Improvements in and connected with Metallic Bedsteads and Cots.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Sept., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 29th June, 1899-Accepted, 29th July, 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Metallic Bedsteads and Cots.
We, THOMAS WATERHOUSE, HARRY PHILIP PHILLIPS, and GERALD ALBERT
PHILLIPS, trading together as Phillips & Son, of Speedwell Works, Sherborne
Street, in the City of Birmingham, Metallic Bedstead and Safe Manufacturers,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to metallic bedsteads and cots and the means for
securing woven wire or like mattresses or bed bottoms thereto.
We will describe this invention in connection with a metallic bedstead our
invention being similarly applied to metallic cots.
In carrying out this invention each of the two pillars at the head of the bed-
stead has cast to it a lug at a short distance above the corner casting which latter
receives the side bars or tubes of the bedstead. These two lugs are connected
together by a cross tube or rod cast in them and they are cast as eyes to receive
'the tightening screws at the end of the mattress and these eyes are so arranged
as to bring the head of the screw in such a position that the key or spanner will
clear the corner chill. The corner pillars at the foot of the bedstead have lugs
cast with them connected together by a cross bar or tube similarly to the head
of the bedstead, but these lugs at the foot of the bedstead are by preference made
with their eyes vertical to receive the ends of hooked bolts or pins which are
fixed to the cross bar of the mattress..
By making the bedstead as above described we are enabled to dispense with
the end angle irons which are usually cast with the corner chills.
Dated this 28th love of Santumhan 1908
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.
Improvements in and connected with Metallic Bedsteads and Cots.
We, THOMAS WATERHOUSE, HARRY PHILIP PHILLIPS, and GERALD ALBERT
PHILLIPS, trading together as Phillips & Son, of Speedwell Works, Sherborne
Street, in the City of Birmingham, Metallic Bedstead and Safe Manufacturers,
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:―
This invention has reference to metallic bedsteads and cots and the means for
securing woven wire or like mattresses or bed bottoms thereto.
We will describe this invention by referring to the accompanying drawings
which illustrates our invention as applied to a metallic bedstead but it will be
understood however that our invention is similarly applicable to metallic cots.
Fig. 1 is a general view of a metallic bedstead constructed in accordance with this
invention ready to receive the woven wire or like mattress or bed bottom; Fig. 2 is a

page_text: sectional side elevation of portions of the said metallic bedstead and mattress;
Fig. 3 is a plan of the parts represented by Fig. 2. Figs. 2 and 3 are drawn on
a larger scale than is Fig. 1.
The same letters of, reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.
In carrying out, this invention each of the two pillars A1 A2 at the head of
the bedstead has cast to it a lug B these lugs B B are situate at a short distance
above or formed in a piece with the corner castings CC.which receive the side
bars D D or side tubes of the bedstead. These two lugs B B are connected
together by a cross tube or rod E which is cast in them and they are each cast
with an eye b¹ which eyes receive the tightening screws F at the end G₁ of the
mattress and these eyes 6¹ are so arranged (see Figs. 2 and 3) as to bring the
head of the screw F in such a position that the key or spanner when turned
with the screw will clear the corner chill C. The corner pillars A³ A+ at the foot
of the bedstead have lugs H H cast with them connected together by a cross bar
or tube I similarly as above described with reference to the head of the bedstead
but these lugs H H at the foot of the bedstead are by preference made with
their eyes h¹ vertical to receive the end portions of the two hook-bolts or pins J
which are fixed to the cross piece G2 at the foot of the bedstead.
It will be seen that the woven wire or like mattress or bed bottom is very
readily connected to the bedstead by inserting the end of the two hook bolts J
in the eyes h¹ at the foot of the bedstead and then passing the screws F through
61 and through the cross bar G and screwing them up in the usual
the eyes
nuts.f².
It will be understood that if desired the lugs H H at the foot of the bedstead
may have their eyes h¹ h¹ horizontal to fix the cross piece G2 thereto by horizontal
bolts in the same way that the cross bar G¹ at the head of the mattress is securod
to the eye b¹¹ of the lugs B B.
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By making the bedstead as above described we are enabled to dispense with
the end angle irons which are usually cast with the corner chills.
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:-
1. In a metallic bedstead or cot and in combination with the pillars of the
same, lugs such as B B HH cast on said pillars above or in a piece with the
corner chills and formed with eyes h¹ h¹ to receive the connecting screws or
pins of the woven wire or like mattress or bed bottom, the said two eyes at the
head and the two eyes at the foot of the bedstead or cot being respectively
connected together by the cross tubes or bars E I cast therein so as to dispense
with the usual end angle irons, all substantially as herein described and illus-
trated by the accompanying drawings.
2. The combination of a metallic bedstead or cot having lugs BB H H cast
with its corner pillars above or in apiece with the corner chills said lugs having
eyes b¹¹h¹ h¹ connected together by the tubes or bars E I cast with them instead
of the usual angle irons as denoted under Claim 1, and a woven wire or like
mattress or bed bottom having its end cross piece connected to the foot of the
bedstead or cot by hooked pins J fixed on said cross piece and engaging in the
eyes h¹ h¹ and the cross piece at the head of the mattress or bed bottom connected
to the head of the bedstead or cot by two tightening screws which are passed
through and take against the eyes 66 all substantially as hereinbefore described
and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated the 28th day of June 1899.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.