US67766A - Improved bedstead fastening - Google Patents

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@mungitura @anni @fitta LEONARD L. JACKSON, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR 'lO HIM SELFAND JOHN'FRAME, OF MIDDLETOWN, NEW YORK.

Leners Panam. 67,766, dated August 1s. 1867.

IMPROVED BEDSTEAD FASTBNING.

TO -ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, LEONARD L. JACKSON, ofPaterson, in the county of Passaic, and'iState of New Jersey, have invented a. new and useful improvement in Bcdstcad Fastening; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clcar, and exact description thereof, which-'will enable others skilled in the art to maire and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a toprview of my improved bedstead. A'

Figures 2, 3, and 4, are detail views, partly in section, showing diierent ways in which the fastening may be secured.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention has for its object to furnish an improved bedstead fastening, simple in construction, reliable in operation, and which will enable the bedstead to be easilyand quickly set up and taken down. And it consists in slotting the lends ofthe side rails of the bedstead in such a way that one or both the arms or parts thus formed sha-ll have sufficient elasticity to allow the dove-tailed tenon formed upon its end to be sprung'into the dove-tailed mortse formed in the posts; and in the manner in which the slotted endsofthesaid side rails are secured in place.

A are the end rails, which are secured to the posts B in the ordinary manner;V C are the side rails, upon the ends of which are formed dove-tailed tenons, fitting into dove-tailed4 mortises formed in the posts B,as shown in figs. 2, 3, and 4. -The ends of the side rails C are slotted in such a way andfor such a distance that one or both the arms or branches thus `formed may have suicient elasticity to enable the dove-tailed tenen to he readily sprung into and out of dove-tailed mortises formed in the posts. The slotted ends ofthe rails O maybe secured in place in the posts in various ways as by a swi'velled thumb-screw, D,.theforward end of which is swivelled to a plate attached to lthe lower edge of the upper arm of the slotted en'd of the rail, and which passes through a. nutk let into or secured to the lower arm of said rail, so that by turning the said screw in one direction the arms `of the rail will be drawn'towards each other sothatathc tenon may be readily passed into or taken out of the mortise, and by turning the screw in the other direction the arms ofthe rail will be spread apart so as'to tit the mortise, securing the rail and post firmly together,

This construction I prefer; but if desired the arms of therai'l may he spread apart by a set-screw, E, passing through a Vnut secured to the lower arm,and its forward end pressing against the lower edge of the upper arm, as shown in fig. 3. In this case the branched ends of the ruil must be sprung into and out of the mortise by hand. OrY the arms ofthe said rails may be spread apart to sec-ure them to theposts by wedges F, driven between the said slotted arms, as shown in fig. 2. -In this case also' tho slotted arms must be sprung into and out of the posts by hand.

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Iatent- Fastening a. bedstead-raii in place by placing its forked ends in slots, and forcing them apart by set-screws -or wedges, as and for the-purpose specified.

LEONARD L. JACKSON.

Witnesses:

J. M. H. LITTLE, JmAH .I. Foora

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