US574742A - Spring-bed frame - Google Patents

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GUY MAFERA, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

SPRING-BED FRAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 574,742, dated January 5, 1897.

Application filed March 9, 1896. Serial No. 582,308. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GUY MAFERA, of Boston,in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Spring-Bed Frames, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to metallic frames for holding spring bed-bottoms, and particularly to the angular connecting-piece which connects the side rails of a metal bedstead with the elevated, cross-bars, which extend across the bed at the head and foot to support the spring bed-bottom fabric or structure.

The invention has for its object to provide a simple and efficient device for the purpose mentioned; and it consists in the improvements which I will now proceed to describe and claim.

Of the accompanyingdrawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a portion of a metal bedstead or frame embodying my invention. Fig. .2 represents a section on line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a section'on line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

The same letters and numerals of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

In the drawings, a represents one of the side rails of a metal bedstead, the same extending from the head to the foot of the bed, and 1) represents one of the raised cross-bars which extend across the bed at the head and foot to support the spring fabric or structure, which is suitably engaged with said cross-bars and is suspended thereby above the level of the side bars ain a manner which is well known and needs no further explanation. In carrying out my invention I connect the side bars a with the cross-bar b by means.

of an angular connection or'coupling c, which comprises the integral lower socket portion 2, formed to receive one end of a side bar a, and has a projecting tenon 3, formed to enter a suitable socket in one of the end frames of the bedstead. The connection or coupling 0 is also provided with the integral elevated socket 4:, arranged at a right angle to the socket 2 and formed to receive one end of the cross-bar b, said socket having in one side a slot 5, through which passes a bolt 6, whereby the cross-bar is adjustably secured to the socket, provision being thus made for adapting the socket to the width of the bed.

The bars a and Z) are preferably made angular or L-shaped in cross-section, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and the socket 2 is formed so that the salient angle of the side bar a is presented at the outer and upper portion of the bed-frame, thus giving the latter a more symmetrical appearance than would be the case ifthe said angle were at the inner and lower portion, as usual in metallic bed-frames.

Owing to the coupling being formed of a single piece of metal, the sockets 2 and 4 being integral with each other, no bolts are em ployed for connecting the parts other than that which provides for the adjustment of the upper cross-bar 1) according to the width of the bedstead. The edges of the sockets are bent over the edges of the bars a and b, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and are thus secured thereto without bolts and screws in such manner that they can be applied to the bars or removed therefrom by endwise movement.

1. An angular connecting-piece or coupling for the side and end rails of metallic bedsteads, the same comprising the sockets 2 and 4 integrally connected and extending at right angles to each other in different planes, each of said sockets being angular in cross-section and having its edges provided with internal grooves or ways adapted to receive the edges of the side and end rails, and one of said sockets having a tenon 3.

2. The combination with the side and end rails a and b composed of bars of metal L- shaped in cross'seotion, of the couplingc having the integral sockets 2 and 4 extending at right angles to each other from opposite ends of the portion 0, each of said sockets being angular in cross-section and having its edges provided with internal grooves or 'ways adapted to receive the edges of the rails a and b, the socket 2 having the end tenon 3 and the socket 4 being provided with the slot 5, and the bolt 6 passing through said slot into the rail 19, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 7th day of- February, A. D. 1896.

GUY MAFERA. \Vitnesses:

ALBERT LEvIs, C. F. BROWVN.

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