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JAMES G. TVVISS, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 377,179, dated January 31, 1888.

Application filed March 28, 1887. Serial No. 232,641.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J AMES G. Twrss, of the city and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Folding Bedsteads, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a combined settee, folding bedstead, and crib. The settee is in front of a case containing the bed-bottom, and there is beneath the settee a sliding side guard which can be drawn .out and turned up to iuclose the scttee and adapt it to use as a crib, and when the article is to be used as a bed the set-tee is wheeled around horizontally upon hinges at one corner of the vertical case and then pushed endwise to bring one end of the settee up near the wall, so that the settee stands out at right angles to the face of the case and the bed-bottom is swung down and with the bottom of the settce forms the bottom of the bed, the settee being at the head portion of the bed.

By this improvement 1 am able to make a very compact article of furniture, because the bed-bottom forms the back of the settee and the settee only requires to be of a length cor responding to the width of the bed, and the bed-bottom, as itstands vertically, corresponds to the width of the bed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a vertical section of the settee and bed-bottom. Fig. 2 is an end view of the case and part of the settee to show the hinges, and Fig. 3 is a plan view i of the bed opened out and the case in section.

The case for the bed bottom is composed of the back A, sill-pieces 13, stationary end 0, top or cornice D, swinging end liap, E, and stationary end piece, F, below the swinging flap E, and the top of this stationary end piece, F, is to be below the level of the mattress, so that the mattress may pass over the same, as hereinafter described. \Vithin this case is the bed-bottom G, made ofsuitable materials and of a height corresponding to the width of the bedstead when the parts are opened out, and the side rails, 2 3, of the bedbottom are of a height adapted to correspond or nearly so to the height of the springs introduced to form the bottom of the bed, which springs may be of any usual character, and upon them the mattress is to rest. The springs and mattress are not shown in Fig. 1 for greater clearness.

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At the edges of the bed-bottom G are the projecting pivots H, upon which the bed-bottom swings as it is turned up or down, and there are horizontally-slotted plates I, screwed to the inner surfaces of the stationary end pieces, 0 and F. The horizontal slots allow the bed-bottom and pivots H to be drawn forward as the bed'bottom is swung down to prevent the top edge of the side rail, 3, striking the back A of the case, and the bed-bottom is to be pushed back after the parts assume a nearly horizontal position. The reverse movements take place when the bedbottom is swung up to place, and the preponderance of weight being to the rear of the pivots H causes the bedbottom to remain firmly in its position after being turned up, and there is a movable leg madeuse of beneath the corner 4 to support this part of the bed-bottom when turned down. (See dotted lines 14, Figs. 1 and 3.)

The settee is composed of the arms K K and the intermediate frame work, K K, and front K and there is a frame of slats L above the frame-work K" K*, and there are preferably springs forming the bottom of the settee and resting on the slats L. These springs should correspond to the springs made use of in the bed-bottom, and the surface of the settee is upholstered at M in any desired manner, and the under or front surface of the bed-bottom forms the back of the settee, and it may be upholstered, as at M. There should be casters at N beneath the legs N of the arm-pieces K K, so that the scttee can be rolled back against the face of the case and bed-bottom, or it can be rolled around horizontally ninety degrees, the hinges P forming the pivots upon which it swings as it is rolled. These hinges P are at the junction of the stationary end piece, F, with the arm K, and along upon the surface of this stationary end piece there are metallic slides Q, which are undercut or dovetailed and receive sliding blocks upon one leaf of each hinge P, and these leaves are preferably con nected by the web P, so that after the settec has been rolled around into a position at right angles to the face of the case the settec can be pushed endwisc, sliding the blocks of the hinges along in the slides Q and bringing the settee-arm K up near the wall. The swinging end flap, E, is, however, first opened back against the wall upon its hinges It, and the bed-bottom is swung down horizontally, as aforesaid, after the settee has been rolled to the position shown in Fig. 3, and the side rail, 2, coincides or is nearly in line with the arm '5 K, (see Fig. 3,) and one edge of the bed-bottom G comes against the back edge of the settee, and the upper surfaces of the springs in thebed-bottom and in the settee, respectively, are upon the same level, or nearly so, and I there is to be a support at the back edge of the settee, (see dotted lines 15, Fig. 3,) upon which the adjacent edge of the bed.-bottom G rests.

It will now be seen that the settee forms the head portion of the bed, and that it increases I 5 the length of the bed to the necessary extent, the bedbottom G being square, or nearly so. If the seat of the settee is hinged at the front edge, as at 10, the said seat may be swung up and form a head-board, thereby the upper surface of the spring-bottom of the settee will be exposedand a suitable mattress is laid. upon the spring-bottom and settee-bottom forming the whole bottom of the bed.

After the bed-bottom G has beenswun'g up to place the setteeis drawn endwise away from the wall to slide the hinges P in the slides Q and bring them to the front edge of the case, and then the settee is rolled back to place against the bed-bottom. 3o Beneath the slats L ofthe settee is a movable side guard, It, hinged at the back edge to the slide-plate S, and there are suitable supports beneath the slats L and upon the frame K K, in which the parts R S rest in their normal position; but when the settee is to be used as a crib this movable side guard, R, and slide-plate S are drawn forward, and the side R is swung up in front ofthesettee to form a guard or inclosure to the crib, as seen by dotted 40 lines, Fig. 1,and suitable hooks or bolts, RF, are provided for holding the guard It up in its proper position against the arms K K. The slide-plate S is made longer than the movable side guard, B, so that its ends may stop against 5 suitable projections to prevent the parts being drawn out too far. This movable side guard and its slide-plate convert the settee into a crib and prevent a child rolling off the settee when asleep. I claim as my invention 1. The combination, with the stationary case having a back, A, and ends 0 and F, of

when swung down, a swinging end piece, E, I

and a settee hinged at one back corner to thecase and capable of beingswung around hori: zontally, substantially as specified.

'2. The combination, with the case and folding bed bottom and the settee having the bottom M and stationary end arms, K, of the side guard, R, corresponding in length to the distance between the arms K and the slide or support below the seat for receiving said guard,

and the slide-plate S', to which the guard is 0 hinged, so that the seat can beinclosed by the side guard in addition to the arms and bedbottom to form a crib, substantially as set forth. I

3. The combination, with a case and abed- 7 bottom pivoted to swing up into the case, of a settee, two hinges to connect the settee at one corner of the case, undercut slides upon the end of the case, blocks upon the hinges within the said slides, and a web connecting So the hinges and the blocks, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination, with the pivoted bedbottom, of a case having a stationary back and the two stationary end portions, 0 and F, and I the swinging flapE, and a settee and hinges to connect the settee to the case, substantially as set forth.

5. The combination, with the case and the bed-bottom hinged to the case and swinging up into the same, of a settee having end arms and hinged at one back corner to the case, so as to be swung around'horizontally and form part of the'bed, and a seat to the settee hinged at the front edge, so as to be swung up between 9 5 the arms to form the head-board, substantially as specified.

Signed by me this 18th day of March, A. D. 1887.

JAMES e. Twiss.

Witnesses: GEo. T. PINOKNEY,

WILLIAM G. Morr.

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