US683837A - Awning-cradle. - Google Patents

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No. 683,837. Patented Oct. I, 190:.

E. E. BERNSDORFF.

AWNING CRADLE.

{Application filed June 6, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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ELMORE E. BERNSDORFF, OF DENNY, PENNSYLVANIA AWNING- CRADLE.

SPEOIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 683,837, dated October 1, 1901.

Application filed June 6, 1901.

To ctZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELMORE E. BERNS- DORFF, a citizen of the United States, residing at Denny, in the county of Butler and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Awning- Cradles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to cradles, and particularly to an awning attachment for cradles.

The object of the invention is to provide a cradle having a notched bar depending from the bottom of the cradle and a weight adjustable on the bar to prolong the momentum of the cradle.

A further object of the invention is to provide a cradle-frame of novel and peculiar construction and an awning or shade frame vertically adjustable on the cradle=frame.

A still further object of the invention is to provide an awning or shade frame of such peculiar construction that the parts thereof may be swung, folded, and adjusted as desired.

lVith these objects in view it is my purpose to provide a cradle awning or shade so arranged relative to the cradle that the latter may be entirely or partly covered, as desired, with the awning standing flat above the eradle or at various inclines over the cradle or adjusted to partially or entirely inclose the occupant of the cradle, as desired.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this application, Figure 1 is a perspective view. Fig. 2 is an end view showing in dotted lines the awning-frame in'movable positions. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view showing means for securing the curved arms. Fig. 4 is a detached elevation of the notched bar and weight. Fig. 5 is a perspective view showing modified means for connecting the awning, and cradle frames and securing the curved arms.

The same numeral references denote the same parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

The cradleframe is composed of a top cross-piece 1 at each end of the cradle-bed 2 and having ears 1*, to which the bed is pivoted at 3. Curved frame members 4 extend from the cross-pieces 1 downwardly and converge together at 5, from which point said Serial No. 63,369. (No model) screws 9.

The awning or shade frame consists of standards 10, vertically adjustable in the sleeves 8 and connected together by a horizontal rod 11. An apertured lug 12 is formed on the standard and is provided with a thumb-screw 13. Awning-bars 14 have one end pivoted to the top of the standard 10 at 15, and to or near their other ends are pivoted at 16 curved arms 17, which work through the lug 12 and are fastened as desired by the set-screw 13.

Secured centrally of the length of the era dle-bed is a curved or arc-shaped bar 18, having notches 19 and depending from the bed. A Weight 20, having a link 21, is adapted to fit the said notches, so as to hang from the bar 18 and swing the weight to prolong the motion or swing of the cradle after the motive power has ceased. The weight is hung ineither of the side notches when it is desired to give the after-swing just referred to longer life, and when the weight is hung from the central notch the after-swing of the cradle is shortened. A cord 22 is secured to the weight and may be attached to a rooking'chair or pulled by hand to rockthe cradle.

Referring to the modification shown in Fig. 5, the cradle-frame 23 has a collar 24, through which the awning-standard 25 is vertically adjustable. The standard 25 has side grooves 26, in which the flat arms 27 are adjusted; otherwise the device is the same as that of the preferred construction.

It is obvious that the awning may be adjusted so as to entirely inclose the cradle-bed, or one half of the awning may be turned over onto the other half, so as to only cover half of the cradle, or the awning may be turned so as to stand fiat over the cradle or be closed up fiat, so as to stand in vertical position under the central rod 11 and leave the cradle entirely uncovered. The awning-frame may be removed from the cradle-frame by lifting the standards 10 out of the sleeves 8. It will be readily seen that the awning may be given various positions relative to the cradle, as oocasion may demand.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination, with the pivoted bed and supporting-frame therefor, of a notched bar having ends secured to and depending from the bed, and aweight adjustable in the notches of the said bar.

In an awning-cradle, the combination, with the cradle-frame composed of end crosspieces, the downwardly converging frame members secured to the cross-pieces and terminating in diverging legs, and the sleeves secured at the top to the cross-pieces and at the bottom to the intersecting point of the ELMORE E. BERNSDORFF.

Vitnesses:

(J. T. BELT, J. W. MAoELRoY.

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