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(No Model.)

0. OARLETON.

SPRING BED BOTTOM. No. 349,478. Patented Sept. 21, 1886.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES CARLETON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, assreuon or ONE HALF TO n. M. HULSE, or SAME PLACE.

SPRING BED-BOTTOM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 349,478, dated September 21, 1886 Application filed July 3,1886. Serial No. 207,024. (No model.) i

To all whom, it may concern: A A reprsent the side rails, B the double Be it known that 1, CHARLES GARLE'roN, a end rails, and O the coiled woven-wire matcitizen of the United States, and a resident of tress, which compose what is known as the Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, suspended wire-mattress bed-bottom. To 5 have invented new and useful Improvements any of these mattresses I can apply my re-enin Spring Bed-Bottoms, of which the following forcing devices by means of sustaining-wires is a specification, reference being had to the (Z (Z, which are put transversely through the accompanying drawings, illustrating the inmattress parallel with and some little distance vention, in which from the end rails, B, as shown, and in susto Figure I is a vertical longitudinal sectional pending-wires I,as many as may be required,

elevation of a spring bed-bottom embodying hooked onto the transversewires and made to 6 my invention, the coil-springs being represupport the lower ends of hour-glass springs sented as supported directly on suspendinga a a by a direct connection therewith by wires. Fig. II is the same view as Fig. I, exmeans of links or staples, or support conical I 5 cept conical springs are shown as supported springs c c c by means of interposed transverse by transverse slats interposed between the susslats D D D, which are placed under each row pending-wires and springs. Fig. IIIis an inof springs and secured to them and to the verted View of the form of spring bed-bottom wires I by staples in the ordinary manner. shown at Fig. I. Fig. IV is a section of the Theslats may, however, be connected by links,

20 edge ofa coiled-wire woven mattress,enlarged,. and two-part wires I be employed to connect with the transverse sustaining-rod therein and them with the transverse wires (1 (Z. The a suspending-wirehooked over the rod. Fig. springs a. a a may also be connected together V is a perspective representation of one of the byany well-known means, and wires I,running sustaining-rods and the end suspending-wires from each rod (l,made to connect therewith by 25 in position thereon and removed from the forming the ends of the wires into hooks m,

other parts of the bed-bottom. Fig. VI repsuitable to unite the parts. resentsthe hook of one of the suspending-wires It is proper to state that my devices can be, in position on the transverse sustaining-rod. attached toawoven-wire-mattress frame,where This invention relates to an improvement-in the woven wire has lost half of its original tenwhat are known as re-enforced spring'bedsion, and produce a first class bed-bottom, inbottoms+that is, bed-bottoms which have asmuchas supported or re-enforced mattresses their wire mattresses supported with coiledrequire less than half of the tensile strain that wire springsand the purpose'is to attain the others do. required yielding conditions for the under Having thus described my invention, whatI 35 spring-supports from the spring of a portion claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the mattress of coiled wire. It has been the of the United States, is- 0 custom heretofore to support such mattresses In supported woven-wire-mattress spring by springs on cross-slats which are rigidly sebed-bottoms, the sustaining-rods d d, respectcured to the side rails, and to support them ively put edgewise through the coiled woven- 0 by springs which are sustained by connectingwire mattress, parallel to and some little dislinks attached to the same end rails to which tance from the end rails, B, so they will have a the mattress is secured. The objection to the movement to and from each other,as the weight means for supporting these vertical coilon the mattress may be increased or diminsprings, as in the art shown, is the rigidity of ished, and combined with suspending-wires I,

5 the bottom support, which really has no elasthe mattressframeA B, and coil-springs supticity except that in the metal itself, or what ported bythe wires I and placed under the little there may be in the middle of stiff transmattress O, substantially as specified, and for verse slats. I overcome this objection by two the purpose set forth. sustaihingwires, each being put edgewise 50 through the coiled woven-wire mattress far CHARLES OARLETON.

enough from the 'end rails to utilize a portion of the spring of the said mattress for the sus- Witnesses:

pending-wires connecting said sustaining- J OHN BURNS, wires. J. H. FIELD.

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