IMPROVEMENTS IN SPRING MATTRESSES OR BEDS, AND CUSHIONS."
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Victor Beare Fitzgibbon, of Sidney House, in the
City of Cork, Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SPRING
MATTRESSES OR BEDS, AND CUSHIONS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Victor Bearo Fitzgibbon
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 21st December 1863.
I, VICTOR BEABE FITZGIBBON, of Sidney House, in the City of Cork,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE
MENTS IN SPRING MATTRESSES OR BEDS, AND CUSHIONS," to be as follows:-
The present Invention enables a spring mattress or bed or cushion to be
manufactured without wooden sides or bottom as heretofore, so as to be
reversible, that is, so that both sides may be used, and also be flexible, so that
it may be rolled up and removed with ease. Moreover, in my improved kind
of mattress both ends of the spiral spring are made available by the use of
watch-spring steel, or similar material, connecting each spiral spring to the
surrounding ones, and acting itself as an additional spring to the beds. Round
the edges of the beds or mattresses, in the place of timber I have double rows
of watch-spring steel; or other similar material, connecting the outside spiral

page_text: springs together, and acting as a stay for the cross watch-spring steel and
spiral springs. The spring frame so formed should be sewn into a canvas case,
on which is laid at both sides and round the border curled hair and wool, or
other soft packing, and the whole covered with linen ticking.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Victor Beare Fitzgibbon in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 21st June 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, VICTOR
BEARE FITZGIBBON, of Sidney House, in the City of Cork, Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Victor Beare Fitzgibbon, Her special licence that I, the said
Victor Beare Fitzgibbon, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Victor Beare Fitzgibbon, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN SPRING MATTRESSES OR BEDS, AND CUSHIONS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Victor Beare Fitzgibbon,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly 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 Victor Beare Fitzgibbon, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
My said Invention not only enables a spring mattress or bed or cushion to
be imanufactured without wooden or solid sides or bottom, so as to be reversible,

page_text: Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I hereby declare
that I claim, the Invention of improvements in spring mattresses or beds, and
cushions, consisting in the arrangement of springs, spring frame, and soft
packing at top, at bottom, and round the borders or edges, as herein-before
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Victor Beare Fitzgibbon, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
VICTOR BEARE FITZGIBBON. (L.s.)
Witness to the signature
of V. B. Fitzgibbon,
JOHN MACDONNELL,
44, Great George's Street,
Cork.