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`No. 573,122.
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`A. A. YOUNG.
`AIR GOODs.
`Patented Dec. 15, 1896.
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`UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
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`ALBERT A. YoUN G, OF GREEN WOOD, MASSACIILSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO
`TIIE MECHANICAL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF NASHUA, NEW
`IHAMPSHIRE.
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`SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 573,122, dated December 15, 1896.
`Application filed April 10, 1896, Serial No. 587,004, ?no model.)
`isional action on the stay. This is liable to
`To all whom it may concern:
`Be it known that I, ALBERT A. YoUNG, of extend the slit through the slot h or beyond 55
`the inner face of the wall. As strain is cofi
`Greenwood, in the county of Middlesex, State
`tinually applied and the members ff.” become
`of Massachusetts, have made certain new and
`farther separated they tend to spread the slot
`useful Improvements in Air Goods, of which
`h and tear the wall, causing the mattress to
`the following is a description sufficiently full,
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`leak. I overcome this objection completely
`clear, and exact to enable any person skilled
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`and render the device described absolutely
`in the art or science to which said invention
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`free from this danger by employing two strips
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`appertains to make and use the same, refer
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`of rubber cloth m of width equal to the stay,
`ence being had to the accompanying draw
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`the gummed face of which is secured to the
`ings, forming part of this specification, in
`face of the stay and, bending at right angles,
`is secured to the inner face of the mattress,
`Figure 1 is a plan view of, a portion of an
`as shown in Eig. 3. The whole is then vul
`air-mattress provided with my improvement;
`canized. A bearing is thus afforded to resist
`Fig. 2, a plan view, enlarged, showing the
`the strain of the stay at either side of the
`stay fastening devices; and IFig. 3, a cross
`slot, and the pieces m, being broad, serve to
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`section on line 33 in Fig. 2.
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`prevent the torsional action of the stay, com
`Tike letters of reference indicate corre
`pletely overcoming the objections noted.
`sponding parts in the different figures of the
`The stay is constructed of woven tape, and
`the strips in may be woven in one piece there
`My invention relates especially to improve
`with, forming laterally - projecting wings,
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`Iments in devices for securing the walls of
`which may be engaged with the under side
`mattresses and other air goods together by
`of the Inattress-wall and secured thereto. By
`stays, the object being especially to prevent
`this means, in addition to preventing the stay
`the stays from tearing said walls when sub
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`splitting, a bearing is obtained on both the
`outer and inner surface of the wall, which
`position of the weight borne is changed.
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`also affords protection against the further
`This present invention is designed also as
`clongation of the slit in said wall through
`an improvement on the device shown and de
`which the stay passes. As both the split outer
`scribed in my United States ?etter's Patent
`ends of the stay and these wings act in con
`No. 490,030, dated April 25, 1893.
`junction, double the holding strength is ob
`In the drawings, A represents the mattress
`tained over that imparted to the stay used as
`considered as a whole.
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`This mattress is con-
`in my Jetters Patent above referred to, ren
`structed in the usual form from rubber-faced
`dering this form a radical improvement.
`fabric vulcanized and its walls connected by
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`Having thus described my invention, what
`stays d of tape. As in the patent referred to i
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`above, a reinforcing-piece g is cemented to
`I claim is—
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`In an air-mattressºrsiºnilardevice having
`the outer face of the Wa?? and said wall and
`slits in its walls, a flexible suay passed through
`piece slotted at h. , Thé stay is slit centrally
`said slits and provided with wings adapted to
`and longitudinally in its ends, forming memº- .
`be arranged at right angles to the body of the
`bers ff", which are passed through said slot
`stay and secured to the inner faces of said
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`and folded in opposite directions flatly onto
`walls adjacent said slits, the outer ends of the
`the face of the piece g, as shown in Fig. 2.
`stay being split and the members thus formed,
`Those members are covered by a circular
`secured to the outer surface of the walls aff
`piece of rubber cloth k, which is disposed with
`opposite sides of the slits whereby the strain
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`its gummed face in contact with said mem
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`of the stay on the walls is distributed between
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`bers. The whole is then covered by the cap
`the inner and outer wall surfaces substan
`piece b, of the same material, and the parts
`tially in the manner described.
`are vulcanized together. This construction
`ALBERT A. YOUNG.
`is substantially that shown in the Letters Pat-
`ent referred to. It possesses, however, this
`\\ itnesses:
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`disadvantage. The movements of the occu
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`pant of the bed frequently produce a tor
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