US1336397A - Bed-bottom hanger - Google Patents

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DON CARLOS TRAVIS AND FRANK KUSTERLE I BED BOTTOM HANGER.

APPLlCATION FILED MAR. is, 1918.

1,336,397, Patented Apr. 6, 1920.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DON CARLOS TRAVIS AND FRANK KUS'IERLE, GF KENOSHA, VVISOONSIN, ASSIGNORS T SIMMONS COMPANY, OF KENOSHA, WISCONSIN, A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

BED-BOTTOM HANGER.

Application filed March 18, 1918.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, DON CARLOS TRAVIS and FRANK KUsTERLE, citizens of the United States, residing at Kenosha, in the county of Kenosha and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bed-Bottom Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in bed bottom hangers and has special reference to a type of hanger designed to support the frame of a bed spring upon the usual side rail which connects the head and foot ends of the main bedstead frame. The invention is of particular service in connection with that type of bed bottom frame in which there are employed a pair of tubular side frame members which are located parallel to and adjacent to the side rails of the main bedstead frame.

The principal objects of the invention are to provide an improved construction by which the bed bottom frame may be securely and conveniently hung or supported in the main bedstead frame; to provide a construction of the class described which may be constructed of relatively cheap material such as sheet metal stampings; to provide a construction which will admit of use in connection with a reversed side rail of the angle iron type as well as in connection with such a rail in its usual position; to provide a construction which shall be simple and economical in design of manufacture, and in general, to provide an improved bed bottom hanger of the character referred to.

In the single sheet of drawings which illustrate a preferred embodiment of our invention, Figure 1 is a plan view of a portion of a bedstead equipped with our invention;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a perspective view ofone of the two principal parts of the device, and

Fig. 5 is a perspective View of the other principal part of the construction.

In Figs. 1 and 2, 10 represents the foot or head end of a metal bedstead of a continuous post type, the said end being connected to the other end of the bedstead by means of the usual side rail 11, the latter being of the customary angle iron construction as shown best in Fig. 3. The side rail 11 is connected Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 6, 1920.

Serial No. 223,078.

to the corner casting or frenching 12 on the bed end by means of a block 13 cast on the end of the side rail which block has the usual dovetailed interlocking engagement with the frenching 12 as shown at 14: (see Fig. 1.)

In the present instance the bed spring which is to be supported by the side rails 11 of the bedstead, comprises a wire link fabric indicated at 15 in Fig. 1, the said link fabric being stretched between a pair of angle iron cross pieces 16 by means of a series of helicals 17. The cross pieces or end angle irons 16 are maintained a proper distance apart by means of a pair of side tubes 18 which constitute the principal members of the bed bottom frame, the said side tubes 18 having their ends suitably flattened as at 19 and riveted to the horizontal flange of the angle iron 16 as shown at 20. In order to prevent the underside of the spring fabric from touching the stretcher tubes, or frame members 18 when the surface of the spring is depressed by the weight of an occupant, the ends of the tubes 18 are provided with oblique offsets as shown at 21 by reason of which the spring is considerably elevated above the level of the horizontal portions of the side tubes 18.

According to the preferred embodiment of our invention herein described, the tubes 18 are supported or hung upon the angle side rails 11 by means of the hangers or brackets designated as a whole 22. Such brackets ,or hangers include the two principal parts 23 and 2 1 which are constructed of relatively cheap material such as sheet steel stampings. As shown in Fig. 3 the upper member 24. has one of its ends conform to fit the outer surface of the tube 18 and the lower member 23 has its adjacent end similarly shaped. The other ends of the said two members 23 and 2a are superposed one above another as shown in Fig. 3, and the said two parts are securely united to the tube 18 by means of a diametric rivet or pin 25 which is headed over at each of its ends as shown, in order to hold said parts securely in position. The outer end p0r tions of the parts 23 and 24: are connected together in order to hold them properly in line and to prevent the superposed portions from separating one from the other. Such connection in the present instance comprises a turned down lug portion 26 on the upper member 24:, the said lug 26 being provided with a rectangular perforation as shown at 27 to admit a small horizontal rectangular lug or tongue 28 on the outer end of the lower member 23.

Besides serving as a lock for the outer end of the lower part 23, the turned down lug portion 26 of the upper member 24: also serves as a positioning member for preventing lateral displacement of the hanger relative to the side rail 11. This feature is shown clearly in Fig. 3 of the drawings. The hanger is equally efficient When used in connection with a reversed rail as indicated by dotted line at 29 in Fig. 3.

The described details of the invention are capable of certain modifications manifest to those skilled in the art, in view of which it will be understood that the scope of the invention is not necessarily limited to the precise arrangement of the parts described, but should be determined by reference to the appended claims.

e claim as our invention- 1. In a device of the class described, the combination of a side rail, a side tube having a transverse perforation, a pair of sheet against rotary movement around the axis.

of said tube. 7

2. The combination of a side rail, a side tube, a pair of superposed sheet metal parts having adjacent end portions each formed to embrace the side tube and having opposite end portions extending outwardly from the tube horizontally in superposed relation and mechanically interlocked together to prevent relative movement thereof and a substantially vertical pin extending through said tube and said embracing portions for preventing movement of said parts on said tube, the said mechanical interlock comprising a turned down perforated lug 011 one of said members and a tongue on the other member extending horizontally into and substantially fitting said perforation.

DO CARLOS TRAVIS.

FRANK KUSTERLE.

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