US94701A - Improved spring- bed-bottom - Google Patents

Description

dnited giant HENRI E. BISSELL, OF HARTFGRD,CONNECTICUT.

Letters Patent No. 94,701, dated Seine/mbar 14, 1869.

IMPROVED SPRING BED-BOTTOM.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the Bama.

` marked thereon, forming a part of this specification.

Figure l is a plan view of my invention.

Figure 2 is a view. of the bottom ofthe bed.

Figure 3 is a sectional view of the tightening-apparatus,7 situated at the foot of the bed.

Figure 4 is a-detached view of one of the sockets for the ends ofwhat is known herein as the head- Figure 5 is a detached view of the socket for one of the ends of the-foot-piece.

Figure 6 is a detached view of the socket for the other of the ends of the foot-piece.7

The letters a a a designate the three sections of which the bed is composed, which sections are made of stout canvas, or of some equivalent therefor.

1f the Whole bed were made in onei piece, when two persons Inade use of it, they would both roll into the middle together, while, by making the bed in sections, I avoid this difficulty altogether.

The sections are laced somewhat loosely together by strings running through eyelet-holes.

lAt the head of the bed is a stout bar, of wood, b, called a head-piece herein, each end'of which fits down into the sockets c, shown in tig. 4, which socket-s are iXed to the inside of the two side pieces,d and d, of the bed.

These" sockets can just as well be made into the side pieces, but I think a metal socket, screwed to the side, is preferable.

It will be readily understood that the head-piece b is removable at pleasure from the sockets.

The sections a are attached to the head-piece b,4 each by means of two short bars of metal, made into a ring at one end, which is stoutly fastened to one end of the section. Each of these bars runs into the head-piece, and through a spiral spring, or its equivalent,.and is attached to the back of the spring, which spring is contained in a proper socket in the headpiece, and the other end of the spring from that to which said bars is attached, rests against the bottom of the socket. This arrangement, so far as concerns one ofthe springs, is represented at e.

At the foot of the bed, the sections run overthe foot-piece fi, down under the bed. This foot-piece is a sort of a cam or eccentric, the hearings of which rest in the sockets h and h', and from ther shape of h it will readily be understood that the footpiece,as well as the head-piece, lis removableat pleasure.

These sockets, la, and h', are screwed to the insides of the side-pieces of the bed, dgl.

The sections come to van end shortly after passing around the c'am i. To these ends are attached the strainers 7; k k, which are buckled at their other ends to the bottoms of thesections, andby means of these strainers any desired tension can be given to the sec# tions.

It is also desirable to tack the sections to the bottom of the cam fi, as by the tacks, o o o o o o, shown, and then when the strainers are buckled tighter, the action of the cam will also assist in straining the sections.

A. roller and ratchet can be substituted for the cam, but I think the cam preferable.

I claim as my invention- The webbing-bottom, made in sections,` laced together as described, in combination with the strainers k la k, the movable head-piece b, with its sockets, springs, and bars, and the` cam i, the whole arranged and constructed as described, for the purpose set forth.

Dated July 3, `1869. l

' H. E. BISSELL.

Witnesses VWE. SrMoNDs, Jos. L. Manx.

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