Improvements in Connecting Spring Mattresses to Metallic Bedsteads.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Sept., 1887
Complete Left, 31st May, 1888
Complete Accepted, 6th July, 1888
Improvements in Connecting Spring Mattresses to Metallic
Bedsteads.
We JOHN RICHARD CROMWELL TAUNTON of the firm of John and Joseph Taunton
of Sherbourne Road Balsall Heath near Birmingham in the County of Warwick
Manufacturers and HENRY FERRER of No. 55 Belgrave Street Balsall Heath aforesaid
Foreman to the said firm do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as
follows:-
:-
In the ordinary method of connecting spring mattresses to metallic bedsteads the
strain or tension of the mattress is put on the angle bars at the head and foot of the
bedstead and has a tendency to twist or deflect the said angle bars out of their normal
or true position. The object of our invention is so to connect the spring mattress to
the bedstead as to obviate this inconvenience.
In connecting a spring mattress to a metallic bedstead according to our invention
we proceed as follows. On the upper face of the dovetail block cast on the end of
the side angle bar we make an arm or bracket carrying at its top a nearly cylindrical
snug having a hole in its axis the said snug and hole being horizontal and parallel to
the side angle bar. The said snug is at the height above the side angle bar which it
is desired the spring mattress shall have. A bracket and snug of the kind described
are made on the dovetail block at each end of each side angle bar. The spring
mattress is connected to the snugs described by means of screw pins passed through
the holes in the said snugs two of the said screw pins taking into the fixed bar at one
end of the mattress and the other two being connected to the regulating or tightening
mechanism of the spring mattress.
In order to diminish the space between the end of the bedstead and bar to which
the spring mattress is attached the said bar may have two slots on its under sides and
near its ends. The said bar is in this case dropped onto the foot brackets which are
thus made to occupy the said slots and the screw pins described are passed through

page_text: holes in the said bar and the bracket and the parts thus secured together. The
mattress is in this way brought as close as may be deemed desirable to the
foot rail.
By the construction and arrangement of parts constituting our invention the strain
or tension of the spring mattress is thrown upon the side angle bars instead of upon
the end angle bars as usual and the direction of the strain in relation to the direction
of the side angle bars is such that it has no tendency to distort the frame of the
bedstead.
Dated this Twenty second day of September 1887.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Connecting Spring Mattresses to Metallic
Bedsteads.
Wo JOHN RICHARD CROMWELL TAUNTON of the firm of John and Joseph Taunton
of Sherbourne Road, Balsall Heath near Birmingham in the County of Warwick
Manufacturers and HENRY FERRER of No. 55 Belgrave Street, Balsall Heath, afore-
said Foreman to the said firm, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
In the ordinary method of connecting spring mattresses to metallic bedsteads the
strain or tension of the mattress is put on the angle bars at the head and foot of the
bedstead and has a tendency to twist or deflect the said angle bars out of their normal
or true position. The object of our invention is so to connect the spring mattress to
the bedstead as to obviate this inconvenience.
In connecting a spring mattress to a metallic bedstead according to our invention
wo proceed as follows:-On the upper and side face of the dovetail block cast on the
end of the side angle bar we make an arm or bracket carrying at its top a snug
having a hole in its axis, the said snug and hole being horizontal and parallel to the
side angle bar. The said snug is at the height above the side angle bar which it is
desired the spring mattress shall have. A bracket and snug of the kind described
aro made on the dovetail block at each end of each side angle bar. The spring
mattress is connected to the snugs described by means of screw pins passed through
the holes in the said snugs, two of the said screw pins taking into the fixed bar at
one end of the mattress and the other two being connected to the regulating or
tightening mechanism of the spring mattress.
In order to diminish the space between the end of the bedstead and bar to which
the spring mattress is attached the said bar may have two slots on its under sides and
near its ends. The said bar is in this case dropped into the foot brackets which
are thus made to occupy the said slots. The mattress is in this way brought as
close as may be deemed desirable to the foot rail.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings represents in side elevation and Figure 2
in plan a spring or wire mattress connected to a metallic bedstead according to
our invention; Figure 3 represents a side elevation and Figure 4 a plan of the
same partly broken away drawn to a larger scale; Figure 5 represents end
elevations of the side angle bar exhibiting the foot and head brackets on the ends
of the side angle bar.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of the
drawings.
a, a are the side angle bars of the bedstead frame carrying the dovetail blocks b, b
at its ends and c, c are the end angle bars of the bedstead frame fitted upon the said
dovetail blocks b, b. On the dovetail block bat the head end of each of the side
angle bars a, a an arm or bracket d is cast. The said arm or bracket d is situated on

page_text: or attached to the upper and side face of the dovetail block b and projects from the
inner side thereof so that it overhangs the foot end angle bar (see the plan Figure 2).
Each of the said brackets & carries at its top a snug d having a hole in its middle.
On the dovetail block at the foot end of each of the side angle bars a of the bedstead
frame an arm or bracket e is also cast. The arm or bracket e has a hole e made in it
through the seat part e³ and has also a stop or snug e' at the back of the said seat: ffis
the spring mattress connected at one end to the adjustable wooden bar g by the strip g²
and to the fixed wooden bar h by the strip 2 at the other end. The fixed mattress
bar h, h² is secured to the brackets e, e on the foot ends of the side angle bars a, a by
seating the said mattress bar upon the horizontal seats e³, e and against the vertical
faces or snugs e*, e* on the said brackets e, e and fixing the said mattress bar h, h³ in
its place by screw bolts at i passed through the said mattress bar and screwing into
the brackets. The adjustable mattress bar 9, 92 is fixed in its place and adjusted
nearer to or further from the head end of the bedstead frame for putting the
required tension on the spring mattress by means of the adjusting screws k, k
passed through the holes d³ in the snugs d of the brackets d and working in the
adjustable bar g, g².
Figure 6 represents in side elevation and Figure 7 in plan a modification of the
arrangement described. In this modification the adjustable and fixed sacking bars at
the foot and head ends of the bedstead frame are made of angle strips and flat strips
of metal instead of wood bars. The said metal mattress bars are marked 1, 12
and m, m2. The adjusting screws & in the head brackets & work in the angle bar 1, 12
of the mattress and each of the foot brackets e in this modification is provided with a
vertical projecting snug e near its front and the angle bar m has a slot in its horizontal
web at each end for dropping upon or engaging with the snugs e of the foot brackets
as represented in the drawing. No fixing screw bolts are required for fixing the
mattress bar to the foot brackets as the tension put on the mattress causes the
vertical web of the bar m to bear firmly against the vertical sides of the snugs e³
on the said foot brackets.
The construction of the foot brackets e e³ represented in Figures 6 and 7 may
be used with wood mattress bars the said wood bars having slots on their underside
and near the ends for taking upon the vertical snugs e on the said foot brackets.
By the construction and arrangement of parts described and represented con-
stituting our invention, the strain or tension of the spring mattress is thrown upon
the side angle bars instead of upon the end angle bars as usual and the direction
of the strain in relation to the direction of the side angle bars is such that it has
no tendency to distort the frame of the bedstead.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed we declare that
we claim as our invention
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Connecting spring mattresses to metallic bedsteads by making on the dovetail
blocks cast on the ends of the side angle bars of the bedstead frame arms
brackets of the construction described and represented in the accompanying Drawings
to which arms or brackets the fixed and adjustable bars of the spring mattress are
connected or secured, whereby the strain or tension of the spring mattress is thrown
upon the said side angle bars instead of on the end angle bars and the tendency
of the strain or tension to twist or distort the bedstead frame is obviated substantially
as described and illustrated.
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