Improvements in Bedsteads.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Mar., 1897.
Complete Specification Left, 4th Oct., 1897-Accepted, 1st Jan., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bedsteads.
I, JOHN FRANCIS NUNAN, of Nos. 248 to 258, Swanston Street, Melbourne, in
the Colony of Victoria, Furniture Dealer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention, to be as follows;-
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This invention of an improvement in bedsteads relates to those which are
designed to carry a movable woven wire mattress, and by constructing bedsteads
according to my invention all laths and buttons can be dispensed with and also the
angle iron bars forming the head and foot rails of the bedsteads.
Woven wire mattresses as usually constructed have a wooden frame to support
the woven wire, and the side longitudinal rails of the frame are seated on the side
angle irons of the bedstead and it is the means I have devised for retaining the
mattress frame upon the bedstead which constitutes my invention. Thus near each
end of each side angle iron bar I provide a vertical pin or dowel and which pins
take into holes formed in the side rails of the mattress and thus the two parts are
held firmly together. Said pins may either be upon the mattress rails or upon the
angle iron bars and the holes be in either one or the other as the case may be,
also the mattress may be supported in a metal frame and be secured in position on
the bedstead in the manner described as my invention. Further said pins may
either be rivetted in position or be secured by screw and nuts.
As an alternative in place of the aforesaid pins, lugs or buttons or a ledge or bar
may be attached either to the insides or outsides of the side rails of the mattress
or bedstead to secure them in their place.
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Improvements in Bedsteads.
I, JOHN FRANCIS NUNAN, of Nos. 248 to 258, Swanston Street, Melbourne, in
the Colony of Victoria, Furniture Dealer, 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 :-
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This invention of improvements in bedsteads relates to those which are designed
to carry a movable woven wire or air or other mattress which have a supporting
frame and the invention consists mainly in the use of pins or dowels as hereinafter
described for securing the mattress frame upon the bedstead. By constructing

page_text: bedsteads according to my invention the angle iron bars forming the head and
foot rails can be dispensed with and further no laths or buttons are required and
hence the cost of manufacturing bedsteads is considerably lessened.
In the attached drawing Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a bedstead constructed
according to my invention and having a mattress on it which is broken away at
one corner in order to exhibit the fastening pin.
Fig. 2 a perspective view of one corner of the bedstead and mattress frame drawn;
to a larger scale and Fig. 3 a cross section through the side angle rail of bedstead
and mattress frame at one of the fastening. pins.
Woven wire mattresses as usually constructed have a wooden frame to support
the woven wire and the side longitudinal rails A of the frame are seated on the
side angle irons B of the bedstead. Near each end of each side angle iron bar E
provide a vertical pin or dowel C and which pins take into holes A¹ formed in the
side rails of the mattress and thus when the pins on the bedstead are inserted in
the holes in the mattress the two parts are held firmly together. Said pins may
either be upon the mattress rails or upon the angle iron bars of the bedstead and
the holes be in either one or the other as the case may be also the mattress may bo
supported in a metal frame and be secured in position on the bedstead in the
manner described as my invention. Further said pins may either be rivetted in
position as shewn or be secured by screw and nut.
As no laths are required in a bedstead constructed according to this invention.
there is no necessity to provide the head and foot pieces with angle iron rails and
hence a saving in cost of manufacture in this direction is effected.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
1. In bedsteads the combination with the side angle iron rails thereof of studs
or dowels as C substantially as described and shewn.
2. In bedsteads making the head and foot pieces without angle iron rails sub-
stantially as described and shewn.
Dated this 4th day of October 1907
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