US264137A

US264137A - Cot-bedstead

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Publication number: US264137A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1882-09-12
Anticipated expiration: 1899-09-12

Description

(No Model.)

*F. M. CASE.

V OUT BEDSTEAD.

No. 264,137. Patented Sept. 12, 1882.

WITNESSES V IW'V'EJV'TOR 6 I My I 1% J1 ttorney N4 PETER$ Phola-Lilhcgnphor. Washington. D46.

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS M. CASE, OF DENVER, COLORADO.

COT-BEDSTEAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 264,137, dated September 12, 1882.

Application filedAngust 2, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

.Be it known that I, FRANCIS M. CASE, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Denver, in the county of Arapahoe and State of Colorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Got-Bedsteads, of which the following is' a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to an improvement in cot-beds; and it consists in the peculiar construction, combination, and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows an. end view of my cot ready for use. Fig. 2 also shows an end view with the stretching-lever raised. Fig. 3 shows a transverse vertical section through the center of the cot, and Fig. 4. is a plan view with the canvas removed.

A represents the frame of a folding cot-bedstead made in the ordinary form, except that at each end and the center the side pieces are formed round, as at a a a".

B is a lever, having at one 'end a round hole fitting on either of the rounded ends of the side pieces, and connected by a bolt at b to the head or foot board 0, one corner of which is cut away, as shown in dotted lines at c, and the other has a square recess, 0, cut in it, adapted to receive the round end of the side pieces. The lever B may be made to extend the full width of a bedstead and rest on the opposite side piece, as shown at a, or it may be made considerably shorter and rest on a projection or pin on the head-board, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1; but I' prefer the former, as thelever B thus receives all or nearly all of the strain; but when a short lever is used part of the strain comes on the bolt 1).

For ordinary bedste'ads, stretching-levers at the head and foot will probably be sutficient, if the side pieces are not made too light; but for heavy persons it will be best to put in the center a lever-stretcher, D, similar to those at theheadand foot,butcurvedinstcadofstraight, and with the stretching-lever reversed, so as to rise when stretching the bedstead instead of descending like those on the head and foot boards. In some cases I intend to put in a plain curved strut in the center, as shown at Fig. 2, in place of the lever-stretching device.

The holes in the levers for the bolts should be in a line with or slightly below the centers of the round part of the side pieces, so that the levers will remain in the locked position when so placed. If the canvas should be found to stretch so much that the lever will not make it tight small blocks may be set in the recess in the head-board, which will tighten the canvas when the lever is forced down; or the bolts may be passed through one of the other holes in the lever, which will have the same efi'ect.'

lever to the foot or head board, a separate bar,

similar to the bar D, (but straight instead of curve d,) may be used; and it is also obvious that the stretching-barmay be hinged to the side bars or connected thereto in any way known to mechanics, instead of being fitted to the rounded ends of the side bars. In some cases I propose to boreholes horizon tallyin the sides of the ends of the side bars to receive the opposite ends of the stretching apparatus.

What I claim as new is- 1. The combination, with the side bars of a bedstead, of two bars pivoted together and connected with the opposite side bars of the bedstead, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination, with the side bars of a bedstead, ofa head-board having one end pressing against one side bar and pivoted toa 1ever connected with the opposite side bar, substantially as described.

3. In a bedstead, the stretching-lever B,-

having a hole in one end fitting on a round end of one of the side bars and pivoted to the too I head-board O, in combination with side bars and drooping in the middle, substantially as 10 having round ends, and the head-board 0, prodescribed.

\ided with a recess to receive one of the round In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in ends of the side bars, all arranged and eonpresence of two witnesses,this 17th day of July, 5 structed substantially as described. 1882.

4. In combination with a folding bedstead, FRANCIS M. CASE. a curved strut or stay arranged about mid Witnesses: way between the head and foot, with its oppo- WILLIAM H. MALONE, site ends bearing on the opposite side bars WV. H. J. NICHOLS.