Improvements in the Manufacture of Mattress Cases.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 13th June, 1898
Complete Specification Left, 4th Oct., 1893-4ccepted, 5th Nov., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Mattress Cases.
I, ADOLPH AXIEN, Underclothing Manufacturer, of Hohe Bleicher 42, Hamburg,
in the Empire of Germany, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the manufacture of mattress cases in which the interior
is divided by partitions or diaphragms into separate compartments for receiving
the mattress filling so that the latter is divided and any such compartment may be
separately emptied or refilled without disturbance of the rest of the filling.
The invention relates especially to mattresses of the kind in which the partitions
are parallel to each other forming parallel tubes and also to means for permitting
the mattress case to be easily unfastened and refastened for emptying the filling.
The method of constructing the mattress case is as follows. Two sheets of
suitable fabric are taken and at suitable distances apart parallel folds are made
which at the base are sewn together. The two sheets are then placed one on the
other so that these folds meet on their edges, each fold being then sewn to its
neighbour on the opposite sheet.
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WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,. Agents.
I, ADOLPH AXIEN, Underclothing Manufacturer, of Hohe Bleicher 42, Hamburg,
in the Empire of Germany, 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:-
This invention relates to the manufacture of mattress cases in which the interior
is divided by partitions or diaphragms into separate compartments for receiving
the mattress filling so that the latter is divided and any such compartment may be
separately emptied or refilled without disturbance of the rest of the filling.
The invention specially relates to mattresses of such kind in which the partitions
are parallel to each other forming parallel tubes and it also concerns means for
permitting the mattress case to be easily unfastened and refastened for emptying
the filling.
The invention is illustrated in the annexed drawing in which Fig. 1 is an

page_text: exterior perspective view of a mattress having one of the improved cases. Fig.
is a section on a larger scale on line aa. Fig. 3 is a similar view to Fig. 2
showing a modification. Fig. 4 is a cross section on line gg Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a
similar view to Fig. 4 showing a modification in the means for closing the ends
of the compartments.
The method of constructing the mattress case is as follows.
Two sheets of suitable fabric a a' are taken and at suitable distances apart
parallel folds are made which at the base at o are sewn together. The two sheets
are then placed one on the other so that these folds meet at their apices at i
Fig. 2, each fold being then sewn to its neighbour on the opposite sheet.
The sheets a a' can be either made in one piece along one end (on the left in
Fig. 2) and sewn together at the other end (Fig. 2) or they may be attached on
both ends as in Fig. 3 to strips such as z.
Fig. 3 also shows a modification in which the folds are only made in one of the
sheets a, these folds being then of greater depth and sewn at their apices to the
other sheet a¹ directly.
The tubular case formed in the above manner of the sheets a a¹ can be
permanently closed along one side by sewing on a strip Fig. 4, while the other
side (the left of Fig. 4) can be provided with overlapping strips ww connected
together by suitable fastenings or by hooks or any other suitable means.
Such case could also have such fastenings on each side as shown in Fig. 5 in
place of closing one side with the strip w.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. A mattress case with tubular partitioned interior space formed of two sheets
or a doubled sheet a a' in which folds m are made connected at their bases and
attached together each to the fold opposite to it, at their apices, substantially
as set forth.
2. A mattress case with tubular partitioned interior space, formed of two sheets
or a doubled sheet a a¹ in one part of which folds m are made the apices of which
are secured directly to the other sheet or part of the sheet substantially as set
forth.
3. A mattress case described in Claim 1 or 2 the closing of the ends of the
tubular spaces by means of overlapping strips wwl and suitable fasteners for
attaching the latter together substantially as set forth.
Dated this 3rd day of October 1898.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, Agents.