Improvements in Bedstead Framings and Mattresses.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Jan., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 6th Oct., 1894-Accepted, 10th Nov., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bedstead Framings and Mattresses.
I, REINDERT GERRIT VOSVAN AVEZATHE, trading as The Wolverhampton
Bedstead Company of Alexandra Street, Wolverhampton, in the County of
Stafford, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to bedstead framings and to improvements in or additions
to mattresses to be used therewith, and the object of my invention is a combined
bedstead and mattress.
By my invention, the ordinary side angle rails of a bedstead framing are
dispensed with leaving only the end pillars or the head and foot end rails of the
framing, which are connected respectively to dovetail or other connections carried
by the mattress framing, which is now made to comprehend the general framing of
the bedstead, whereby the cost of production is considerably lessened and the
number of parts required in the fitting-up or manufacture reduced.
Thus, ordinary bedsteads besides having their own framings, also carry the
framing of the mattress, which is generally put upon and fixed to the bedstead
framing.
In carrying out one form of my invention, I take an ordinary mattress having a
wooden or metallic framing, and in the case of a wooden frame I fit or provide the
corners or parts of the same with dovetail attachments or connections which take
and fit within she-dovetail connections made within chills or fitted parts cast around
or fitted to the legs, uprights or pillars of a bedstead.
Instead of he dovetails being carried upon the mattress part as described, she
dovetails may be carried thereon and he dovetails on the other part.
By thus employing only legs having connection fittings with them, the mattress
framing is made to constitute the bedstead framing, whilst at the same time doing
duty as the stretcher of the mattress.
In carrying out a further form of my invention, I may connect to the mattress
frame legs only instead of pillars, so that the bedstead consists of a rectangular
mattress framing supported by legs from connections at the corners.
Besides the aforesaid combined bedstead and mattress being cheaply produced, it
is highly portable as there is nothing in the same other than the mattress framing
with loose legs or loose pillars.
As a further form of my invention, the said ends of the mattress may be fitted
respectively to head and foot ends with or without pillars, which ends form the
supporting framings.
propose that the end framings of the mattress shall be properly raised above
the sides, from which ends the distensible sacking is suspended.
In wooden mattress frames, the attachments are secured by screws or by boltings
or in metallic framings I prefer that the connections be made therewith or attached
thereto by corner chills.
Dated this 15th dow of To1901

page_text: Improvements in Bedstead Framings and Mattresses.
I, REINDERT GERRIT VOSVAN AVEZATHE, trading as The Wolverhampton
Bedstead Company of Alexandra Street, Wolverhampton, in the County of
Stafford, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to bedstead framings and to improvements in or additions
to mattresses to be used therewith, and the object of my invention is a combined
bedstead and mattress.
Ordinary bedsteads, besides having their own framings, also carry the framing of
the mattress, which is generally put upon and fixed to the bedstead framing.
By my invention, the ordinary side angle rails of a bedstead framing are
dispensed with leaving only the end pillars or the head and foot end rails of the
framing, which are connected respectively to dovetail or other connections carried
by the mattress framing, which is thus substituted for the side rails, and made to
comprehend the general framing of the bedstead whereby the cost of production is
considerably lessened and the number of parts required in the fitting-up or
manufacture reduced.
In carrying out one form of my invention, I take an ordinary mattress, having a
wooden frame, and I fit or provide the corners or parts of the same with dovetail
attachments or connections, which take and fit within she-dovetail connections
made within chills or fitted parts cast around or fitted to the legs, uprights or
pillars of a bedstead.
Instead of he dovetails being carried upon the mattress part as described, she
dovetails may be carried thereon and he dovetails on the other part.
By thus employing only legs having connection fittings with them, the mattress
framing is made to constitute the bedstead framing, whilst at the same time doing
duty as the stretcher of the mattress.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in side elevation, a wooden-
framed mattress, provided with dovetail attachments or fittings according to my
invention.
Figure 2 represents, upon an enlarged scale, a corner of one end of the same,
whilst Figure 3 represents a topside plan of Figure 2.
Figure 4 represents a topside plan of Figure 1 upon a reduced scale.
Fig. 5 represents an end view, Figure 6 a side elevation, and Figure 7 a topside
plan, of one of the dovetail attachments separately.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures
of the drawing.
a is the mattress framing, composed of sides a¹, united together by ends a³, which
sides take the place of the side rails of a bedstead framing.
bare he dovetail fittings or attachments,; composed of dovetail heads b¹, and
shanks b³, which are affixed to the mattress framing by bolts c.
Instead of employing he dovetails taking into she dovetails in chill castings
around the pillars, I may provide the fittings or attachments with she dovetails
which take upon he dovetails carried by the framing.

page_text: 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 :-
Providing mattress framings with attached dovetails, or loose and attached
connection fittings, substantially. as described and set forth.
Dated this 4th day of October 1894.
REINDERT GERRIT VOSVAN AVEZATHE,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.