An Improvement in Connecting Wire Mattresses to Metallic Bedsteads.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Jan., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 18th Sept., 1895-Accepted, 19th Oct., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Connecting Wire Mattresses to Metallic
Bedsteads.
We JOSEPH TAUNTON and ROBERT PERCY TAUNTON of Belgrave Works,
Sherbourne Road, Balsall Heath, Birmingham in the County of Warwick,
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention has reference to those kinds of metallic bedsteads known in
commerce as "combination bedsteads," that is, bedsteads having frames of angle
iron to which detachable wire mattresses are connected; and our said invention
consists in connecting the foot end of the wire mattress to the foot. end of the bed-
stead frame by means of connecting clips of the kind and used in the manner
hereinafter described, the said connecting clips being used in place of the ordinary
method of connection by screw bolts.
Our improved clip connections are simple in construction and are inexpensive
and by their use the wire mattress is readily and expeditiously connected to the
belstead frame.
In carrying our invention into effect we attach to the underside of the foot wood
end or cross bar of the wire mattress, two clip or hook shaped connections, situated
a short distance from the ends of the wood end or cross bar or nearly in the
positions of the ordinary screw bolt connections. Each of the said clip connections
consists of a strip of strong hoop iron one end being bent up at right angles into a
hook or clip, the unbent or body part of the clip connection being fastened by
screws to the underside of the wood end or cross bar of the wire mattress.
said clip connections project, say, about three inches in front of the wood end of
the mattress.
The
We use at the head end of the mattress and bedstead frame the usual screw
connections for connecting that end of the mattress to the frame and for tightening
the mattress.
In connecting the wire mattress to the bedstead frame we proceed as follows;-
The clip connections at the foot end of the mattress are inclined and their hooked
ends passed under the foot angle bar of the bedstead frame and the foot end of the
mattress lowered onto the side angle bars of the bedstead frame. By this lowering
of the wood end of the mattress the body parts of the clip connections are brought
into a horizontal position and their turned up or hooked ends made to clip.or
engage outside the vertical web of the foot angle bar of the bedstead frame. The
head end of the mattress is then connected by the ordinary screw arrangement to
the head end of the bedstead frame and the required tension put on the mattress.
By the tension put on the mattress the booked ends of the connections at the foot
end of the mattress are made to clip with great firmness the vertical web of the
foot angle bar of the bedstead frame, the greater the tension put on the mattress
the tighter will the clips bind upon the angle bar and hold the mattress in
its place.
To detach the mattress, it is only necessary to withdraw the holding and
tensioning screws at the head end, when the clip connectious at the foot end

page_text: can be unhooked from the foot angle bar of the bedstead frame and the mattress
removed.
Our invention may be used with metallic bedstead frames of various kinds.
Dated this Ninth day of January 1895.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants.
An Improvement in Connecting Wire Mattresses to Metallic
Bedsteads.
We, JOSEPH TAUNTON, and ROBERT PERCY TAUNTON, of Belgrave Works,
Sherbourne Road, Balsall Heath, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of our invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:-
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Our invention has reference to those kinds of metallic bedsteads known in
commerce as combination bedsteads," that is, bedsteads having frames of angle
iron to which detachable wire mattresses are connected; and our said invention
consists in connecting the foot end of the wire mattress to the foot end of the
bedstead frame by means of connecting clips of the kind and used in the manner
hereinafter described, the said connecting clips being used in place of the ordinary
method of connection by screw bolts.
Our improved clip connections are simple in construction and are inexpensive
and by their use the wire mattress is readily and expeditiously connected to the
bedstead frame.
In carrying our invention into effect we attach to the underside of the foot wood
end or cross bar of the wire mattress, two clip or hook shaped connections, situated
a short distance from the ends of the wood end or cross bar or nearly in the
positions of the ordinary screw bolt connections.
Each of the said clip connections consists of a strip of strong hoop iron one end
being bent up at right angles into a hook or clip, the unbent or body part of the
clip connection being fastened by screws to the underside of the wood end or cross
bar of the wire mattress. The said clip connections project, say, about three inches
in front of the wood end of the mattress.
We use at the head end of the mattress and bedstead frame the usual screw
connections for connecting that end of the mattress to the frame and for tightening
the mattress.
In connecting the wire mattress to the bedstead frame we proceed as follows;-
The clip connections at the foot end of the mattress are inclined and their
hooked ends passed under the foot angle bar of the bedstead frame and the foot end
of the mattress lowered on to the side angle bars of the bedstead frame. By this
lowering of the wood end of the mattress the body parts of the clip connections are
brought into a horizontal position and their turned up or hooked ends made to clip
or engage outside the vertical web of the foot angle bar of the bedstead frame. The
head end of the mattress is then connected by the ordinary screw arrangement to
the head end of the bedstead frame and the required tension put on the mattress.
By the tension put on the mattress the hooked ends of the connections at the foot
end of the mattress are made to clip with great firmness the vertical web of the foot
angle bar of the bedstead frame, the greater the tension put on the mattress
the tighter will the clips bind upon the angle bar and hold the mattress in its
place.
To detach the mattress it is only necessary to withdraw the holding and
tensioning screws at the head end, when the clip connections at the foot end

page_text: removed.
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Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents an elevation of the foot end
of a metallic bedstead to which a wire mattress is connected according to our,
invention.
Figure 2 represents in vertical section and Figure 3 in plan a portion of the
bedstead Figure 1.
Figure 4 represents the same parts as Figure 2 showing the method of
connecting the end or cross bar of the mattress to the end angle iron of the
bedstead frame.
In Figures 2, 3 and 4 the portion of the wire mattress seen is indicated in
dotted lines. Figures 2, 3 and 4 are drawn to a larger scale than Figure 1.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of
the drawing.
a, a are the vertical or corner pillars of the foot end of the bedstead and a² is
the angle iron end bar of the bedstead frame connected to the said corner
pillars a, a by the chill cast iron corner blocks a¹, a' in the ordinary way. In
Figures 2, 3 and 4 b represents one of the side angle bars of the bedstead frame
connected by the ordinary he and she dovetail arrangement at 6' to the corner
block a¹. c is the foot end bar of the wire sacking or mattress d. d and e, e', e. e², are
the hook shaped metal clips on the said bare by which the foot end of the
mattress is connected to the end bar a' of the bedstead frame. It will be seen from
an examination of the drawing that each of the hook shaped clips e, e² consists of
a metal strip or bare the end 2 of which is turned up at right angles to the
other part e.
The said clips e, e are connected to the end bar c of the wire
mattress by screws ƒ, ƒ, f.
We have only represented the foot end of the bedstead and the method of
connecting the mattress at that end to the bedstead as that alone constitutes our
invention, any of the ordinary methods of connection of the mattress to the head
end of the bedstead by which tension can be put on the mattress, such for
example, as the ordinary screw bolts and nuts, being employed at the said
head end.
In order to connect a wire mattress to a bedstead according to our invention
we first attach the mattress to the foot end of the bedstead by inclining the end
bar c of the wire mattress d as represented in Figure 4 and engaging the hooked
ends e² of the clips e, 2 behind the end angle bar a² as represented in Figures 1,
2, and 3, the ends of the bar c of the mattress d resting on the corner blocks a¹, b¹
at the foot end of the bedstead. The head end of the mattress is now connected
to the head end of the bedstead in the ordinary way and the desired tension is put
on the mattress by the tension adjusting mechanism at the head end of the bed-
stead. By the tension put upon the mattress the hooked or turned up ends e² of
the clips e, are made to bear with great firmness and security against the vertical
web of the foot end angle bar a² of the bedstead frame.
When it is required to detach the mattress from the bedstead it is only necessary
to unfasten the holding and tension screws or mechanism at the head end of the
bedstead when the foot end bare of the mattress d may be inclined and the clips e, e²
unhooked from the foot end bar a² of the bedstead frame. The mattress is thus
wholly disconnected and may be removed from the bedstead.
We wish it to be understood that where for any reason it is necessary or desirable
to apply the tension adjusting mechanism of the mattress to the foot end of the
bedstead the hook shaped clips constituting our invention are applied to the
bead end bar of the mattress and engage with the end angle bar at the head end
of the bedstead.
Our invention may be used with metallic bedstead frames of various kinds.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that
we

page_text: claim as our invention of "An improvement in connecting wire mattresses to
metallic bedsteads
"
The use on the non-adjustable send bar of the mattress of hook shaped clips for
engaging behind and bearing against that end bar or rail of the bedstead frame to
which the non-adjustable end bar of the mattress is connected substantially as 5
herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated the 28th day of August 1895.
JOSEPH TAUNTON.
ROBERT PERCY TAUNTON.