Improvements in the Method of Connecting Parts of Mattress Frames, Bed Frames, and Bedsteads, Couches, Lounges, Ships' Berths, and the like.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Dec., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 12th Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 12th Oct., 1888
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Improvements in the Method of Connecting Parts of Mattress
Frames, Bed Frames, and Bedsteads, Couches, Lounges, Ships'
Berths, and the like.
We ISAAC CHORLTON of 19 Blackfriars Street Manchester in the County of
Lancaster Spring Mattress Manufacturer and GEORGE LAMB SCOTT of Manchester
aforesaid Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our said Invention relates to the mode of attaching the end members of a mattress
or bed frame, bed-stead, or ships-berth to the side members or to a bracket or part
carried by or carrying the said side members. The invention is chiefly applicable to
the attachment of angle iron or steel ends to bed or mattress frames having side members
of wood or of metallic tubing or material and carrying strained elastic metallic or
other mattress surfaces as is now well understood. Such bed or mattress frames are
usually supported upon corner castings or brackets to which the side tubular or other
members are secured or the said side members may carry a bracket or other part
designed to take the end members. In some cases these end members are attached by
bolts studs or rivets or by tongues entering recesses or by other means, which generally
entail the use of attached or detachable parts sometimes requiring to be more or less
accurately fitted to each other and all tending to increase the cost of the article either
by extra weight or by workmens time. According to our invention we form upon or
attach to the corner brackets or parts which support the end members a plain snug
or projection which may be of any suitable form but is preferably rectangular, and in
the vertical or it might be the horizontal web of the angle iron or steel end we punch
or form a slot or hole to suit the projection or snug on the bracket. When the end
members are applied to these brackets the snugs or projections on the brackets or
paris enter the slots or holes in the members and act as catches to prevent them from
being pulled off. When the elastic metallic or other mattress is strained between the
end members they are thereby locked or held in position and cannot possibly become
disengaged until the mattress surface is slackened or removed. Our improved mode
of thus connecting the end members or otherwise those members which take the

page_text: strain of the mattress surface is applicable to bed and mattress frames or berths
having adjustable straining bars, or parts and may be employed either in conjunction
with end members of angle iron or steel or with members of a different section, such
for example as tubular ends or ends composed of flat bars. In some cases the simple
projecting stud or catch might assume a hook shape for the sake of additional security
but in all instances the gist of our invention is the employment of a simple snug,
projection, toe, horn, hook or stud either formed in one with or attached to the brackets
or parts or side members intended to carry the end members whereby we attain
economy in workmans time and material. As an alternative arrangement the snug
or projection may be attached to the angle iron or other end member and a
corresponding recess formed in the supporting bracket or part to receive it.
Dated this Tenth day of December 1887.
DUTTON & FULTON,
1, St. James Square, Manchester,
Agents.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of Connecting Parts of Mattress
Frames, Bed Frames, and Bedsteads, Couches, Lounges, Ships'
Berths, and the like.
We ISAAC CHORLTON of 19 Blackfriars Street Manchester in the County of
Lancaster, Spring Mattress Manufacturer and GEORGE LAMB SCOTT of Manchester
aforesaid Engineer 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 accompanying drawings:-
:-
Our said Invention relates to the mode of attaching the end members of a mattress
or bed frame, bedstead or ships berth to the side members or to a bracket or part
carried by or carrying the said side members. The invention is chiefly applicable to
the attachment of angle iron or steel ends to bed or mattress frames having side
members of wood or of metallic tubing or material and carrying strained elastic
metallic or other mattress surfaces as is now well understood. Such bed or mattress
frames are usually supported upon corner castings or brackets to which the side
tubular or other members are secured or the said side members may carry a bracket
or other part designed to take the end members. In some cases these end members are
attached by bolts studs or rivets or by tongues entering recesses or by other means
which generally entail the use of attached or detachable parts sometimes requiring to
be more or less accurately fitted to each other and all tending to increase the cost of
the article either by extra weight or by workmen's time. According to our Invention
we form upon or attach to the corner brackets or parts which support the end
members a snug or projection which may be of any suitable form but is preferably
rectangular, and in the vertical or it might be the horizontal web of the angle iron or
steel end we punch or form a slot or hole to suit the projection or snug on the bracket.
When the end members are applied to these brackets the snugs or projections on the
brackets or parts enter the slots or holes in the members and act as catches to prevent
then from being pulled off. When the elastic metallic or other mattress is strained
between the end members they are thereby locked or held in position and cannot
possibly become disengaged until the mattress surface is slackened or removed.
And in order that our said Invention may be properly understood we will now
proceed more particularly to describe the same with reference to the annexed sheet of
drawings.
Fig. 1 is a view of a corner bracket or casting or part of a mattress frame to
which an angle iron end is shown attached by our improved means. Fig. 2 is a view
at right angles to Fig. 1. Figs. 3 and 4 illustrate modifications of our Invention.
Referring to Fig. 1 the corner bracket or casting a is supposed to form part of a
mattress or bed frame having tubular sides b and ends c of angle iron or steel which are
shown in section. Upon the casting c we form a snug or projection d which may be
either cast in one with a or may be secured thereto. The snug & may be of any
desired shape but an efficient and simple form is to make it square as shown in the
drawing.

page_text: We punch or otherwise form a slot or hole in the vertical web of the angle iron c
to receive the said snug, the slot or hole being made oblong so as to give clearance on
each side of the snug as shown at Fig. 2 and admit of a certain amount of adjustment
with relation to the breadth of the mattress. It will be evident that the snug d
might be situated on the top of the bracket a instead of on the end as shown in which
case the slot or hole to receive it would be formed in the horizontal web of the angle
iron c.
Instead of the snug d projecting from the casting a as shown, we might
attach a snug d to the angle iron c as shown at Fig. and form a recess in the
casting a to receive and retain the snug. Instead of having a rectangular snug as
hereinbefore described, the snug might assume the shape of a curved horn d as shown
at Fig. 4. We however prefer the form of snug shown at Figs. 1 and 2. It will be
evident that the catch or snug d might be of various shapes and sections but we do
not think it necessary to illustrate more modifications than these set forth as in all
instances the gist of our invention is the employment of a simple snug, projection,
toe, horn, hook or stud either formed in one with or attached to, or entering recesses
formed in the brackets or parts at the ends of the side members and affording a
simple and ready means of attachment of the end members. It will be understood
that the casting a exists or may exist at each corner of the mattress frame so that
when the angle ends care applied and the elastic mattress e attached and strained as
usual the mattress or bed frame is complete, the strain of the mattress tending to
increase the security of the connection between the ends and the parts a.
Our improved mode of thus connecting the end members or otherwise those
members which take the strain of the mattress surface, is applicable to bed and
mattress frames or berths having adjustable straining bars or parts and may be
employed either in conjunction with end members of angle iron or steel as described
and shown or with members of a different section such for example as tubular ends
or ends composed of flat bars. The non-employment of bolts and of attached locking
parts and the ease in applying our invention enables us to effect a considerable
economy in material and workman's time.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is,
In the construction of mattresses and bed frames securing the metallic ends of
angular, tubular, flat or other section and which carry the mattress surface to the
corner brackets or parts at the ends of the side members or at the ends of the frame
by means of snugs, studs, horns or projections which enter holes or slots formed to
receive them in the said metallic ends and whereby the said metallic ends are retained
in position, substantially as herein before described and shown.
Dated this 11th day of Santambar 1888
DUTTON & FULTON,
1, St. James Square, Manchester,
Agents.