US89321A

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Publication number: US89321A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1869-04-27
Anticipated expiration: 1886-04-27

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HENRY E. MAKER, on NEWTON, (UPPER FALLS) MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNoR To HIM- SELE AND HoSEA o. HoYT, or SAME PLAGE.

Letters .Patent No. 89,321, dated April 27, 1869.

' MPROYED SPRINGn-BED BOTTOM, OR CUSHION.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

"(Upper Falls,) in the county of Middlesex, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Spring-Beds, or Cushions; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following Specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a longitudinal section, and

Figure 2, a transverse section of a spring-bed, or cushion, as made in accordance with my invention.

In carrying out my invention, I employ two rectangnlarframes, A B,arranged so that their end bars, a a, b b, shall cross one another at their middles, they being connected together by joint-pins, e e.

Between each two next adjacent side bars, d e, of such frames, I arrange a series of wire-springs, O, these springs being formed in manner as represented. Each series of them is disposed on one of two long bars, D, which gothrough eyes, f, formed in .the several springs, the bars serving to keep the springs in their due relations with each other, or from being bent out of parallelism. One end of each spring is xed in or to the side bar of one frame, the other end of such spring being xed in or to the next adjacent sidebar of the other frame.

A sacking, or mattress, E, is extended from the npper side bar of one of the frames to that of the other, and fastened to them. A

Now, when this spring-bed is placed within or on a. bedstead, or rests on a door, and is pressed downward by the'weightof one or more persons, when sitting or reposing on the sacking, or mattress, the said sacking, or mattress will be depressed, and also will be stretched While being depressed, the stretching of the sacking, or mattress being due to the movements of the two crossed frames. Thus, the sagging o'f the sacking, or mattress will be more or less counteracted 'by the said stretching. Besides this, the sacking, or

mattress will rest on a Spring, or elastic foundation, the springs of which are so arranged as not to come in contact with any part of the sacking, or mattress. Consequently, a party, when reposing on the mattress, will not have the springs underneath him and acting against the sacking, as is the casein most spring-beds,

and therefore, will not experience the inconveniencesthereof.

What I claim as my invention, is-

rlhe combination and arrangement of the two series of springs, and the crossed and pivoted frames A B, the whole being applicable to a sacking, or mattress, as set forth.

I also claim the arrangement and combination of the sustaining-bars D D, the two-series of springs O, and the crossed and pivoted frames AB, the Whole being substantially as and for the purpose, or purposes as hereinbefore explained.

r HENRY E. MAKER. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr.