AN IMPROVEMENT IN, HAIR AND WOOL MATTRESSES.
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Harris. Heal, of 196, Tottenham Court Road,.
in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN,
HAIR AND WOOL MATTRESSES.".
Sealed the 21st October 1856, and dated the 30th May 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Harris Heal at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
30th May 1856.
I, JOHN HARRIS HEAL, of 196, Tottenham Court Road, in the County of:
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "AN IMPROVE-;
MENT IN HAIR AND WOOL MATTRESSES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object an improvement in the manufacture of
hair and wool mattresses. For this purpose, a comparatively thin mattress is
made and tied in the ordinary manner, and on either surface of such thin
mattress a further quantity of hair or, wool is placed, and the whole is covered.
with a suitable case, and the mattress is again tied thro'. By this mode of manu-
facture the felting together of the hair or wool is prevented, and mattresses so:
made will retain their form better than when produced in single cases, as
heretofore.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Harris Heal in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
28th November 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
HARRIS HEAL, of 196, Tottenham Court Road, in the County of Middlesex,
send greeting.
WHEREAS IIer most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing dato the Thirtieth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
John Harris Heal, Her special licence that I, the said John Harris Heal,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John
Harris Heal, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT
IN HAIR AND WOOL MATTRESSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said John Harris Heal, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and scals, should parti-
cularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the
Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Harris Heal, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thercof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object an improvement in the manufacture of
hair and wool mattresses. For this purpose, a comparatively thin mattress is
mado and tied in the ordinary manner, and on either surface of such thin
mattress a further quantity of hair or wool is placed, and the whole is covered
with a suitable case, and the mattress is again tied through. By this mode of
manufacture the felting together of the hair or wool is prevented, and the
mattresses, so made, will retain their form better than when produced in single
cases. as heretofore.
Ilaving thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same. In producing a mattress

page_text: of a given thickness according to my Invention, in place of making the same
up in the usual manner, of one thickness, I first make up a comparatively
thin mattress in a suitable case, and tie it through at intervals, in the ordinary
manner; I then apply a second and larger case, and on one or both sides
(preferring it to be on both sides) of the thin mattress I add hair or wool,
and I again tie through the second case at intervals, in like manner to that in
which mattresses are ordinarily tied ; and if desired to again increase the thick-
ness, two or more comparatively thin mattresses may be first made and placed
into a case, there being wool or hair introduced between, above, and below
such inner mattresses, the whole being then tied through at intervals, in like
manner as if there had been no interior divisions or separation of the material.
By thus having the required thickness of a mattress divided into several layers
of material, each layer being tied and kept separate from the others, the
material is prevented felting together into a mass, and such mattresses retain
their forms better than mattresses which are each made in a single thickness.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Harris Heal, have hereunto set my
hand and scal, this Twenty-eighth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
20 Witness,
S. CARPMAEL.
J. HARRIS HEAL. (L.S.)