Improvements in and relating to the Manufacture of Metallic Bedsteads.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Oct., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 28th July, 1893-Accepted, 2nd Sept., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to the Manufacture of Metallic
Bedsteads.
We. ROBERT JONES of 137 Stratford Road Sparkbrook Birmingham in the
County of Warwick Manufacturer, and SAMUEL ILSLEY WHITFIELD of
96 Sampson Road Sparkbrook, Birmingham aforesaid, Bedstead Manufacturer,.
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved tightening arrangement for wire spring
mattresses when attached to metallic bedsteads and consists of an improved form.
of bracket or clip through which the tightening or attaching bolts pass.
This bracket or clip instead of as is usual hooking onto the angle iron of the
bedstead, at its lower extremity, and being retained in position merely by the
tension of the mattress, is made so that it will entirely surround both edges of, or
the whole of the angle-iron onto which it is threaded before the corner blocks of
the pillars are cast to the angle irons.
Dated this 27th day of October A.D. 1892.
EDWARD J. PAYNE & SON,
104, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to the Manufacture of Metallic
Bedsteads.
We ROBERT JONES of 137, Stratford Road Sparkbrook Birmingham in the
County of Warwick Manufacturer and SAMUEL ILSLEY WHITFIELD of 96,
Sampson Road Sparkbrook Birmingham aforesaid 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, reference being had
to the drawings hereunto annexed and to the letters and figures shewn thereon:-
Fig. 1 shews a front view of our improved bracket or clip.
Fig. 2 a side view.
Fig. 3 shews a sectional elevation of the bracket or clip upon the angle iron of a
bedstead.
Fig. 4 is an alternative form of bracket or clip.
Our invention relates to an improved tightening arrangement for wire spring
mattresses when attached to metallic bedsteads and consists of an improved form
of bracket or clip through which the tightening or attaching screw bolts pass.
Hitherto it has been the usual practice in this kind of bracket or clip to hook
the same onto the angle iron or head and foot end of the bedstead at the lower
extremity of the bracket, the same being retained in position merely by the
tension of the mattress.
We will now proceed to describe our improvements by the aid of the
accompanying drawings in which similar letters of reference relate to similar parts
on all the figures. We construct the bracket or clip A in such a manner that it
will entirely surround both edges B. B¹ of the angle iron C.of the bedstead, or the
whole of the angle iron C may be encased or surrounded by the bracket or clip A¹
as shewn in Fig. 4.
In either case the method of attaching the said brackets or clips A or A' is by
threading them onto the angle iron C of the head and foot ends of the bedstead
before the corner blocks of the pillars are cast onto same.

page_text: The brackets or clips A or A' having been so threaded or passed on to
the angle irons C, the tightening screw bolts D. are passed through the said
brackets to the mattress frame and screwed up by the key or spanner.
The brackets or clips A, or A', furthermore may be countersunk or recessed E
in order to allow the heads F of the screw bolts D to be concealed and
screwed up flush with the face of the said brackets or clips see Fig. 3.
The key or spanner for screwing up the bolts will be made witli a neck thereon
to fit into the recess in the brackets.
We do not limit ourselves to the exact details of construction herein set forth as
we may vary or modify the same as occasion may require without departing from
the principle of our said invention.
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,
Firstly. In the manufacture of metallic bedsteads the improved construction and
arrangement of bracket or clip for attachment to the said metallic bedsteads as
indicated by the several figures of the drawings hereunto annexed substantially for
the purpose set forth.
Secondly. In the manufacture of metallic bedsteads the improved construction
and arrangement of bracket or clip for attachment to the said metallic bedsteads as
illustrated in Figure 3 of the annexed drawings substantially for the purpose set
forth.
Thirdly. In the manufacture of metallic bedsteads the general construction and
arrangement of the several parts illustrated and described or any mere equivalents
thereof for the purpose substantially as herein more fully set forth.
Dated 27th day of July A.D. 1893.
EDWARD J. PAYNE & SON,
104, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicants.