US351074A - seymour - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

W. S. SEYMOUR.

FOLDING GOT.

No. 351,074. Patented Oct. 19, 1886,

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM S. SEYMOUR, OF KENOSHA, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO ZALMON G. SIMMONS, OF SAME PLACE.

FOLDING COT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 351,074, dated October 19, 1886.

Application filed May 21, 1886. Serial No. 202,832. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM S. SEYMOUR, of Kenosha, State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Improvement in FoldingOots, of which the following is a specificatlon.

The invention relates to that class of cots in which a sheet or web of wire or other elastic fabric is stretched on end rails; and the object is to construct a cot of this type so that the side supports and legs may be folded in between the end rails and lie in the same plane with them.

The invention consists in the parts and features hereinafter more particularly described and claimed.

The accompanying drawings illustrate a cot containing the invention.

Figure l is a side elevation of such cot. Fig. 2 is a cross-section taken on line :0 w of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the cot folded. Fig. 4 is a top View of the frame folded. Fig. 5 is an enlarged section on line a: w of Fig. 4..

A designates the fabric secured to the end rails, B, in any suitable manner.

O designates a turned bow, composed of the parts 0 0, having their ends-fitted to each other and fastened together by a ferrule, c, driven on over the ends. Trusses c are secured between the members of the bow to give it greater strength, thereby enabling it to be made lighter than if the members were made large enough to answer the purpose without being connected'together at or near the center.

The ends of the bows are provided with a pin or gudgeon, adapted to enter holes of corresponding size in the sides of the end rails, and the fabric is stretched enough to enter the pins and then permitted to spring back. The two bows are thus held together so as to turn on or with the pins in the holes of the end rails. A leg, D, is secured near each end of each of the bows and braced by a brace, d, which may be secured to the side of the legs and bows, or by a hole in the legs, so as to pass under and be secured to the bottom of the bow. There is also a swinging brace, d, preferably made of a rod of iron, and attached by an eye or link, e, to the leg on one side, and provided with a hook, e, adapted to engage an eye on the opposite leg, so as to brace the legs firmly in a cross direction. The thickness of the members of the bow and braces d should be the same as that of the end pieces and the cross-pieces. d are so attached as to fold and lie between the bows,

as shown in Fig. 4.

Iprefer to locate the holes in the end rails as far in from their ends as may be, and allow the ends of the legs to fold inside the bows, or without hitting them, in order to equalize and relieve the strain of the fabric at the center of the rails and enable them to 6 he made lighter. The curvature of the bows affords ample room for the fabric to spring down to a considerable extent, without coming in contact with the bows placed under it.

The cot of this construction may be made single or double, and the legs and braces will fold in so as to make it only of the thickness of the end rails and the fabric, a convenient thing to be handled, stored, or packed for shipping. 7 5

With this construction of the frame of the cot it can be made about one-third lighter than heretofore, and still be strong enough to answer every purpose of a folding cot.

I am aware of the Patent No. 198,869, of 8) January I. 1878, to Bradley, for camp bedsteads. This shows the canvas attached to the side rails, and has an arrangement of the legs which prevents any folding without first detaching the end rails. There is, consequently, no pivotal connection used between the end and side rails. My invention is different from this in arrangement and operation. The fabric is not attached to the side rails or bows, but to the end rails only, and 9 the bows or side rails and legs and their braces are arranged and connected with the end rails pivotally, so as to fold flat in the same plane with the end rails without detaching them.

WVhat is claimed is- A folding cot consisting of a web of elastic fabric attached to end rails, as B, in combination with the bows or side rails, 0, provided with legs D, and swinging braces d, said bows having their ends abutting against [(20 the coincident edges of the end rails, and be ing secured thereto by a pivotal connection, as and for the purpose specified.

WILLIAM S. SEYMOUR.

. \Vitnesses:

JNo. H. WHIPPLE, JAMES R. DEAN.

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