US82457A - Improved bedstead - Google Patents

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Letters Patent Na. 82,457, dated September 22, 1868.

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Be it known that we, WILLIAM M. WARD and PETER BENNAGB, of Eureka, in the county of Voodford, and State of Illinois, have invented a. new and valuable Improvement in Bedsteads; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being bad to the annexed dnawings, making a. part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings isa representation of a plan view of our bedstead.

Figure 2 is a sectional view thereof.

The object of ourinvention is to provide more simple and perfect means than have heretofore been devised for-connecting the head and foot-boards of n. bedstead together, and with the side rails thereof; and also to use the screw-nut or swivel-head by which'the bedstead is tightened as a rest or shoulder for one of the end slats ofthe bedstead-bottom; i

A head and foot-post andone of the side rails are shown on fig. 20f the drawings, together with the specific means by which the connection is effected between said posts and with said side rail.

The posts are marked A on the drawings, and the side rails are represented by B.

Letters 0 C are iron rods, that serve both as a means of connection between the head and foot-posts and as springs for the bed-bottom.

.Letters D are hooks made fast in the head and foot-posts respectively, at the points shown.

.Letters E are swivels, respectively connected in the manner represented on the drawings. At the outer ends of these swivels respectively, and in threads cut in the outer ends thereof, we adjust the screws G, and these screws are, in turn, hooked on the hooks D, by eyes formed in the extreme outer ends thereof.

Letters a a are small holes bored in the inner sides of the bedstead-posts, and adapted to receive small pins in the ends of the side rails. I

Letters 15 b are small blocks nailed to the insides of the side rails, as shown.

' The slats 01 of our bedstead are connected by straps e, that extend across the sameat right angles, and

being fastened thereto, respectively, serve to keep the same at proper distance from each other. 'When thus 1 arranged, they form one connected series, the ends of whiehrest on the rods 0 respectively.

To keep these slats fromcrowding together,'and holdthem firmly in their places, we form the head of the swivels E in a square shape, rising sufficiently high above the rods to allow'said heads to become rests or shoulders, against which one of the end slats shall be held, thereby saving the labor and expense of blocks corresponding to blocks 6 b, at the opposite'end of the bedstead. I

To operate our .dev'ice, we adjust the pins .in the ends of the side rails, in thepin-lioles a a. We next hook one end of the rods to a hook, D, taking'c are always to have the end so hooked on that end of the bedstead-- frame upon which the blocks 6 b are nailed. We then hook the ends of the screws G to the other hooks on the bed-posts, and turn around the swivelsE until the bedstead is tightened sufiiciently. When this is accomplished.- we lay the slatted bottom upon the rods, and adjustone of the end slats between the swivels E and the bedpost, contiguous thereto. The other end slat of the bottom rests between the opposite posts and the blocks 6 1;.

What we claim as our invention,.and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A bedstead, having rods 0, books D, swivels E, screws G, pin-holes a, slats d, strips e, and blocksb, all arranged and operating substantially as described.

In testimony thatwe claim the above, we have hereunto subscribed our names in the presence oftwo witnesses.

I WILLIAM M. WARD,

PETER BENNAGE Witnesses:

FRANK RURPLE, B. D. Manx.

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