Ar IMPROVED SPRING MATTRESS
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Guillaume Prosper Lanier, of Paris, Boulevard de
Strasbourg, No. 33, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "Ar
IMPROVED SPRING MATTRESS."-A communication from Camille Gense,
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Guillaume Prosper
Lanier at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 13th January 1873.
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I, GUILLAUME PROSPER LANIER, of Paris, Boulevard de Strasbourg,
No. 33, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVED SPRING MATTRESS," a communication to
him by Camille Gense, resident at Fouilloy sur Somme (France), to be
as follows:-
This Invention relates to mattresses for wooden and metal bedsteads,
sofas, and other articles, and consists in suspending any required
number of longitudinal bars by sheet steel springs made in the forms of
inverted crosiers, a spring being used at the ends of each bar.

page_text: The main frame of the mattress consists of two side frames formed of
boards or plates, kept together by two cross bars, and in pieces of wood
or metal fixed to the side frames are tenoned other two cross bars to
which one end of each spring is fixed, the other ends of the springs
being connected by strips of leather or other flexible material to
hooks screwed to the ends of the longitudinal bars, which bars are
prevented from moving longitudinally by plates or rods held to the
side frames.
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filed by the said Guillaume Prosper Lanier in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 25th June 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GUILLAUME
PROSPER LANIER, of Paris, Boulevard de Strasbourg, No. 33, Manu-
facurer, send grecting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Guillaume Prosper Lanier, Her
special license that I, the said Guillaume Prosper Lanier, my
exccutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Guillaume Prosper Lanier, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED SPRING MATTRESS," a
communication from Camille Gensc, resident at Fouilloy sur Somme
(France), upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Guillaume
Prosper Lanier, my executors, or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: The bars i, i, may be swelled to a greater thickness in the middle, and
they, as well as the whole framing, may be made of metal in the form of
light angle or T iron.
It may be readily understood that the framing could be jointed so
that the mattress could be folded or taken apart for packing and i
transport, as with metal beds of ordinary construction.
Having thus described the nature of this Invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I claim,--
First. The use for suspending the bars of a mattress of springs of
crosier form inverted, substantially as herein described.
Second. The method of fixing springs, such as are referred to above,
to moveable cross bars which can be readily separated from the framing,
substantially as herein described.
Third. The combination of springs such as are referred to above,
with longitudinal bars and framing so as to constitute a spring 1
mattress, substantially as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Guillaume Prosper Lanier, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of June,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.
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Witness,
ALBERT CAHEN,
Civil Engineer,
32, Boulevard Magenta,
at Paris..
G. P. LANIER. (L.S.)