STRUC BEDS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Sidney Hill at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th September 1883.
JOHN SIDNEY HILL of Clifton in the County of Gloucester,
IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF BEDS."
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IMPROVEMENTS
This invention relates, firstly, to the method of attaching to the frame of a bed,
canvas, woven wire or other pliable or elastic material forming a mattress or bottom
to the bed. The material is gripped between two parallel bars extending
transversely across each end of the frame of the bed, and the requisite degree of
tension is imparted by means of set screws or screw bolts passed through the frame
and the pairs of parallel bars.
This invention relates, secondly, to the joint, in metallic tubular bedsteads, at
which the sides and ends of the bed-teads meet.
Instead of having, as heretofore, three or four fixed arms, the joint is provided
with two only. These arms extend outwards from a central hollow socket through
which the posts and legs, formed in one piece, are made to pass and wherein they
are made secure.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John Sidney Hill in the Patent Office on the 28th February 1884.
JOHN SIDNEY HILL of Clifton in the County of Gloucester IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE CONSTRUCTION OF BEDS
My said invention relates, firstly, to the method of attaching to the frame of a
bed, canvas, woven wire or other pliable or elastic material forming a mattress or
bottom to the bed. The material is gripped between two parallel bars extending
transversely across each end of the frame of the bed, and the requisite degree of
tension is imparted by means of set screws or screw bolts passed through the frame
and the pairs of parallel bars.
My said invention relates, secondly, to the joint, in metallic tubular beds, at
which the sides and ends of the frame ineet. Instead of having, as heretofore,
three or four fixed arms, the joint is provided with two only. These arms extend
outwards from a central hollow socket through which the posts and legs made in
one piece, are passed and are made secure therein.
And in order that my said invention may be properly understood, I now proceed
more particularly to describe the same with reference to the accompanying sheet of
illustrative drawings and the figures and letters marked thereon.
Fig. 1 on the accompanying sheet of drawings illustrates by a side view, partly
sectional, my improved method of attaching to the frame of a tubular metallic
bedstead a mattress or bottom of woven wire. Fig. 2 illustrates the same in plan.
Fig. 3 is an end view, partly sectional. My improved joint connecting the sides
and ends of the frame is also shown in the said figures. The woven. wire
mattress A is grasped towards the ends of the bed between the parallel bars' a,
and secured in place between them by the rivets b passed through the bars, as
shown. By means of the set screws or screw bolts B, extending through the
tubes forming the ends of the frame and through the parallel bars a, any desired
degree of tension may be imparted to the mattress A.
:
Instead of suspending the mattress A and bars a from the bolts or screws B, as
shown at Figs 1, 2 and 3, the parallel bars a may be made to rest at their ends
upon the side tubes of the franie, as shown in plan at Fig. 4, and in the end view,
partly sectional, Fig. 5. Under this modification the mattress and superposed
weight are partly carried by the side tubes..
Instead of piercing, the end tubes of the frame, to receive the screws B, the screws
may be passed through the clips or brackets C partly embracing the end tubes,. as
shown at Figs 4 and 5. When the mattress. is: composed of canvas, sacking or
other material specially liable to expand or stretch, bolts or screws are preferred
instead of rivets between the bars a, as, by their use, the bars are more easily taken
apart to admit of any slackness being taken in.
If desired, the parallel bars a and tension screws B may be applied at one end
of the mattress A only, which may be secured at the opposite end directly to the
frame or to a bar linked or otherwise attached to the frame. I do not confine
myself to the rectangular shape of section of the bars a shown on the drawings.
They may be made square, round, half round or of other desired and suitable
shape.
My said invention is also applicable to beds having wooden frames.
The joints connecting the sides and ends of the frame of the tubular bedstead
illustrated are, under this invention, provided with two fixed hollow arms extending
outwards at right angles from the sockets e which receive the legs d and posts
made in one piece with the rails surmounting them. The arms are recessed to fit

page_text: into the tubes of the frame, as indicated by the dotted lines in Figs 1, 2 and 3.
Figs 4 and 5 illustrate the application of the joint to a bedstead having an
extended foot rail. The legs and posts are set or otherwise secured, at the desired
point, in the sockets. In the application of the joint as illustrated at Figs 4 and 5,
the arm upon which the end tube of the frame is received springs from the
side arm at a point governed by the degree to which the extended foot rail is
intended to project.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said
invention and the mode or manner in or under which the same is or may be
used or practically carried into effect, I claim as the invention secured to me by
the herein before in part recited Letters Patent.-
First—The method of securing the mattress, of woven wire, canvass, sacking or
other substance suitable therefor, between the parallel gripping bars connected to the
bedstead at one or both ends by means of screws or bolts whereby the desired
degree of tension may be imparted to the mattress, substantially as herein before
described and illustrated in the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Second. The joint formed with recessed arms to receive the ends and sides of
the frame of the bedstead, substantially as herein before described and illustrated
in Figs 1, 2 and 3 of the drawings, and also as adapted for a bedstead having an
extended foot rail substantially as illustrated in Figs 4 and 5.
In witness whereof J, the said John Sidney Hill have hereunto set my hand
and seal this eighteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand
cight hundred and eighty four.
JOHN SIDNEY HILL.
(L.S.)