Means and Appliances for Enabling Spring Mattresses to be Converted into and Utilized as Bedsteads.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Feb., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 8th Nov., 1898-Accepted, 10th Dec., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Means and Appliances for Enabling Spring Mattresses to be Converted
into and Utilized as Bedsteads.
I, HORATIO MYER, of Surrey Iron Works, 83 to 97, Vauxhall Walk, Albert
Embankment, London, Bedstead Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for object, the utilization of a spring mattress as the bed-
stead proper, and this I effect by securing corner brackets or sockets in or to
the ordinary frames, and screw threading or angleizing such sockets for the
reception of legs with or without castors to rest on the floor of the room.
The legs may however be part of the sockets and these can have the necessary
flanges for attachment to the frame of the spring mattress. Again, the legs
or the sockets may have lugs for the attachment of tie rods to centre plates of
the frame to produce rigidity of the frame.
The sockets may be as outside corner plates affixed to the frame, and if of
cast metal, the screw nuts or the screws themselves may be inserted into the
mould for the metal to be cast around to the desired shape of the sockets pattern.
A headboard can be readily fitted in place.
1000
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Horatio Myer.
Means and Appliances for Enabling Spring Mattresses to be Converted
into and Utilized as Bedsteads.
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I, HORATIO MYER, of Surrey Iron Works, 83 to 97, Vauxhall Walk, Albert
Embankment, London, Bedstead Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particu-
larly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention has for object, the utilization of a spring mattress as the bed-
stead proper, and this I effect by securing corner brackets or sockets in or to
the ordinary frames, and screw threading or angleizing such sockets for the
reception of legs with or without castors to rest on the floor of the room.
The legs may however be part of the sockets, and these can have the necessary

page_text: flanges for attachment to the frame of the spring mattress. Again, the legs
or the sockets may have lugs for the attachment of tie rods to centre plates of
the frame to produce rigidity of the frame.
The sockets may be as outside corner plates affixed to the frame, and if of
cast metal, the screw nuts or the screws themselves may be inserted into the
mould for the metal to be cast around to the desired shape of the sockets pattern.
A headboard can be readily fitted in place.
My invention will be clearly understood by reference to the annexed drawings,
Figure 1 of which is a perspective elevation of a wire spring mattress converted
as aforesaid. Figure 2 side elevation partly in section on an enlarged scale,
and Figure 3 a plan of part of the foot or head portion.
For the purposes of my invention, the side rails A are shaped at the ends
to receive the cross or end rails B, B₁, which are firmly secured by bolts C.
One cross or end rail preferably the head rail B has the usual spring (spiral
or other) mattress D secured to it, the opposite or foot rail 131 having screw
bolts passing through it and into the sliding rail E to which the opposite end
of the wire spring mattress D is attached, so that it can be stretched by tighten-
ing up the bolts F, F, to produce the necessary tension in the mattress in the
well known manner.
The ends of the side rails A, A, are also shaped and provided with holes for
reception of threaded heads G of the legs H which I prefer should be of iron
or other metal and provided with castor rollers I.
The threaded heads G of the legs H. may screw directly into the ends of foot
or the head pieces if thread tapped for the purpose, such as. at J, or if the
sockets K, K, of the head or foot pieces be cast on to them, I prefer that, a
wrought nut already threaded be cast therein, such as at L. This is if head
and foot pieces M, N, are both used.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I. claim is:-
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1: The herein described means and appliances substantially as represented
on the annexed drawings which enable a spring mattress to be converted into
and utilized as a bedstead, as set forth.
2. Combining with the corner portions of a spring mattress, legs as supports
to same in such manner that such spring mattress becomes a bedstead and
spring mattress, the bedstead proper being dispensed with, as and for the pur-
poses set forth and as represented on the annexed drawings.
The 8th day of November 1898