IMPROVEMENTS IN FURNITURE SPRINGS FOR SEATS, MATTRESSES, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES.
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Newton, of the Office for
Patents, 66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Civil
Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FURNITURE SPRINGS
FOR SEATS, MATTRESSES, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES.". -A communi-
cation from abroad by John Perlee Ryan, of Augusta, in the
State of Maine, United States of America.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward
Newton at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 2nd June 1870.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery
Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FURNITURE SPRINGS
FOR SEATS, MATTRESSES, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object to construct an elastic and strong
spring which may be used for car, carriage, chair, and sofa seats, bed
bottoms, ottomans, lounges, and other articles of furniture and comfort.

page_text: The Invention consists in constructing the bed bottom of a series of
straight horizontal rods and bracing springs, the springs serving to hold
the rods apart and to support the same elastically so as to produce the
yielding bottom. The length of the rods is equal to that of the seat or
support to be made. The springs are wound around these rods, and
each spring consists of an entire double transverse course, that is to
say, one end is secured to the first rod of one series, it is then stretched
to the next rod of the other series, then to the others in succession,
alternating the rods of the two series, and is wound around each rod and
then back again, up and down between each row, so that thus both ends
of the spring are secured to the same rod. The next spring below
is secured in the same manner to form an endless transverse course,
and so on throughout the entire depth of bottom. There are as many
transverse courses of springs over the length of the rods as will be
necessary to give the requisite degree of strength.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Edward Newton in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 29th November 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Second day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-third
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said William Edward Newton, Her special licence,
that I, the said William Edward Newton, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Edward Newton, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS
IN FURNITURE SPRINGS FOR SEATS, MATTRESSES, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES,"
being a communication to me from abroad by John Perlee Ryan, of

page_text: Augusta, in the State of Maine, United States of America, upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Edward Newton, 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Edward Newton, 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, reference being had to the Drawing here-
unto annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is
to say):
:-
This Invention has for its object to construct an elastic and strong
spring which may be used for car, carriage, chair and sofa seats, bed
bottoms, ottomans, lounges, and other articles of furniture and comfort.
The Invention consists in constructing the bed bottom of a series of
straight horizontal rods and bracing springs, the springs serving to hold
the rods apart and to support the same elastically so as to produce the
yielding bottom, as herein-after more fully described.
In the accompanying Drawing Fig. 1 represents a detail perspective
view of the improved furniture spring; Fig. 2 is an end view of the
same; and Fig. 3 is a plan or top view of the same.
A series of rods or bars A, A, made of metal of such diameter as to
possess the requisite degree of strength, and of length equal to that of
the seat or support to be made are connected together by the wire
springs B, B, which are wound around the rods A, and are made straight
between them, so as to hold and support them. Each spring consists of
an entire double transverse course (that is to say) one end is secured to the
first rod marked a, it is then stretched to the next rod b, then to c, d, e, f,
and g, being wound around each rod, and then back again to h, e, i, c, j,
and a, so that thus both ends are secured to the same rod a. The next
spring below is secured in the same manner to form an endless transverse
course, and so on throughout the entire depth of bottom. There are as
many transverse courses of springs over the length of the rod A as will
be necessary to give the requisite degree of strength.

page_text: Having now described the Invention which has been communicated to
me by my foreign correspondent, and having explained the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I claim as the Invention secured to me
by Letters Patent as aforesaid,―
First. The bed bottom seat or other analogous article composed of the 5
rods A and springs B, as set forth.
I also claim arranging the springs B in an endless course, as and for
the purpose herein set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Newton, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, the Twenty-sixth day of Novem- 1
ber, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
seventy.