US331422A

US331422A - Peter h

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Publication number: US331422A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1885-12-01
Anticipated expiration: 1902-12-01

Description

(No Model.)

P. H. MELLON.

. SPRING BED.

No. 331,422. Patented Dec. 1, 1885.

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PETER H. MELLON, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

SPRING-BED.

$P'ECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 331,422, dated December 1, 1885.

Application filed July 27, 1885. Serial No. 172,803. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, PETER H. MELLON, of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Bed-Bottoms of Springs, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and in which Figure l is a top view illustrating the invention. Fig. 2 is an elevation of two springs. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are enlarged detail perspective views.

My invention is an improvement on those bed-bottoms of springs in which tie-rods having loops are employed, and particularly those in which the ends of one row of springs pass through the loops to engage the end rings of the adjacent row of springs.

My present invention dispenses with hooks on the ends of the coils, and is intended to provide means for readily taking the springs apart.

My invention consists in the construction hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

This improvement applies to the manner of connecting the spiral springs, the same consisting of a flexible fastening that can be easily disengaged, if desired, but not liable to accidental disengagement. The springs are shown of the usual form, except as to the fastening,

and of the same construction at top and hot tom, so that the bed is reversible. The end ring, A, is formed with a loop, 13, through which the end 0 is passed, the latter having an angular or short bend at 0, so that it will not be liable to move endwise in the loop. The part or end 0 is made with an offset or double bend, 0 its end 0 extending in the same direction, substantially, as the shank 0 D are the connecting-wires extending from end to end or side to side of the bed at right angles to the connecting ends 0. The ends of the wires D are shown coiled around the end the end 0, which extends over the outside of the loop cl, and engages the under side of the ring A. Thus, supposing Fig. 2 to be a top view, the loops d are passed under the rings A (at the sides opposite to the ends 0) and brought over the rings; then the end 0 is passed into the loop from the upper side and below the ring. The loop rests in the bend c and the ring in the bend c and thus the parts are held together with a joint which is flexible inwardly but not outwardly. Thus the bed will be flat when not in use, but will accommodate itself to a proper extent to a person lying upon it.

It will be seen that the joint, though not liable to disengagement, may be readily disengaged, when desired, by forcing thejoint inward and then drawing the end C from the loop d.

It will be proper to say that the required inward movement of the joint for disengagement would be much in excess of what would ever take place in use or handling the bed.

I claim- The combination, with a tie-rod having loops, of the springs having ends 0, formed with double bends c c and portion 0 in the same direction as the ends, and springs through which the loops of the tie-rods are passed, the double bends and end portions locking the loops to the springs, substantially as shown and described.

PETER H. MELLON.

Witnesses:

SAML. KNIGHT, BENJN. A. KNIGHT.