US954620A - Bed construction. - Google Patents

Description

J. F. GAIL.

BED CONSTRUCTXON. APPLICATION mum we. 3, 1908.

Pate'ntd Apr. 12, 1910.

UNITED STATES PATENT onmcn.

JOHN F. GAIL, OF XENOSHA. WISCONSIN. ASSIGNOB. TO THE SIMMONS MANUFACTUR- ING COMPAL'Y, 0F KENOSHA, \VISCONSIN, A CORPORATION OF \VISCONSIN.

BED CONSTRUCTION.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Apr. 12, 1910- Application filed August 3, 1908. Serial No. 446.632.

T 0 (1?? whom. it may concern:

Be it known that 1, Join; 1*. GAlL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kenosha, in the county of Kcnosha and State of \l'isconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bed Constructions, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates in general to bed constructions, but pertains more in particular to the method and manner of securing the supports for the cros bars and end bars or rails of a bed to the corner posts thereof. Heretot'ore in securing said suports to the corner posts, the supports have een cast about or welded on the posts, and in case a support was broken, it rendered the bed useless, tor the reason that new supports could not be cast or secured t the posts after the bed was finished.

A further disadvantage of casting or welding the supports to the posts lies in the fact that the invention relates to metallic bed construction= and the posts have to be burnished or poli d. To burnish or polish a post'successful 3', it isnecessary that the batting brush or machine has a movement the entire length of the est, in order that, an even and uniform sur ace may be made.

here the support is secured to the post first, such as by casting or welding, the butting machine can only operate as far as the support, requiring considerable labor to bufi or polish the post around the support.

My inventiontis designed, therefore, first, to secure the support to the post so that the same can be removed, if broken, or forany other reason, and a new one replaced; a second object of the invention is to provide a removable support, wherebv the posts of the bed can be bufied or polished and than the su ports secured thereto.

n the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents a vertical section of a square post with other. parts in section and a support secured thereto. Fig. 2 is a crom section of a square post, with a support secured thereto. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of a round post with other parts irnsection and its support. Fig. dis cross section of a round post, with a support secured thereto.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings, 5 represents a support for the. side and end bars or-rails ot a bed, the socket 6 being adapted to accommodate a side bar, and the socket 7 an end bar; the support being provided with a shoulder or boss 8 having the pins!) formed integral therewith and projecting therefrom, and a threaded bolt 10 secured thereto, preferably by casting the rail support around the head of the bolt asindicated in the modified structure of Fig. 3. '11 is a bed post, hollow, and square in cross section, being composed of brass or any other suitable material.

It is obvious that when the support for the bars is removed there are no obstruclions upon any of the four sides of the bed post and that,- a butting machine can have an unobstructed sweep or movement over its surfaces. After the post has been suitably bufi'ed or polished, the support is secured thereto by bringing the pins 9 and screw or threaded shank 10 in register with suitable apertures 12 and 13, through which the pins and screw respectively are adapted to pass and project into the interior of the post.

lVhen the parts are in the position as just, described, an abutment plate 1% is inserted within the post, it having registering aperturcs to receive the pins 9 and screw 10, and being of substantially the same. width as the interior diameter of the post. The plate A removes the strain from the three points at which the. support is secured to the post. thereby attording a wide bearing surface, so that the postis not in any manner injured. After the plate has been inserted, a nut 15 is adapted to engage the screw or threaded shank 10 and by means of suitable instruments to engage the flutes J5 on the nut, said nut can be readily turned to secure all parts'firmly together. It hein understood that to apply the plate 14 the nut 15,

support 17 having bar or rail engaging socketa 1S and a semi-circular recess 19, of sub stantially the same curvature as the post itself.

\Vhen the round post is used a curved plate 20 is also employed, having the same function as the plate 14: and the screw and nut serving the same purpose as above described. 11: is, however, obvious of course that the pins 9 may be omitted when a round post is employed, for the reason'thai. the concave recess in the support would prevent it from having any turning movement relative to the convex post.

It is of course apparent that changes might be made in my construction, without departing from the general spirit of the invention, an therefore without confining myself to the precise details of construction herein shown.

I claim:

In a bed construction, the combination of e rail-support having a threadedshank and a stud, a hollow-post suitably apertnred to receive the threaded-shank and stud and permit them to project into the interior of the 20

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