IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO BEDSTEADS FOR CARRYING SPRING MATTRESSES
Year: 1885

page_text: Mattresses.
We GEORGE WOODS 121 Bewsey Terrace Wire Manufacturer Warrington in tho
County of Lancaster, and EDWIN WOODS 175 Bewsey Road Wire Manufacturer
Warrington in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare, the nature of the said
invention for "IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO BEDSTEADS FOR CARRYING SPRING
MATTRESSES to be as follows:
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The object is to provide appliances for carrying and stretching spring mattresses
applicable to metal bedsteads of any usual construction.
Appliances under our invention consist essentially of stay pieces provided with
clips for attachment to the end and side rails and inade with projecting arms or
brackets, to which the mattress is attached, in combination with resistance pieces
stretching from one of the stay pieces and arms to another. The arms are provided.
with the usual attachment and screwing devices and one clip of each stay piece is
connected to an end rail, and the other to a side rail.

page_text: Mattresses.
We GEORGE WOODS 121 Bewsey Terrace, Wire Manufacturer Warrington in the
County of Lancaster and EDWIN WOODS 175 Bewsey Road, Wire Manufacturer,
Warrington in the County of Lancaster 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 :-
The object is to provide appliances for carrying and stretching spring mattresses
applicable to metal bedsteads of any usual construction.
Appliances under our invention consist essentially of stay pieces provided with
clips for attachment to the end and side rails and made with projecting arms or
brackets to which the mattress is attached in combination with resistance pieces
stretching from one of the stay pieces and arms to another. The arms are provided
with the usual attachment and securing devices and one clip of each stay piece is
connected to an end rail, and the other to a side rail.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is an elevation and Fig. 2 a plan of appliances under our invention, a end
rails, b side rails c corner posts of bedstead, d wire or equivalent mattress of any
suitable construction connected in any usual way to end pieces e. f. are stays
provided with clips g. h. which are attached to the end and side rails as shown.
The clip g for the end rail shown more particularly in Figs 3 & 4 is fitted with a
movable piece i. to allow of it being used with rails of different depths. On the
said stay pieces are projecting arms, or brackets j. k. which carry the mattress.
The brackets j. terminate in books which pass through holes in one of the end
pieces e of the mattress. The brackets k terminate in eyes through which bolts
pass and take into nuts in the other end piece of the mattress. m are resistance
pieces which extend from one set of stays and brackets at the head to another set
at the foot of the bed. The resistance pieces are held in position at one end by
fitting over a pin n and at the other end by taking into one of the teeth of a rack o
the object of which is to allow for adjustment according to the length of the bed.
Four stay pieces are used, two for the head and two for the foot in combination
with two resistance pieces. In cot and small beds the stay pieces and brackets
may be used without the resistance pieces. It will be observed that by constructing
the attachments as shown any strain on the mattress is distributed over the end
and side rails and resistance pieces, thus preventing the frame from being twisted
or distorted.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is
First. Stay pieces provided with clips and arms, or brackets substantially as

page_text: Second. The combination with stay pieces provided with clips and arms or
brackets of resistance pieces substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Third. The combination with the clips and stay pieces of the movable piece i
for the purpose set forth.
Fourth. The combination of the stay-pieces / clips g h and pins n or teeth o
substantially as set forth.
Fifth. The combination with a bedstead of appliances substantially as herein
set forth.