US293808A - Wardrobe-bedstead - Google Patents

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' W; D.- SNYDER.

WARDROBE BEDST EADr No. 293.808. PatentedI'eb. 19, 1884'.

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WILLIAM J). SNYDER, or COLUMBIA CITY, INDIANA.

WARD ROBE-BEDSTEAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 293,808, dated February 19, 1884,

Application filed August 4, 1883. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern: Be it known that I, WILLIAM D. SNYDER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Columbia City, in the county of Whitley 5 and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in W'ardrobe- Bedsteads; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved folding bedstead, showing it open and ready for use. Fig. 2 is a detail view, on an enlarged scale, of the folding sides, with their automatic latches or spring-catches for look ing the sides in their extended position. Fig. 3 is a perspective view, showing the bed partly folded-11 with the two sections doubled upon one another; and Fig. 4, is a vertical cross-- section of the bed folded as it appears when not in use.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

My invention has relation to folding'beds of that class commonly known as cabinet-bedste'ads, and it consists in the detailed construction and combination of parts of the same, as hereinaftermorefully describedandclaimed. In the accompanying drawings, Ais thebase, and B the upright back piece, of my improved cabinet-bedstead.

C and D are the folding sides, which are connected' by hinges c and provided with springactuated hooks or catches E, adapted to en gage and interlock with staples or keepers e, when the sides 0 and D are extendedin a line with one another. The sides B of the case A B are provided with toothed cleats F, which engage. and form a support .for toothed segments G, fixed on the inner ends of the side pieces 0. Thus it will be seen that the folding bed part 0 D has no fixed fulcrum, but has a movable or traveling fulcrum upon the supporting-cleats or rack-bars F, so that in opening or unfolding the bed the parts 0 D will move a certain distance out from the back 50 B of the casing, which would, of course, not

be the case if part 0 swung upon a fixed fulits base or bottom A. It follows that in opening or extending the parts or bedsections O and D, during which operation, as we have seen, said parts travel out from the stationary back B, on account of the movable fulcrum, the woven-wire mattress H will be drawn taut and trim, so as to avoid sagging between the foot-board D and back or head board, B, and the bed, in an open position, will be longer than the length of the two sections 0 and D, on account of the increased distance from the foot end D to K at the head end B.

In order to fold or double the bed-sections C and'D upon each other, it is necessary, first, to disengage the spring-hooks E from their staples e, when the parts can be readily folded into the position shown in Fig. 3, and then again folded into the case B, as shown, in closed position, Fig. 4. V

I am aware that folding bedsteads or cabinet bedsteads have been constructed before with sides hinged together and adapted to be doubled upon one another, and provided with a flexible bottom adapted to be folded or doubled with the sides, and with a movable fulcrum at the point where the sides are attached to the stationary casing.

I am also aware that in folding bedsteads of that class the folding bed-bottom has been pro vided with springs at one or both ends, which, being extended in unfolding the bed-sections, operate to give to the flexible bottom its proper tension, so as to hold it taut and trim but I do not claim either of these'constructions or arrangements. It will be seen that the flexible bottom of my bedstead requires no springs to hold ittaut and prevent sagging when the bed is unfolded or extended, because the folding sections, in opening out the bed, will travel such a distance outwardly from the fixed back B as to take up all slack and draw the flexible 100 ening's E e, and the flexible bed-bottom fixed at one end in the foot-board, and attached at the other end to the fixed back of the stationary frame or casing, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing my own I have hereunto aflixed my signature 2 in presence of two witnesses.

' WILLIAM D. SNYDER.

\Vitnesses:

HENRY SNYDER, M. \V. lWASON.

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