
bedstead, b. b. are connected rigidly with the lower side bar c, d is the removeable
supplementary protecting bar supported in the centre by the vertical bar e.
Figure 3 is an enlargement of the junction in Figure 1 a is a ring casting on
the pillar is the hooked end of side bar fitting loosely into the same.
Figure 4 shews a 'dovetail ' attachment of the side bar to the pillar admitting of
the use of angle iron if necessary.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
First. A side supporting bar or bars above the level of the wire mattress.
Secondly. A side supporting bar of a bent formation with a supplementary
protecting bar as drawn and described in Figure 2.
Dated this 28th day of October 1895.
SAMUEL WILSON.