US1423918A - Bed-bottom fabric - Google Patents

Description

E. DREFS.

BED BOTTOM FABRIC.

APPLICATION FILED 05cm, 1919.

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' EDWARD mmrs, OF'MIL-WAUKIE, OREGON.

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v Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 2 5, 19 22..

Application filed December 31, 1919. Serial No. 348,558.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EDWARD Dmizrs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Milwaukie, in the county of Clackamas'and State of Oregon, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bed-Bottom Fabrics, of which the following is a specification. 7

This invention relates to wire fabric designed chiefly for bed bottoms, the same being constructed with a view of yielding, so as to conform as nearly as practicable to the general shape of the person lying there on, thereby resulting in comfort and an equalization of the strain. 7

Referring to the drawings hereto attached:

Figure 1 is a plan view of a corner portion of a wire fabric embodying the invention,

Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of the interlocking joint between intersecting or crossing wires, and

Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of a joint formed between an edge or selvage wire and a connecting or body wire leading therefrom.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in the several views of the drawings by like reference characters.

The fabric comprises a plurality of relative longitudinally and laterally disposed wires which have interlocking connection at their points of crossing or intersection. For the sake of simplicity of description, certain wires designated by the numeral 1 will be referred to hereinafter as the longitudinal wires and certain other wires indicated by the numeral 3 will be referred to Corresponding wires are disposed in parallel relation and spaced equidistantly. The outermost or selvage wires will have the body wires attached thereto in a manner indicated most clearly in Fig.- 3, and the loops 2 and 2? formedtherein are faced outwardly, as indicated most clearly in Fig. 1, to provide attaching means whereby the fabric may be connected to the frame or other sustaining structure. The longitudinal wires 1 are formed at regular intervals with loops 2 which project therefrom in the same direction, saidloops having the side members brought together and the parts sufficiently large for the passagetherethrough of the lateralor transverse wires 3. As-indicated most clearly in Fig. 1, the outermost, edge or selvage wire has its loops facing outwardly, the longitudinal portion of said wire being designated at 1 and the relative lateral or transverse portion being designated by the numeral 1*. It will thus be understood that the edge wire determining the dimensions of the bed bottom consists of a continuous single wire, the free end of the edge or selvage wire being shown in the upper rightrhand corner of Fig. 1 at 1. The longitudinal wire 1 and the terminal portions of the transverse wires 3 are secured at the selvage in substantially the manner indicated in Fig. 3. The end portion of the body wire 3 is twisted about the selvage wire 1 as indicated at 1 and passes beneath and over adjacent wires as indicated at 5 which forms a loop, thence around the inner end of the loop 2 as indicated at 6 and through the loop 5. The securing of wires in the manner disclosed prevents separating of the open end of the selvage loops and results in the formation of a tie which possesses a degree of resiliency and whichis free from angular bends, which would result infracture in a comparatively short time. The outer selvage loops along the longitudinal edge of the fabric are designated by the numeral 2, and the outer loops along the transverse selvage edge are designated by the numeral 2; but the manner of connecting the body wires to the selvage wire is nearlybut not exactly the same along the lateral as the longitudinal edge, as shown most clearly in Fig. 1..

The body wires are interlocked in a like manner, which is shown most clearly in Fig. 2. The lateral or transverse wire 3 extends through the loop 2 as indicated at 7, thence passes beneath the longitudinal wire as indicated at 8, thence over the two wires 3 and 1 as indicated at 9, and around the base of the loop 2 and over the wire 1 and through tlie portion 9 as indicated at 11. This results in the formation of a connection which is relatively flat so as to provide an up-bear- 7 ing surface at the crossing or intersecting of the wires for susta ning the bedding without causing unnecessary friction and wear.

bottom to the bed frame in any desired way commonly employed in the "formation of beds, couches, and analogous articles of furniture or upholstering. I

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A wire fabric embodying crossed wires, one of said wires being bent to provide a loop, a second wire threaded through the loop from one side thereof to the other to engage opposite sides of the loop, said second strand of wire being extended toward the mouth of the loop and bent to form a coil therearound, said second strand of wire be- 15 ing then extended over the first wire and through said coil between portions of the loop and coil to form a knot around the .mouth of the loop to close the same,

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature 20 in presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD DREFS. Witnesses: i

VV'ILLIAM F. EoKnRT, G. N. BARKER.

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