US24880A - Bedstead - Google Patents

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES MESSENGER, OF XVARREN, OHIO.

BEDSTEAD.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 24,880, dated July 26, 1859.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, C. MESSENGER, of Warren, in the county of Trumbull and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bedsteads; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and 'exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure l, is a side view; Fig. 2, a perspective view of the bedstead; Figs. 3, 4, and 5,

are detached sections which will be referred to in description hereafter.

Like letters denote like parts in the several views.

The nature of my invention relates to the method of connecting the rails to the posts, by which the bedstead may be folded up from the position in Fig. l, to that in Fig. 2, and vice versa, without detaching the rails from the posts, or removing the mattress, or clothes.

The head, and post A, and B, of the bedstead may be made in any of the usual forms, to which are attached side rails constructed each in two pieces, and united by a hinge joint C, Figs. l, and 2. At the end of each rail is secured the plate, or key D, Fig. 3, by means of the shank E, with screws, or pins, which pass through the rails into the shank. In the upper portipn of the plate is an oblong slot F, placed obllquely in the plate. This slot receives the pin G, which passes through the post as indicated in Fig. 4, at G. Below the shank E, depends a lip H, Figs. 3, and 5. The space between the lip, and the end I, of the rail receives the plate J, which is sunk into the post and secured by screws or otherwise. The space K, between the lip, and the end of the rail is tapering at its intersection with the slot, which causes the posts, and rails, to be more firmly secured together, as the tendency is by the tapering form of the slot, and plate to become tighter by the rails being continually pressed down in the use of the bedstead, there being allowed a little space above the plate, and below the lip, for this purpose. The pin G, is also placed with this obj ect in view.

The pin G, in the slot eifectually holds the plate in place, and thereby securing the rails, in the desired position. The tendency of the rails by the weight on the bed is to be depressed in the center, and draw the upper end of the plate D, out of the post, but this is eifectually prevented by the pin G. The

brace for the upper side of the rails as the end comes in contact.

lVhen it is desired to fold up the bedstead from the position seen in Fig. 1, to that seen in Fig. 2, the rails are so raised that the lip H, will pass over the plate J. The oblong slot F, allows the plate to be thus raised, and by its angular position in the plate tends to force the plate out of the mortise L, in the post as the rails are raised, and at the same time the pin, and slot, forms a joint, or hinge, upon which the rails can be turned from a horizontal to a vertical position as seen in Figs. 2, and 5, without detaching the rails from the posts, and the bedstead may be changed with the same facility from Fig. 2, to Fig. l.

As soon as the lip passes over the outside of the plate the rails are connected to the posts by the pins G, for the purpose before described. The mattress for this purpose should be divided in the center as seen at M, forming two sections N, N, Figs. 1, and 2, which sections may be connected by straps O, O, or otherwise. This will allow the mattress to fold up and also to bed clothes with the bedstead. For all practical purposes the mattress in two sections will be as convenient as an entire mattress, when not folded up with the bedstead.

I am aware that jointed rails, and fastenings, adapted to such joints have been known and used before, but what distinguishes my improvement from all others is, the mode of connecting the rails to the posts so as to form a joint and lock when connected, and a hinge joint by the pin, and slot, for the purpose of changing the bedstead from one position to another as herein before described without detaching the rails from the posts, or removing the clothes, which renders it very convenient in various ways.

What I claim as my improvement, and for which I desire to secure Letters Patent is,

The angular, and oblique slot F, and pin G, in combination with the plate or key D, when arranged in connection with the jointed rails substantially as described, and for the purpose herein before set forth.

CHARLES MESSENGER.

Witnesses D. D. HoPrER, GEO. F. BROWN.

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