US67797A - Improved wabdeobe bedstead - Google Patents

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Letters Patent No. 67,797, dated August 13, 1867.

IMPROVED WARDROBE FEDSTEAD.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, J, F. C. PICKHARDT, ot' the eity,'c'ounty, and State of New York, have invented a new and improved Secretary Bedstead, and that the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, hereinafter referred to, forms a full and exactspeciiication of the same, wherein I have set forth the nature and principles of my said improvements, by which my invention may be distinguished from all others of a similar class, together with such parts as I claim and desire to have secured to me .by Letters Patent.

i This invention relates to a new and improved bedstead of that class which admits, when not required for usc, of being adjusted or folded up so as to resemble a secretary or book-case, and, when required for use, of being turned down and adjusted so as to serve equally as good a purpose as an ordinary bedstead. The invention consists in a peculiar construction and arrangement of parts, asrhereinafter shown and described, wherebyl the bedstead is allowed to fold compactly within a case and still occupied by two persons, such as are commonly termed double bedsteads,`and the case also, besides being ornamental or chaste and neat, capable of being made of-quite moderate proportions, not larger than an ordinary law secretary with book-easc on top. In the accompanying sheet of drawings- I i Figure 1 represents a front view of m a secretary with book-case on top.

Figure 2 a vertical transverse section of the same taken through the centre, with the bedstead turned down and adjusted ready for use.

Figure 3, a vertical transverse section of the same in a folded or closed state, asrrepresented in fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

A represents the case of'the device, the lower part of which at its front side .is provided with two hinged. doors a a, the part I) above the doors being the bottom of the bedstead B, which is panelled and haslegs c hinged to its upper end, which legs serve as a finish orV ornament when the bedstead is folded or turned upward within the case, as will be seen by referring to fig. 1. The head of the bedstead is a bar, d, and the foot a board, e. The bar d has a board or strip, e' attached to it by hinges f,'and the foot-board eis, when the bedstead is turned down for use, increased in height by a supplemental board, g, which is provided at each end with an arm,z, secured to the side pieces 1,' by screws j. To thc under side of the bottom b of the bedstead thereis attached, by hinges 7c n support," C, which is equal in width to the bottom b', and is connected at its lower end by hinges l to the base of the case A, as shown in figs. 2 and 3. This supportG is allowed to turn outward but notlinward be of ample size, even when designed to bey invention in a folded or closed state, and representing or imitating t beyond a vertical position, and its outward movemebt is limited by curved bearings m attached to the inner sides of the doors a a. l To the centre f the outer side ot' the head-bar d there is pivotcd a leg, D, which, when the bedstead is turned down for use, as shown in g. 2, supports the bar d. When the bedstead is to be tu'rned down for use the leg D is turned up parallel with bar d. The position of the several parts when folded up is shown clearly in iig. 3, and when the device is to be unfolded for use the doors a a are opened, the legs c are raised or turned upward, the bedstead lowered and drawn outward from the case as far as the support @will allow, and the leg D turned down so as to rest upon the floor, the legs c also resting upon the Hoor. The snp pleme'ntal foot-board g is then turned up and the board or strip e turned back, so that its outer edge will bear against a back piece,f", of the case, and the bedstead is then ready foruse. j t

In order to turn or fold up the bedstead, the supplemental foot-board g is turned down, the board, or strip e turned inward, and the leg D turned up parallel with the heafi-bar d. The bedstead is then turned upward within the case A, .the doors a a closed. Previous to the turning up or folding of the bedstead the bed may be made up and the bed-clothes smoothed and adjusted nicely and folded up with the bedstead. Hence no receptzv cles of any kind are required with the device to reeeive bedding, as the latter may always be retained in the bedstead. i m

This device may be constructed at a verymoderate cost. It possesses the advantage of being very easily adjusted or manipulated, no exertion being necessary to raise and lower the bedstead, as the headbar d may be loaded or made suilieiently heavy to counterpoise the bedstead on thc support C.

Having thus described my invention, I claimas new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent-'- 1. The securing or hinging of the bedstead B to a support, C, which is hinged to the base of the case A,

and all arranged in such a, manner that the bedstead may be turned or folded up within the case when not required for use, and let down and drawn out from the same when designed to he used, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The bearings on at the inner sides of the doors a a, in combination with the hin-ged hedstead-support C and bedstead B, all arranged in connection with the ease A, substantially as and for the purpose' speeied.

3. The jointed supplemental,footboard g and hinged head-boord e applied to the bed'stead, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

4. The combination of the case A with doors a a, bedsted B, support C, beerings m on the doors a a, Supplemental foot-hoord g, the hinged head-board e, and the pivoted leg D, all arranged' substantllj s and for thepurpose specified. f

J. F'. C. PIGKHARDT.

Witnesses:

WM. F. MCNAMARA ALEX F EGBERTS.

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