US1146123A

US1146123A - Bed, &c.

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Publication number: US1146123A
Application number: US75392213A
Authority: US
Inventors: Gustave Bennett
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1913-03-13
Filing date: 1913-03-13
Publication date: 1915-07-13
Anticipated expiration: 1932-07-13

Description

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GUSTAVE BENNETT, 0F JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

BED, &o.

Application filed March 13, 1913.

To all 107mm it may concern:

Be it known that I, GUsTAvn BENNETT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Beds, &c., of which the following is a specification.

My present invention is an improved releasable support for a sliding member. I have illustrated my invention as being used in connection with a crib or bed to releasably support the vertically slidable sides or gates of the crib. The merit of my invention is the ease with which the device can be operated to move the movable object, such as the gate of the crib, into or out of supporting or closed position. There are no set screws or catches to be manipulated by the operator because all he has to do is to take hold of the gate and slide it up or down to effect the desired result.

The drawings show only one of the specific forms which my improvements are adapted to take, and in them Figure 1 is an elevation of part of one side of a crib embodying my invention; Fig. 2 shows the upper right hand corner of the devices of Fig. 1 on an enlarged scale, and further shows the side of the casing broken away to reveal the parts otherwise concealed; Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3 in Fig. 2 looking in the direction of the arrows, and shows by the full lines the spring parts located in their normal position when upholding the gate of the crib; Fig. 4 is the same Fig. 3 except that it shows the spring parts in the positions occupied when the gate is being lowered; Fig.- 5 is a horizontal section on the line 55 in Fig. 2 looking in the direction of the arrows; and Fig. 6 is a face view of the spring 17 de tached from the casing.

I will now describe the specific devices of the drawings, reserving it to the claim to point out the novel features and to define the scope of the invention, it being understood that the claim will be given the due range of equivalents to which it may be entitled in view of the art.

1 is one of the corner posts of a crib; 2 is one of the side bars of the frame of the crib; 3 is one of the vertically sliding sides of the crib having the usual eyes 4 sliding on the usual vertical guide rod 5 secured in spaced relation to the bedpost 1.

My invention resides in the devices com Specification of Letters Patent.

PatentedJuly 13, 1915.

Serial No. 753,922.

prised in the casing 6 cooperating with a pin projecting from the upper eye 4 working in a vertical slot 8 (see Fig. 5) in the front 10 of the casing. Figs. 3 and 4 show the front of the casing removed, but the position of the slot 8 is nevertheless indicated by the dotted lines bearing that numeral.

Fig. 1 shows only one end of the gate 3 and crib, but it will be understood that all of the above described devices are, or at any rate may be, duplicated at the other end of the crib. Also, these may be duplicated at the ends of the sliding gate on the opposite side of the crib.

The aforesaid casing 6 is securedrigidly to the bedpost 1 by the screws 9.

l1 designates as an entirety an elbowshaped piece of spring brass or other suitable metal which comprises a stem portion 12 secured at 13 to one side of the casing, and which at its upper end has a horizontal portion 14 which the springiness of the stem 12 normally positions in the location shown by the full lines in Fig. 3 wherein it acts as a shelf to support the pin 7, (full lines in Fig. 3) to uphold its end of the gate. The dotted lines in Fig. 3show how this pin 7 in the mere act of being lifted vertically along with the gate bears against the underside of the stem portion 12, forcing the elbow spring to the right until the pin is lifted above the top of the spring, whereupon it snaps back into the position shown by the full lines in Fig. 3 with the horizontal portion 14 of the spring supporting the pin as on a shelf. This horizontal portion 14 in its movement works or plays preferably through a slot 15 in the side of the casing. It will be noted that the bottom edge of this slot serves to support the free end of the portion 14 to prevent it from sagging downwardly under the load.

16 is a supplemental casing of any sort mounted on the side of the main casing to conceal the working of this horizontal portion 14 of the spring through the side of the casing.

The foregoing shows how the gate is automatically locked and upheld in its raised position shown in Fig. 1 by the mere act of lifting it up into that position. It now remains to describe the means by which the gate in equally simple manner can be released from its upheld position and lowered.

17 designates as an entirety a leaf spring having a stem portion 18 secured at its upper end 19 to the side of the casing and supporting at its lower end the head portion 20 whose upper part is longitudinally divided from the stem. In short, this spring is substantially a T whose stem is 18 and whose head is 20, the whole being made of suitable spring metal with the head 20 able to resiliently tilt relative to the stem 18. Further, it must be stated that the pin 7 (compare Fig. 2) projects into the casing only suflici-ently far to engage with the head 20 of this spring, but not with its stem portion 18. Further, it will be noted from Fig.

3 that the middle portion of the head 20' of this spring bears against the elbow of the other spring 11; and that the upper portion of said head 20 is in the upward path of the pin 7 in the normal position of the parts which is that shown by the full lines in Fig. 3.

The release of the gate from its upheld position can now be understood. All that the operator needs to do is to lift the gate and with it the pin 7 still higher than its upheld position shown by the full lines in Fig. 8, whereupon said pin bears against the upper head portion 20 of the spring 17 presses it to the left as shown in the same figure, and finally said pin reaches the upper limit of the slot 18 wherein it clears said portion 20 which thereupon snaps back from its dotted line position in Fig. 3 to its full line position, wherein it crosses the path of the pin 7 so that said pin, descending with the gate as shown in Fig. 4, presses both springs to the right and out of its path, and accordingly the gate is permitted to descend into its fully lowered position.

As soon as the pin 7 descends below the springs, their resiliency restores them into the position shown by the full lines in Fig. 3 so that, when the gate is next lifted, the pin 7 rides up into its upheld position shown by the full lines in Fig. 3 to uphold the gate as previously described.

What I claim is:

In a device of the character described, a stationary casing having a vertical slot, a pin working in said slot, a flat spring positioned to support the pin in a certain posi tion in the slot and also movable out of such supporting position, and a second flat spring having a portion bearing against said firstnamed spring and having another portion lying in the path of movement of the pin and adapted to be moved aside by the pin in its travel, whereby the pin may be forced past said second-named portion of the second spring, and whereby upon a reverse movement of the pin the second-named spring will be caused to move the supporting spring out of the path of the pin.

In testimony whereof I atfix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GUSTAVE BEN NETT. Witnesses E. WV. SGHERR, Jr., EDNA A. MORELAND.

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