Improvements in Wire-mattress-bedsteads.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Aug., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 28th May. 1894-Accepted, 30th June, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wire-mattress-bedsteads.
LEONARD HAWKES BRIERLEY of Essington Works, Sheepcote Street Birming--
ham, Metallic Bedstead Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention has reference only to those bedsteads in which, for the purpose of
facilitating the fixing and tightening of a wire mattress, the angle-iron at the foot
end or head end is, by means of a prolongation or duplication of the cast-iron
corner of the pillar, raised above, or placed farther from the ground than, the side-.
bars which connect the head & foot parts of the bedstead together; it consists in
making the lower portion of the said cast-iron corner sloping instead of horizontal
so that the under surface of that part of it which encircles the pillar is somewhat
higher, i.e. farther from the foot of the pillar, than that of the part into which the
side-bar dovetails. By this means the cast-iron corner of such a bedstead can be
made smaller (& therefore lighter) & of a more elegant appearance, while retaining
sufficient strength to withstand the strain of the mattress when the latter is tightened.
to the utmost extent.
Dated this 25th day of August 1893.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wire-mattress-bedsteads.
LEONARD HAWKES BRIERLEY of Essington Works Sheepcote Street Birming-
ham in the County of Warwick, Metallic Bedstead 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:-
My invention has reference only to those bedsteads in which, for the purpose of
facilitating the fixing and tightening of a wire mattress, the angle-iron at the foot-
end or headend is, by means of a prolongation or duplication of the cast-iron corner
of the pillar, raised above, or placed farther from the ground than, the side-bars
which connect the head and foot parts of the bedstead together; it consists in
making the lower portion of the said cast-iron corner sloping instead of horizontal
so that the under surface of that part of it which encircles the pillar is somewhat
higher, i.e. farther from the foot of the pillar, than that of the part into which the
side-bar dovetails. By this means the cast-iron corner of such a bedstead can be
made smaller (and therefore lighter) and of a more elegant appearance while
retaining sufficient strength to withstand the strain of the mattress when the latter
is tightened to the utmost extent.
Hitherto the cast-iron corners of all bedsteads such as are described above, when
prolonged upwards or duplicated, have been made with the under surface of the
said corner perfectly horizontal as shown at a, a' in Fig. 1; in my invention such
corners are made with the under surface sloping so that the part which encircles
the pillar is raised farther from the ground than that into which the side-bar
dovetails, as shown at a, a¹ Fig. 2.
I do not confine myself to the precise shape of lower part of corner shown in
Fig. 2 as the part marked a, a¹ may slope in a straight line towards the part into

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which the side-bar dovetails or may be otherwise altered without departing from
the principle of the invention. It is obvious that my invention is applicable to
bedsteads which have a loose as well as a fast angle-iron in the head and foot ends
and also to those in which the end or side-bars are made of tube or of iron of a
section other than angle-iron.
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 1
claim is:
1. In those wire mattress-bedsteads (whether with fast or loose end angle-irons)
in which, for the purpose of facilitating the tightening and fixing of a wire
mattress, the angle-iron at the footend or headend is raised above the side-bars by
means of a prolongation or duplication of the cast-iron corner of the pillar, making
the lower part of the said cast-iron corner sloping instead of horizontal so that the
under surface of that part of it which encircles the pillar is somewhat higher,
i.e. farther from the foot of the pillar than that of the part into which the side-
bar dovetails.
2. The application of the above invention to bedsteads which have the end-bars
(whether loose or fast), or the side-bars, made of tube or of iron of a section other:
than angle-iron.
TL 1
M
1001