US169771A - Improvement in sofa-bedsteads - Google Patents

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No.169,771. Patented Nov.9',1875

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CHRISTIAN BURNITZ, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEM ENT IN SOFA-BEDSTEADS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1 69,771, dated November 9, 1875; application filed September 29, 1875.

holstered seat and an upholstered back, which may be adjusted to form a double bed or two single beds, each provided with a head-rest, and with an intermediate space between them,

in which a childs bed may be made.

Figure 1, Sheet 1, is a perspective view of the sofa. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the same arranged as a double bed. Fig. 3 is a similar view, showing the sofa arranged as two single beds. Fig. 4, Sheet 2, isa longitudinal section of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a cross-section at m w in Fig'. 4. Fig. 6 is a cross-section at y 3 in Fig. 2. Fig. 7 is a cross-section at z z in Fig. 3.

In the drawings, A represents a boxframe supported by legs at the four corners. B is a seat cushion. so upholstered upon an open frame as to form a cushion seat, or, when reversed, a single-width mattress. This cushion sits into the frame A, being supported therein by a canvas bottom, A, Fig. 3. At each end of the cushion-frame there is pivoted a bar, I), having a stud, c, at the other end, which slides in a slot, at, in the end of frame A, so as to allow the cushion to be folded therein, or be turned over bottom up in front of said frame, when it can be supported by two legs, 61 d, hinged to the front edge of said cushion, and under which they are folded when the bed is conver ed into a sofa. C is the back-cushion, upholstered like the other. It is connected at the lower edge with the back edge of the main frame by two straps, e e, a trifle longer than the width of the cushion, so that when the back is turned down horizontally it will be supported by two folding legs, f f, at the back edge, and the body of it by the said straps, as seen in Figs.

3 and 7, or, if preferred to make an ordinary double bed, the back-cushion is faced down on the bottom A of the main frame, as seen in Figs. 2 and 6. The bottom A is made of canvas stretched over a light wooden frame, 9, supported by spiral springs h under the ends and middle, so as to afford a yielding support.

In the position shown in Fig. 3, by folding a coverlet and laying it on the bottom A, a comfortable bed may be made for a child or a third person.

When arranged as a sofa, the back is supported in position by two wooden bracketpieces, D D, having an iron bolt at the lower end of each, which is inserted in staples in the back legs of the main frame. Pins t' are passed through the brackets into the ends of said cushion-frame to lock it in position. A cylindrical pillow, E, is made in two semi-cylindric halves, so arranged that they can be taken apart or hooked together at the ends.

Two pairs of brackethookaj, are provided,

each pair being received in sockets in the cushion-frames, so that one-half of the pillow maybe supported at the head of each mattress as a headrest, or the entire pillow may be supported at one end of the sofa, as shown.

What I claim as my invention is l. The combination of the cushions B 0, bars I) b, legs 01 f, straps e, and brackets D D, with the. frame A, substantially as and for the purposeset forth.

2. The divided pillow E and bracket-hooks j, in combination with a sofa-bed, substantially as described.

CHRISTIAN BURNITZ. Witnesses:

WM. H. LoTz, WM. G. HOFFMANN.

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