Improved Means for Adjusting ire Spring ttresses.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Apr., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 16th Jan., 1897-Accepted, 27th Mar., 1897
Improved Means for Adjusting
ire Spring
ttresses.
I, FRANCIS GILBERT GALE of Waterville in the County of Compton in the
Province of Quebec and Dominion of Canada Manufacturer, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists of improved means for adjusting wire spring mattresses in
the event of their becoming slack or tending to sag in use, and in order to tighten
up the same when this occurs I employ adjusting bolts or screws operating in eye
pieces.
At a suitable distance from the ends of each side bar-forming with the head
and foot ends the framework to which the wire mesh is attached-I insert a
vertical eye piece the shank or stem of which is of a square or other suitable
shape and is embedded in the side bar or rail the eye piece which stands above
the surface has a flange or base which obtains a bearing upon the said surface of
the side bar and affords extra rigidity, the eye is formed in the upper portion
which has a female screw therein to receive a horizontal screw pin or bolt having
a male screw and provided at the one end with a square neck and head.
At the rear of each of these screw adjustments the ends of the side bars or rails
are slotted vertically, these slots are of an elongated form longitudinally for the
after mentioned purpose."
The ends of the head and foot rails or bars are placed over these slots, and
vertical bolts are passed through same and through the slots and are secured by
screw nuts underneath.
It will be understood that the head of each horizontal screw pin or bolt lies
directly towards and in a plane with the inner edge of the head and foot rails.
When required to tighten up the wire mesh the nuts of the said vertical pins are
loosened and the horizontal screw pins are manipulated by a key or spanner fitting
upon the square necks of same by which they are caused to travel backwards, the
heads bearing against the end rails or bars so as to push the same, the elongated
vertical slots allowing for the traverse of the vertical pins or bolts, to the position
desired which are then tightened and rigidly secured by the aforesaid nuts at
their lower extremities. Thus the wire mattress is capable of being tightened or
slackened and adjusted at will.
It will be clear that the above arrangement can be applied to straight or other,
side bars or rails, or to rails elevated at their ends by wedges or other means to
raise the wire mesh above the sides.
1100
EDWD. J. PAYNE & SON,
104, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Patent Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: I, FRANCIS GILBERT GALE of Waterville in the County of Compton in the
Province of Quebec and Dominion of Canada 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 :-
And with reference to the drawings accompanying this specification in which
similar letters upon the figures refer to similar parts.
Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my improved adjustable mattress.
Figure 2 shews to an enlarged scale in side view a part of mattress frame end
with my improvements.
Figure 3 represents a plan view of same.
Figure 4 represents a bottoni view.
Figure 5 shews the eye piece & shank.
My invention consists of improved means for adjusting wire spring mattresses
in the event of the wire mesh becoming slack or tending to sag in use and in order
to tighten up the same when this occurs I employ adjusting bolts or screws
operating in eye pieces and vertical bolts and nuts and slotted apertures. At a
suitable distance from the end or ends of each side bar A forming with the head
and foot ends B the framework to which the wire mesh C and springs D are
attached I insert a vertical eye piece E the shank or stem E2 of which is of a
square or other suitable shape and has a vertical groove or slot in face of said
shauk E and which is embedded in the side bar or rail A the eye piece E
which stands above the surface has a, flange or base E1 which obtains a bearing
flush upon the said surface of the said side bar A when screwed or driven into
same and affords additional means for keeping said eye piece E rigid, the
aperture into which the shank E' fits in the rail A is shaped to receive the
slotted shank or casting which is thus mitred or dovetailed in and holds same.
in position, the eye is formed in the upper or flanged portion as shewn and is
provided with a female screw therein to receive a horizontal screw pin or bolt F
having a male screw therein and provided at its one end with a square neck and
head F1, F2.
At the rear of each of these screw adjustments the side bars or ends A are
slotted or, bored out vertically near to the ends thereof said slots being of an
elongated form longitudinally as represented at G Figure +:
The ends of the head and foot rails or bars B are placed directly over these
slots G and vertical bolts H are passed through same thus securing the side bars A
and end bars B by being bolted together and adjusted by screw nuts and
washers I, I, upon the. bolts H.
It will be seen that the head F of each horizontal screw pin or bolt F lies
directly towards and in a plane with the inner side of the end or head and foot rail
or rails.
The action is as follows. When required to tighten up the wire mesh C the
screw nuts I of the said vertical pins or bolts H are slackened and the horizontal
screw pins F are manipulated by means of a key or spanner fitting upon the square
necks F¹ of same by which they are caused to travel backwards the heads F
bearing against the end rails or bars B which may or may not be somewhat recessed
to receive said heads at their points of bearing the screw pin F in their backward
travel in the eye pieces E cause the end bars B to be pushed back the elongated
vertical slots G allowing for the traverse of said vertical pins or bolts H to the
position desired which are then tightened up and rigidly secured by the aforesaid

page_text: nuts and washers I, I', at their lower extremities. Thus the wire spring mattress
is capable of being readily tightened or slackened and adjusted at will.
It will be clearly understood that the above arrangement can be applied to
straight or other side bars or rails to one or both ends of same (if to one only the.
corresponding end bar will be made fast by bolts and nuts as shewn in Figure 1.).
or to rails elevated at their ends by wedges or other means to raise the wire mesh
above the sides.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the object and nature of my
said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1. In wire spring mattresses the ineans for tightening, slackening and adjusting.
the wire mesh upon the frames namely the horizontal screw pins or bolts F and the
flanged eye pieces E with slotted shanks E in connection therewith operating as
and for the purpose described and illustrated.
2. In wire spring mattresses the means for tightening slackening and adjusting.
the mesh, namely the horizontal screw pins or bolts the flanged eye pieces with.
slotted shanks in connection therewith in combination with vertical pins or bolts.
elongated slots in combination with side and end rails operating as and for the
purpose described and illustrated.
1907
EDWD. J. PAYNE & SON,
Warwick Chambers, 104 Colmore Row, Birmingham,
Patent Agents for the Applicant.
EDWD. J. PAYNE & SON,
Warwick Chambers, 104 Colmore Row, Birmingham,
Patent Agents for the Applicant.