IMPROVEMENTS in Spring MATTRESSES AND SEATINGS
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Winram, of Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, Cashier, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS in Spring
MATTRESSES AND SEATINGS."
Scaled the 3rd August 1872, and dated the 11th April 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Winram at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
11th April 1872.
I, GEORGE WINRAM, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Cashier, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN SPRING MATTRESSES AND SEATINGS," to be as follows:-
My Invention refers to the construction of mattresses and seatings by
the use of strips of metal. These strips I bend into waves or corruga-
tions, and secure them side by side to the frame to which they are to be
applied by means of any suitable attachment. The waved strips may be
used singly, or two or more may be combined placed one upon another
either in the same direction or transversely to each other; or in

page_text: combination with the waved strips flat strips may be used. In this case
slots will be required to keep them in their places but the others may bo
secured by rivets.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Winram in the Great Seal Patent Office on i
the 11th October 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, George
WINRAM, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Cashier, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her 1
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of April, One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-fifth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said George Winram, Her special license that I, the said George
Winram, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others 1
as I, the said George Winram, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle
of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SPRING MATTRESSES AND
SEATINGS," upon the condition, amongst others, that I, the said George
Winram, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Winram, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
he performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement and accompanying Drawings, that is to say :—
My Invention refers to the construction of mattresses and seatings by
the use of strips of metal. These strips I bend into corrugations or

page_text: waves and secure them side by side to the frame to which they are
applied by means of any suitable attachment. The said strips may be
used singly, or two or more may be combined placed one upon another
either in the same direction or transversely to each other; or in combina-
tion with the said corrugated or waved strips flat strips may be used.
In the accompanying Drawing Fig. 1, 2, represents the most simple
arrangement I employ in carrying out my Invention. At a is a strip
of steel or other metal bent by any suitable ordinary means into a
corrugated or waved form, the ends as at 6 being provided with holes
and slots similar to those in use when ordinary straight, laths are
employed, and by which they are secured to the framework. of the
bedstead. A number of these corrugated or waved strips are placed side
by side and secured in the above-mentioned manner, thus constituting an
'elastic surface for the mattress or seating.
Figs. 3, 4, represent another arrangement, there being in this instance
two corrugated or waved strips a, a', placed against each other and
secured together by rivets c, the combined strips being placed at suitable
distances apart and secured to the frame. by the usual attachments as
above mentioned.
At Figs. 5, 6, is another form. In this instance the corrugated or
waved strip is shewn at a, rivetted at c to straight strips of metal
d, which are used in a similar manner to those above described.
Figs. 7, 8, represent on a larger scale the same arrangement
substantially; but in this instance the straight strip d is provided with
slots e, through which the rivets c pass loosely, and there is therefore a
play allowed beyond the elasticity of the metal.
Figs. 9, 10, shew a method of connecting the two strips a, d, together,
without rivets, there being a clamp or loopf bent over so as to embrace
the two parts, and this also allows the extra play admitted by the slots e.
In the Drawing these slots and clamps are adapted to the straight strips,
but both of the said strips may be corrugated as at Fig. 3.
Hitherto I have spoken of the strips of metal as extending side by side
along the bedstead or seating, but they may be interwoven by platting
them at right angles or at other angle to each other. This arrangement
is illustrated at Figs. 11, 12, and 13, the former being a plan view of the
mattress or seating, and the latter transverse sections. At a, are the
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page_text: corrugated longitudinal strips, single or combined, and at a³, transverse
strips passing over and under those shewn at a, after the manner of
plaiting, which as before stated may be effected at any desired angle,
and this plaited arrangement is that which I prefer.
:
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven- 5
tion, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it to
be understood that I claim as secured to me under the above in part recited
Letters Patent and for the aforesaid purposes,-The use of corrugated or
waived strips of metal either alone or combined with straight strips
extending in one or more direction across the bedstead or other frame 1
for mattresses and scatings. .
In witness, whereof, I, the said George Winram, have hereunto set
mw honi and se this Tenth day of
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