US644781A

US644781A - Supporting-frame for bedsteads.

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Publication number: US644781A
Application number: US72789199A
Authority: US
Inventors: John Foster Stephenson
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1899-08-21
Filing date: 1899-08-21
Publication date: 1900-03-06
Anticipated expiration: 1917-03-06

Description

No. 644,78l. I J. F. STEPHENSO Patented Mar. 6 I900. SUPPORTING FRAME FOR BEDSTEADS.

(Application filed Aug. 21, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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1 if i" i I L 5; 3 f SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 644,781, dated March 6, 1900; llpplicationfiledA ugust 21,1899. si'iaiia'. 727,891. (No model.)

To all whofm it may concern.

, Be it known that I, .1 OHN FOSTER STEPHEN- SON, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, anda resident of Cranmore street, Glenferrie, in the Colony of Victoria, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in or Connected with the Supporting-Frames of Bedstea'cls, of which the following is a specificatiOfi:

I provide what I have herein termed a socket-piece namely, a metal boss having a cavity to be fitted upon a bedstead-post and a shoe or box formed in it to receive the wooden rail of a spring-mattress and with novel means of securing the rail in place. In some cases the post has a cone formation to receive the socket-piece and means of locking same in position. By the use of my invention the ordinary metal dovetailed rails are dispensed With and a cheaper and better construction is provided.

In order to make myinvention clear, I shall now refer to the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which- I Figure 1 shows a plan of a post provided with socket-piece; Fig. 2, a vertical section of same; Fig. 3, an elevation of asocket-piece detached from the standard; Fig. 4, an elevation of portion of the post, showing the cone for the socket-piece. Fig. 5 shows the end frame of a bedstead to which my invention is applied, one of the socket-pieces being shown in position for packing and one in position to receive the rail of a spring-mattress. Fig. 6 shows a form of connection of a socket-piece and a bed post in which the cone formation isdispensed with and showing also means for holding the rail in the shoe. Fig. 7shows plan of the shoe portion of the socket-piece with the means for holding the rail in the shoe.

in which a conical cavity or socket b is formed. Two or more keyways are formed in this cavity, preferably one at the forward portion 0 and one at each side d e. The socket-piece is formed with the box or shoe f to receive the rail of a springmattress, said socket-piece having a closed bottom and sides and an open top. A lateral holding-tooth g is provided on the bottom of the socket to form a hold upon the rail, and the said bottom has a hole Z to receive the bolt, which secures the rail in po sition. I v

it represents a post or standard of a bed; stead andwhich has secured upon it or made intimate'iwith it a metal cone t, which is arranged to fit into the cavity of the socket piece aforesaid. This cone has a key It upon it, which corresponds with the keyways c d c and is adapted to enter either of said keyways.

In securing together a bedstead provided with the improvements the post it is passed through the conical cavity 1) of the'socketpiece until stopped by the cone t' upon said post, the socket-piece being thus supported. The key being brought into position in the keyway c (if so desired) will lock the joint, with the shoe in position to receive the frame of the mattress or a rail of the bed.

When bedstead-frames provided with my improvements are to be packed, the socketpieces may be raised off their cones and turned around into theposition shown at the left in Fig. 5, the key 70 in this case resting in the keyway c. I may'employ two keyways onlynamely, one at the front and one at one side of the socket.

I- prefer the means illustrated on Figs. 6 and 7 for holding the rails of a spring-mattress in their respective shoes. Z represents the bolt-hole before referred to, through which passes a bolt which is passed through the rail, such bolt being secured by a nut beneath the shoe. m represents a stud, which is set upon the shoe in front of and substantiallyin line with the bolt-hole Z. This stud may have a slightly-conical taper. The stud enters a corresponding recess formed on the under side of the rail, so that the bolt and stud will together form a secure hold upon the rail to prevent any movement thereof Within the In the drawings, or represents a socket-piece.

shoe.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is- 1. The combination with a standard having a cone formed thereon and provided with a key, of a socket-piece having a conical cavity arranged to fit over said cone, and provided with a plurality of keyways arranged to receive said key, and means carried by said soeket-piece for engaging a rail, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination with a standard having a cone formed thereon and provided with a key, of a socket-piece having a conical cavity arranged to fit over said cone, and provided with a plurality of keyways arranged to receive said key, a shoe formed with said socketpiece and having a closed bottom and sides and an open top, and a stud projecting from [6 the bottom of said shoe, substantially as set forth.

Signed at Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria, Australia, this 17th day of July, 1899.

JOHN FOSTER STEPHENSON. Witnesses:

' A. O. SACHSE, A. HARKER.