Improvements in Wire Mattresses, also Applicable to Bedstead Bottoms.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Oct., 1889-Accepted. 30th Nov
1880
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wire Mattresses, also Applicable to Bedstead
Bottoms.
We, THOMAS EDMUND WALE and ALFRED EDMUND WALE both of the firm of
T. E. Wale & Sons of Atlas Works Oozells Street Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Wholesale Manufacturers of Wire Mattresses, Bedding etc. do hereby declare
the nature of our said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
Our invention has for its object improvements in wite mattresses also applicable to
bedstead bottoms by which we obviate the sagging in the middle and thereby obtain
more elasticity and comfort and which also gives a much more rounded and improved
appearance to the bed when made up and this we effect without the assistance of
padding or any other arrangement which would be likely to prove unsanitary by
reason of not being open or which would form a means for collecting dust and
dirt.
In order that our invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried into
practice we have appended hereunto two double sized sheets of drawings upon which
we have fully illustrated our improvements and from which other application may
casily be made.
On sheet 1.
Figure 1. is an elevational plan of one of our improved mattresses.
Figure 2 is a longitudinal sertion through Figure 1.
Figure 3 is a cross section through Figure 1.
Un sheet 2.
Figure 4 is a longitudinal section through one of our mattresses shewing a modifi-
cation in the way of attaching the woven wire.
Figures and are part plans shewing other modifications hereafter to be
described.
Figure is a part plan shewing the woven wire top A divided into two parts.
In carrying out our invention we provide two separate sheets A & B of woven wire
fabric which are attached in any ordinary way to the frame D of the mattress and
between these two elastic metallic sheets we insert a number of ordinary sofa spiral
or other shaped springs E which may be secured to the top and bottom A & B. The
ends of these two sheets are secured to the head D' and foot D2 of the mattress
Frame D in the ordinary way so as to allow of being tightened up which is done with
he springs E between and in this way by means of the sympathy between the top and
bottom sheets caused by the intermediate springs a most elastic and comfortable
mattress is formed which cannot sagg and which gives that curve both in length and
cross which is so necessary in giving appearance to the bed when made up moreover
here being no sagging the mattress has not the tendency to roll the sleepers in to
he middle as is the ease with the ordinary wire mattresses.
We may as shewn by Figure run the woven wire fabric round the head and foot
ars 1 and D2 or attach the sheet A to the top and sheet B in the bottom still
etaining the springs E between and we may form the top A with woven wire and the
ottom B with the wire of stronger and more open mesh similar to the links shewn
K in Figure 5 which are formed by the rings upon which the springs E rest
ach arrangement would allow of the interior being dusted and could not form a
eceptacle for dirt and fluff. The link of the chain may run diagonally as shewn or
ngitudinally or transversely and may be made more elastic by means of intermediate
rings similar to those shewn by M Figure 8.
In the case of Figure 6 the springs E instead of being mounted upon the woven
ire sheet are mounted upon the bands of woven wire H which take the place of the

page_text: under covering of woven wire or links but these may be of metallic links or chains
and springs. As the greater part of the strain is borne by the bottom B we may form
the top sheet A of sacking webbing or other similar material but we prefer the wire
from a sanitary point of view. We may divide the top A into two parts as shewn
by A and Aat Figure 7, which would prevent any possibility of one sleeper being
disturbed by the movement of another in which case we may support each side of the
sheet at the point of division at by the woven wire band A which would in turn be
supported by a row of springs under it.
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
The improvements in wire mattresses applicable to bedstead bottoms consisting of
an upper surface A of wire or its equivalent resting through the medium of inter-
mediate springs upon a lower netting or frame of wire which carries the said
intermediate springs so that a sympathetic relationship exists between the whole
substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth & shewn upon the drawings.
Dated this 25th day of October 1889.
GEORGE BARKER,
177, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicants.