US186608A - Improvement in sofa-bedsteads - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIo.

WILLIAM OTT, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

`IMPROVEMENT IN SOFA-BEDSTEADS.

v Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. [$6,608. dated January 23, 1877; application filed June 30, 1876. i

To all lwhom tt may concer-n Be it known that I, WILLIAM OTT, `of St. Louis, in the county of St. Louis and State of Missouri, haveinvented a new and useful 1inprovement in Sofa Beds, of which the following is a specification:

My improvement relates to that -class of sofas or lounges which may also be extended to form a bed, the nature of which will be distinctly indicated in the following description `and claims.

In the annexed drawings, making part of this specilication, Figure 4l` represents the lounge extended to form a bed. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the head piece.

The same letters are employed in all the figures in the indication of identical'parts. i

A is the folding section of the longe, and Bis the stationary section. C isuthe back. A is the head-.piece of the lounge. The section A is upholstered on what is its upper face when folded over the section B, as `is the head-piece A and face of the back C. The

space between the two sections is occupied by the sectional mattress, the sections being connected by the ticking, which is continuous.

D is the headboard of the folding section, which is hinged to the end piece of the frame ofthe head-piece A', and E is the head-board of the permanent section. When the section A is folded on.V the section B, the edges of the head-boards will be normally in contact and support the head-piece. It may, however, be lowered by turning the head-board D on its hinges, so as to overlap thestationary headboard and permit the frames of the sections A and B to come into contact. F F are iron rods, respectively pivoted tothe frames of sections A and B, which may be folded down into the recess in the frames of the section, t0 permit them to be folded or turned up, as shown in Fig. 1, resting on thehead-boards to sustain the bolster, which should be made continuous. The sections A andl B are connected by hinges Gr. The leaves of these hinges are bent, as clearly shown in Fig. 1, to permit the sections to be extended, and at the same time to allow them to be relieved by moldings on their front faces, as seen when folded to form a lounge. A spiral spring, H, is connected to the frame of section A, and to the head-piece A,to support the latter when being reversed, and to keep the tact whileallowing their adjustment.`

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is-

1. In combination with the stationary section B of a sofa-bed and fixed head-board E, the folding section A, head-piece A', and adjustable head-board D, hinged to the latter, substantially as set forth. i

2. In combination with 'the sections A and B, the folding rods F, and headeboards D and E, supporting the latter when extended to sustain the bolster, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed` my naine to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. i WM. OTT. Witnesses JOHN F. WALTON,

FRED. C. MEHL.

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