US591464A - Spring-bed - Google Patents

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J.A.GA'OKBLER.

SPRING BED.

Patented Oct. 12, 1897.

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UNITED STATES.

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JOHN A. GACKELER, OFGRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, OF ONE-HALF TO FRANCIS KARR, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SPRING-BED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 591,464, dated October 12, 1897. I Application filed December 2,1896. Serial No. 614,229. (No model.)

To all whom it. may concern Be it known that I, JOHN A. GAOKELER, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Spring-Beds, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in the means of bracing the centers of so-called double-decked spiral-spring bed-bottoms; and its objects are, first, to provide a brace that. may be readily attached and removed, and, second, to provide'a brace that will effectually tie the centers of the springs and prevent themfrom sagging. -I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure-1 is a plan of a bed-spring cutoff on the lines x of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 isaside elevation of the same, and Fig. 3 is an elevation of the link portion of my invention.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

My brace consists of a longitudinal wire or crimp rod B, provided with a-series of ofl'sets b, one of which is in position to engage with each spring A in the bed-bottom on the line of each rod. This offset is of sufficient degree to extend from near the center line of the coil of the spring at the small part to and through outside of the coil far enough to allow the hooks on the ends of the link C to pass under the end of the offset and over the coil of the spring. I construct the .links with a hook at each end, as shown in Fig. 3, one of which is bent in onedirection and the other in the opposite direction, so that one hook,

as 0, may pass under the end or loop of the ofiset b and thence up over the coil a of the spring, and the other, as 0, may pass over the coil a of the spring and thence down under the loop I), so that the series will form a continuous line across the entire width of the bed-bottom and will be so securely locked together that, in combination with the crimprods, they will thoroughly brace the springs, as and for the purpose hereinbefore stated.-

I-Iaving thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

The combination,with a double-deck spiralspring bed-bottom, of longitudinal crimp-rods placed on the line of the lateral center of the circle of the spring and extending the entire length of the bed-bottom, an offset at each spring so situated that the main rod will rest on top of a coil of the spring and the offset will pass out at one side under the same coil and form a loop, and short cross-links having a hook at each end bent in opposite directions, one of said hooks engaging with the loop of the olfset-s oi the crimp-rod outside of the coilof the spring, thence over the coil of the spring, thence across the center of the spring at right angles with the crimp-rods and under the same coil of the spring, thence to the next spring under the loop and over the coil, each loop and coil being engaged by the opposite ends of different links so that all are locked together in such a manner that the springs are held to operate in a direct vertical and lateral set forth.

Signed at Grand Rapids, Michigan, November 25, 1896.

' JOHN A. GACKELER.

In presence of ITHIEL J. CILLEY, ARY METZELAAR.

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