Improvements in Woven Wire Mattresses, Bedstead Bottoms, and other such Articles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 10th May, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 15th June, 1895-4ccepted, 20th July, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Woven Wire Mattresses, Bedstead Bottoms, and
other such Articles.
We GFORGE LANE, THOMAS MARK JEWITSON and HENRY JOHN LANT,
of Sterling Works Brueton Street Coleshill Street Bumingham in the County of
Warwick do hereby declare the nature of our invention to be as follows:-
Our invention has for its object improvements in woven wie matticsses bedstead
bottoms and other such articles and refers to the edges or other parts of the woven
Wire bottoms of such articles where a greater strain occurs which strain has to be
provided for in a special manner
In cauying our invention into effect we take a band of ordinary woven wiro
which has been moderately closely weaved and this band we turn over into a roll
along its whole length. At each edge of the band one two or more coiles are
interwoven with the band in such a manner that when the band or stup is turned
over into a roll the coils on each side are in line with each other thus allowing of a
closely coiled wire core being passed up their centre thereby locking the two sules
together. The ordinary coils of the mesh engage with one or both of the coils
forming the edges of the aforementioned roll. Before folding the strip over into a
roll we prefer to attach one two or more coils upon the surface of that side which
is to be the inner face when folded for the purpose of forming a packing or cushion
for the inside of the roll.
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GEO. LANE.
THOMAS MARK HEWITSON.
HENRY JOHN LANE.
Improvements in Woven Wire Mattresses, Bedstead Bottoms, ana
other such Artioles.
We, GEORGE LANE, THOMAS MARK HEWITSON, and HENRY JOHN LANE
of Sterling Works Bineton Street Coleshill Street Birmingham in the County
of Warwick Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what mauner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement
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Our invention has for its object improvements in woven wile mattresses bedstead
bottoms and other such articles and refers to the edges or other parts of the woven
wo bottoms of such articles where a greater strain occurs which strain has to be
provided for in a special manuel. In order that our invention may be clearly
understood and more easily into practise we have appended hereunto a sheet of
drawings upon which :-
Figure 1 is a sectional view of the mesh from which the bottoms are formed.
Figure 2 is a similar view with the edge of the mesh turned over.

page_text: Figure 3 is a diagram section of the edge of the mesh before being turned over.
Figure 4 is a similar diagram section shewing the mode of fastening the mesh
when tuned over.
Figure 5
position
an enlarged view of the mesh when turned over and fastened in
Figure 6 18 a section shewing a further application of our specially formed
edgos.
Figure 7 is a view of the cable E detached.
Figure 8 is a similar section to Figure 4 but shewing a modification.
Our invention consists of a sheet of ordiualy woven wire A of the length required
for the mattress and of slightly larger width Part of this sheet is formed at each
side into a band a' of somewhat closer weaving than the centre part with a coil a³
made up of one two or three ply on the outside. On the top or underneath the
band a¹ a coil consisting of one two or more ply or stands may be interwoven with
the mesh so as to project from its surface and the bands a¹ are then turned over
with the projecting coil a inside until the coil a' is in line and engages with the
coil a as shewn by Figuro 4 the two being then fastened together by the closely
woven hollow spiral coiled wire rope or cable E which is threaded through the
whole length of the two coils a³ aud a. Thus rope or cable E is preferably of the
formi shewn by Figure 7 in which a sufficient number of ply or stands are coiled
together in proportion to the pitch to form a continuous hollow cable with the
wires close togethon. The coil a' is not absolutely necessary to our improvement
as we may so turn over the mosh as to be particulary solid in itself as shena by
Figure 8.
The coil a which engages with the coil a may also be of one, two or more ply if
so desired and we may use two sheets of mesh A' and A' to form the one bottom in
which case the right hand edge of one sheet and the left hand edge of the other
sheet would be connected by a coil or coils of wire as shown by a Figure 6.
We do not confine ourselves to the particular kind of mesh A which may be
varied to any extent and parts may be more closely woven with bands of coils such
as a where desired for additional strength We may also vary the mode of
manufacture by forming the bands a rolling them up and securing them by the
cable E before we continue to weave the remainder of the mesh without departing
from the nature of our invention
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that we are
aware that it has been proposed to roll up the edges of mattress bottoms and we do
not therefore maka any general claim for this but what we do claim 18
The improvements in woven wire mattresses bedstead bottoms and other such
anticles consisting of rolling over the edges a' of the mesh A. and securing the same
in position by the wire-rope or cable E substantially as herin set forth and shewn
on the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 14th day of June 1895
GEO. LANE.
THOMAS MARK DEWITSON.
HENRY JOHN LANE.