US311623A

US311623A - Wardrobe-bedstead

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Publication number: US311623A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1885-02-03
Anticipated expiration: 1902-02-03

Description

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L. W. WELOH.

WARDROBE BEDSTEAID.

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MONTPELIER, VERMONT.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 311,623, dated February 3, 1885.

Application filed Mar To all, 11/72/0797, it may concern.-

Be it known that l, LYMAN \V. \NELGH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Montpelier. in the county of \Vashington and State of Vermont, l1ave invented new and valuable Improvements in Wardrobe-Bedsteads; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings.

My invention consists in a wardrobe-bedstead which may be lowered to the floor while in use, and folded closely to the wall at other times.

Figure 1 is a perspective View showing the curtain and the bedstead when lowered to the floor. Fig. 2 is a side view showing the side piece or casing in dotted lines, the fixed pulley, the flexuous cord, cable, or chain. the clamp around the same, the case or springreceptacle attached to the side piece or casing, the bed-frame stop, and the bedframc, with anti-friction pulley attached, and track therefor. Fig. 3 is a sectional view showing the fixed pulley, the iiexuous means of suspension, the clamp, the spring receptacle, and the coiled spring suspended therein. Fig. at is an end View of the bed-frame, showing the anti-friction pulleys. Fig. 5 is a front view of the curtaiirpole and curtain covering the bedstead when the same is folded to the wall.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several figures.

The letter a represents the headboard, securely fastened to the wall, and having attached to each end the casings b b.

c 0 represent fixed pulleys, one of which is firmly fastened to the inside of each of the casings aforesaid, and over which the fiexuous cords, cables, or chains 9 9 run when the bedstead is being raised or lowered. I

(2 represents the bed-frame, supported at the foot end by the foot-board and legs combined, e, and suspended at the head end by the fiexuous cords, cables, or chains from the fixed pulleys.

g 9 represent the corts, cables, or chains, which may be made of any suitable material,

1 and are attached to the bed-frame at h h h by means of a button attachment. When the bedstead is folded up, the foot-board c is turned out in prolongation of the bed-frame d.

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f represents the pivot upon which the footboard is turned, the top being turned down and outward, and the bottom being turned in and upward.

i 2' represent the cases or spring-receptacles, securely fastened to the inside of the casings b I), immediately below the fixed pulleys c c, and each containing the coiled springs j j.

the cases or spring-receptacles, and when the bedstead is being lowered and the cords, cables, or chains pass over the fixed pulleys, the clamps 7.; It, around. the flexuous cords, cables, or chains, pass upward and meet the bottoms of the springsjj, compressing them together and accumulating power which is utilized in again folding the bedst ead to the wall.

which is attached to each side of the bed-frame near the head end.

a a represent the curved tracks, attached to each easing on the inside, and are for the antifriction pulleys Z Z to run upon in raising or lowering the bed.

at represents the en d of the bedframe, boxed so as to be filled with any suitable weight, which serves to counterbalance the bedirame d.

' 0 0 represent the bed-frame stops, which consist of brackets, one of which is fastened on the inside of each of the casings b b, and support and keep the bed-frame firmly in position when the bedstead is lowered.

1) represents the curtain-pole above the headboard, hung upon brackets from the wall, upon which the curtain 7 is drawn when the bedstead is folded up.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim is 1. In a wardrobe-bedstead, the combination of the head-board a with the casings b I), provided with the fixed pulleys c c, and the bed-frame (I, provided with the iiexuous cords, cables, or chainsgg, which pass over the fixed pulleys c c, all constructed to operate substantially as set forth and described.

2. In a wardrobe-bedstead, the combination of the head-board a, and the casings b b, provided with the springsjj, and the fixed pulleys c c, with the bed-frame ,d, said bed- These s )rin s are sus )ended from the to J of l a l l Z I represent the anti-friction pulleys, one of frame being provided with flexuous cords, cables, or chainsgg, which pass over the fixed pulleys c c and through the springsjj, and to which are'attached lugs or stops 7c is, to engage said springs, all constructed to operate substantially as shown, and for the purposes described.

3. In a wardrobe-bedstead, the combination of the bed-frame d, having the weighted 10 box end m, and the anti-friction pulleys Z Z,

with the head-board a, and the casings b b, said casings having attached the fixed pulleys 0 c, the springsjj, and the tracks an, all constructed to operate substantially as shown, and for the purposes described.

LYlWIAN W. WVELCH.

Witnesses:

HIRAM S. SMITH, FRED. F. BRADISH.