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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
JOHN W. MORGAN, OF SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN-
MENTS, TO THE TENNESSEE FELT MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF WEST
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE.
MACHINE FOR MAKING MATTRESSES.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 675,750, dated June 4, 1901.
Application filed April 30, 1900. Serial No. 14,937. ;No model.)To all whom it may conoerm:
Be it known that I, JOHNW. MORGAN, a citi-
zen of the United States, residing at San- An-
tonio, in the county of Bexar and State of
5 Texas, have invented a new and useful Ma=
chine for Making Mattresses, of which the fol-
lowing is a specification.
My invention is an improved machine for
making cotton mattresses, one object of my
Yo invention being to provide a machine which
is efficient in compressing lint-cotton into a
felt or bat of the required form, size, and
density of the mattresses and ejecting the
compressed bat orfelt while the same is un-
15 der compression from the press-box and in-
serting the same into a tick.
A further object of my invention is to pro-
vide means for evenly supplying the lint-cot-
ton to the press-box and distributing the same
20 in like quantities over all portions of the bot-
tom of the press-box.
A further object of my invention is to pro-
vide means for stiffening the bat or felt while
the same is being ejected from the press-box
25 and inserted in the tick.
My invention consists in the peculiar con-
struction and combination of devices herein-
after fully set forth, and pointed out in the
claims.
30 In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is
a side elevation, partly in section, of a mat-
tress - making machine embodying my im-
provements.- Fig. 2 is partly a top plan view
thereof and partly a horizontal sectional view
35 on the line a a of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a vertical
transverse sectional view of the same, taken
on line b b of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a horizontal
sectional view of. the same, taken on the line
c c of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a horizontal sectional
40 view of the bottom frame common to both of
the press-boxes. Fig. 6 is a detailvertical
sectional view of the lower portion of one of
the press-boxes, showing the follower in the
lowermost position therein when the bat is
45 completed. Fig. 7 is a detail transverse sec-
tional view of the follower and the upper se-
ries of slats attached thereto. Fig. 8 is a top
plan view of the lower series of slats. Fig. 0
is an inverted or bottom plan view of the fol-lower. Fig. 10 is a top plan view of the same. 50
Fig. 11 is a detail view of the upper and lower
slats. Fig. 12 is an elevation, partly in sec-
tion, of the entire machine in operative po-
sition.
A pair of press-boxes 1 of suitable size and 55
form are connected together at their ends, as
at 2, and supported by a vertically-mounted
shaft or rod 3, forming the axis on which the
said press-boxes are adapted to rotate and to
be brought successively under a distributer 6o
and feeder box 4. The latter is usually sup-
ported on a floor of a building one story above
that in which the press-boxes are located,
such arrangement being indicated in the
drawings herein; but it will be understood 65
that any suitable supporting-framework may
be provided for the machine, and I do not
therefore limit myself in this particular.
I will first describe the means whereby the
lint-cotton which constitutes the material 70
used in my improved machine for the mak-
ing of mattresses is supplied to the press-
boxes and evenly distributed in the same, so
that the mattresses are of like density at all
parts. 75
The distributer and feed box 4 is provided
in its sides with panels 5, in which are fitted
wire-nettings, as 6, or any suitable forami-
nous material may be used in the said panels
which is adapted to admit of the escape of air 8o
from the distributer and feed box without per-
mitting of the escape of the lint-cotton there-
from. A suitable machine (indicated at 7) is
employed fo straightening the fibers of the
cotton in such manner as to cause the same 85
to retain its elasticity when compressed into
a mattress bat or felt, and the said fibers of
the cotton after being so treated in the said
machine are fed to the distributer and feed
box 4 through a pneumatic flue 8. The ma- go
chine for thus treating the cotton prior to the
introduction of the same to the distributer
and feed box is fully described, shown, and
claimed in my pending application for.Let-
ters Patent of the United States, Serial No. 95
678,892, filed April 26, 1898, and is therefore
not more fully described and shown in this
specification.
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Morgan, John W. Machine for making mattresses., patent, June 4, 1901; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth512674/m1/6/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.