US282242A - Hot-bed and other frames for plants - Google Patents

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J. A. TRAHTH HOT BED OTHER'PRAMBS POR PLANTS.

-N0. 282,242. Patented July 31. 1883.

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JOHN A. THAOHT, on GALION, OHIO.

HOT-BEDAND OTHER FRAMES `Fol-i PLANTS.4

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 282,242, dated July 31, 1883.

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To all whom, t may concern:

I hold the frame together. This mode of secur- Be it known that I, JOHN A. TRAOHT, of ing the frame not only provides for increasing Galion, in the county of Crawford and State v of Ohio, have invented certain new and usefulv Improvements in Hot-Bed and other Frames for Plants, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to frames for plants used for either hot or cold beds; but it will suffice here to describe it simply as applied to hot-bed frames. Such frames are usually made of front, back, and end boards, all nailed or permanentlygsecured together to receive with in oron them a given number of glazed sashes. The invention consists in the knockdown frame, having 'its ends adjustable toward or p tially as hereinafter described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the iigures.

Figurel represents a plan of a hot-bed frame embodying my invention in part, `and Fig. 2 an end view of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan,up on a reduced scale, of a modified construction of a hotbed frame embodying the invention, and Fig. 4 is a face view of one of the end boards of the frame. y

In Figs. l and2 of the drawings, A indicates the back of the frame, and B its front, of less depth than the back to give to the frame its necessary pitch.

C C are thev ends of the frame, of varying depth to conform to the pitch, and tted loosely within the front and back boards, at any suitable distance froni the ends thereof, and resting by upper terminal projections or arms, b b, on the front and back of the fram'e.

D D are scantlings or strips arranged down and secured to theouter faces of the ends C C, at the terminal portions thereof, within the arms b b.

' E E are upper and lower metal hooks or staples arranged to pass through the strips D D, overland under the upper and lower edges f of the back A and front B, and hooking over a compact space or compass under cover, or

in a dry place, when not required for use, and it may as readily be put together again when required. rlhe frame accordingly is not only a knockdown one, but is also adjustable to any width of sash.

To prevent the staples E E from pulling or dropping out of their places, and so that they cannot be removed except by driving them out, the holes in the strips D D, through which the staples pass, are made oblique to the faces of the ends C C, so that the staples occupy a slanting position relatively to the frame, and form a more secure lock,when the sashes are in their place, than if said staples were entered A through the strips D D in parallel directions to the outer surfaces of the ends C C. Additional holes Z d may be made in the strips D D for the staples E E, to provide for putting in narrower or wider boards for the purpose of giving the sash more or less pitch.

Fig. 3 of the drawings shows a hot-bed frame in which one frame is set up around another to give better` protection against frost to the plants growing in the hot-bed. The inner frame has its front, back, and ends, B, A, and G, lconstructed substantially as hereinbefore described, and with its iront and back boards y somewhat longer, as usual, than the combined width of thesashes; but it is provided with double end boards C C within each end of the frame, at suitable distances apart to leave pack` ing-spaces@ e between such double ends. Outside of the front and back B A are also ar- `the same arrangement of scantlings or strips D D on the ends G C, are used in Fig. 3 as in IOC Figs. l and 2, to hold the inner and outer frames together, only that the staples will be required to be made somewhat longer, and the same facility is afforded for knocking down the frames and of adjusting the inner one to suit different widths of sashes, as has already been explained with' reference to Figs. l and 2. In both modifications the ends C, as shown in Fig. 1i, are of like construction. The packing-spaces e c and g g of the double frame (shown in Fig. 8) may be packed with leaves, manure, or any other suitable material.

If desired, a board similar to the end boards C may be slipped down between the sashes about the middle of the frame by taking out the lower staples and then entering them again after said board is pushed down to keep the frame in a firm and upright position, and so that no superincumbent weight to which the frame is subject will cause it to spread. rIhis will prevent the weight of the sashes, as is often the case, causing the frame to spread and the sash to drop down inside the frame on the plants, which occasions considerable damage to the plants growing in the bed.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. A hot-bed or other like frame for plants, composed of a back, A, a-front, B, ends C C,

`provided with front and back up-and-down strips D D, and the hooks or staples E E for holding the frame together, whereby the frame may not only be readily knocked down and put together, but either end is adjustable along the front and back to accommodate different widths or numbers of sashes, substantially as specified.

2. In ahot-bed or other 4like frame, the combination, with the frontand back B A, of the longitudinally-adjustable ends C C, having front and back uprights or strips, D D, and the hooksor staples E E, arranged to pass obliquely through said strips relatively to the outer surfaces of the ends C C, for more securely holding the frame together, essentially as described.

3. A hot-bed frame in which are combined inner and outer frames consisting of fronts and backs, A A B B, double adjustable ends C C, having outer uprights or strips, D D, hooks or staples E E for holding the frames together, and strips or laths ff between the two sets of fronts and backs, substantially as and for the purpose` herein set forth.

JOI-IN ADAM TBACHT. litnesses z' S. G. GUMMINGs, H. J. Row.

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