Improvements in Wire Mattresses and their Frames, also Wire Mattresses for Bedstead Bottoms without Frames.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Mar., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 18th Dec., 1891-Accepted, 5th Mar., 1392
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wire Mattresses and their Frames, also Wire
Mattresses for Bedstead Bottoms without Frames.
WILLIAM WATERHOUSE and THOMAS WALLEY BLANTERN Mattress Manu-
facturers of Acocks Green, in the County of Worcester do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention has for its object improvements in wire mattresses and their frames
also for bedstead bottoms which I describe as follows.
In making the wire mattress we put on each side and in the middle of the wire
webbing, cables," we may put one on each side, and one in the middle or we may
put two or more on each side and two or more in the middle. The cables are
constructed of several strands of one or more wires. We put as many wires in each
strand as is necessary.
We then thread each strand into each other which makes a
flat strip we then connect or unite the two outside strands by a single strand this
then makes the outside of the cable which is similar to a wire rope, in the centre of
each cable to make it cushionable we insert a solid piece of india rubber tube or
solid india rubber, leather or hempen cord or other substance which we think is
suitable for our purpose or we insert a strand of wire, similar to one of the outer
strands with which we have formed the cable we then attach the web, to one or
more strands, of the cable, and put as before described at the sides and middle,
preferably in the middle and sides.
In describing our improved frame, for the above mattress or any other mattress
we may at present construct we make 4 corner castings in which we have 4 holes
("suitable for what we require, preferably round but other shapes may be used ")
at the bottom part of each casting in which we slip or push in a tube made of steel
iron or brass or coated with brass or other metals or electro'd any colour, and on
this tube we put a thread, at one or both ends, with circular or other shaped nuts
preferably circular and on one side or end of the nuts we put notches or spaces for
adjusting purposes to screw on the tubes which push the corner castings outwards,
thereby tighting up the mattress.
And also at the bottom or underneath of each corner casting we cast spaces in
which we insert a piece or flat or other shaped rubber to suit our purpose this we
call a cushion, this cushion prevents any connection between the iron bedstead and
the castings.
of Mach 1801
WILLIAM WATERHOUSE,
Acocks Green.
THOMAS WALLEY BLANTERN.

page_text: Improvements in Wire Mattresses and their Frames, also Wire
Mattresses for Bedstead Bottoms without Frames.
WILLIAM WATERHOUSE and THOMAS WALLEY BLANTERN Mattress Manu-
facturers of Acocks Green, in the County of Worcester 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 relates to that class of mattresses which are made of spiral wires
woven into each other.
Our object is to produce a mattress or mattresses, of unusual strength, cheaply
made and possessing a handsome appearance without adding extra weight.
..
For full comprehension, however, of the invention reference must be made, to
annexed drawings, in which the invention is clearly illustrated.
The mesh or fabric is preferably made of spiral or coiled wires, all running in
the same direction and intertwined into each other as illustrated in Figs. 1-2-3-
4-5-6-7-8 & 9.
Fig. 1 is shown with 5 cables, B B B B B two at each edge, and one in the
centre, A A A A A are centre spirals or coils of wire made similar to the mesh,
into these centre spirals or coils other spirals or coils may be interwoven till we
form what we shall call a cable. These cables are fixed on to or into the woven
wire mesh or fabric always at the edges, and when we require them at any other
part of the mesh or fabric either underneath or on top as in Figs. 1, 5 & 7.
The centres or cores A A A A A may be made solid as shown in Figs. 4 & 5,
and these centres or cores may be made of india rubber cord, gutta percha cord
hemp or cotton cord, or twisted wire cordage. We should also use india rubber tube
or gutta percha tube. We may also use felt any substance will answer our purpose
which we think suitable instead of the coils or spirals of wire at A A A A A
letters CCCC, represents the general web, or fabric.
Fig. 2 is illustrated with 3 cables, B B B but with a flat substance instead of a
round or tubular core or centre we can use also flat hollow or tubular centres for
this also if necessary, as Fig. 1 A A A A A.
Fig. 3 is shown with 4 cables, B B B B as illustrated this may also have solid
cores or centres, as Figs. 4 & 5.
Fig. 4 is shown with 3 cables B B B this may have centres of spiral or coils of
wire instead of solid cores or centres as at A A A.
Fig. 5 is shown with 3 cables B B B with solid centres A. A. A and the cables
are fixed or fastened underside the mesh or fábric. The cables of all the figs. may
be made independent from the mesh or mattress but preferably we fix them to the
mattress as shown in illustrations Figs. 1 to 9.
Fig. 6 is formed differently to any of the other figs. B1 B1 are parts of the
mattress web or mesh rolled over till it forms a cable, this cable can either be fixed
or fastened in position or not as required. B 2 is a separate peice of web, fixed or
fastened on each side to the web or fabric C C, and inside the separate peice of
web B 2. We enclose centres A A A A these may be more than four as illustration
or less as required and these centres A A A A may be spirals or coils of wire.
Tubular or solid substances as required to suit our purpose and these cables
are fixed under the mattress as shown and there may be one
required.
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or more as
Fig. 7 is shown with 5 cablės B B B in the centre, and B 3 B 3, at each edge or
side of mattress in this illustration we put the cables B 3 B 3 on the top of each side
of the web or fabric, and B B B at the underside. The centres or cores of each
cable A A A A A are shown with spiral wires, but these centres or cores may solid
or otherwise as required.
Fig. 8 is shown with nine cables B5 B5 BBB B B on the underside and B 4 B4

page_text: on the top side. This illustration also shows spiral or coil'd wire centres these also
may be solid or otherwise as required.
The outside edges of the web or fabric has a double cable B4 B 4 on the top side
& B5 B5 on the underside. It might be required to put all the cables on top side of
mattress, but preferably we fix under the mattress with one or more on each side on
the top side of mattress.
Fig. 9 is shown with 6 cables, all fixed on the underside of mattress C C, as
BBBBBB with spiral cores or centres as A A A A A A these cores or centres
may also be solid or not as required and the cables may not be put together as
We abandon
shown in illustration but any distance apart as we think necessary.
that part of our invention which relates to frames.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that we
are aware of the Specification of Letters Patent No. 17942 of A.D. 1889 granted
to Thomas Edmund Wale and Alfred Edmund Wale and we wish it to be
understood that we do not claim anything described and claimed therein but that
our invention is restricted to those forms of strengthening cables in which a core is
used and which cannot be regarded as made by the addition of strips of fabric
above or below or by turning over the edges; and what we claim is
1st. A woven wire mattress, composed of a series of spiral or coil wires, forming a
fabric or web, with cables, as shown. The cables may be on the top or bottom side
in any part of the web or fabric running in the same direction loose or fixed as
required.
2nd. A cable in any shape or form either flat or round or oblong.
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Jof December 1891
WILLIAM WATERHOUSE.
THOMAS WALLEY BLANTERN.