Improvements in the Construction of Spring Mattresses, and Apparatus employed for their Adjustment.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Left; 16th Dec., 1893-Accepted, 27th Jan., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION..
Improvements in the Construction of Spring Mattresses, and
Apparatus employed for their Adjustment.
We, JOSEPH Moss of 74, Heath Street, Burnley in tho County of Lancaster,
Commission Agent, and GEORGE BANNISTER WIGGLESWORTH of 8, Market
Street, Burnley aforesaid, Draper and Hosier, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of novel means of adjusting or stretching spring mattresses,
with much greater ease than in existing appliances, and at the same time improving
the construction of such mattresses to dispense with the rectangular frame or
support, thus considerably lessening the cost of manufacture.
In carrying out our invention, we provide the posts of the bedstead with four
side brackets of any suitable material, but preferably metal, which may be secured
to the posts at each end of the bedstead by means of a stay rod, on which two
brackets at each side are secured by bolts, or the side brackets may be cast to or
form part of the bed posts, or they may be fixed thereto in any other suitable or
well known manner.
The spring mattress is attached to a cross piece or roller at each end of the
bedstead. The ends (which are square) of the cross piece or roller at one end fit
into suitable sockets formed in the brackets at this end, whilst the ends of the cross
piece or roller at the other 'end are preferably provided with a kind of clamp piece,
which slides in a transverse slot in the bracket at this end. A square or other
headed screw is now inserted in a chased hole at the far end of the slot of the
bracket, so that when such screw is tightened against the clamp piece or slackened
by a bed key or wrench, the tension of the mattress can be regulated to the greatest
nicety.
That portion of the side brackets, against which the mattress bears, is preferably
inclined upwards, so as to increase as much as possible its elasticity.
A. modification of our invention dispenses with the slot, clamp piece, and screw,
and in lieu thereof we provide the side brackets with a catch and ratchet wheel,
whose shaft is fixed at one end to the cross piece or roller of the mattress, whilst
the other end of the shaft terminates in a square or similar-head, which on being
turned by a bed key or wrench gives the requisite tension to the mattress.
Another mode of tightening the mattress may consist in the employment of a
perforated disc, which, when the mattress has been sufficiently tightened, is held in
position by the insertion of a pin or.peg through a perforation in the said disc into
a hole in the bracket.
Dated this 15th day of Mar 1900
GEO.
DOWNING,
8, Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Spring Mattresses, and
Apparatus employed for their Adjustment.
We, JOSEPH Moss of 74, Heath Street, Burnley, in the County of Lancaster,
Commission Agent, and GEORGE BANNISTER WIGGLESWORTH of 8, Market
Street, Burnley, aforesaid, Draper and Hosier, do hereby declare the nature of this
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page_text: 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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This invention consists of novel means of adjusting or stretching spring mattresses
with much greater ease than in existing appliances, and at the same time improving
the construction of such mattresses to dispense with the rectangular frame or
support, thus considerably lessening the cost of manufacture.
In carrying out our invention, we provide the posts of the bedstead with four
side brackets of any suitable material but preferably metal; which may be secured
to the posts at each end of the bedstead by means of a stayrod on which two
brackets at each side are secured by bolts, or the side brackets may be cast to or
form part of the bed posts, or they may be fixed thereto in any other suitable or
well known manner.
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The spring mattress is attached to a cross piece or roller at each end of the
bedstead. The ends (which are square) of the cross piece or roller at one end
fit into suitable sockets formed in the brackets at this end, whilst the ends of
the cross-piece or roller at the other end are preferably provided with a kind
of clamp-piece, which slides in a transverse slot in the bracket at this end.
square or other headed screw is now inserted in a chased hole at the far end of
the slot of the bracket, so that when such screw is tightened against the clamp-
piece or slackened by a bed-key or wrench, the tension of the mattress can be
regulated to the greatest nicety.
A modification of our invention dispenses with the slot, clamp-piece and sorew,
and in lion thereof, we provide the side brackets with a perforated disc, whose shaft
is fixed to the cross-piece or roller of the mattress. The disc, when the mattress
has been sufficiently tightened, is held in position by the insertion of a pin or peg
through a perforation in the said disc into a hole in the bracket.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is a side view of a bedstead provided with apparatus for adjusting wire
mattress, constructed in accordance with our invention.
A and B are side brackets riveted to the side rail C of the bedstead, or fixed
thereto in any suitable or well known manner, corresponding brackets being
likewise fixed at the opposite side of the bedstead. The cross-piece or stretcher,
to which the mattress J is fixed at one end, is provided with square ends D, which
are preferably fastened to the stretcher by bolts, screws or the like, and which fit
into sockets D' of the bracket A. The latter has a foot or support E formed with
a flange E' (see Fig. 2) to prevent end movement. The bracket B is also formed
with a similar foot B' for additional end support, and has an elongated slot F, in
which slides the clamp-piece G fixed to the cross-piece or stretcher at this end of
the mattress. A square or other headed screw is now inserted in a chased hole in,
the head B of the bracket B.
The tension of the mattress J can be regulated to the greatest nicety, and with
much ease by tightening the screw H against the clamp piece G or slackening by
a bed-key or wrench applied to the screw head.
Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of the socketed bracket A bored with holes A¹ for
riveting to the side of the bedstead, and also formed with a foot E for additional
end support. Both the foot E and the body of the bracket have flanges E' and. E'
for resting on the side rail of the bedstead. Fig. 3 is a similar view of the
bracket B having elongated slot F and screw H, which adjusts the tension of the
mattress. Like the bracket just described this is also provided with flanges for
steadying the structure.
Fig. 4 is a detached view of clamp piece G to be fixed to the end of the cross-
piece or stretcher of the mattress by a bolt and screw or the like, and having a lug
or projection K, which slides in the elongated alot of the bracket B, and upon
which pressure is exerted by the regulating screw H.
Figs. 5 and 6 are respectively front and end views of the bracket B shewing
another method of fixing to the side rail of the bedstead. The said bracket is cast

page_text: with vertical ledges L, in which is slid L bracket M bolted to the side rail, firmly
fixing the bracket B. Angle iron N is also secured to the bracket by bolts and
spans the end rail O of the bedstead, thereby preventing any sido movement. The
same screw, which fixes the clamp piece G to the stretcher may also secure thereto
support P carrying the pulley P, which slides on the side rail of the bed, so that
the mattress may be tightened, while the bed is occupied, if desired, the pulley P¹
relieving the stretcher from undue friction in its movement.
As we have already shewn there may be various methods of fixing the brackets
to the bedstead or they may be cast therewith in one piece.
We will now proceed to describe the modification represented in Fig. 7. The
bracket A is here provided with a journal Q, and the wire mattress is tightened on
the roller R by means of a peg wheel S (perforated), which, when the required
tension to the mattress has been obtained, is held in position by the insertion of a
peg through a perforation in the said peg wheel into a hole in the bracket A.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
:-
1. The improved means or apparatus for stretching and adjusting wire mattresses,
substantially as described, and illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4.
2. The method of fixing the side brackets to the bedstead, substantially as
described, and illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6.
3. The brackets A and B, slot F, clamp piece G and screw H, substantially as
described and illustrated for the purpose specified.
4. The modification represented in Fig. 7, substantially as herein described, and
illustrated for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 15th day of December 1893
F. RICHMOND,
79, St. James Street, Burnley, Agent for Applicants.