US725845A - Bed-brace. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED APRLZl, 1903.-

C. A. HOWSE.

BED BRAGE.

APPLICATION nun) 00'1.24, 1902.

F0 MODEL.

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BED-B'RACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 725,845, dated April 21, 1903.

Application filed October 24, 1902. Serial No. 128,580. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, OLAUD A. HOWSE, a citizen of the United'States, residing at Enloe, in the county of Delta and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Bed-Brace, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in bed-braces.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of bed-braces and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient one adapted to be readily applied to a bedstead and capable of being easily operated to strain or stretch the tensile elements to the desired degree and of yieldingly connecting the same, whereby the parts of a bedstead will be firmly clamped together.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of a bedstead provided with a brace constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a detail sectional view illustrating the manner of confining the tensile elements in the coils of the yieldable adjusting-screw.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

l designates a transversely-disposed yieldable adjusting-screw constructed of a single piece of resilient wire of sufiicient strength to enable it to stretch a pair of tensile elements 2 to the desired tension for clamping the head and foot boards 3 and 4 of a bedstead tightly against the side rails 5 of the same. This adjusting-screw is constructed from a single piece of material, which is bent to form a central circular loop 6, and the wire is then twisted at the inner side of the loop at 7 and is then extended and reverselycoiled to form a pair of right and left hand screws, whereby when the adj usting-screw is rotated the engaged portions of the tensile elements will be simultaneously moved outward to stretch or loosen the same.

The tensile elements, which preferably consist of wires, are confined in the coils of the opposite portions 8 of the adj usting-screw'by means of a longitudinal rod 9,passing through outer terminals of the coiled portions of the screw,and the said rod is adapted to be readily placed in position and may be easily removed therefrom by straightening one end of it and then withdrawing from the coils. tral circular loop forms a convenient grip or handle for enabling the yieldable adjustingscrew to be rotated, and the resilient character of the screw forms a spring-clamp for holdingthe parts of the bedstead firmly together.

The wires constituting the tensile elements 2, although shown longitudinally of the bedstead in the accompanying drawings, may be arranged in any other desired manner, as will be readily understood, and the brace will be found applicable to various articles of furniture. The head and foot boards are provided at the corner-posts with hooks 12, to which the ends of the wires are connected, the terminals of the wires being preferably formed into eyes 13 for detachably engaging the hooks. The side rails of the bedstead are provided equidistant of their ends with inwardly-projecting hooks 14, forming eyes and receiving the wires, which are ongaged by the adjusting-screw at their centers between the said hooks 14.

When the adj Listing-screw is rotated for stretching the wires, the latter will be drawn inward toward each other, and the resiliency of the adj Listing-screw will cooperate with the wires to form a spring-clamp for holding the parts of the bedstead firmly together. The

brace, which is adapted to be applied to new bedsteads as they are manufactured, may also be'quickly connected with the side and end rails of an old one, and it will enable the same to be quickly tightened and held firmly together. Also, it will be clear that it isexceedingly simple and inexpensive in construction, that it will admit of the tensile elements.

being arranged in various positions, andthat the adjusting-screw is readily operated to stretch or slacken the wires.

What is claimed is 1. In a device of the class described, the combination with an adjusting-screw pro- The cen-.

yided with right and left hand helices, of tening tensile elements, a resilient adj ustingsile elements engaging respectively the opposcrew consisting of a central loop and oppositely-disposed helices of the screw. sitely-disposed coils forming right and left 2. In a device of the class described, the hand screws and engaging the tensile ele-- 2o combination withayieldable adj listing-screw ments, and a rod passing through the coils having oppositely-wound coils forming right and confining the tensile elements in engageand left hand helices, of tensile elements in ment with the same, substantially as deengagement with the respective helices of the scribed. screw. In testimony that I claim the foregoing as 2 5 IO 3. In a device of the class described, the my own I have hereto affixed my signature combination Wilha yieldable adj nsting-screw in the presence of two witnesses. having resilient coils, of a rod extended through the coils of the screw, and tensile CLAUD HOWSE' elements held in engagement with the coils Witnesses: 15 of the screw by means of the rod. L. B. ROBINSON,

4. A device of the class described compris- J. F. HOLMES.

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