US443108A

US443108A - Mosquito-bar frame

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Publication number: US443108A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1890-12-23
Anticipated expiration: 1907-12-23

Description

(No Model.) 2 Sheets- Sheet 1 P. M.4 OWEN. MosQUI-To BAR FRAME.

. No. 443,108. Patented Dec. 23, 1890.

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y P. M. OWEN. MOSQUITO BAR FRAME.

No. 443,108. Patented Deo. 23, 1890.A

Witwe/Awa UNITED STATES PATENT @Einens PETER M.v (NVEN, OF BOWLING GREEN, KENTUCKY.

MosQUlTo-BAR FRAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 443,108, dated December 23, 1890,

Application filed December 3l, 1889. Serial No. 335,546' (No model.)

To all whom il; may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER M. OWEN, of Bowling Green, in the county of Varren and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements :in Mosquito-Bar Frames; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and to the figures of reference marked thereon.

My invention has for its object to provide an improved mosquito-bar frame adapted to be attached to a bedstead of any width or length, and which can be applied without injury to or defacement of the bedstead, and can be folded back out of the way when not in use, and easily adjust-ed when not folded, so as to offer no obstruction in making up the bed or changing the bedding.

I will first describe my invention, and then point out its special features of novelty in the claims at the end of this specification.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my invention applied to a bedstead; Fig. 2, a side elevation showing in full lines the sections of the frame folded up and turned back out of the way, and in dotted lines the position of the frame when raised to make up the bed; Fig. 3, a top plan view showing the netting partially rolled up and the means for rolling it up, and Fig. 4 a detail view of one of the standards located at'the foot of the bedstead.

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

As will be seen by reference to the drawings, my improvedfranie consists in the main of two netting-supports, one at each side of the bedstead, and each composed of a-series of jointed sections 1 2 3 4. 'Ihe uppermost section 1 of each support is formed to embrace the head-board or head corner-post of the bedstead, and is provided with screw-clamps 4, by which it may be securely held in place. The next section 2 is connected to the section I by an ordinary pivot-joint 5, While

sections

2 and 3 and 3 and 4 are respectively connected by means of rule-joints 6 7, which prevent their opening, except in an upward direction. Section 3 extends over the footboard of the bedstead, and section 4 is adapted to rest upon the door, as shown in Fig. 1.

In order to maintain the netting-supports against lateral displacement, I employ standards 8 8, secured to the side of the bedstead near the foot, as shown. Each of these standards is bifurcated at its upper end, so as to embrace the sides of section 3, with which it co-operates, and said section 3 is in turn notched or toothed, as shown at 9, so as to render the connection between it and the standard still more positive and secure. Furthermore, the lower portion of the standard is slotted, as shown at 10, and is connected to the side of the bedstead by means of a screw 11, passed through the slotted portion, as shown in Fig. 4, which construction enables the standards to be raised or lowered to the desired position and there secured, accordingly as the bedstead is a high one or a low one.

The netting 12, when drawn down ready for use, covers the frame,and,in fact, the entire bedstead, as shown in Fig. 1.

v In order to raise the netting, the following appliances are provided: At the top of the frame and extending between and held lclamped by the section l is located a transverse bar 13, upon the front side of which are mounted two pulleys 14 14 and two guides 15 15. Two cords 16 1G are fastened to the crossbar 13 near the ends thereof, and are passed thence under the netting and on the inside down under a roller 18, secured to the lower edge of the netting at the foot of the bed, as shown in Fig. l, thence back on the outside of the netting to the cross-bar 13 and through the netting, where they are passed through guides 15 15, and thence over the pulleys 14, down outside of the netting to a point within convenient reach. By pulling upon the ends of these cords the roller 18 will be caused to roll up over the sections 4 3 2 l and wind the netting upon it as it proceeds.

Vhen the netting and the su pporting-franie are desired to be put back out of the way, the netting is first rolled up and then

sections

2, 3, and 4 are folded up and swung back, as shown in full lines, Fig. 2.

For the purpose of getting the frame out of the way while making up the bed, it is IOO swung' upward on its pivot 5, and the notched feet of the section et are rested upon the upper bifurcated ends of the standards S 3, as shown in the dotted lines, Fig. 2.

It will be observed that my invention is simple, inexpensive, and not liable to get ont of order, and that it can be applied without requiring special skill to any ordinary form of bedstead.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new ism 1. The herein described mosquito bar frame, consisting of sections l, provided with means for attachment to the bedstead, and the twoindependent side hinged sections 2 3 4, forming when extended a track on which the netting may be rolled, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the section l, provided with means for attachment to the headboard, of the

hinged sections

2, 3, and 4 and the vertically-adjustable standards secured to the side of the bedstcad, substantially as described.

3. rPhe combination, with the sections l, provided with means for attachment to the bedstead, ofthe cross-bar 13 held thereby, provided with guides and pulleys, the

sections

3, 3, and i, hinged together and to section l, the netting over said sections, the roller on the lower end of the netting, the cords passing around the roller through the guides, and pnlleys for drawing up the netting,` and roller, l substantially as described.

4. The combination, with the section l, provided with means of attachment to the headboard, of the sections 2 3 i, jointed together by rule-joints, whereby they can be folded in an upward direction only and when extended be rolled up, substantially as described.

PliYEli M. OWEN.

Witnesses:

l ALEX. S. STEUART,

'lHoMAs DURANT.

form a regular track on which the netting,` may 4o