An Improvement in Woven Wire and such like Metallic Mattresses and other Woven Metallic Fabrics.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 25th Mar., 1893-Accepted, 13th May, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Woven Wire and such like Metallic Mattresses
and other Woven Metallic Fabrics.
George PITT, Modeller, 13 Denbigh Street Bordesley Green Birmingham'
Warwickshire do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
I take a flat band of steel or other metal, the required width and thickness and
weave it into the mattress or woven fabric, at any given distance apart, or compose
mattress or fabric entirely of these flat bands, woven into coils, in place of the
round wires hitherto used, my object being to give the mattress or fabric extra
strength at less cost. This flat metal band when woven into coil goes to form the
strengthening strands, in place of having a number of round coils running together,
as in the old form of fabric or mattress weaving. This flat band can be made any
suitable design or pattern.
Dated this 0th day of January 1802
GEORGE PITT.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Woven Wire and such like Metallic Mattresses
and other Woven Metallic Fabrics.
GEORGE PITT of 13 Denbigh Street, Bordesley Green, Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Modeller, 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 :-
This invention relates to woven wire and such like mattresses and other woven
metallic fabrics, the object being to produce a mattress or fabric of this description
which is stronger and which costs less for material and is more quickly manufactured
than mattresses or fabrics of a similar nature as at present made.
Woven wire mattresses and fabrics are usually made of helically or spirally
coiled wire strands looped together or interlaced longitudinally, with, at intervals,
strengthening layers each formed of four, five, six, or other number of helical
strands arranged parallel to each other and all engaging with the contiguous coil on
each side.
According to one method of carrying out my invention I use coiled bands of
metal for the strengthening layers in place of the parallel strands of coiled wire as
above described. I take a flat band of steel or other suitable metal of the required
width and thickness and form it into a helix or spiral. then cut this helical
band into lengths according to the length of the mattress or fabric and weave them
longitudinally into the mattress or fabric at suitable distances apart so as to form
strengthening layers for the mattress or fabric.
In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 is an elevation of part of a helical band made in accordance with my
invention and Figure 2 is a section on the line X X of Figure 1.
Figure 3 is an elevation shewing the old method with seven helical strands a a
arranged parallel to each other; and Figure 4 is a section on the line Y Y of
Figure 3.
In another form of my invention I dispense with coiled wire and compose the
mattress or fabric entirely of these helical metal bands, weaving them or interlacing
them one with another in the same manner as with wire coils when made into woven
wire mattresses and fabrics.

page_text: 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 woven wire mattresses and other woven wire fabrics, strengthening layers
of helically or spirally coiled strips or lengths made from flat bands of steel or other
suitable metal substantially as described.
2. A woven metallic mattress or fabric composed of helical or spiral strands
made from flat bands of steel or other suitable metal interwoven or interlaced with
each other longitudinally of the spirals or helices substantially as described.
Dated this 25th day of March 1893.
F. W. GOLBY,
36, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agent for the Applicant.