Improvements in and relating to Bedsteads, Berths, Seats, and Couches.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Dec., 1893
Complete Specification Left. 16th Oc'.. 1894-Accepted, 17th Nov., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Bedsteads, Berths, Seats,
and Couches.
We,
ANDREW RATHBONE and SAMUEL TAYLOR both of The Friar's Green
Mills, Mattress Manufacturers, and JOHN THOMAS PETFORD of The Standard
Bedstead Works, School Brow, all of Warrington in the County of Lancaster,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to bedsteads berths seats or couches with which, woven
or other similar wire mattresses are used and its objects are to provide simple and
efficient means for connecting and disconnecting such mattresses to and from the
bedsteads berths seats or couches and to enable them to be stretched by other means
than the ordinary framing and stretching bolts.
In carrying this invention into effect the end bars to which the mattress is
connected consist simply of angle iron and are unprovided with the customary
dovetail blocks by which they are fitted into and secured to the lugs or corner
blocks. The plain angle iron end bars are simply laid upon the lugs or corner
blocks and may be held in place by the tension of the mattress but as an additional
security it is preferred to form each lug or corner block with a projection or stud
which passes into and engages with a corresponding hole formed in the end of the
angle iron end bar or, vice versa. In substitution for the projection or stud, screws
nuts and bolts rivets or other suitable and equivalent devices may be employed.
By this means the end bars may be easily removed from the bedstead or other
article and may be compactly rolled up with the mattress.
The side bars may be extensible in themselves or are formed so that upon rotation
they alter the distance between the end bars and thus effect the loosening or
tightening of the mattress.
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As described in the Specification to Letters Patent No. 16208 dated the 10th day
of September 1892 these extensible side bars are connected directly to the lugs or
corner blocks of the bedstead or similar article but according to the present invention
we combine them with dovetail blocks of the ordinary type so that the extensible
side bars may be combined with any bedstead of the usual construction.
convenient method of combining them is to form a right hand thread upon one end
of each side bar and a left hand thread upon the other end, the dovetail blocks
being provided with similar and corresponding threads; or one end of each side bar
may be formed with a head capable of rotating in its dovetail block one end only
being screwed.
Dated this 14th day of December A.D. 1893.
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Bedsteads, Berths, Seats,
and Couches.
We, ANDREW RATHBONE and SAMUEL TAYLOR both of The Friar's Green
Mills, Mattress Manufacturers, and JOHN THOMAS PETFORD of The Standard
Bedstead Works, School Brow, all of Warrington in the County of Lancaster,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in what manner the same is to
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page_text: be performed, 'to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention relates to bedsteads, berths, seats, or couches with which woven
or other similar wire mattresses and analogous spring fabrics are used, and its objects
are to provide simple and efficient means for connecting and disconnecting such
mattresses and fabrics to and from the bedsteads berths seats or couches and to
enable them to be stretched by other means than the ordinary framing and
stretching bolts.
We will describe our said invention with reference to the accompanying drawings
in each of the figures of which similar parts or details are indicated by similar
letters of reference.
Figure 1 represents a partial side elevation, Figure 2 a partial plan, Figure 3 a
partial sectional end elevation, and Figure 4, a partial longitudinal vertical section
through an end bar and along one of the side bars.
Figures 5 to 8 are corresponding figures representing a modification in
construction.
In carrying this invention into effect, the end bars A, to which the mattress or
equivalent spring fabric B is connected, consist simply of angle iron and are
unprovided with the customary dovetail blocks by means of which they are usually
fitted into and secured to the lugs or corner blocks. The spring fabric B may be
connected to the angle iron end bars in various ways, but preferably it is clipped
between the angle iron and a cover plate b, riveted or screwed upon the top member
of the end bar as in Figures 1 to 4, or upon the back member as in Figures 5 to 8.
Various means also may be employed for connecting the end bars. For example,
they may be simply laid upon the lugs or corner blocks and be held in place by the
tension of the mattress, and as an additional security, cach lug or corner block may
have a pin or projection which engages with a corresponding hole or recess in the
end bar or the reverse. Or, as shewn by Figures 1 to 4 inclusive, each corner block
may have a rectangular projection C cast thereon, to which the end bars may be
secured by screws c. By this means, the end bars may be readily removed from
the bedstead or other article, and may be compactly rolled up with the mattress or
spring fabric B.
The side bars D may be extensible in themselves, or they are formed so that
upon rotation they alter the distance between the end bars and thus effect the
stretching or relaxation of the fabric B.
As described in the Specification of Letters Patent granted to Andrew Rathbone
and Samuel Taylor No. 16208 dated the 10th day of September 1892, these
extensible side bars are connected directly to the lugs or corner blocks of the
bedstead or similar article, but according to the present invention we combine them
with dovetail blocks of the ordinary type, so that the extensible side bars may be
combined with any bedstead of the usual construction.
A convenient construction of the side bars is illustrated by the drawings. Upon
one end of each side bar D, there is formed a right hand screw thread, and upon the
other end, a left hand thread. The dovetail blocks E, have sleeves or nuts F cast
therein or thereon which are provided with corresponding internal screw threads;
that is to say, the sleeve or nut at one end has a right hand, and that at the other
end, a left hand internal screw thread. Alternatively, only one end of the side bar
may be screwed and fit into a corresponding nut, the other end being fitted to rotate
without linear motion in a recess in its dovetail block. Also, instead of the thread
or threads upon the side bars being external, it or they may be internal and fit upon
screwed bolts cast in the dovetail blocks.
As shewn by Figures 5 to 8 inclusive, the projections C, instead of being cast
upon the corner blocks G, may be cast upon the dovetail blocks E.
By this
modification the end and side bars are connected, which is sometimes advantageous.
It will be seen that with either construction of the side bars and dovetail blocks,
the effective length of the side bars may be changed at will by rotation of the side

page_text: bar, and that this change will produce a corresponding stretching or relaxation of
the spring fabric.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. In bedsteads berths seats couches and the like, end bars of angle iron to
which the spring fabric is attached, supported by projections formed upon the corner
blocks or upon the dovetail blocks, substantially as hereinbefore described and as
illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
2. In bedsteads berths seats couches and the like, the combination and
arrangement with the dovetail blocks of screwed bolts nuts or sleeves with side bars
screwed to fit therein or thereon, the screws at one end being righthanded and those
at the other end being lefthanded, substantially as and for the purpose herein before
described and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
3. In bedsteads berths seats couches and the like, a side bar fitted so as to
rotate without linear motion in one corner block or dovetail block, and provided
with a screw thread fitting upon a screwed bolt or within a screwed nut or sleeve in
or upon a dovetail block at the opposite end, substantially as and for the purpose
hereinbefore described and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 15th day of October A.D. 1894.
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for the Applicants.