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J. W. HORTON.

' Spring Bed Bottom. 1 No. 239,658. Patented April, 5,1881.

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JAMES W. HORTON, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM ALDEN, OF SAME PLACE.

SPRING BED-BOTTOM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 239,658, dated April 5, 1881. Application filed February 26,1881. (Nd model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES W. HORTON, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Spring Bed-Bottoms, of which the following is a description.

The object of my invention is a bed-bottom that can be narrowed up and made to occupy less room for convenience in handling and in transportation.

The invention consists in making the longitudinal slats of the frame so that they will be held on the end pieces and slide on the same, and in making the end pieces in two unequal parts, which are hinged together; so that the longer parts may be folded or turned to a position parallel with the longitudinal slats, as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a top view of the bed-bottom. Fig. 2 is a view of the under side of the frame, and Fig. 3 is a view of the folded frame. Figs. Land 5 are views of the devices for holding the slats to the end pieces.

To enable others to make my improved bedbottom, so that it can be broughtinto a narrow compass, as contemplated, I will describe it in detail.

The like longitudinal slats c are cut of the 3o requisite length from flat bars of iron of such size as to give the requisite stifiness. Near their ends the caps m are riveted to the slats. The caps are formed from thin fiat bars of iron, and make, with the slats, the rectangu- 3 5 lar slots or spaces a, Fig. 4, when they are riveted to the slats. Holes are made in the edges of the slats near their ends, by which wire chains are attached to. the slats to keep them on the end pieces and at equal distances from each other. To the outer movable slat the braces b are pivoted, one end of each brace being bent so as to enter a hole in the end piece to keep the slats distended. The end pieces are cut from flat bars of iron of such size that they will slide freely through the slots 91. in the slats, and are made in two unequal parts, 0 and d, the unequal parts being hinged together, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

To the ends of the short parts one of the slats is rigidly attached or riveted.

The coiled springs A are the common springs used for bed-bottoms, and are attached to the slats in the usual way. The number of springs on adjoining slats are unequal, and the springs are so arranged that the springs on the slats having the smaller number will come between the springs on the slats having the greater number as the slats are moved together. The springs are connected together by horizontal wire chains, and, as a consequence of the arrangeme'nt of the springs, all the chains run diagonally, except the short chains connectin g the springs on the same slats.

The thin and narrow top slats, 0 0, Fig. 1, are made of metal, are held to the springs by loops made of thin sheet metal, which are riveted to the slats, and are held in position by braces as, which are pivoted to the slats.

The bed-bottom being constructed as above described, and distended, as shown in Fig. 1, the slats, the braces a and b being turned to a position parallel with the slats, may be moved onto the shorter parts of the end pieces, and the longer parts of the end pieces may be folded or turned parallel with theislats, as shown in Fig. 3.

I am well aware that spring bed-bottoms have been made to be folded, and also to be rolled together; but

What I claim as my invention, and desire to h secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A spring bed-bottom composed of springs mounted on slats connected by wire chains, of end pieces made in two unequal parts, hinged together, one of said slats rigidly attached to the shorter parts of the end pieces, and the remainder of said slats adapted to slide on the end pieces, of the horizontal wire chains connecting the springs, of the top slats,

0, and of the braces 11 and w, substantially as shown and set forth.

2. The combination, with the springs A, connected by wire chains, of the endpieces made in two unequal parts, 0 and d, hinged together, and the slats a, connected by wire 5 chains, one of said slats rigidly attached to the shorter parts of'the end pieces, the rethe end pieces, the remainder of said slats mainder of said slats adapted to slide on the adapted to slide on the end pieces, and of 10 end pieces, substantially as set forth. the braces b, substantially as shown and set 3. The bed-bottom frame herein described, forth. 5 consisting of the end pieces, made in two un- JAMES W. HORTON.

equal parts, 0 and d, hinged together, of the Witnesses: slats a, connected by wire chains, one of said GEORGE TERRY,

slats rigidly attached to the shorter parts of WILLIAM ALDEN.

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