Wire Mattresses.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 20th Nov., 1893-Accepted, 23rd Dec., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Wire Mattresses.
I, EDWARD ROWCLIFFE BILLINGTON, of Cambridge Street Liverpool, in the
County of Lancaster, Mattress Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to that class of wire mattresses in which the wire is
worked into the form of springy material, such as in what are called woven-wire
mattresses consisting of interlaced spiral wire coils, which material is supported in
a frame and held therein under tension.
According to this invention, a mattress bottom is composed of two or more strips
or pieces of the wire material, the edges of which overlap each other. By this con-
struction, I effect, amongst other things, a strengthening portion in the middle of,
or at parts within the outer edges of, the mattress where the different strips of
material overlap; I also provide a bed bottom or mattress in which the separate
parts are unaffected one by the other when a weight comes upon any individual
one, and at the same time obviate the opening of the bottom at the parts where the
edges come, and so prevent the clothes being caught between the edges.
To give further strength, the overlapping parts of the mattress may be made
stronger than the main portion by having an extra number of coils, or by employing
coils of a stronger wire.
Dated thie 17th day of Febru 1893
CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON, Fels. Chart. Inst. P.A.,
15, Water Street, Liverpool, Applicant's Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Wire Mattresses.
I, EDWARD ROWCLIFFE BILLINGTON, of Cambridge Street Liverpool, in the
County of Lancaster, Mattress 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 :-
This invention relates to that class of wire mattresses in which the wire is worked
into the form of springy material, such as in what are called woven wire mattresses,
consisting of interlaced spiral wire coils, which material is supported in a frame and
held therein under tension.
According to this invention, a mattress bottom is composed of two or more strips
or pieces of the wire material, the edges of which overlap each other. By this
construction, I effect, amongst other things, a strengthening portion in the middle
of or at parts within the outer edges of the mattress where the different strips of
material overlap; I also provide a bed bottom or mattress in which the separate
parts are unaffected one by the other when a weight comes upon any individual
one, and at the same time obviate the opening of the bottom at the parts where the
edges come, and so prevent the clothes being caught between the edges.
To give further strength, the overlapping parts of the mattress may be made
stronger than the main portion by having an extra number of coils, or by employing
coils of a stronger wire.
The drawing hereto annexed illustrates by an example the invention, the nature
of which is above described; that is, it shews in sectional perspective view a mattress

page_text: composed of two pieces or strips of woven wire fabric, the inner edges of which
overlap each other.
In the drawings, a' a' designate the two pieces or strips of which the mattress is
made, and the two inner selvedges or edges of the two pieces a¹ a*, respectively,
which overlap each other, blying upon b². c shews one of the end members of
the mattress. frame, and d the side members thereof.
Each of the overlapping selvedges or edges b¹³ may be made of extra strength
in the manner usually adopted in the outside selvedges or edges of woven wire
mattresses; in which case the central portion will be provided with extra strength
due to the double portion consisting of the selvedge parts 6' 63, as well as the extra
strength of the fabric of each of these parts.
The two parts or strips of fabric a' a' are held at their ends in the end
members (c) of the mattress frame in the ordinary way. When the mattress forms
part of a bedstead, namely, the bed bottom, it is secured at its ends to the end
members in the usual or any known suitable way.
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 :-
The herein described improved wire mattress, that is to say, a mattress wherein
the wire fabric in different parts of its width is in separate pieces or strips (i.e. non-
continuous in its width), and the inner selvedges or edges of which overlap or lie
one upon another: for the purposes specified.
Dated this 18th day of November 1802
CHÉESBROUGH & ROYSTON, Fels. Chart. Inst. P.A.,
15, Water Street, Liverpool, Applicant's Patent Agents.