AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO METALLIC BEDSTEADS, COUCHES, CHAIRS, AND SUCH OTHER ARTICLES AS ARE OR MAY BE USED FOR SITTING, LYING, AND RECLINING UPON
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Bollmann Upfill, of Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, and William Brown,
of Birmingham, aforesaid, Foreman to the said Thomas Bollmann
Upfill, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS
APPLICABLE TO METALLIC BEDSTEADS, COUCHES, CHAIRS, AND SUCH OTHER
ARTICLES AS ARE OR MAY BE USED FOR SITTING, LYING, AND RECLINING
UPON."
Sealed the 11th November 1853, and date:l the 6th September 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Bollmann
Upfill and William Brown at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 6th September 1853.
WC, THOMAS BOLLMANN UPFILL, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturer, and WILLIAM BROWN, of Birmingham
aforesaid, Foreman to the said Thomas Bollmann Upfill, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT OR
IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO METALLIC BEDSTEADS, COUCHES, CHAIRS, AND
SUCH OTHER ARTICLES AS ARE OR MAY BE USED FOR SITTING, LYING, AND
RECLINING UPON," to be as follows:-
Our Invention consists of a new or improved method or new or im-

page_text: proved methods of connecting the laths or strips of sheet iron which
form the sacking of metallic bedsteads, &c., with the angle or other
iron forming the sides and top and bottom of the frame on which the
bed rests. Fig. 1, represents a vertical section of our Invention; and
Fig. 2, represents the same in plan. a, is the angle iron (or other iron)
which the lath b, is attached; hooks or tongues c, c, are cut at suitable
intervals on the said angle iron, and the lath is attached thereto by the
said hook or tongue passing through a hole in the said lath. The
tongue c, is formed by cutting a rectangular or other shaped piece from
the iron a, leaving the same attached by one side, and bending the same
out of the plane of the said iron.
We sometimes make the hook or tongue on the lath, and hook it to a
hole in the angle iron, but we prefer the method represented of carrying
our Invention into effect.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Bollmann Upfill and William Brown
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 6th March 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we,
THOMAS BOLLMANN UPFILL, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Manufacturer, and WILLIAM BROWN, of Birmingham aforesaid, Fore-
man to the said Thomas Bollmann Upfill, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the seven-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Thomas Bollmann Upfill and William
Brown, Her special licence that we, the said Thomas Bollman Upfill
and William Brown, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as we, the said Thomas Bollmann Upfill and William
Brown, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great

page_text: Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention
for "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO METALLIC. BEDSTEADS,
COUCHES, CHAIRS, AND SUCH OTHER ARTICLES AS ARE OR MAY BE USED FOR
SITTING, LYING, AND RECLINING UPON," upon the condition (amongst others)
that we, the said Thomas Bollmann Upfill. and William Brown,
by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, or under the
hand and seal of one of us, 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 Thomas Bollmann Upfill, on
behalf of myself and the said William Brown, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:
Our Invention consists in a new or improved method (herein-after
particularly described) of connecting the laths or strips of sheet iron or
other metal, which form the sacking of metallic bedsteads, to the sides
and top and bottom of the frame on which the bed rests. Our said
Invention is also applicable to the sacking, or seats of couches, chairs,
and such other articles as are or may be used for sitting, lying, and
reclining upon.
.
Figure 1, of the accompanying Drawing represents in vertical
section a portion of the frame and laths (or sacking) of a metallic
bedstead constructed according to our Invention; and Figure 2,
represents the same in plan. a, is the frame of the bedstead, which
may be made of angle iron, as represented, or of other suitably formed
metallic bar. b, b, are the laths or strips of sheet iron or other metal
which constitute the sacking, which said laths are connected to the
said framing in the following manner :-Hooks or tongues c, c, are
formed on the framing a, by cutting or partially detaching portions of
the said framing, and raising the partially detached pieces from the
plane of the framing, as will be understood by an examination of the
Drawing. The said hooks or tongues are cut out of the said framing
by methods which are well understood and commonly practised, and

page_text: which constitute no part of our Invention; we, therefore, do not con-
sider it necessary to describe the same. The laths are provided at
their ends with perforations of the form represented in the separate
view of the end of a lath, Figure 3. In attaching the laths, the wide
part of the hole in the lath is placed over the head of the hook or
tongue and depressed thereon. The said lath is then drawn on the said
tongue or hook until the narrow part of the hole is brought under the
neck of the hook or tongue, as represented in Figures 1, and 2, when
the fastening is complete.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention, and the
manner of carrying the same into effect, we wish it to be understood
that we do not limit ourselves to the precise method of carrying the
same into effect herein described and represented in the accompanying
Drawing, as the same may be varied without departing from the nature
of our said Invention; for example, although we prefer making the
tongues in the framing and the holes in the laths of the shapes repre-
sented and described, yet we do not confine ourselves thereto, as other
shapes may be adopted with the same or nearly the same effect; but
we claim as our Invention attaching the laths to the framing of
metallic bedsteads, couches, chairs, and such other articles as are or
may be used for sitting, lying, and reclining upon, by piercing or
cutting hooks or tongues out of the said framing, and making the said
hooks take into or engage in holes formed in the said laths, as herein-
before described and illustrated by the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Bollmann Upfill, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fourth day of March,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-
fone
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
THOMAS BOLLMANN UPFILL. (L.S.)