Improvements in the Construction of Woven Wire Bottoms for Bedsteads and in Securing or Attaching the said Wire Bottoms to Bedsteads and other Articles.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Apr., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 15th Dec., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 5th Feb., 1889
Improvements in the Construction of Woven Wire Bottoms for
Bedsteads and in Securing or Attaching the said Wire Bottoms
to Bedsteads and other Articles.
THOMAS WILSON 49 Frederick Road, Edgbaston Birmingham Gentleman do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
In carrying out these improvements I proceed as follows.-I produce the mesh or
body of the Bedstead bottom by the ordinary process employed in wire mattress
weaving, and I strengthen the longitudinal sides or edges of the wire mesh or
Bedstead bottom, by strands in the usual way. I then force into the centre of the
said strands, solid rods of iron or steel wire, thereby giving to the sides or strands of
the said wire mesh or bottom the degree of firmness and rigidity which it is the
object of this part of my improvements to secure, and which enable me firmly to
attach my improved wire bottom directly to the side rails or angles of the Bedstead,
and thus entirely dispense with the wood frames and stretcher pins now used in con-
structing Bedstead bottoms or mattresses.
My improved wire bottom may be used either with tubular or with ordinary
angle iron side rails. When attaching my improved wire bottom to tubular side rails
I form the said tubular side rails with longitudinal flutes or grooves extending the
entire length of the said rails, and in which said flutes or grooves, the side edges of
my improved wire bottom are placed previously to their being secured to the tubular
sides.
1 then pass round the said tubular sides, and sides or strands of the wire bottom
suitable binding wire or wires the said binding wires taking a spiral form from end to
end of the tubular side rails.
When it is required to fix or erect the Bedstead, it is only necessary to force the
side rail dovetails into their corresponding dovetails in the head and foot rails of the
Bedstead, by which means the requisite degree of tension is given to the Bedstead
bottom which is then quite ready for use. When the Bedstead is taken down, the
wire bottom may be easily rolled up with the side rail or rails therby occupying little
space in carriage or removal.

page_text: When attaching my improved wire bottom to ordinary angle iron sides I form
hooks or loops on the sides of the said wire bottom, which said hooks or loops may
take either into holes or on to studs formed in or on the said Bedstead sides. The
head and foot ends of my improved wire bottoms I finish or cover with a binding of
leather or other suitable material, which said binding may be either stitched or
otherwise secured to the ends of the said wire bottom.
When applying my improved wire bottoms to sofa seats, railway carriage seats,
omnibus seats, or other similar purposes, 1 secure the sides of the said wire bottoms
to the framework of the said seat by means of hooks staples or other suitable
fastenings driven into or otherwise secured to the framework of the said seats.
Dated this 4th day of April 1888.

page_text: Improvements in the Construction of Woven Wire Bottoms for
Bedsteads and in Securing or Attaching the said Wire Bottoms
to Bedsteads and other Articles.
I, THOMAS WILSON of Frederick Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham in the County of
Warwick, Gentleman, 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 the woven wire bottoms or like distensible sackings of
bedsteads, and in their connection to the framings of the said bedsteads.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing, represents a top side plan of a bedstead
frame, provided with a woven wire, or distensible mattress or bed, bottom, and in
means for securing the same to the said framing.
Figure 2 represents a corner of the same, upon an enlarged scale, thus exhibiting
the manner in which the sides of the distensible mesh are connected to the sides of
the framings, consisting either of tubes or angle lengths; it also exhibits the tying or
lashing of the cord strands to the said sides.
Figure 3 is a cross section upon the dotted lines A B figure 2. It will be clearly
shown in this said figure 3, how the side strands of the woven wire mesh, with their
extended metallic cores in the form of rods or bars of iron (or other metals) lie or
are disposed within semi-circular grooves, formed within the inner edges of the said
tubular sides.
Figure 4 represents my invention applied to a bedstead, with angle sides, instead of
tubular sides.
Figure 5 shows a transverse section of figure 4, upon the dotted lines CD. It
will be seen that the core or tie bar encircled by the strands, which form the side
edgings to the mesh or bed bottom, are disposed upon the top webs of the said angle
bar, and there affixed by rivetings, or by other means.
Figure 6 represents a modification of the affixing of the strands to a wooden
framing of a bedstead, while figure 7 shows another method of connecting the strands
to an angle framing.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.
a is a distensible wire mesh, or wire sacking, or a mesh or sacking fabricated or
made from wire, springs or their equivalents; and provided on the two opposite sides
of the said mesh or sacking, are continuous edging strands a³, within the interiors of
which, rods, bars, or cores b, are disposed, and form means for imparting or giving
rigidity and firmness for the lashing or tying of the said mesh, to the sides of the
bedstead framing as herein after described.
Thus, the said mesh or sacking a, of which the rods b, and strands a form a part has
the head and foot end covered or bound with leather or other yielding material c,
secured to the said ends by stitchings eyeletings or otherwise.

page_text: The strands a², and their cores, are secured within the longitudinal grooves of the
tubular side framings d by lashings or wires e, coiled in a spiral manner, both
around the said strands and core rods, and around the tubular sides.
The tubular sides d, and the foot and head rails f are secured to the chilled
castings of corner pillars g, by ordinary dovetailed connections.
In figure 4, the strands a of the mesh a, are secured to the angle sides d, by a
flat core, bar or rod b, which passes through the interiors of the said strands, and
are secured upon the top webs of the said angle sides, by rivetings 6³, as best seen
in the section.figure 5.
The head and foot ends of the sacking are bound with leather. c, as in the
preceding arrangement.
In figure 6, a is the strand of the distensible sacking a, with a core, bar, or rod b,
passing longitudinally through it, and which bars and cores are secured within
rabates d, of the sides d of a wooden side framing, by staples e, e.
In figure 7, d is an angle side, a² are side cores or edgings of a sacking a,
through the interiors of which, a strengthening rod or metallic core b passes, and
which core or rod is secured to the angle framing d, by hook connections e.
Figure 5 shows a modified form of figure 5. The top web of the angle bar
is stepped, so that the top of the mesh shall lie flush with the outside edging of
⚫the angle bar.
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.
First. Placing or using within the edging strands of woven wire meshes or bed
bottoms, metallic rods, bars or their equivalents, for securing or attaching the same
to the sides of a bedstead or other frame, substantially as set forth.
Secondly. Securing or attaching the edgings or sides of meshes or bed bottoms,
as in the preceding claim, by tying or binding wires, disposed in a spiral
direction around both strands, cores and side framings, as set forth in figures 1, 2
and 3.
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Thirdly. Forming within the inner tubular sides of bedsteads, longitudinal
grooves or channels, wherein the strands and cores of the opposite sides of
sacking are there secured by lashings or otherwise, as set forth in figures 1, 2
and 3.
Fourthly. Connecting the sides of woven wire meshes or bottoms, by flat bars,
directed through the interiors of side strands, and secured to a web of an angle
framing, by rivetings, as set forth in figures 4, 5 and 5ª.
Lastly Securing, attaching or carrying the side strands with their cores, to the
sides of a bedstead, seat, couch, or other framing, by staple, hook or other like
connections, as set forth in figures 6 and 7.
Dated this with da
1
1000
THOMAS WILSON.
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.