US108457A - Improvement in folding bedsteads - Google Patents

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dilated ,Strae MARK CROSBY, OF BOSTON, MASSAGHUSETTSO.

Letters Patent No. 108,457, dated October 18, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN FOLDING BEDSTEADS.

MHdv The Schedule referred Ito in these Letters Patent and mkiug part of the same.

To all whom fit 'may concern:

Bc it known that I, MARK Cuosny, of Boston, in the county of Suiolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Folding Bedsteads; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to thc laccompanying drawing making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a perspective view ot' the bedstead when opened.

Figure 2 is a vertical transverse section of the case and bcdstead folded.

This invention relates to hat class of French parlor bedsteads which can be ,olded up, with thev bed, into a form resembling a neat bureau or stand, and the invention consists in a new and improved method of connecting the parts that fold together, so as to admit of the sidc-pieces being made narrower at the middle than at the ends, while, at the same time, it allows the bedstead to fold readily and easily, iuclosing the bedding between the folded parts.

1n the drawingl c a el a? represent the bottom pieces;

s s s' sthe side pieces h the headboard;

fthe footboard; 4and l l the legs of the bedstead; and v G a box or case attached to the bedstead by means of semi-annular slots, c c, and pins 'or friction-rollers, c' c', so that the folding parts can be turned down till they rest on the legs in a horizontal position, as shown in tig. l, o1' be folded and turned up till they stand vertically in the case, as shown by fig. 2, the pins moving in the slots as the bedstead is turned down or up, and forming a neat and substantial hinge. Y

on mare metallic plates, flat on one side, and provided with a flange or rib, a, on the other, constructed as shown in the drawing.

These plates are made rights and lefts, and are attached by screws to the adjacent ends o f the side pieces s s. Thus formed and attached they are connected` together by a bar, I, which turns on pins Ii1', passing into or through the plates, the bar lying fiat against the plates, its ends and lower side being in contact with the flanges a n, in the position shown in fig. 1, when the bedstead is unfolded, and as shown in' fever upon the head a s h, the edge of the footboard resting upon and throughout its whole length, matching with the upper edge of the headboard and a piu, lr, which projects from one-entering a hole, o, in the other, so as to prevent the parts from slipping or getting ont of position. The head and foot of the bed being thus folded together, they are elevated to a vertical position, and as they rise the pins c' slip round in vthe slots c till they arriveat the bottom of the same, where they rest.' This brings the matched head and footboards down into the ease, causing them to rest firmly on the parts c c c thereof.

In opening this beadstead the least amount of strength is required to operate it, as compared with `the old single-joint hinge bedstead, on account of the leverage produced by vthe peculiar construction of the hinge connection I m.

Having thus described my invention,

\V|1at I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is'- 1. The hinge composed of pieces m m, connected by the bar I and pins i t, when said plates m m are provided with the flange t, arranged and operating substantially as and for the purpose described.

MARK CROSBY.

Witnesses SYLvENUs WALKER, J. R. MGGREADY.

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