US1618593A - Glide hammock - Google Patents

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GLIDE HAMMOCK Filed March 4. 1924 3 Sheet 1 INVENTOR, vT/maijf Feb. 22, 1927. Q KLElN GLIDE HAMMOCK Filed March 4. 1924 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR on/mljfibuv BY 9? A ORNEYU Feb. 22, 1927. 1,618,593-

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UNITED STATES 1,618,593 PATENT OFFICE.

CONRAD KLEIN, OF FRANKLIN SQUARE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO ENGLANDER SPRING BED COMPANY, O1? BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

GLIDE .HAMMOCK.

Application filed March 4, 1924. Serial No. 696,747.

This invention relates to hammocks, more particularly to that class known as glide hammocks, the object of the invention being to provide an improved hammock of this class, comparatively simple in construction, strong, rigid, and durable in use and which may be readily and easily assembled and quickly disassembled for handling or transportation.

A further object of this invention is't-he provision of an improved glide hammock comprising three main features .a supporting cradle, a pair of swinging head frames adapted to receive upholstery swingingly connected with the head frames and a detachable seat frame detachably connected with the head frames, all of said parts being constructed of metal and assembled in an inexpensive, simple and convenient way to permit the same to be easily handled or shipped.

In the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification, Fig, 1 is a perspective view of this improved glide hammock completely assembled; Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the framework of the hammock; Fig. 3 is a detail view of the means for connecting the spring mattress structure to the swinging frame; Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the cradle; and Fig. 5 is a detail view illustrating the manner in which a swinging. frame is connected to the cradle.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views.

Be ore explaining in detail the present improvement and mode of operation thereof, it is desired to have it understood that the invention is not limited to the details of construction and arrangement of parts which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, snce the invention is capable of other embodiments, and that the phraseology which is employed is for the purpose of description and not of limitation.

The supporting frame or cradle, as it is herein designated, comprises a pair of heads 2 formed of bars or tubes, each bent to provide a pair of legs 3, thus forming inverted U-shaped heads. These legs are suitably braced by a pair of cross bars 4 and 5, and connected to the braces 4 is a pair of lengthwise extending brace or side bars 6 shown of angle iron formation and located at some distance inwardly from the legs 3. Connected to these bars 6 and to the lower cross bar 5 of a head is a pair of diagonal brace bars 7.

The foregoing construction constitutes the supporting frame or cradle as herein designated and forms a very rigid supporting structure.

Enclosing or overlapping each head is a swinging frame comprising an inverted U shaped member 10, and this U-shaped swinging frame is made up of a pair of U-shaped angle bars 11 forming a cross top member 11 and a pair of dependin members 11" and 11", the outer one of which 11 is longer than the other. These top members 11 are suitably connected by cross bars 12 and 13 at the top and the depending members are connected by cross braces 14 and 15 at the bottom, suitable diagonal braces 16 serving to stiffen the outer side of this U-' shaped frame. Each U-shaped swinging frame is link-connected by a pair of links 20 pivoted at their lower ends to the cross bar 14 and at their upper ends to the head 2, whereby the swinging frames will swing to and fro relatively to the cradle or supporting frame, the links 20 being located in parallelism.

The seat frame or portion of the hammock comprises a spring frame consisting of a pair of end frames2l and 22, each comprising a transverse bar 23 having depending portions 24, thus also forming an inverted U- shaped frame connected by side bars 25 and suitable braces 26. Stretched between these end frames 21 and 22 is a suitable spring fabric although if preferred helical springs could be used in place of the fabric shown. For detachably connecting the spring fabric frame to the swinging frame, each depending portion 11" of the latter is provided with .a pair of hooks 50, one above the other shown carried by a plate riveted to such depending portion, and the depending end portions of the spring structure 24 are provided with openings 51 for the reception of such hooks. By this construction the spring fabric structure may be readily lifted and detached from the swinging frames of the hammock, it having no direct connection with the cradle but is supported solely by the swinging frames.

A back30 may be suitably connected to' the spring structure, as by suitable slots 31 carried by the end frames 22 into which angled projections 32 carried by the back are insertible, (see Fig. 2), whereby the back is also detachable, the back being held in position by suitable chains attached to the frames if desired. The swinging frames are suitably upholstered, a suitable wood top 27 being provided to form a suitable padded arm rest for the glide hammock. Carried by the spring is a suitable stuffed cushion 28, the back also being of upholstered form whereby a comfortable, neat and ornamental glide hammock is obtained. The front of the spring structure or mattress may be suitably covered by a curtain 29.

Thus it will be observed that I have provided an improved glide hammock consisting of three main features,-a detachable spring structure, a cradle and a pair of swinging frames link-connected to the cradle and detachably hook-connected to the mattress structure whereby the mattress struc ture may be readily detached by lifting it from the hooks, and the head frames may be quickly detached from the cradle by unfastening a pair of ends of the two parallel links as shown in Fig. 4.

From the foregoing it will thus be seen that the parallel links 20 constitute the sole connecting means between the frames and the cradle while the spring fabric structure constitutes the sole connecting means between the swinging U-shaped frames.

It is to be understood that by describing in detail herein any particular form, structure, or arrangement, it .-s not intended to limit the invention beyond the terms of the several claims or the requirements of the prior art.

Having thus explained the nature of my said invention and described a way of constructing and using the same, although without attempting to set forth all of the forms in which it may be made, or all the modes of its use, I claim:

1. In a glide hammock, the combination of a supporting frame including a pair of upright heads connected together by lengthwise extending bars, a pair of U-shaped bars embracing each head and spaced apart substantially the width of the head, a pair of spaced transverse bars connecting together each pair of U-shaped bars above each head, means for swingin 1y supporting said U- shaped bars from t e heads, a spring mattress section, and means for detachably connecting said section to the inner end of each U-shaped bar.

2. In a bed structure, the combination of a supporting frame comprising a pair of upright head members connected together, a frame embracing each head, each frame comprising a pair' of U-shaped angle bars spaced transversely of the bed and embracing a head member and transverse bars connecting said angle bars together, means for swingingly supporting said frames from the head mem bers, and a mattress section having detachable connection with each frame.

3. A glide hammock comprising a supporting cradle having an upright head at each end adapted to rest directly upon the floor, each comprisin an inverted U-shaped bar connected together iengthwise thereof. a pair of swinging frames enclosing and overlapping said heads, each of said swinging frames comprising two inverted U-shaped bars, the tops thereof extending transversely of said heads and connected together transversely of the bed, and a spring mattress frame connected to said swinging frames at the inner sides thereof and likewise comprising a pair of inverted U-shaped end frames, the tops of which extend transversely to the tops of said swinging frames.

4. In a bed structure, the combination of a supporting frame comprisinga pair of up right head members connected together, a frame embracing each head, each frame comprising a pair of bars spaced transversely of the bed and each bar extending over the top of a head member and downwardly at each side thereof, and transverse members con meeting each pair of bars together, means for swingingly', supporting said frames from the head members, a mattress section having detachable connection with each frame, said detachable connection comprising cooperating parts carried by the mattress section and by each of said first bars.

5. In a glide hammock, the combination of a supporting cradle having at opposite ends an upright head, a pair of U-shaped frames embracing each head and spaced apart transversely of the hammock, bars connecting each pair of frames together, means for swingingly supporting said frames from the heads, a mattress section located between the frames at opposite ends of the hammock, and means for detachably connecting said mattress section to the inner end of each U- shaped frame.

Signed at Brooklyn, N. Y., this 1st day of March, 1924.

CONRAD KLEIN.

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