Improvements in Distensible Bottomed Bedsteads and Cots.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Apr., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 17th Jan., 1890-Accented, 22nd Feb.,
1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION:
Improvements in Distensible Bottomed Bedsteads and Cots.
I, FREDERICK HOSKINS of the firm of. Hoskins and Sewell of Bordesley in the City
of Birmingham, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:
My present invention is an improvement upon Letters Patent granted to me on the
5th day of November 1887, and numbered 15070, in which, woven wire, chain, linked
wire and other distensible sackings, are connected to their detachable framings, by
hook connections at one end only, and which sacking is stretched or strained at
the other end, by screws, passing through the end framing, and with their fore
parts taking into screw boxes, carried on the underside of the tensioned end
stretcher bar.
My present invention consists in securing by hook connections, both ends of
distensible mattress, instead of securing one end only as aforesaid.
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In carrying out my invention, I provide the stretcher bars at both the head and
foot ends of a distensible mattress, with two or more depending and inwardly directed
hook connections, which take within holes in the vertical webs of the end framings of
a solid frame-These said hook connections are made preferably from wrought or
malleable cast iron, while the stretcher, bars to which they are connected, are made
anglewise; that is to say, with horizontal and vertical sides, which embrace the angles
'of the end framings, so that the horizontal side or section comes upon the top of the
angle framing of the bedstead, whilst the vertical side takes a continuous bearing
upon the sides of the said angle framing, and thus it is, that the whole strain of the
mesh, comes upon the angle iron ends of the solid frame, through the intervention of
the vertical side of the angle stretcher bars as aforesaid; so that the office of the
hooks is only to prevent the strained meshes from rising.
In applying my invention, 1 take the solid frame of a bedstead, and strain the mesh
a little beyond the tension that it is to acquire, and when in this condition, it is
placed upon the aforesaid frame, and then liberated, when the hooks at both ends
engage with, or take into the holes in the frame, when the strained sacking or mesh is
permanently affixed to the bedstead.
Although I have described that the mesh stay bars are held down by hooks, yet
the same may be secured in position by pins, or by pins and nuts; and further,
the end pieces of the bedstead framing may be made tubular, instead of from angle
metal.
Or the stay bars of the sackings may be connected to the bedstead framing, by
loops or eyes on the said bars, taking over and upon snugs or stud heads, secured to,
or cast upon or around, the said end framings.
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FREDERICK HOSKINS.
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Distensible Bottomed Bedsteads and Cots.
I, FREDERICK HOSKINS of the firm of Hoskins and Sewell of Bordesley in the City
of Birmingham, Manufacturer, 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 :-
My present invention is an improvement upon Letters Patent granted to me on

page_text: the 5th day of November 1887 and numbered 15070, in which, woven wire, chain,
linked wire, and other distensible sackings, are connected to their detachable
framings, by hook connections at one end only, and which sacking, is stretched or
strained at the other end, by screws, passing through the end framing, and with
their fore parts, taking into screw boxes, carried on the underside of the tensioned
end stretcher bar.
My present invention consists in securing by hook connections, both ends of a
distensible mattress, instead of securing one end only as aforesaid.
;
In carrying out my invention, I provide the stretcher bars at both the head and
foot ends, of a distensible mattress, with two or more depending and inwardly directed
hook connections, which take within holes in the vertical webs of the end framings:
of a solid frame. These said hook connections are made preferably from wrought or
malleable cast iron, while the stretcher bars to which they are connected, are made
angle-wise that is to say, with horizontal and vertical sides, which embrace the
angles of the end framings, so that the horizontal side or section comes upon the top
of the angle framing of the bedstead, whilst the vertical side takes a continuous bearing
upon the sides of the said angle framing, and thus it is, that the whole strain of the
mesh, comes upon the angle iron ends of the solid frame, through the intervention of
the vertical side of the angle stretcher bars as aforesaid, so that the office of the hooks
is only to prevent the strained meshes from rising.
In applying my invention, I take the solid frame of a bedstead, and strain the mesh
a little beyond the tension that it is to acquire, and when in this condition, it is placed
upon the aforesaid frame, and then liberated, when the hooks at both ends engage
with, or take into the holes in the frame, when the strained sacking or mesh, is
permanently affixed to the bedstead.
Although I have described that the mesh stay-bars are held down by hooks yet
the same may be secured in position by pins, or by pins and nuts; and further,
the end pieces of the bedstead framing, may be made tubular, instead of from
angle metal.
Or the stay bars of the sackings, may be connected to the bedstead framing, by
loops or eyes on the said bars, taking over and upon snugs, or stud heads, secured to,
or cast upon, or around the said end framings.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings, represents in plan, partly in horizontal
section, a distensible meshed solid frame bed-bottom, constructed according to my
invention. The sectioned parts, exhibit how the hooked connections of the stretcher
bars, engage with the hanging webs or vertical sides of the ends of the frame.
Figure 2 represents a longitudinal vertical section of the same, through the dotted
lines A B, thus exhibiting the solid frame, and the connecting or distending of a
mesh to the ends of the frame, by hook connections, carried by the stretcher bars of
the mesh..
Figure 3 represents upon an enlarged scale, the end connection.
Figures 4 and 5 represent the end connection, separately, viz. :-figure 4 represents
one end of a mesh, connected or clamped between stretcher bar plates, of which the
lower one carries hook connections, whilst figure 5 represents a section of the end
framing, and a portion of the side framing connected with it.
Figure 6 represents an end view of a portion of figure 3.
a are side framings, and bare end angle framings, respectively connected together,
in a rigid manner at their ends, by chill corner castings, or junctions c, although
the said may be rigidly connected together, by he and she-dovetail corner blocks.
d is a woven wire or other distensible sacking, secured at its ends, by stretcher 5
bars e, consisting of undulatory sectioned strips or lengths e², e³, which latter, has a
web e, which is adapted with the length e³, to embrace the angles of the end framings,
(see figures 2, 3 and 6).
The said lower strips e³, carry hooks f, with stud ends f, upon their inner sides,
which engage with holes 62, made through the vertical sides 63, of the said angle
framing b.
To engage the hooked end connections f, with the ends, or end bars, of the solid

page_text: frame, first distend the sacking to an extent a little beyond its assigned position, so
that the distance between the opposite hooked ends, is a little beyond the outer sides
of the end bars of the solid frame, and when in this position, drop the mesh upon the
said frame, with the stud ends of the hooks, opposite the holes in the ends. Then
slightly relax the tension of the mesh, when the desired connection is thereby
made.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare what I
claim is :-
:
First A solid or rigid bedstead frame, with an already distended or tensioned-
mesh, or sacking, applied and connected, substantially as described and set forth.
Secondly Combining with a solid or rigid bedstead frame, of a subsequently
tensioned, or distended sacking or mesh, having end bars, provided with hooked, or
eye, connections, which engage respectively with, holes or studs, formed within,
or carried by, the ends of the said frame, substantially as described and set forth.
Dated this 16th day of January 1890.
FREDERICK HOSKINS.
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.