Improvements in Distensible Metallic Meshes for Bedsteads. Mattresses and the like
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Dec.,
1898
Improvements in Distensible Metallic Meshes for Bedsteads.
Mattresses and the like,
I, ROBERT PERCY TAUNTON, Managing Director of John and Joseph Taunton
Limited, of Sherbourne Road, in the City of Birmingham, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to metallic sackings or meshes for bedsteads, mat-
tresses and the like, and particularly to meshes for use in conjunction with
what are known as combination bedsteads in which the mesh is attached directly
to the ends and sides of a bedstead frame.
The principal objects of the invention, are, first to produce an elastic diamond
mesh which provides the desirable resiliency without the aid of supplementary
springs, secondly, to simplify the connection of the mesh to the frame and also
to produce a strong mesli of regular pattern at a much less cost than heretofore.
These ends I propose to attain by making up a mesh from a series of helices of
stout spring wires of quick pitch, which are first intercoiled together or woven
alike unto an ordinary breadth of coiled wire fabric, and are then opened out and
stretched onto a frame, to the opposite ends of which each individual wire of
the mesh is connected, whilst the side wires are also attached to the frame sides
by suitable cleats or the like.
Thus, in carrying out one form of my invention I form an elastic mesh or sack-
ing, by producing by means of an ordinary "giraffe" or tool for forming spirals,
a helical length of hard and stout wire of rapid or great pitch, into which a second
helix, produced in like manner is intercoiled, and so on, until, by thus adding
or weaving fresh spirals to the helix last produced, a loosely organized piece of
fabric of any desired width and length is obtained, comprising twenty, thirty or
other suitable number of component coils, is obtained.
In attaching such a mesh to the framing of a bedstead or mattress the helical
strands or lengths are opened out or pulled apart laterally and stretched onto the
frame, with the coils coming at the sides of the mesh being connected to the
sides of the said frame, by cleats hooks, eyes or the like, whilst the ends of each
individual wire is independently attached to the framing end either directly or by
a separate cleat, hook or other means or the ends of each adjacent pair of wires
may be connected in common by a single cleat. By this stretching of the mesh
in connecting or adjusting it onto a frame, the coils are somewhat flattened and
a mesh of a regular diamond pattern is produced, having considerable resiliency
or elasticity by virtue of the helical or spiral character of the component wires.
The cost of producing and connecting an efficient mesh is materially reduced,
whilst I may employ stronger and harder wires than is possible with meshes
made by bent or twisted wires or links.
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1000
ROBERT PERCY TAUNTON,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant,

page_text: Improvements in Distensible Metallic Meshes for Bedsteads,
Mattresses and the like.
I, ROBERT PERCY TAUNTON, Managing Director of the Firm of John and
Joseph Taunton Limited, of Sherbourne Road, in the City of Birmingham, 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 has reference to metallic sackings or meshes for bedsteads, mat-
tresses, and the like, and particularly to meshes for use in conjunction with
what are known as combination bedsteads, in which the mesh is attached directly
to the ends and sides of a bedstead frame.
The principal objects of the invention are, first to produce an elastic diamond
mesh which provides the desirable resiliency without the aid of supplementary
springs. Secondly, to simplify the connection of the mesh to the frame, and also
to produce a strong mesh of regular pattern at a much less cost than heretofore.
These ends I propose to attain by making up a mesh from a series of helices of
stout spring wires of quick pitch, which are first intercoiled together or woven
alike unto an ordinary breadth of coiled wire fabric, and are then opened out and
stretched on to a frame, to the opposite ends of which each individual wire of
the mesh is connected, whilst the side wires are also attached to the frame sides
by suitable cleats, or the like.
Thus, in carrying out one form of my invention, I form an elastic mesh or sack-
ing, by producing by means of an ordinary "giraffe or tool for forming spirals,
a helical length of hard stout wire, of rapid or great pitch, unto which a second
helix, produced in a like manner. is intercoiled. and so on, until by thus adding
or weaving fresh spirals to the helix last produced, a loosely organized piece of
fabric, of any desired width and length, comprising twenty, thirty, or other suit-
able number of component coils, is obtained.
In attaching such a mesh to the framing of a bedstead or mattress, the helical
strands or lengths are opened out or pulled apart laterally, and stretched on to the
frame, with the coils coming at the sides or the mesh being connected to the
sides of the said frame, by cleats hooks. eves or the like, whilst the ends of each
individual wire is independently attached to the framing end, either directly, or by
a separate cleat, hook, or other means, or the ends of each adjacent pair of wires
may be connected in common by a single cleat. By this stretching of the mesh
in connecting or adjusting it on to a frame, the coils are somewhat flattened, and
a mesh of a regular diamond pattern is produced, having considerable resiliency
or elasticity by virtue of the helical or spiral character of the component wires.
The cost of producing and connecting an efficient mesh is materially reduced,
whilst I may employ stronger and harder wires than is possible with meshes
made by bent or twisted wires or links.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawing represents a single coil or helix of a quick
pitch, as produced by an ordinary giraffe.
Fig. 2 shows a series of coils or helices intercoiled loosely, and forming a woven
wire fabric.
Fig. 3 represents a piece of fabric as Fig. 2, with the extreme ends of the
wires connected together in pairs previous to attachment to the bedstead frame,
whilst Fig. 4 represents the same connected to part of a bedstead frame or
bottom, by cleats at both sides and ends.

page_text: Fig. 5 represents a piece of fabric as Fig. 2, with the ends of the wires com-
posing the flexible fabric attached directly to the bedstead frame or bottom, and
with the adjacent wires connected to each other under the angle iron of the bottom.
It will be observed that the one wire takes downwardly through a hole in the
angle and is then connected to the other by twisting or other simple means.
The several figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in the sheet of
drawings:-
1
(a) is the bedstead frame or bottom.
(b) the he member of the dovetails by which the bottom is fixed to the bedstead
end.
(c) the coils or helices.
(d) the cleats by which the fabric is preferably connected to the frame. It is
quite immaterial as to what means are employed for connecting the fabric to the
bedstead frame or bottom.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
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Firstly A woven wire distensible fabric consisting of a series of helices or coils
of a certain pitch that when interwoven with each other and stretched upon a
frame or bottom of a bedstead, forms an elastic fabric of a diamond pattern sub-
stantially as herein described and set forth.
Secondly-A woven wire distensible diamond pattern fabric composed of a series
of helices or coils of a certain pitch connected to a frame either directly or through
the medium of hooks, cleats, or equivalents, substantially as described and set
forth.
Dated this 20th day of September 1899.