Improvements in Distensible Metallic Sackings, and in Means for Attaching Metallic Sackings and Fabrics to the Frames of Bed- steads, Cots, Mattresses, and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Distensible Metallic Sackings, and in Means for
Attaching Metallic Sackings and Fabrics to the Frames of Bed-
steads, Cots, Mattresses, and the like.
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We, WILLIAM WATERHOUSE, THOMAS WALLEY BLANTERN, and WILLIAM MANSER
SPRIGGS, of The Birmingham Woven-Wire Mattress Company Limited, of Acocks
Green, near the City of Birmingham, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention relates in the one part, to a new construction of metallic sack-
ing for the mattresses of bedsteads, cots and the like, and in another part, to
means for attaching metallic fabrics and sackings generally to the framings
of bedsteads, cots, mattresses and other analogous articles of furniture.
In carrying out one form of the first part of our invention, the distensible
metallic sackings are made from a series of lengths of woven metallic cords,
that is cords formed by closely interworming a series of like-pitched spirals into
one another so as to produce tubular or hollow metallic cords having sufficient
distensibility when made up into a mesh, to admit of springs being dispensed
with.
These lengths are bent into a zig-zag figure and placed in parallel order or
side by side along the length of the mattress to be made, with the points or
apices of the zig-zags coming approximate and being joined together by rings,
cleats or equivalents.
As another form the sacking may be made up of a continuous length of cord,
shaped into series of zig-zag returning courses, with the ends of each course
having a running connection with the framing. In both cases, the ends or
terminations of the cord or cords are secured to the mattress frame by clamps
or suitable means.
As another form of our invention the points or apices of the zig-zag courses
may be arranged to overlap one another so as to form eyes through which a
lacing cord, rod or wire is threaded or passed to secure the courses together. Or
the points or apices of the zig-zag courses may be interlaced or run one into the
other.
In carrying out one form of the second part of our invention, we connect a wire
fabric, mesh or distensible bed bottom to a mattress or other frame, by forming
the said fabric with beaded marginal edges, made either by passing a rod or cord
through the meshes, or by rolling over the said edges to form beadings, and
which are inserted or seated within a longitudinal groove or channel, of about
the same depth as the rolled edge, formed along the top face of a lath or bar

page_text: located underneath a plate or within the space comprehended by the angle bar
of the angle framing, and there secured by a cross bolt or equivalent passing
both through the angle iron and the lath or under-bar, with the mesh nipped
between the top of the said lath or bar and the underside of the plate or angle
iron.
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As another form of this part of our invention, the under-bar or lath is extended
by an upstanding beading, beyond the inner edge of the angle iron or other
bar of the framing, over which beading the mesh is drawn, whilst between the
top face of the underneath clamping bar or lath and the topside of the frame
the mesh is clamped by bolts or screws.
As another modification, the clamping bar comes upon the top of the framing
angle and the selvaged, piped or beaded edge of the fabric or sacking lies at
the back of the clamping bar, and is secured down by bolts or screws as before.
These beaded edges form hold-fasts for preventing the withdrawal of the mesh
from between the opposed clamping surfaces.
Or the beaded edge of the fabric may lie in a recess formed along the underside
of the clamping bar or lath, or as a still further modification, the horizontal
web of the angle iron may be longitudinally troughed or channelled to receive
the beaded formation of the fabric, which is clamped by a top bar or lath,
secured to the angle bar by bolts or pins as before.
In securing what are known as diamond lock meshes to the end bars of mattress
or like framings, we take a series of Ụ or staple shaped clips and pass their legs
through holes in the said end bars and clench them upon the underside, forming
a series of elongated loops, round the bars of which the terminations of a series
of the members or strands of the mesh or fabric are curled or bent, so that each
bar has the terminations of a number of strands or courses of the metallic mesh
made fast to it.
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Improvements in Distensible Metallic Sackings, and in Means for
Attaching Metallic Sackings and Fabrics to the Frames of Bed-
steads, Cots. Mattresses, and the like.
We, WILLIAM WATERHOUSE, THOMAS WALLEY BLANTERN, and WILLIAM MANSER
SPRIGGS, of The Birmingham Woven-Wire Mattress Company Limited of Acocks
Green, near the City of Birmingham, 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 relates to means for attaching metallic fabrics and sackings
generally to the framings of bedsteads, cots, mattresses and other analogous
articles of furniture.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a top side plan of a bed
bottom or mattress in which the woven wire mattress sacking is attached to the
framing by means in accordance with one form of our invention.

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Figure 3 is a longitudinal vertical section of Figure upon the dotted line x,
showing more clearly the method of connecting the sacking to the frame.
Figure represents an end elevation of Figure 3, with the vertical web of
the framing angle iron broken away and the other parts shown in section upon
the dotted line r¹, Figure 3.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the said Figures 1
to 4.
According to this form of our invention, the body mesh or sacking a, of a
mattress is secured to the framing b, by clamping the end marginal edges thereof
between the top and back faces c¹, c², of a wooden or like lath or bar c, and the
corresponding opposed faces of the horizontal and vertical webs 61, 62, of the
angle iron 6, constituting the end rail of the framing. This bar or lath is so
disposed as to be almost entirely comprehended within the angle of the said rail,
to which it is secured, with the edges of the mesh between them, by cross bolts
or pins d, passing through the angle iron, mesh and wooden bar. The inner edge
of the clamping bar may have a rib or beading c³, over which the mesh clamped
between the bar and the angle iron is drawn.
The sides a², of the mattress may be tied or connected to the sides 6', of the
framing by cleats such as e, engaging respectively with holes 65, in the rails b,
and over a wire or rod such as f, threaded up the marginal edge of the mesh,
although other well known means of connection may be employed.
Figure 5 represents a topside plan of a mattress in which the sacking is secured
to the framing in accordance with another form of our invention.
Figure 6 is a longitudinal vertical section of Figure 5, upon the dotted line <²,
and on an enlarged scale.
Figure 7 is an ouside elevation of one of the end rails.
According to this arrangement the clamping bar c, comes upon the top of the
horizontal web &, of the framing angle b, and the end edges a¹, of the fabric
or body mesh a, are piped or beaded by passing the same round a wire or rod,
such as 9, which lies at the back of the clamping bar, and is secured down by
bolts or screws d, as before. These beaded edges form hold-fasts for preventing
the withdrawal of the mesh from between the opposed clamping surfaces.
Figure 8 represents partly in longitudinal vertical section and partly in per-
spective, another form of connection between sacking and framing in accor-
dance with our invention.
Figure 9 is a separate view of the clamping bar.
Figure 10 represents the piped or beaded end edge of the sacking and Figure 11
a view of the end angle iron separately.
a is the sacking or fabric, which has a beaded marginal edge at each end,
made either by passing a rod, stout wire or cord g, through the meshes, or by
rolling over the said edges to form into a beading. These edges are inserted
or seated within a longitudinal groove or channel 4, of about the same depth
as the rolled edge formed along the top face c¹, of the clamping lath or bar c,
which is located underneath the horizontal web and within the space compre-
hended by both the webs of the angle bar b, and there secured by cross bolts d,
or their equivalent passing both through the angle iron, lath or underbar and
mesh, which latter is nipped and securely held between the top of the said lath
or bar and the underside of the plate or angle iron.
Another form of this part of our invention, is represented in Figure 12, in
which the under-bar or lath c, is extended by an upstanding beading, beyond
the inner edge 65, of the angle iron or other bar of the framing, over which bead-
ing the mesh a, is drawn, whilst between the top face of the underneath clamp-
ing bar or lath and the top-side of the frame the end edge part of the said
mesh is clamped by the bolts or screws. The marginal edge of the mesh is prefer-

page_text: ably thickened by a core-wire g, which may either lie in a groove in the top of
the clamping bar as in Figures 8 and 9, or (as shown in the present figure) the
mesh may be extended over the whole top and back surfaces of the clamping
bar, with the beaded edge lying in a groove ♬³, formed along the lower back
edge of the said bar.
Figure 13 represents a further modification of our invention, and Figure 14
is a section of the clamping bar thereof separately.
In this arrangement, the beaded edge a¹, of the fabric a, lies in a recess c
formed along the underside of a clamping bar or lath c, secured by bolts d, to
the top of the horizontal web b1 of the angle iron 63, or as a still further modifica-
tion, the horizontal web of the angle iron may be longitudinally troughed or
channelled to receive the beaded formation of the fabric, which is clamped by
a top bar or lath, secured to the angle bar by bolts or pins as before.
Figure 15 represents a section of this method of attachment and Figure 16
shows the troughed angle iron, a being the fabric or sacking, a¹ the beaded
edge, e the clamping bar, 63 the angle iron, the longitudinal trough in the
horizontal web within which the said beaded edge lies and d are the bolts by
which the clamping bar is secured to the angle iron with the end edges of the
mesh clamped between them.
Instead of beading the edge of the fabric, we may, as represented in the sec
tion Figure 17, provide the underside of the clamping bar e, with a longitudinal
rib, feather or beading c¹, coinciding with and adapted to take into, the trough
or channel b, in the angle iron 63, with the mesh, which is nipped by the said
bar and iron, coming between the socketting parts. Or instead of an integral
beading, a loose rod or wire may be disposed along the groove and bind the
fabric between it and the channel of the web when the clamping bar is bolted
down.
We further wish it to be understood that we do not propose to confine ourselves
to the employment of clamping laths or bars made of wood, as we may also make
the same in metal, as represented in Figure 18, the clamping bar c, which has
a longitudinal groove 5, to receive the beaded edging a¹, of the mesh being
shown separately in Figure 19. It is secured to the top web of the angle iron
by bolts, pins, rivets or the like passed collectively through the said parts and
through the mesh.
Instead of securing fabrics to angle iron members they may, by any of the
methods previously described be applied or connected to flat sectioned or other
members of a bed frame.
By our invention, the sacking or body mesh of a mattress or bed bottom is
secured directly to the framing of a bedstead, cot or the like, without the em-
ployment of intervening, and supplementary sacking framings or sacking bars.
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:-
First Securing mattress and analogous sackings or body meshes directly
to a bedstead or like framing, by a clamping bar, lath or equivalent, compre-
hended in the inside of an angle iron or coming upon the underside of a frame
member, between which parts, the edges of the sacking are nipped and held,
substantially as herein described and set forth.
Secondly Securing mattress and analogous sackings or body meshes
directly to a bedstead or like framing, by nipping or clamping edge parts of the
same between a framing member and a clamping bar, lath or equivalent coming
upon the top or underside thereof and secured by bolts, pins or otherwise, and
with a beaded, rolled or thickened marginal part (with or without a wire core)
of the said sacking lving either at the back of the clamping bar, or within a
groove or channel formed along one of the opposed surfaces, substantially as
described and set forth.

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Thirdly Providing sacking clamping bars or laths as referred to in the pre-
ceding claims, with a rib or beading extending beyond the edge of the framing
member and over which the mesh passes, substantially as and for the purpose
described and set forth.
Dated this 16th day of September 1898
WILLIAM WATERHOUSE,
THOMAS WALLEY BLANTERN,
WILLIAM MANSER SPRIGGS
By Henry Skerrett,
24, Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicants.