Improvements in Woven Wire Mattresses and in Woven Wire Couch, Chair, Bed, and Cot Bottoms.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Nov., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 21st Aug., 1891-Accepted, 26th Sept., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Woven Wire Mattresses and in Woven Wire
Couch, Chair, Bed, and Cot Bottoms.
We, RICHARD PITT and THOMAS PITT, both of Crown Works, Heath - Mill
Lane, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Wire and Chain Mattress Makers, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
This invention of improvements in woven wire mattresses and in woven wire
couch chair bed and cot bottoms consists in the herein described improved means
for lacing or otherwise securing the woven wire fabric to a mattress frame or to
the frame of a bedstead cot couch or chair.
We will describe our invention as applied to a woven wire bottom for a bedstead
but it is to be understood that the invention is similarly applicable to woven wire
mattresses and to the bottonis of cots couches and chairs.
According to one method of carrying out this invention we employ stout wire
or other eyes or loops at certain distances apart along the sides of the wire
fabric. The lacing cord or strand is passed through these loops in lacing the
wire fabric to the frame of the bedstead. Each of these eyes or loops by preference
consists of a bent or coiled piece of wire with its ends projecting in opposite
directions and engaging in the edge coil of the fabric.
Or the said piece or
pieces of wire may be bent or coiled so as to form two or more loops or eyes.
The said loops or eyes are either placed in position in the wire fabric during the
process of weaving or coiling the wire fabric or afterwards.
According to another method of carrying out our invention a plain piece of
wire, or pieces of wire, is or are threaded along the outer coil of the wire fabric so
as to strengthen the same, and round this strengthened coil the lacing cord or
strand is passed when lacing the wire fabric to the sides of the bedstead frame.
Or instead of employing wire in the edge coil of the wire fabric a rope cord or
other flexible strand may be thus used and either formed into loops or not for the
lacing cord or strand to engage with.
Hooks may be used with the said eyes or loops or the strengthened edge coil to
secure the wire fabric to the bedstead side instead of the lacing cords or strands
above described.
At the ends of the woven wire fabric and at other parts thereof where the said
loops or eyes cannot be interwoven we secure lacing loops or eyes at certain
distances apart by rivetting. Or the ends or sides of the woven wire fabric may
be clamped between two flat or other strips of iron or other suitable substance
which are furnished with eyelets or loops through which the lacing cord or strand
passes. We are thus enabled to lace the woven wire fabric to the bedstead, cot,
mattress, chair, or couch frame all round, that is to say, along the ends as well as
along the sides.
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The said woven wire fabric can also be secured to the bedstead or other frame

page_text: by the said eyes loops or eyelets of the woven wire fabric engaging with hooks
studs or buttons fixed to the said frame.
Dated this 19th day of November 1890.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION (AMENDED).
Improvements in Woven Wire Mattresses and in Woven Wire
.Couch, Chair, Bed, and Cot Bottoms.
We, RICHARD PITT and THOMAS PITT, both of Crown Works, Heath Mill
Lane, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Wire and Chain Mattress Makers, 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 of improvements in woven wire mattresses and -in woven wire
couch, chair, bed and cot bottoms consists in the herein described improved means
for lacing or otherwise securing the woven wire fabric to a mattress frame or to
the frame of a bedstead, cot, couch or chair.
We will describe our invention as applied to a
bedstead but it is to be understood that the invention is similarly applicable to
woven wire bottom for a
woven wire mattresses and to the bottoms of cots, couches and chairs.
According to one method of carrying out this invention, which is illustrated in
the accompanying drawings by Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 in which the same letters of
reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all the figures, we employ
stout wire or other eyes or loops, such as a, at certain distances apart along the
sides of the wire fabric b. A small portion only of the wire fabric is shewn on
my our drawings. Each of these eyes or loops by preference consists of a bent or
coiled piece of wire with its ends projecting in opposite directions (see Fig. 2)
and engaging in the edge coil of the fabric as shewn in Fig. 1. Or the said eyes
or loops may be cast or stamped of a similar shape as shewn by Fig. 3. The
lacing cord or strand c is passed through these loops as shewn in Fig. I in lacing
the wire fabric to the angle iron or other frame of the bedstead. By the loops
or eyes a engaging in the edge coil of the wire fabric as above described and
shewn in Fig. 1 the strain of the lacing cord or strand c is distributed over a largo
area of the fabric and the fabric is not pulled out of shape. The said piece of
wire may be bent or coiled so as to form two or more loops or eyes the proper
distance apart as shewn for instance by Figs. 4 and 5. The said loops or eyes can
either be are placed in position in the wire fabric during the process of weaving or
coiling the wire fabric or afterwards as will readily be understood.
According to another method of carrying out our invention as shewn by Figs. 6
and 7 short bent pieces of wire such as e are threaded along the outer coil of the
wire fabric so as to strengthen the same, and round this strengthened coil the lacing
cord or strand c is passed as shewn in Fig. 6 when lacing the wire fabric 6 to the
sides d of the bedstead frame. These wires e may either be straight as shewn in
Fig. 6 or bent at the ends (Fig. 7) or at other parts so as the better to prevent
their getting out of place. We use short pieces of wire e as shewn so as to
allow of the fabric being folded if required. Or instead of strengthening the
edge coil of the wire fabric by bent pieces of wire, a rope, cord, or other flexible
strand as shown in Fig. 9 may be threaded therein along each side. as shewn-in
Fig 8, The ends of the said rope, cord, or other flexible strand f being are secured
to the ends of the bedstead frame or to the strips of iron between which the ends of
the wire fabric are clamped, and the The said ropes cords or other flexible strands
may either be straight or are formed into loops as shewn in Fig. 9 for the lacing
cord or strand c to engage with.
Hooks may be used to engage with the said eyes or loons a or with the

page_text: strengthened edge coil of the wire fabric and with the bedstead side to secure the
wire fabric to the bedstead side instead of the lacing cords or strands c above
described. Fig. 10 shews one of the loops or eyes a furnished with a hook g
adapted to engage with an ordinary stud on the upper side of the bedstead frame ;
and Fig. 11 shews how a similar hook g can be used with one of the bent wires e
hereinbefore described with reference to Figs. 6 and 7; or instead of using hooks,
rings such as h (Fig. 12) may be similarly used to engage with the loops or eyes a
and with the studs such as i on the bedstead side.
Instead of using the lacing cords or strands c with the eyes or loops a as and
for the purpose above described, the lacing cords may be dispensed with and the
woven wire fabric fixed to the bedstead frame by the eyes or loops a of the woven
wire fabric being sprung over ordinary hooks studs or buttons fixed to the
bedstead frame.
In order to enable us to lace the woven wire fabric to the bedstead, cot,
mattress, chair, or conch-frame-all round, that is to say, along the ends as well as
along the sides, we clamp the ends of the wire fabric (see Fig. 1 which represents
in plan-one-end-of-n bedstend) between two flat-or-other strips of iron-j-or-other
suitable substance and rivet these two strips-and-the-fabric together by rivets
sneh-as-k-passing therethrough. We provide holes 1-in these bars at suitable
distances apart furnished with eyelets through which the lacing cord or strand-c
passes. The eyelets assist in keeping the bars j-together and they present a
smooth rounded surface to the cord-c.
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 :-
1. In woven wire mattresses and in woven wire couch, chair, bed, and cot
bottoms, the use of wire or other loops or eyes such as a or short bent wires such as e
engaging in the edge coils of the woven wire fabric in the manner and for the
purposes substantially as herein before set forth and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
2. In combination with the woven wire fabric forming the bottom of a mattress,
couch, chair, bed or cot the use of wire loops such as a or short bent wires such as e
or cords or other like flexible strands in the edge coils of the fabric to strengthen
the same, and lacing cords or strands such as c engaging with the said loops or
eyes or strengthened parts of the wire fabric and securing the wire fabric to the
frame of the mattress, couch, chair, bed or cot, substantially as hereinbefore set
forth.
3. In woven wire mattresses and in woven wire couch, chair, bed and cot
bottoms, the use of a strengthening cord or other like flexible strand such as fin
each of the edge coils of the woven wire fabric the said cords or strands being
either formed into loops such as f¹, or not, for the purposes and substantially as
herein before described.
4. In combination with the weven wire fabric bottom of a mattress, couch,
chair, bed, or cot, the sides of the fabric being strengthened and adapted for
securing to the frame in any of the several ways hereinbefore described, the-use-of
eyeletted-elumping strips or bars such as jeeenred to one or both ends of the wire
fabric-bottom-and-a lncing cord or cords or other like-strand or strands such as c
passing through the said eyeletted holes and securing the ends of the wire fabrie
to the frame substantially as hereinbefore-described and illustrated by Fig. 11 of
the accompanying drawings.
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