Year: 1895

page_text: I, ADELBERT HENRY GALE, of Compton Road, in Waterville, in the County
of Compton, in the Province of Quebec and Dominion of Canada, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention, to be as follows:-
My invention relates to spring mattresses.
Two side-rails support two end-rails to form an adjustable supporting frame for
a woven wire fabric. One of said end-rails is supported adjustably end wise in
relation to the side-rails. The means of support for said end-rails consist of
brackets, each having a tail end extending down the end of the side-rail to which
it is secured by screws, a bearing surface raised above the upper face of the side-
rail and a downwardly extending end with a flat foot which is secured upon the
upper surface of the side-rail. One pair, carrying the non-adjustable end-rail has
its short end extended a little above the bearing surface to form an abutment, the
rail being bolted to the bearing surface. The other pair is provided with means
of adjustment, each having in its bearing surface two slots and being fitted with a
sliding piece on the underside having a neck projecting through the inner slot
which carries an upwardly projecting abutment, while the tail end of said sliding
piece extends under the rearward slot where it is provided with an eye through
which passes the bolt by which the end-rail is secured to said sliding piece. On the
outer face of the short end of the bracket is a facing with a screw threaded
perforation through which passes a bolt which bears on the inner end of the sliding
piece.
The woven wire fabric is composed of coiled wires extending transversely from
side to side, the coils being of any desired shape, circular, oval or with flat tops
and bottoms and rounded ends and may be interspaced with coils of thinner or
thicker wire or with multiple wire coils to increase or diminish at pleasure the
elasticity of the fabric in certain places. Each side edge is caught in longitudinal
coils of stronger or multiple thin wires. The ends of the fabric are caught in
suitable hooks of any desired shape adapted to be readily linked to the supports
by which the fabric is secured to the end rails.
Said supports are elastic and of such a nature as to yield both vertically and
longitudinally while they also permit the woven fabric to extend as far as may be
over the end-rails. For this purpose springs are used which may be of wire or
flat steel and which take essentially the form of a C. These are secured either to
the upper or lower surfaces of the end-rails and pass around the outer edge of the
latter, rising with their upper hooked ends above the upper surface of said rails,
said hooked ends receiving the hooks at the end of the fabric or engaging the ends
of the fabric direct.
Dated this 20th day of Sentember A D 1895
ADELBERT HENRY GALE,
Per A. Harvey,
His Agent.

page_text: Improvements in Spring Mattresses.
1, ADELBERT HENRY GALE, of Compton Road, in Waterville, in the County
of Compton, in the Province of Quebec and Dominion of Canada, Manufacturer,
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 :-
My invention relates to spring mattresses.
Two side-rails support two end-rails to form an adjustable supporting frame for
a woven wire fabric. One of said end-rails is supported adjustably endwise in
relation to the side-rails. The means of support for said end-rails consist of
brackets, each having a tail end extending down the end of the side-rail to which
it is secured by screws, a bearing surface raised above the upper face of the side-
rail and a downwardly extending end with a flat foot which is secured upon the
upper surface of the side-rail. One pair, carrying the non-adjustable end-rail has
its short end extended a little above the bearing surface to form an abutment, the
rail being bolted to the bearing surface. The other pair is provided with means
of adjustment, each having in its bearing surface two slots and being fitted with a
sliding piece on the underside having a neck projecting through the inner slot
which carries an upwardly projecting abutment, while the tail end of said sliding
piece extends under the rearward slot where it is provided with an eye through
which passes the bolt by which the end-rail is secured to said sliding piece. On
the outer face of the short end of the bracket is a facing with a screw threaded
perforation through which passes a bolt which bears on the inner end of the
sliding piece.
The woven wire fabric is composed of coiled wires extending transversely from
side to side, the coils being of any desired shape, circular, oval or with flat tops
and bottoms and rounded ends and may be interspaced with coils of thinner or
thicker wire or with multiple wire coils to increase or diminish at pleasure the
elasticity of the fabric in certain places. Each side edge is caught in longitudinal
coils of stronger or multiple thin wires. The ends of the fabric are caught in
suitable hooks of any desired shape adapted to be readily linked to the supports
by which the fabric is secured to the end rails.
Said supports are elastic and of such a nature as to yield both vertically and
longitudinally while they also permit the woven fabric to extend as far as may be
over the end-rails. For this purpose springs are used which may be of wire or
flat steel and which take essentially the form of a C. These are secured either to
the upper or lower surfaces of the end-rails and pass around the outer edge of the
latter, rising with their upper hooked ends above the upper surface of said rails,
said hooked ends receiving the hooks at the end of the fabric or engaging the ends
of the fabric direct.
Referring to my invention more in detail,
Fig. 1 is a top view of my improved spring mattress.
Fig. 2 is a side view of the same.
Figs. 3 and 4 are perspective views on a larger scale of the brackets carrying
the end-rails, the one stationary and the other adjustably.
Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the sliding piece.
Fig. 6 is a cross section on a larger scale of one of the end-rails with spring
attached, carrying the woven wire fabric and in which example the coils of woven
wire are circular.
Fig. 7 shows an example of woven wire made of coils with round ends and flat
tops and bottoms.

page_text: Fig. 8 shows an example of woven wire made of oval coils.
Figs. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 & 14 show modifications of the end-springs.
Figs. 15, 16 & 17 show modifications of the hooks by which the woven wire
fabric is attached to the end springs.
Fig. 18 shows the end coil hooked direct to the end springs and
Figs. 19 and 20 show modified end hooks for the sides.
A rectangular frame is formed by two side-rails, A. A and two end or cross
rails B B secured to the former by means of two pairs of brackets C C', the one
stationary and the other adjustably, as shown in Figs. 1 23 and 4. The brackets C
and C, Figs. 3 and 4, consist each of a bearing surface c elevated above the upper
surface of the side-rail upon which the end-rail is supported and having an outer
leg c' extending down the end of the side rail to which it is secured by screws or
other convenient manner and an inner short leg extending to the upper surface
of the side rail and having a flat foot cl which is secured to the rail by screws or
in some other convenient manner, said foot and outer leg being provided with
suitable perforations for that purpose. A side web co may be provided to give
strength and a solid appearance to the bracket. The brackets C for the stationary
rail have their inner short legs, which in both are preferably sloped a little,
extended a little upwards above the surface of the bearing surface to form an
abutment c4 for the end rail B. The bearing surface is provided with a perfora-
tion 2 through which the cross rail is bolted thereto. The brackets C¹, for the
adjustable rail, have each their bearing surface provided with two slots 3 and 4,
the inner slot 3 extending to the short leg c" and serving as a guide for the
upturned neck of a sliding piece C 5 held at the bottom of the bearing surface and
projecting with a head c5, passed through said slot, above said surface and forming
an abutment for the cross-rail. The tail end of said sliding piece extends under
the outer slot 4 and is there provided with a perforation 5 through which passes
the bolt which secures the cross rail to it. The short leg c" is provided with a
hub 6 having a screw threaded perforation through which passes an adjusting
screw C6 which bears against the inner end of the sliding piece and is adapted to
push it outwardly and with it the cross rail attached to it and so increase the
tension of the fabric.
The woven wire fabric, D, consists of coiled wires running transversely from
side to side, i.e. from side-rail to side-rail, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 15, 16 and 17,
the ends of the coils being caught in a longitudinal coil, d, of multiple wires or in
multiple coils, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, & 15. The coils of this fabric may be of
circular shape, as shown in Fig. 6, or they may have flat tops and bottoms, as D¹
in Fig. 7, or may be oval as D in Fig. 8. To reinforce the fabric in certain
places where it is subjected to greater strains than in other places, one or more of
the coils, as D in Fig. 1, may be of thicker wire or the coils may be of multiple
wires, as D 4. Or in places where more or less elasticity is required, thinner
wires, D5, may be used. The ends of the fabric, i.e. the end coils, may he
caught, several convolutions together, in hooks of any desired shape, such as the
U-hook E, Figs. 1 and 6, and these again, in pairs by V-hooks F and F as in
Fig. 1, or direct by end springs as in Fig. 15. Or single hooks (i.e. without
V hooks) of greater range and different shapes may be used, as E E and Ein
Figs. 15, 16 and 17, of which E', Fig. 15, is similar to E, except being longer and
having its eyes turned. For each corner it may be preferable to employ a special,
one sided hook, such as E4 and E5 in Figs. 19 and 20.
To each end or cross rail B is attached a series of springs, G, which may take
different shapes, but which are essentially C-shaped, as shown in Fig. 6 or as
shown in modified shapes at G G G G4 G5 and G6 in Figs. 9, 10, 11, 12,
13 and 14 and each of which carries one of the hooks E to E 6, or two or more of
the convolutions of the end coil of the fabric D direct, as shown in Fig. 18.
These springs may be of wire, as G¹ G
flat steel as G, or plain flat steel as G
of the cross rail as in Figs. 6, 11, 12, 13
and G4 or of specially shaped (tapering)
G5 and G6 and be secured to the bottom
and 14 or to the top and coiled around

page_text: the outer edge, as in Fig. 9 or rising direct from the top as in Fig. 10. In all
cases, however, the head rises well above the top of the rail, so as to carry the
fabric clear of the rail and yield both in a vertical and horizontal direction. By
means of these end springs it becomes practicable to allow the length of the fabric
to extend over the end- or cross-rails and thus employ a greater length of the same
while the strains, as with other springs, remain localized.
The adjusting screws C 6 afford the means to increase or decrease the tension of
the fabric D if desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1. In a spring mattress, the combination of a pair of side rails, a bracket
secured to one end of each side-rail adapted to carry a stationary end- or cross
rail, a bracket secured to the other end of each side-rail adapted to carry an end-
or cross rail adjustably, an end- or cross rail secured to each pair of said brackets,
a series of end-springs secured to each end- or cross rail having their upper ends
above the upper surface and approximately even with the outer edge of said end-
rails so as to have a vertical and horizontal motion and adapted to engage and
bold the end coil of a woven wire fabric by means of hooks, a woven wire fabric
consisting of coils running transversely from side to side and having their ends
caught in longitudinal coils and the end coils of which are secured to the end-springs
by means of hooks, substantially as set forth.
2. In a spring mattress, the combination of a pair of side rails and a pair of
end- or cross rails secured thereto by means of brackets and forming a rectangular
frame therewith, brackets secured to the ends of the side rails and carrying said
cross rails and each consisting of a bearing surface raised above the upper surface
of the side rail and having one leg extended down the end of said side rail and
another short leg with a flat foot secured to the upper surface of said side rail, a
sliding piece fitted to the underside of each of one pair of said brackets carrying
one of the cross rails each turned up and projecting through a slot in said bearing
surface and having a head above said bearing surface forming an abutment for
the cross rail which is bolted to the tail end of said sliding piece through
another slot in said bearing surface and an adjusting screw threaded in the short
end of said bracket and bearing against said sliding piece, substantially as set
forth.
3. In a bracket for spring mattresses adapted to carry the end rail adjustably,
the combination of a bearing surface raised above the surface to which it is to be
secured, a leg extending down the end of the rail to which it is to be secured, a
short end extending to the upper surface of said rail and provided with a flat foot
bearing upon said surface and adapted to be secured thereto, two slots in said
bearing surface, a sliding piece on the underside of said bearing surface having an
upturned neck projecting through the slot near the short end of said bracket and
having a projecting head forming an abutment for the cross rail and a tail end
with a bolt hole under the other slot through which the bolt securing the cross
rail passes, a perforated and threaded hub on the short end of the bracket and an
adjusting bolt passing through said threaded hub and bearing against the end of
said sliding piece, substantially as set forth.
4. In a spring mattress, the combination of a pair of side-rails, a bracket
secured to one end of each side-rail adapted to carry a stationary end- or cross
rail, a bracket secured to the other end of each side-rail adapted to carry an end-
or cross rail adjustably, an end- or cross rail secured to each pair of said brackets,
a series of end-springs secured to each end- or cross rail having their upper ends
above
upper surface and approximately even with the outer edge of said end-
rails so to have a vertical and horizontal motion and adapted to engage hooks,
hooks held by said end springs and their shanks engaging the ends of U-shaped
books, -shaped hooks jassing through two or more convolutions of the end-coils

page_text: of a woven wire fabric and having their ends engaged by hooks attached to the
end-springs, and a woven wire fabric consisting of coils running transversely or
from side to side and having their ends caught in longitudinal coils and having at
intervals coils of more or less strength or resistance than the other coils and having
its end coils engaged by hooks, substantially as set forth.
5. In a woven wire spring mattress, the combination of a woven wire fabric
composed of interlocked coiled wires running transversely or from side to side, a
longitudinal multiple wire coil taking up the ends of the coils, a series of end
springs approximately C-shaped holding the end coils, hooks interposed between
said end springs and end coils and each passing through several convolutions and
end rails suitably supported to which said end springs are secured to support said
fabric above their surface, substantially as set forth.
Dated this 30th day of April A.D. 1896.
ADELBERT HENRY GALE,
Per A. Harvey,
His Agent.