US543211A - Bedstead-bracing - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

J. T. C. JONES.

BBDSTAD BRAGING.

No.-543,21l.

Patented July' 23, 1895,

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JAMES THOMAS CRAYTON JONES, OF STARR, SOUTH CAROLINA.

BEDsTEAo-BRACIN'G.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 543,211, dated July 23,1895.

l pplicatibn tiled February 19,1895. Serial No. 538,924. (Nomodel.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES THOMAS CRAY- roN JONES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Starr, in the county of Anderson and State of South Carolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bedstead- Bracing; and I do hereby declare the follow-Q ing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention is a new bedstead-brace; and it consists in rods extendingA from the cornerposts to a central ring, with means for tightf ening the same, and rods extending from the side rails to said central-ring, with means for tightening them, all of which are hereinafter described in this specification, and the claim l ent that I deem it unnecessary to describe it,

hereto attached.

All wooden bedsteads and iron ones, so far as my knowledge goes,loosen at the joints by wear and render the bedstead noisy, rickety, and the joints may by such Wear aord the hiding-places for bugs,and the side rails are sprung laterally by the operation of the slats, and finally the slats slip through and the occupants are dropped on the Iioor. The purpose of my invention is to avoid these inconveniences and annoyances.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 Y represents a longitudinal sectional elevation of a bedstead with my invention thereto attached. Fig. 2 is a plan view of my invention attached to the bedstead.

- My invention is described as follows: A rep resents the four corner bed-posts.

B represents the side rails; C, the slats. I have only marked one of the slats, because to mark them all would disfigure the drawings, and the slats are not a part of the invention.

The invention is below the slats, and far enough below them so that the slats will not Y touch the wires, even when sprung.

a are eyef-screws rmly screwed into the corner-posts A.

b are eye-screws firmly screwedinto the*` side rails equidistant from eaoh'end.

c are four rods, one end of which is hook-ed into the eyes of the eye-screws o, the other'.

ends of which areprovided with threads and pass through perforations in the central ring D. d are nutswhich screw on the threaded ends of said rods c and against the inner face of the said ring D.

e are rods, the outer ends of which arel and I will say that I do not confine myself necessarily to eye-screws@ or nuts d, because any other substantial manner of securing and operating the said rods c Would,in my opinion, be covered by my invention. The same may be also said of eye-nuts b, rods e, and buckle-nutf, the gist of my invention being a central ring D, from which extend six rods, one to each corner of the bed-post and one to each side rail, with substantial and practical means of tightening the same.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let-ters Patent, is v In combination with a bedstead, substantially as shown and described, the eye screws a, and b, perforated central ring D; rods c; nuts d, rods e, and buckle nut f, substantially as shown and described and for the purposes

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