US28621A - Bedstead - Google Patents

Description

UNITED srATEs PATENT oEEroE.

THOMAS WALL, OF JONES STATION, OHIO.

BEDSTEAD.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 28,621, dated June 5, 1860.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, THos. VALL, of Jones Station, in the county of Butler and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvenient in Bedsteads; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and complete description ofthe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a complete bedsteadin the construction of which my improvements are employed. Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the center of one of the posts and of the ratchet, pawl and a portion of one of the side rails. Figs. 3 and 4 are end views of parts to be described.

My invention relates to the manner of connecting the side rails of a bedstead to the corner posts thereof and retaining them in place, also to an improved device for tightening the bed cord when the same is applied to the bedstead in the manner herein described.

A B C D are the four corner posts of a bedstead of the ordinary general construction.

E F are the side rails which are round and have tenons formed upon their ends which enter appropriate mortises in the corner posts. The tenons and mortises by which the ends of F are united to the corner posts are square, and the rail F is thus prevented from turning around in the mortises by the strain of the bed cord upon the pins placed upon the periphery of the rail as will be explained. The rail E has round tenons and the mortises or holes in the posts which they enter are also round. The ends of the side rails E and F each pass through anged sockets (l, eZ, e, f. The apertures through these sockets are of the size and shape of the tenons respectively, the ends of the rails projecting through far enough to form the tenons which have been mentioned, and the unflanged end of the sockets aording the shoulders which bear against the surface of the posts around the mortises or holes into which the tenons penetrate. A pin (g) secures the sockets to their places on the rails.

Gr G are end rails which are framed into i the corner posts either by a mortise and tenon or by a right and left screw or any other familiar and approved mode.

(7c 7c) are clasps or hooks fastened to posts B C D and hooking or clasping the flanges of the sockets (Z, d, f, respectively serve to retain the side rails in union with the corner posts, and in connection with the hook latch 71, preserving the bedstead frame firm and secure. The periphery of the flange to socket (e) is notched or serrated to constitute it a ratchet wheel, to the under or lower side of which the hook latch (71,) is adapted. This latch is constructed with a U shaped part, an arm of which passes back upon two opposite sides of the square part of post A at a point in a horizontal line with 'the lower or under edge of the fiange or Ythe rail to which t-he ratchet is secured is acted upon by the cords as will be explained.

j is a spring fastened by one end to the post A and its other end applied to the ratchet latch It as shown, causing it to remain in contact with the ratchet and enter the notches or recesses appropriately as the side rail and ratchet are rotated. This latch has a hook or clasp which takes hold upon the outer surface of the ratchet and retains the part including the tenon of the side rail to which it is secured in its place in union with the corner post.

rIhe side rails E and F are each furnished with a seriesof bed pins (a) projecting from the periphery of each to receive the bed cord Z). The end rails G also have each a central bed pin (C). The bed cord b being secured by one end to a pin in one of the side rails nearest to one of the corner posts, is extended across the bed frame passing, the first time across, around the central pin c in one of the end rails G and thence around a pin in the side rail opposite to the one from whence it first started and thence back and around the next pin to the one from whence it began, and thence back to a next pin upon the opposite side and so on back and forth around each pin upon the opposite sides, in their regular order until all the pins are encompassed by the cord, the cord passing the last time across around the central pin in the end rail Gr opposite to and corresponding with the pin in the end rail around which the cord was passed the first time it was carried across as explained. The last end of the cord is then properly secured.

The frame now being together properly, and the bed cord having been applied as described it is prepared to be tightened so as to be rendered suiiiciently firm to maintain the weight of a bed or mattress and an occupant without swagging or becoming unduly depressed in the center. The side rail E or the windlass as it may be called, is furnished with a stout pin (Z) placed. near the center from the two ends. A suitable lever of wood or iron is taken and one end placed under the rail or windlass E at A loop is then formed by passing a rope from the pin (Z) over the top of the rail E and around the lever or bar and thence back to (Z) where it is properly secured at the other end, thus forming a loop. An outward or downward pressure now exerted upon the outer'end of the lever will exert a powerful strain to cause the top of E to rotate outwardly. In doing so it exerts a heavy strain upon all parts of the bed cord, as is manifest, rendering it as tight as may be desired. In the rotation of the side rail E the ratchet (e) is carried around and the latch (lt) entering new notches or recesses as they are presented by the revolving of the rail and ratchet, retains the same securely at the point of tension to which they are carried.

Whenever by continued use for a considerable time'the bed cord becomes slack,

it is readily restored to a desired tension by the lever and loop employed as explained. The pin (Z) may be movable in the hole in E so as to be taken out in case it should, in the revolution of E, present itself upwardly and be found to interfere with the bed when placed upon the bedstead.

An end view of the square tenon of F and of the flanged socket which pertains to it is seen in Fig. t.

My improvements secure a means of constructing a bedstead which may be easily taken down or put up by one man without tools. The bed cord can also be tightened readily and with ease requiring only the pressure of one person upon the end of a lever to render the rope sufficiently tight for all purposes. The cord (b) passing around the pins (c) in the rails G serves in connection with the hooks or clasps which have been described to retain the frame of the bedstead firmly together.

Having fully described my invention I do not claim any of the parts thereof separately, nor in combination, except as specilically expressed.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- The flanged sockets and hooked fasteners or clasps as described when used in combination with the windlass rail E with its pin Z ratchet e and latch z, all arranged to operate as and for the purposes set forth.

THOMAS VALL.

Witnesses:

IVM. CLOUGH, CHARLES L. FISHER.

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