Improvements in Wire Mats and in the Mode of Manufacturing the same.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 14th May, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 15th Feb., 1892-Accepted, 19th Mar., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wire Mats and in the Mode of Manufacturing
the same.
I, ALFRED EDMUND WALE, of the firm of. T. E. Wale & Sons, Atlas Works,
Oozell Street, Broad Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows :-
My invention has for its object: improvements in wire mats and in the mode of
manufacturing the same and relates to that class of door mats or foot scrapers in
which the body is formed of woven wire such as is ordinarily used in the construction
of mattresses.
In the construction of wire mats there has hitherto been experienced much
difficulty in finishing off the ends of the coils so as to thoroughly secure and hide
them as there are a considerable number of ends to deal with in making one mat
and this difficulty amongst others my invention meets.
According to this invention I make a border or frame of iron, steel or other
metal or material of say round cross section which I prefer though other sections
may be used and the frame is made not for the purpose of filling up the outside
coils as though they were solid but as a simple stretcher frame to keep the whole
in tension and to size the section of the frame is much less than the inner diameter
of the coils. The mesh is then woven and cut off so as to be about say an inch
longer (more or less) in the coils than say the width of the frame and the mesh is
practically the same width as the length of the frame. One coil is then removed
from each of the two outer edges & the mesh is laid upon the frame. The outer
coils which have been removed are then screwed back into their position but in
such a manner as not only to be tied to the next previous coil but also to embrace
at the same time the bar of the frame on that side in the convolutions. Each
coiled wire composing the mesh is now screwed forward about an inch so as to
enclose the side of the frame at the end each of the separate coils like a screw and
this leaves the frame clear of all the coils at the opposite side. Each separate coil
is now screwed back again one by one say half an inch over the other side when
the frame is enclosed in the mesh with each coil projecting say about half an inch.
The projecting portion of these coils are now turned back upon themselves in such
a manner that each coil passes round the frame of the mat on that particular side
and is thereby firmly locked to it.
In some mats I weave the mesh diagonally across the body of the mat so that the
high or scraping portions of the coils are so placed as to be better able to clean the
shoe but this mat is not so reversible as the others.
Deted this 13th dor of Mar 180
GEORGE BARKER,
77, Colmore Kow, Birmingham, Agent.
77, Colmore Kow, Birmingham, Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wire Mats and in the Mode of Manufacturing
the same.
I, ALFRED EDMUND WALE of the firm of T. E. Wale & Sons, Atlas Works,
Oozell Street, Broad Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to

page_text: be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
My invention has for its object improvements in wire mats and in the mode of
manufacturing of the same, and relates to that class of door mats or foot scrapers
in which the body is formed of woven wire such as is ordinarily used in the
construction of mattresses.
In the construction of wire mats there has hitherto been experienced much
difficulty in finishing off the ends of the coils so as to thoroughly secure and
hide them as there are a considerable number of ends to deal with in making
one mat and this difficulty among others my invention meets.
According to this invention I make a border or frame of iron steel or other
metal or material of say round cross section which I prefer though other
sections may be used and the frame is made not for the purpose of filling up
the outside coils as though they were solid but as a simple stretcher frame to
keep the whole in tension and to size the section of the frame is much less than
the inner diameter of the coils. The mesh is then woven and cut off so as to
be about say an inch longer (more or less) in the coils than say the width of
the frame and the mesh is practically the same width as the length of the frame.
One coil is then removed froin cach of the two outer edges and the mesh is laid
upon the frame. The outer coils which have been removed are then screwed back
into their position but in such a manner as not only to be tied to the next previous
coil but also to embrace at the same time the bar of the frame on that side in the
convolutions. Each coiled wire composing the mesh is now screwed forward about
an inch so as to enclose the side of the frame at the end each of the separate coils
like a screw and this leaves the frame clear of all the coils at the opposite side.
Each separate coil is now screwed back again one by one say half an inch over
the 'other side when the frame is enclosed in the mesh with each coil projecting
say about half an inch. The projecting portion of these coils are now turned back
upon themselves in such a manner that each coil passes around the frame of the
mat on that particular side and is thereby firmly locked to it.
In some mats I weave the mesh diagonally across the body of the mat so that
the high or scraping portions of the coils are so placed as to be better able to clean
the shoe, but this mat is not so reversible as the others.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried
into practise I have appended hereunto a double sized sheet of drawings upon which
I have shown a frame broken off in length and reduced in width illustrating the
mode of putting on the mesh on the one part Figure 1 the other part Figure 2
shewing the mesh attached to the frame in its finished state.
In carrying out my invention I form the border or frame A. of iron steel or other
metal or material of say round cross section which I prefer though other sections
may be used and any frame however varied in shape may be thus filled in with
wire mesh & used in the construction of mattresses and bedstead bottoms. This
frame forms a stretcher and the size of the section of the frame is much less than the
inner diameter of the coils. The mesh B is woven and cut off so as to be about say
one inch longer more or less in the coils than the frame A. and practically the same
width as the length of the frame. The end coils and are then removed from
the outer edges of the mesh which is then laid upon the frame and the coils b¹
and are then screwed back into their position but at the same time so as to
embrace the bar A of the frame in the convolutions. Each coil of wire com-
posing the mesh is then screwed forward separately about an inch as illustrated
by the coils & ³ so as to enclose the side of the frame A' at the end of each
separate coil thus leaving the frame clear of all the coils at the opposite side.
Each separate coil is then screwed back one by one from the side A until pro-
jecting about half an inch past the side A2 which is thereby enclosed within the
ends of each coil as illustrated by the coils & and . The projecting ends of these
coils are then turned back upon themselves as shown in Figure 1 and Figure 3 so

page_text: that the end of each coil passes round the frame and finishes inside at 68 and 6° the
end of each coil being thus firmly locked to the frame.
In some cases I weave the mesh diagonally across the frame and I may attach
the frame within a second frame by means of coils of wire which would embrace
the two frames.
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 :-
The frame such as A having a woven wire body such as used in mattresses and
the mode of manufacturing the same substantially as and for the purpose herein set
forth and shewn upon the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 13th day of February 1892.
GEORGE BARKER,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent.