Improvements in the Manufacture of Woven-wire Mattresses for Bed- steads, Cots, and other Articles of Furniture.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Mar, 1000
Complete Connifination Inft 1nt Don 1000 Anandad
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Loft, 21st Doc., 1900
Accepted, 17th Feb., 1000
Improvements in the Manufacture of Woven-wire Mattresses for Bed-
steads, Cots, and other Articles of Furniture.
I, ROBERT PERCY TAUNTON, Managing Director of the Firm of Taunton,
Selkirk, & Company, Limited, of River Street, Balsall Heath, in the City of
Birmingham, Wire Mattress Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows: :-
This invention relates to woven wire mattresses, for bedsteads, cots, and other
articles of furniture, in which the woven wire distensible surface is made up of
two or more lengths, running, or disposed alongside each other.
Heretofore the attachment bars or equivalents thereto, into which the ends of the
lengths of the wire surface take, or to which they are connected, have been made
in one piece, hence the one attachment has been the means of support for the
two or more lengths of wire surface, and the tensioning means for tightening or
slackening a mesh, has acted uniformly on the lengths of surface.
According to my invention, which I will describe in connection with a mattress
composed of two lengths of wire surface running alongside each other, I provide
each of the two lengths with a separate attachment bar, and also independent
mcans of tensioning, by which means the one length of surface may be either
tightened or slackened independently of the other.
As a means of support for the two end attachment bars aforesaid, I provide
a supporting bar or equivalent, extending from side to side of a bedstead framing,
upon or against which the end attachment bars may rest, and be supported.
The means whereby this supporting bar or equivalent is attached to the bed-
stead framework, may be various; for instance, the opposite ends may be supplied
with rollers, studs, or equivalents, working within slots, grooves, or the like in
the side framework.
As another form of supporting means for the end attachment bars of the mattress
to rest upon, I may direct outwardly from the bedstead end-framing, a plate, bar,
or other support, with grooves on its upper surface, into which rollers, lugs, or
projections on the under side of the end attachment bars, take. This outwardly
extending plate may be of any configuration required.
Dated this 2nd 1000

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Woven-wire Mattresses for Bed-
steads, Cots, and other Articles of Furniture.
I, ROBERT PERCY TAUNTON, of the Firm of Taunton, Selkirk and Company,
of River Street, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturers, 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:-
This invention relates to woven wire and other spring mattresses, and consists
in providing the mattress with two entirely independent lengths of wire fabric,
which are adjusted independently of each other by the usual tensioning means.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a mattress frame constructed
according to one form of my invention, from which it will be seen that one end of
the frame is provided with a supporting bar, which is preferably dovetailed into
the side of the frame, although the same may be secured by any other means
desired.
Figure 2 represents a complete double adjustable spring mattress, made according
to my invention, from which it will be seen that one length of the surface is
adjusted independently of the other, and which is of great advantage when two
persons of different weights are the occupants of a bed.
Figure 3 represents a mattress frame constructed according to another form of
my invention, and in which the same is provided with a central supporting bar
running from end to end. The said supporting bar is fastened by screws or other
means to the side of the end bar of the frame work.
The several letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the drawings.
A is the frame-work.
B the supporting bar whereon the iron supports of the ends of the mattress
C work on tensioning. Any means of tensioning may be employed.
I wish it to be understood that the supporting bar illustrated in Figure 3 may
extend only a short distance from the end of the mattress frame, not the entire
length thereof as shown.
Having now particularly ascertained the nature of my invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is:
Firstly, a woven wire or other spring mattress consisting of two lengths of
spring fabric, each of which are provided with independent means of tensioning,
substantially as set forth in Figures 1 and 2.
Secondly, the combination with the frame of a double adjustable woven wire
or other spring mattress, of a supporting bar, on which the end of the mattress
is supported, and upon which the same works on tensioning, as illustrated in
Figures 1 and 2.
Thirdly, the combination with the frame of a woven wire or other spring
mattress, consisting of two lengths of fabric, and each of which lengths are
provided with independent means of tensioning, of a supporting bar running from
end to end of the framework, as illustrated in Figure 3.
Fourthly, the combination with the frame-work of a woven wire or other
spring mattress, consisting of two independently tensioned lengths of fabric, of a
supporting bar as illustrated in Figure 3, but with the same extending only a
portion of the length of the side frame work.
Dated this Twentieth day of December 1899.