IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF MATTRESSES AND OTHER SURFACES FOR LYING, RECLINING, OR SITTING PRAY
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Thomas Lockey, of Northwich, in the County
"
of Chester, for an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION
OF MATTRESSES AND OTHER SURFACES FOR LYING, RECLINING, OR SITTING
PRAY "
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Thomas Lockey at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st November 1881.
JAMES THOMAS LOCKEY, of Northwich, in the County of Chester. << IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF MATTRESSES AND OTHER SURFACES FOR LYING,
RECLINING, OR SITTING UPON."
This Invention relates to the construction of spring mattresses for beds, sofa,
and chair bottoms, seats for rooms, ships, and carriages, and other analogous
surfaces for lying, reclining, or resting upon, and consists principally in the
combination for such purpose of longitudinal stretchers of thin canes with metallic
fixings, as hereinafter described.
The canes are cut to a suitable length and are provided at each end with a
metallic eye screwed, pinned, or otherwise fixed on, and having at one end or at
both ends (one being sufficient in most cases) a metal link attached by a short
spiral or other suitable spring.
The external frame of the mattress or seat is made in the usual manner and is
provided at each end with a transverse metallic bar, one of the said bars having
a series of pins or hooks for attaching the eyes at one end of the stretchers and
the other a series of buttons for attaching the spring link at the other end of the
canes.
In some cases I dispense with the spring link and have only the eyelet screwed
or otherwise fixed at each end.
The cane stretchers are held in place between the ends by transverse tapes or
other analogous means, a convenient arrangement being to have when required
two tapes, one above the canes and one below the same, the said tapes being

page_text: connected together by means of an eyelet or rivet between each two canes; the
number of transverse tapes required will depend upon the length of the canes and
the purpose for which the mattress or seat is required.
These spring mattresses or seats will be found to be much lighter and more
economical than those hitherto in use, in addition to which the canes will not be
liable to stretch and if one should become broken or damaged it is easy to renew
or repair the same, and another very great advantage (especially for beds for
children or invalids) is that the cane is much more healthy and cleanly than metal
and is not liable to rust or corrode if exposed to damp or moisture and the
ticking or covering of the hair mattress does not become iron moulded or
otherwise injured.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said James Thomas Lockey in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
1st May 1882.
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JAMES THOMAS LOCKEY, of Northwich, in the County of Chester. IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF MATTRESSES AND OTHER SURFACES FOR Lying,
RECLINING, OR SITTING UPON."
This Invention relates to the construction of spring mattresses for beds, sofas,
and chair bottoms, seats for rooms, ships, and carriages, and other analogous
surfaces for lying, reclining, or resting upon, and consists principally in the
combination for such purpose of longitudinal stretchers of thin canes with metallic
fixings, as hereinafter described.
Such being the nature and object of my said Invention I will now proceed to
describe in detail the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or
carried into practical effect; and in order that the same may be clearly understood
I have annexed hereunto a Sheet of Drawings illustrative thereof, and have
marked the same with Figures and letters of reference corresponding with those in
the following explanation thereof
Fig. 1 in the annexed Drawing is a plan view, and Fig. 2 a section of a mattress
made according to my Invention.
The canes a, a, are cut to a suitable length and are provided at each end with
a metallic eye b, b, screwed, pinned, or otherwise fixed on, and having at one end,
or at both ends (one being sufficient in most cases) a metal link c, c, attached by a
short spiral or other suitable spring d, d.
The external frame a, e, of the mattress or seat may be made in the usual
manner and is provided at each end with a transverse bar, one of the said bars
having a series of pins or hooks ff, for attaching the eyes at one end of the
stretchers and the other a series of buttons g, g, for attaching the spring link d, d,
at the other end of the canes a, a.
In some cases I dispense with the spring link and have only the eyelet b, b,
screwed or otherwise fixed at each end.
The cane stretchers a, a, are held in place between the ends by transverse
tapes h, h, or other analogous means; a convenient arrangement being to have
when required two tapes, one above the canes and one below the same; the said
tapes being connected together by means of an eyelet or rivet between each two
canes.
Another method is to dispense with the eyelets and to connect the two tapes or
strips together between the canes with india rubber or other cement. The number
of transverse tapes requisite will depend upon the length of the canes and the
purpose for which the mattress or seat is required.
These spring mattresses or seats will be found to be much lighter and more
economical than those hitherto in use, in addition to which the canes will not be
liable to stretch, and if one should become broken or damaged it is easy to renew
or repair the same, and another very great advantage (especially for beds for
children or invalids) is that the cane is much more healthy and cleanly than
metal and is not liable to rust or corrode if exposed to damp or moisture, and the
ticking or covering of the hair mattress does not become iron-moulded or
otherwise injured.
I may here observe that if preferred the canes may be arranged transversely
instead of longitudinally.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention, together

page_text: with the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into
practical effect, I wish it to be understood that I claim as my Invention,-
The improvements in the construction of mattresses and other surfaces for lying,
reclining, or sitting upon, as hereinbefore described and represented on the
Drawings annexed, and more especially I claim the employment for this purpose
of canes with metallic eyes or fixings screwed or otherwise fitted onto each end,
substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Thomas Lockey, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
JAMES THOS. LOCKEY. (L.S.)