Abstract: A spring suitable for use in bedding construction, including mattresses, mattress-bases and the like which is able to achieve a variety of spring heights and resiliences using the same thickness of wire. The spring includes a first leg (2), a first upper foot (3), a first lower foot (4), a second leg (2), a second upper foot (3), a second lower foot (4), at least one coil spring (5) and linking means (6). The spring's first leg links the first upper foot to the first lower foot and includes at least one coil spring (5) at some point along its length. The spring's second leg links the second upper foot to the second lower foot and includes at least one coil (5) spring at some point along its length. The linking means links the first upper foot to the second upper foot in such a way that the first leg, first upper foot, and first lower foot are oriented at approximately 180 degrees relative to the second leg, second upper foot, and second lower foot.

Abstract: A transmission comprising a torque convertor and a power shift gear box having rotatable input and output shafts, multi-ratio drive means to produce different speeds of rotation of the output shaft relative to the input shaft, said drive means including gears which are in constant mesh and clutches, which are engageable and disengageable under load, to connect the gears in a desired drive path, control means for operating the clutches of the multi-ratio drive means to change the ratio of the gear box in dependence upon an electrical signal derived from rotation of a first element associated with the torque convertor input shaft and of a second element associated with an intermediate shaft upstream of the multi-ratio drive means and downstream of a variable torque capacity clutch located between the torque convertor output shaft and the multi-ratio drive means.