US660208A

US660208A - Bedstead.

Info

Publication number: US660208A
Application number: US355800A
Authority: US
Inventors: Byron R Blaisdell
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1900-02-01
Filing date: 1900-02-01
Publication date: 1900-10-23
Anticipated expiration: 1917-10-23

Description

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B. R. BLAISDELL.

BEDSTEAD.

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(No Modal.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BYRON R. BLAISDELL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BEDSTEAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 660.208, dated October 23, 1900.

Application filed February 1, 1900. Serial No. 3,558. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, BYRON R. BLAISDELL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of lllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bedsteads, of which the following is a specification, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

Thisinvention relates to bedsteads in which the side rails are clamped to the uprights or pillars of the end frames, engaging the same by brackets in hooked form and being held thereto by straining mechanism uniting the two rails.

rlhe invention consists in the vstructure hereinafter fully described and which is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a detail plan section of the bedstead. Fig. 2 is a detail section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail side elevation of acorner of the bedstead; and Fig. 4 is a detail section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 3, the side rail being inverted.

The uprights orpillars of an end frame of a bedstead are shown at 10 and 11, and one of the usual cross-rails for rigidly uniting such pillars is shown at 9. The side rails 12 14 are preferably of metal and each provided with an instanding liange 13 15. Preferably ordinary commercial rolled angle-bars are used for the side rails, as shown in the drawings. Each rail is provided at its ends with a bracket 16, the stem of which is rigidly fixed to the rail, the bracket being in hooked form and adapted to partially encircle the pillar. The two side rails are clamped to the pillars by means of a tie-rod, comprising the two

sections

17 and 18, united by means of the turnbnckle 19. Each of the sections of the rod is bent laterally 'at its outer end to form the hooks 2O and 21, adapted to engage suitable apertures in the lianges 13 15, so that when the brackets 16 are applied to the

pillars

10 and 11 and the straining-rod engaged with the rails the brackets may be clamped tightly to the pillars by means of the turnbuckle 19. The brackets 16 are of such length transversely as'to the rail as to provide a sufficient bearing against the pillar to hold the parts rigid, when strain is applied, by means ofthe turnbuckle. In practice the length of these brackets is about four inches.

Preferably a beading, as 22 and 23, is formed upon each pillar, so as to indicate the proper point of application of the bracket to the pillar, and the lower bead 23 may, if desired, be provided with a short upstanding horn 24 to facilitate the assembling of the parts, this horn being sufficient to prevent the side rail from falling until vthe strainingrod can be engaged with it. The side rails as thus equipped with brackets are interchangeable and when transposed` are necessarily overturned, so that the

lateral flanges

13 and 15 are at the bottom of the vertical member 'of the rail, as indicated in Fig. 4.. This feature of the device the better adapts the side rails to the use of different forms of mattresses.

I do not broadly claim in this application a bedstead having its side .rails clamped to the pillars by a straining device connecting the two rails, as such structure is thus claimed in Letters Patent No. 643,589, granted to me February 13, 1900, for improvements in bedsteads.

What I now claim is- 1. In a bedstead, the combination with rigid end frames having pillars, of side rails having hook-form brackets engaging the pillars, anextensible tie-'rod having hooks for engaging the side rails, and a turnbuckle for extendingand contracting the rod.

2. In a bedstead, in combination, rigid end frames having pillars, side rails having instanding flanges and being provided at their ends with brackets in hook form for engaging the pillars, an extensible tie-rod for clamping the hooks of the pillars and having at its ends hooks for engaging the side rails, and a turnbuckle for extendingand contracting the rod.

BYRON R. BLAISDELL.