Improvements in Means for Elevating and Securing Sackings or Mattresses to Bedstead Framings.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Oct., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 1st July, 1895-Accepted, 3rd Aug., 1895
Improvements in Means for Elevating and Securing Sackings or
Mattresses to Bedstead Framings.
I, FREDERICK HOSKINS, of the Firm of Hoskins and Sewell, of Bordesley, in
the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
:-
My invention relates to lifts or securing attachments for connecting woven wire
and other such distensible mattresses to the end rails or end framings of bedsteads,
and has for one of its objects, simply made and fitted attachments, and for another
of its objects, cheapness of production.
According to one part of my invention, the sacking ends are elevated above the
end members of a frame through the medium of post or pillar lifts, or through the
medium of stepped and infibulating lifts, or through the medium of bracket lifts,
attachedly connected to elevated end frame members.
In carrying out one form of my invention, of the type as first referred to in the
preceding paragraph, I fit or provide each of the end rails of an ordinary bedstead
framing with two, three or other number of attached pedestal or pillar brackets,
each cast around an axial and headed screw pin, directed downwardly through its
middle, with its lower screwed end passing through a hole in the horizontal web of
the angle frame and being there secured by a nut, and with its upper and headed
part, which stands away from the middle of the pedestal upper end, taking through
a hole or a key-hole shaped piercing in the stretcher bar of the sacking.
Thus, the sacking or mattress end bars are carried from and supported by
pedestal lifts, attachedly secured to the topside of the end members of an ordinary
framing.
As a modification, I may employ the pedestal brackets upon the undersides of the
sacking stretcher bars instead of from the frame of the bedstead, and with the head
ends of studs or pins, as before described, taking through key hole shaped piercings
in the said framing.
The connection of the pedestal lifts to the stretcher bars of the mesh may be
made by a screw nut taking upon the protruding screwed end of the pin.
In a further form of my invention, each of the attachable lift brackets is made
of a stepped or zig-zagged figure, that is, somewhat of the shape of a letter W,
with a turned-up and booked end, adapted to engage with the under boundary edge
of the vertical web of the end angle framing.
Thus, the after end of the bracket lies parallel with the back side of the vertical
web, with the hooked end coming thereunder, and with the forward stepped part
resting upon the horizontal part of the framing, from whence the bracket proceeds
first vertical, and then horizontally, which horizontal part has a hole through it,
through which a screw or other fixing expedient, passing through, or carried by,
the sacking stretcher bar, takes.
Each of the end framings are provided with two or more of such infibulating
and stepped brackets.
As a still further form of my invention, I provide each of the end rails of an
ordinary bedstead framing with two or more attached upright brackets, secured by
screw pins or equivalents, and with outstanding pegs or pins on the inside face of
the vertical web taking through holes horizontally directed through the upper parts
of the said brackets.

page_text: As a still further form, the end rails, or the end rail members, are elevated above
the plane of the sides, with the edge of the horizontal web of each angle framing
presented outwardly instead of inwardly, over which said horizontal web, hook-
ended bar attachments secured to the end stretcher bars of the sacking, take.
As a modification of the last-described form, the end of the horizontal web is
presented inwards as usual, and the hooked ends of the bar attachments are made
to take and infibulate within holes formed within the upper part of the vertical web
of an angle bar.
As a still further form, the end stretcher bars of the sacking carry two or other
number of headed stalks or pins, attachedly connected to the said stretchers by
screw pins, rivets or otherwise, and with the head ends adapted to engage laterally
with key-hole shaped piercings formed within the end angles of the bedstead
frame.
Dat this 20th day of Oatahan 1804
FREDERICK HOSKINS,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.
Improvements in Means for Elevating and Securing Sackings or
Mattresses to Bedstead Framings.
1, FREDERICK HOSKINS, of the Firm of Hoskins and Sewell, of Bordesley, in
the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer, 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:-
My invention relates to lifts or securing attachments for connecting woven wire
and other such distensible mattresses to the end rails or end framings of bedsteads,
and has for one of its objects, simply made and fitted attachments, and for another
of its objects, cheapness of production.
According to one part of my invention, the sacking ends are elevated above the
end members of a frame through the medium of post or pillar lifts, or through the
medium of stepped and infibulating lifts.
In carrying out one form of my invention, of the type as first referred to in the
preceding paragraph, I fit or provide each of the end rails of an ordinary bedstead
Framing with two, three or other number of attached pedestal or pillar brackets,
each cast around an axial and headed screw pin, directed downwardly through its
middle, with its lower screwed end passing through a hole in the horizontal web of
the angle frame and being there secured by a nut, and with its upper and headed
part, which stands away from the middle of the pedestal upper end, taking through
a hole or a key-hole shaped piercing in the stretcher bar of the sacking.
Thus, the sacking or mattress end bars are carried from and supported by
pedestal lifts, attachedly secured to the topside of the end members of an ordinary
framing.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a longitudinal vertical section
of a bedstead with one end of the sacking elevated above the sides and ends by
pillar lifts attachedly connected to the end angle framings, in accordance with the
described form of my invention.
Figure 2 represents an end part of the bedstead upon an enlarged scale, showing
one of pillar lifts in section, and Figure 3 is a topside plan thereof.
Figure 4 is a topside plan of an end of the angle iraming, with the lift removed
and showing the pin in section.
Figure 5 is a plan of the angle framing which carries the sacking lifts and
Figure 6 represents a plan of the sacking bar at the corresponding end.

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In Figures 1 to 6, a is the bedstead: framing, consisting of sides a¹, and ends a²,
and with the angle framings of the end a fitted with attachedly connected pedestal
bracket or pillar lifts b, cast around a central pin b', whose upper end is headed
at 62, and its lower end, screwed, and adapted to take through a central hole a
and side holes a, made through the top web of the angle framing and are secured
by nuts 6, taking upon the underside of the angle frame. The hole a' is of a size
suitable for the inner end of the pin to take through, whilst the holes a³, are
elongated in the direction of the angle framings, so as to admit of the easy passing
of the holes e, of the sacking bar c, attached to one end of the sacking 2, over the
heads of the pins, as represented in Figure 3.
The end a³, is supported from an elevated angle bar a³, through holes a®, in
which, the shanks of tensioning or tightening screw pins a, pass, with the worm
parts taking through screw boxes as, connected with the sacking bar c³, at that end
of the sacking.
As a modification, I may carry the pedestal brackets upon the undersides of the
sacking stretcher bars instead of from the frame of the bedstead, and with the head
ends of studs or pins, as before described, taking through key-hole shaped piercings
in the said framing.
The connection of the pedestal lifts to the stretcher bars of the mesh may be
made by a screw nut taking upon the protruding screwed end of the pin or the
connection may be the same as in the preceding arrangement.
Figure 7 represents a section of a pedestal sacking lift so carried by the sacking
bar instead of by the angle framing. a² is the angle end and b is the pedestal lift
cast around the pin b', and attached to the sacking bar c, by a screw nut 64, whilst
connection between the lift and the angle frame is effected by a head 62, at the
lower end of the pin taking through a hole a, in the said angle frame.
In a further form of my invention, each of the attachable lift brackets is made
of a stepped or zig-zagged figure with a turned-up and hooked end, adapted to
engage with the under boundary edge of the vertical web of the end angle
framing.
Thus, the after end of the bracket lies parallel with the back side of the vertical
web, with the hooked end coming thereunder, and with the forward stepped part
resting upon the horizontal part of the framing, from whence the bracket proceeds
vertical, and which vertical part carries a suitable means for the connection of the
sacking bar.
Each of the end framings are provided with two or more of such infibulating
and stepped brackets.
Figure 8 represents an elevation of such a stepped and hooked-ended connection
bracket.
a² is the angle frame and b is the bracket with a hooked end 66, taking under the
vertical web of the said angle rail a², which is gapped at a³ (see Figure 9) so as to
confine the brackets in position. * is a headed pin, around which the pedestal is
cast and by which the connection of the sacking bar is effected.
As a further form, the end rails, or the end rail members, are elevated above
the plane of the sides, with the edge of the horizontal web of each angle framing
presented outwardly instead of inwardly, over which said horizontal web, hook-
ended attachments of pedestals or brackets secured to the end stretcher bars of
the sacking, take.
Figure 10 represents in elevation, an arrangement such as last described.
is the sacking bar and the pedestal, with the hooked end 65, taking over the
edge of the horizontal web of the angle bar a².
As a modification of the last-described form, the end of the horizontal web is
presented inwards as usual, and the hooked ends of the bar attachments are made
to take and infibulate within holes formed within the upper part of the vertical web
of an angle bar, as represented in Figure 11.
a² is the end angle framing with holes a³, in the vertical web, into which the
booked end 6, of the bracket connection b, takes.

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 :-
First. In bedsteads, elevating the sacking bars above, and attaching them to,
the end members of a bedstead frame through the medium of post or pillar lifts,
substantially as described and set forth in Figures 1 to 6.
Secondly. In bedsteads, elevating and attaching the sacking bars above and to
the end members of a hedstead frame through the medium of stepped and
infibulating or hook-ended bracket lifts, substantially as described and set forth in
Figures 8, 9, 10 and 11.
Thirdly. In the sacking bars of mattresses, providing the undersides of the
same with bracket lifts or pedestals for elevating them and effecting their attach-
ment to the end angle rails of a bedstead framing, substantially as described and
set forth in Figure 7.
Dated this 29th day of June 1895.
FREDERICK HOSKINS,
By Henry Skerrett,
24 Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.
FREDERICK HOSKINS,
By Henry Skerrett,
24 Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.