IMPROVEMENTS IN WIRE MATTRESSES AND, OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES MADE OF WIRE
Year: 1885

page_text: Made of Wire.
WILLIAM BROOKES Wire Worker N° 4 Cateaton Street Manchester do hereby.
declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN WIRE MATTRESSES AND,
OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES MADE OF WIRE to be as follows:-
A substitute for the present various modes of finishing the head and foot of a
Mattress, the insertion of the web at both head and foot in a slotted tube of iron,
steel brass copper zino or any other suitable metal into which both ends of the
Mattress are introduced and permanently fixed. This improved method is stronger
than those in use, gives a neater finish and is convenient for packing. The
enclosing tube at the head is furnished at one end with a toothed wheel which is
turned by a worm placed in the corresponding holding bracket and by this worm
and wheel the Mattress is stretched to any degree of tension and so kept by this
worm assisted by a ratchet wheel and catch at the opposite end of the tube. This
worm and wheel stretcher is always in position for use, needs no wrench or key
and by a few turns of the worm the Mattress is stretched or slackened at will in a
few seconds. When the Mattress is unshipped it is simply a sheet of web with a
metal roller at each end serving to roll it up.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wire Mattresses and other similar Articles
Made of Wire.
I WILLIAM BROOKES of No. 4 Cateaton Street, Manchester, Wireworker do
hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN COILED AND
OTHER. WIRE MATTRESSES AND IN OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES MADE OF WIRE and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
For the improvement of the stretching and supporting in a state of tension of
spiral or other wove wire mattresses or goods I insert the ends of the sheet of
coiled or woven wire web, be it mattress or otherwise, in a metal tube preferably
(Fig. 3) slotted for the purpose, or in a wooden cylinder when exceptionally found
desirable, securing the mattress in the tube by a number of rings (Fig. 3 A), mount
the main or head tube as a roller (Figs. 1, 2, 4) in specially designed brackets
(Figs. 1 & 2) attach at one end of this tube or roller, or, in a very large sheet of
wire web, at both ends of this head tube or roller a worm and wheel (Fig. 2) and
in case of need also a ratchet, or a ratchet and pall (Fig. 1), or use the latter only
when found desirable, with provision in every case for the actuation or working of
any of the above mechanical appliances selected by a key or lever (Figs. 1 & 2) so
as to coil the wire mattress or other article upon the attached roller, and thus to
stretch it to any required extent and to maintain it in a state of tension.
The stretching roller before described I mount on specially designed brackets
(Figs. 1 & 2), and these brackets I fix on a quadrangular tubular metal frame
(Figs. 2 & 4) of a new pattern preferably, or on an ordinary wooden frame where
desired, for the support of my mattress and its stretching apparatus.
In designing this new tubular Iron Mattress-frame (Figs. 2 & 4) I have had
specially in view the compactness of my mattress, its portability, cleanliness,
durability, and its capability of rapid unshipment and easy packing.
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. The use of a revolving tubular roller (Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4) of metal or other
material at the head of a mattress or other piece of coiled or other wirework and
the insertion and fixture therein of the ends of the wire web so employed.
2. The attachment to this tubular roller of the mechanical arrangement
commonly known as a Worm and Wheel (Fig. 2) or a ratchet wheel, or a ratchet
wheel and pall only (Fig. 1) actuated by a key or lever for the turning of this
tubular roller for effectually stretching and retaining in tension of the coiled or
other wire mattress or other wire work,

page_text: 3. The support of this tubular roller on brackets specially designed for the support
and efficient movement of the worm and ordinary or ratchet wheel (Figs. 1 & 2) or
the ratchet wheel and pall alone, as described in claim 2.
4. The application of tubular iron (Figs. 1 & 4) with corner brackets to the
construction of mattress-frames in lieu of the ordinarily used wooden frames, or in
partial combination therewith, and as a basis for the fixing and stretching
apparatus already claimed above.
Dated this second day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighty six.