US1463267A - Folding and tent bed - Google Patents

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July 31, 1923. 1,463,267

R. B. HOSNER FOLDING AND TENT BED Filed July 21 1921 WITNESS INVENT'OR 4%. KWZ. 2%

5414 TTORNE YS Patented July 31, 1923.

RALPH B. HOSNER, or lsAn FRANGIS'CO, CALIFORNIA FOLDING nn TENT BED.

Application filed July 21, 1921. Serial no. 43 ,453.

To all whom it concern:

Be it known that I, RALPH B. Hosnnn, a citizen of the United States, and a'resid'ent of the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, haveinvented a new and useful Folding and Tent Bed, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to bed structures and more particularly, to portable, folding bed frames and tent beds.

It is an object olf' th'is invention to provide .a bed frame composed of inexpensive material of light pattern to enable the mannfacture of the bed at least cost. A further object is to provide for the folding of the frame into 'a pack of such size that it may be conveniently disposed in the seat space of an automobile. 1

Another object is to provide a firm joint structure between meeting ends of'rail sections, and to provide athree-se'ctiojn frame that can he folded to a thickness of buttwo sections- It is also an object to provide a bed having means for holding attachable corner posts of a tent in an upright position.

The invention possesses other objects and features of advantage, some of which, with the foregoing, will be made manifest in the following description of the preferred form of the invention, which is illustrated in the drawings accompanying and forming part of the specification. It is to be understood that it is not intended to limit the invention to the embodiment shown by the said drawings and description, as variations may be adopted within the scope of the invention as set forth in the claims.

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the erected bed, showing a tent, in section, supported on poles attached to the bed frame.

Fig. 2 is a plan of the extended bed.

Fig. 3 is a cross section on line 3-3, and

Fig. 4 is a cross section on line 4-4 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is a plan view of a portion of the joint betweeen the intermediate section and one end section.

Fig. 6 is a detail view of the attaching means connecting a pole to a leg of the frame.

The structure of the present invention consists of a collapsible bed of jointed frame sections and which bed dis provided with means to rigidly support a set of tent poles in upright position and without the require ment of any manipulation and use o'fs sepa' rate or detached fastening devices.

For convenience the bed will he i i as having a head section 2, consisting of};

piece of angle-iron bent to U-shape irrpian ,1 1 and braced at 2*; an intermediate: sectiqn consisting of a pair of parallel rails and a foot section 4, of a 'p'iece of anglel'ron'U-shape inplan.

, 05 The head section 2', is narrower thanfthie T intermediate section which overlaps,

pivoted to, the head section at 5-' 5',rs o that the latter may fold in underneath "of t'op {flanges Qfthesitle rails 3-3. VVh'en the head is fully extended, its topilanges butt the rails as at 6-6, thus forming" a'kn uckl'e joint. The intermediates'ection has a cross brace 3 with upturned ends '7-7, and legs -8". 8,'

diate section rails 33, so that the section 4, may be folded parallel to, but not Within,

the side rails 3-3. This is permitted by a form of knuckle joint in which pivot pins 1 12, connecting the intermediate and foot sections, have their axes in the plane of'the j bottom edges of the extended rails. The top flanges of the extended bed sections 3 and i 4, abut as at 13.

A preferred form of joint is had by at taching, as'to each rail 3, a lap plate-14, in the plane of the rail-fiange 4 of section 4,

and attaching to the sides of saidflange4,-v

a pair of parallel plates 15, which project endwise therefrom to form a pocket to take.

the male plate ,14. The contiguous ends of the plates 14 and 15, are offset or projected as at 16, to bring the pivot pin 12, into the plane of the .bottom edges of the flanges. It will be seen that the pin 12, issupported at its ends in the spaced plates 15, between which the plate 14, is guided and laterally supported.

The three se tions 2, 3 and 4, of. the bed.

75 which take much of the hardened-of the j can be compactly arranged by folding the section 2, into the section 3, and then folding the section 4, on its pivots 12, closely parallel and opposite to the side flanges of the section 3, so that the folded frames have the total thickness of only sections 3 and 4, one on the other.

In the sides of the outer ends of sections 2 and 3, are provided pivots 20, on the inner. ends of which are hung legs 21, which are diagonally braced, in end pairs, as at 22. The intermediate pair of legs 8 and the end pairsof legs 21, are foldable within the side flange of their respective sections and, when set up, are braced by knuckle jointed links 23. I This bed frame has the further purpose of serving as a support for posts 25, over 7 which may be draped a tent 26. To obviate the use of any extraneous fastenings to attach the posts, the top flanges of the frame are perforated in the angles, as at 27, thus forming a hole into which a pole can be readily slipped. To maintain the pole in a nearly vertical position, but inclined outwardly at the top, each pole has a headed pin 28, in its lower end to enter a fixed keeper 29, at the foot of each leg.

This keeper consists of a plate having a vertical slot open at the lower end so that if the leg is lifted slightly, the keeper can then be lowered over the pin at the foot of the pole. vTo hold the poles inclined outwardly the keepers are set inwardly to one side of a vertical line through the socket hole 27. The weakened corners of the bed sections are re-enforced by diagonal braces 2 hen the tent has been applied to the pole tips, the side walls of the tent hang well out beyond the bed frame owing to the inclination of the poles. This eliminates water seeping through the canvas as occurs from contact of objects with the inner sur face of wet canvas. The poles at the head end of the bed may be sectional and have slip joints 25 to facilitate packing thepoles within the length of the folded bed structure.

What is claimed is:

1. In a tent bed structure, a frame having at its corners sockets to receive tent poles, and legs for supporting the corners of the frame and provided with fixed slotted parts for passing down over and engaging a headed pin at the lower endofeach pole.

2. A tent bed, comprising a bed frame of angle-iron structure having sockets in the form of holes in the top flanges of the frame and into each of which a tent pole may be inserted, and legs having keepers adapted to interlock with complementary parts on the lower ends of the tent portion.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand. 7

RALPH B. HOSNER.

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