US392585A

US392585A - Folding bed

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Publication number: US392585A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1888-11-13
Anticipated expiration: 1905-11-13

Description

(No Model.)

A. S. BUTTRBY.

FOLDING BED. No. 392,585. Patented Nov. 1s, 1888,.

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ALBERT S. BUTTREY, OF QUINCY, ILLINIS.

FGLING BED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 392,585, dated November I3, 1888.

Application filed April 2G, 1858. Serial No. 271,958. (No model.)

To all whom it may conceive.-

Beitknown that I, ALBERT S. BUTTREY, of Quincy, in the county of Adams and ISiate 0f Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Folding Beds; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description ofthe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and to the gures and letters of reference marked thereon.

The present invention relates to that class of beds which are adapted to be folded up during the day and assume the appearance of a wardrobe or dresser, the object of the invention being to improve the construction of the bed, whereby it may be more easily folded up or let down; and to this end the invention consists in providing the bed with an improved spring or springs, together with certain novel details of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be hereinafter described, and pointed out particularly in the claims at the end of this specification.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a View of a bed with one of the side sections of the upright portion removed. Fig. 2 is a View looking straight at the rear side of the head-section with the bed down. Fig. 3 is a View of the bottom with the bed folded up. Fig. 4 is a view of the preferred form ofspring with guides and brackets.

Similar letters of reference in the several iigures indicate the same parts.

The stationary head-section ol the bed consists ofaframe, such as is ordinarily employed, constructed of the two side boards, A A, with top and bottom cross-braces, B B, at the rear and a projecting ornamental front section, C, at the bottom, in front.

The rectangular frame D, forming the bed portion proper, is uished on the under side, D, to resemble a wardrobe or dresser, as before stated, legs being provided at the foot, which,when the bed is folded up, form the top ornaments. In folding, the bed hinges on pivots E,passinglthrough the sides of the rectangular frame D and into the upright side portions at the points indicated in the drawings.

In order to present a more finished appearance and preventthe disarrangemeutof the bedclothes in folding the bed, the head-board F is hinged tothe end of frameDat thelower edge and guided in ways G at the top,whereby it is caused to move down when the bed is folded and to assume its proper position when the bed is down.

Springs H are employed to assist in raising the bed to folded position and to retard its motion while being lowered, preferably being two in number, one being located on the stationary upright portion and the other on the movable frame D. The one on the stationary por-' tion is located beneath the projecting ornamental front, allowing the frame D to occupy a large portion of the space in the stationary portion and assisting materially in rendering the whole apparatus of neat and compact design. To accommodate the spring on the frame D, the head-board I of the frame is inclined inward at the bottom, forming a triangular space, in which the spring is located, as shown in Fig. 3, the ends K of the side sections forming the necessary supports, dto.

The preferred form of spring consists of a slotted tubular guide, or, what is equivalent thereto, two guides, L L, (see Fig. 4,) held in brackets M M, secured to the sides ofthe frame. These guides are preferably cast integral with one bracket and made separate from the other, which has suitable sockets, N N, for the reception of the ends of the guides when in place. At one end the guides are provided with suitable apertures or a pin, to which one end of the springs O I is secured, while at the other end they hold a friction-pulley,Q. The springs O P referred to are located,the one,O, inside of the guides and the other, l?, on the outside, to prevent liability of interference with each other, the other end of the springs on the frame D being connected by a flexible connection, S, (such as a cord or chain,) passing around the pulley Q to the stationary section at a point near the end of the guides on such stationary section, and the free ends ofthe springs on the stationary section,which projects in the opposite direction to those on the movable frame A D, are connected to such movableframe in similar manner.

By the arrangement described and the employment of four springs it will be seen that the springs do not have to be individually so strong, thereby givinga greater range of movement,which could not be secured were a single spring of greater power employed, as the space IOO in which the spring operates is necessarily limited, and were a single spring of sufficient power and range employed it would necessarily have to be of greater length than the width of the bed.

I am aware that it is not broadly new to employ a spring located transversely of the bed and secured thereto at one end, the other end being connected by a ilcxible connection to the opposite section to counterbalance the weight of the movable frame, and I do not wish to be understood as claiming such construction broadly.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim as new is 1. The combination, with a folding bed having the upright stationary section and the movable rectangular frame, of aspringlocatcd transversely of the bed in the base of the upright stationary section and connected thereto at one end, its opposite end being connected bya llexible connection to the rectangular frame, and a spring located transversely of the bed on said movable rectangular frame and connected thereto at one end, its opposite end being connected to the stationary upright section, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with a folding bed hav# ing the upright stationary section and the movable rectangular frame, of asprin glocated transversely of the bed in the base of the upright stationary section and connected thereto at one end, its opposite end being connected by a flexible connection to the rectangular frame, and a spring located transversely of the bed in a space in the rectangular frame formed by slanting or inclining the head-board of the same, one end of the spring being connected to the frame and its opposite end by a lleXible connection to the stationary upright section, substantially as described.

3. In a folding bed, the combination, with the stationary and movable sections, of guides supported by the sides of the sections, and springs located, the one on the inside of such guides and the other on the outside, one end of the springs being connected to the section on which it is mounted and the opposite end to the other section by a flexible connection, substantially as described.

4. In a folding bed, the combination, with the stationary and movable sections having brackets on the sides, and guides held thereby, of springs located, the one on the inside of said guides and the other on the outside, one end of such springs being fastened to one end of the guides, and a ilexible connection passing around a friction-pulley on the other end of the guide and uniting the free end of the spring with the opposite section of the bed, 6c

substantially as described.

ALBERT S. BUTTREY.

\Vitnesses:

H. C. BURKE, W. B. MOORE.