Im- PROVEMENTS IN PILLOWS AND BOLSTERS, AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Haseltine, of the "International Patent
Office," Southampton Buildings, London, for the Invention of "Im-
PROVEMENTS IN PILLOWS AND BOLSTERS, AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES."-A
communication from abroad by Timothy S. Sperry, of Chicago,
Illinois. United States of America.
Sealed the 17th March 1871, and dated the 28th January 1871.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said George Haseltine at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and
Declaration, on the 28th January 1871, pursuant to the 9th
Section of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
HASELTINE, of the "International Patent Office," Southampton Buildings,
London, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN PILLOWS AND BOLSTERS, AND OTHER LIKE ÅRTICLES," and have petitioned
Her Majesty to grant unto me, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for the same, and have made solemn

page_text: Declaration that it has been communicated to me from abroad by
Timothy S. Sperry, of Chicago, Illinois, United States of America.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Haseltine, do hereby declare
that the following Complete Specification, under my hand and seal,
fully describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, in and by the following
statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawing forming
a part of this Specification :-
The object of my Invention is to obtain a light and cheap skeleton
pillow and bolster for beds; and the said Invention consists in com-
bining with a padded case or cover a series of oval spiral springs (or a
single continuous oval-shaped spiral spring) so as to form a yielding
shell or web for the said case, and a system of internal springs, whether
of a series or a continuous single one arranged within the shell or web
to form a yielding support and stay therefor. I thus produce a light
durable, cheap, and healthful pillow or bolster, which will retain its
elasticity, and afford a uniform and gentle yielding surface for the
head.
The said Invention also consists in connecting the outer skeleton or
shell and inner supporting spring or series of springs together and to
each other by means of longitudinal stays in such manner as not only
to maintain the symmetry of the pillow, but a fixed relation to each
other of the inner and outer series of springs, and thereby prevent
their having a tendency to work toward either end of the pillow and
collapse.
The said Invention also consists in constructing and arranging the
inner series of springs (or a continuous one) in relation to the outer
shell or skeleton, and so connecting the two together that one will
constitute a longitudinal brace to the other, and thus form also a hori-
zontal counter brace to each coil extending from one end of the pillow
to the other.

page_text: longitudinally at each side by stay springs C by means of a cord tied so
as to form a lock loop at the junction of each coil with its stay spring.
These coils are reduced in depth as they approach the ends of the frame
in order to give symmetry to the pillow.
Within the centre of the shell or web I arrange and secure a system
of annular or other shaped springs D, which may be of separate and
distinct coils; but I prefer to make them of a single continuous spiral
spring, so arranged as to form a junction with stays d, d, secured to the
top and bottom of the outer shell or coils, as shown in Figure 2, by a
cord forming a lock loop at the junction of the inner and outer coils and
the stays.
It will be observed that the inner and outer coils thus arranged would
be liable to collapse or fold sidewise toward either end of the pillow. I
obviate this difficulty by causing the inner coils to act as a longitudinal
brace to the outer coils, so that each coil is made a counter brace to the
other. In the example shown I effect this by coiling the inner and outer
coils spirally in opposite directions, each set of coils having independent
side stays, and being also connected to the top and bottom stays and to
each other. This construction gives a most perfect longitudinal brace to
the skeleton frame of the pillow from one end to the other without
interfering with its capacity to spring or yield in other directions.
The skeleton shell or web thus constructed and braced is covered with
a case composed of two separate and distinct cases, having between
them a filling of cotton or other suitable upholstering material, the
thickness of which is sufficient to protect the springs and give to the
pillow the proper external softness.
The coils may be made of any steel spring of suitable size to insure
the proper degree of elasticity, and they may be arranged in any con-
venient form so long as one is within the other, and each constitutes a
brace to the other.
I have represented and described my Invention as applied to a pillow
or bolster, but it is obvious that it may be applied to mattrasses and
beds as well and with the same results. The pillow thus made is fitted
with the usual removable pillow slip.
I employ a former of proper shape and construction upon which to
construct the inner and outer coils of springs so that the latter are
shaped in the process of winding or coiling them.

page_text: Having thus fully described the said Invention as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondent, I claim,―
First. In a pillow or other similar article the combination of the outer
shell or web A with the inner supporting coil or coils D and the padded
case essentially as described.
Second. An inner and an outer spring or springs D, A, constructed
and connected to each other so as to constitute longitudinal counter
braces to each other, essentially as described.
Third. The inner and outer spring coil or coils provided with hori-
zontal stays, and connected at the junction of the several parts by loop
locks or other means, as described.
Fourth. An oval (or nearly oval) spiral shell or web in combination
with a padded case or covering, as described.
Fifth. The combination of the inner spring coil or coils D, the outer
spring shell or web A, the horizontal stay springs C, and the padded
covering, the whole constructed and arranged as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Haseltine, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
GEORGE HASELTINE. (L.S.)
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Witness,
W. J. LOWE.