US732515A - Metallic bedstead. - Google Patents

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No; "732,515. I PATENTED JUNE 30, 1903.. M. J. CASEY.

METALLIC BEDSTEAD.

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MARK J. oAsEY, on NEW RICHMOND, WISCONSIN.

METALLIC BEDSTEAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 732,515, dated June 30, 1903.

Application filed September 22, 1902. Serial No. 124,309. (No model.)

. useful Improvements in Metallic Bedsteads;

and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has for its object to provide certain improvements. in metallic bedsteads, and is particularly directed to the provision of an improved joint or device for connecting the side rails to the corner-posts of the bedstead.

.To the above ends the invention consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described, and defined in the claim.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing one of the corner portions of an iron bedstead embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a simi lar view to Fig. 1, but shows the spring-frame separated from the corner-post and its rigidly-connected parts. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section on the line 50 00 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the rail-clamp removed from working position. Fig. 5 is a perspective view similar to Fig. 1, but illustrating a modified construction wherein independent side rails are employed and illustrating the manner in which a bed-spring having an iron frame is applied in working position; and Fig. dis a view similar to Fig. 5, but illustratingthe arrangement wherein a bed-spring having a wooden frame is applied in working position. Y

The. numeral 1 indicates one of thecornerposts of the bed, onto which, as is usual, is rigidly cast the corner-block 2. The corner- 'blocks 2 are rigidly connected in pairs by transversely-extended angle-iron bars 3, the said blocks being cast around the ends of the said bars. Each block 2 is also cast around an angle-iron stub-bar 4, which projects therefrom at a right angle from the bar 3, preferably as best shown in Fig. 2.

In Figs. 1, 2, and 3 the numeral fiindicates an ordinary woven-Wire bedstead, which is held by a rectangular metallic framework made up of angle-iron side bars 6 and angleiron end bars 7, which bars are riveted or otherwise rigidly secured at their ends, preferably as best shown in Fig. 2.

It will be noted that the vertical flange of the stub-bar 4 extends upward, while the vertical flange of the side bar 6 extends downward, so that they are adapted to' overlap, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3.

In Figs. 1 to 3, inclusive, the side bar 6 of the bed-spring frame is used as a side rail of the bedstead, and the ends thereof which overlap with the studbars 4 are rigidly clamped togetherby clannping devicesof novel construction. This clamping device is in the form of an approximately L-shaped head 8, 7 having at its ends inturned and grooved detents or clamping- feet 9 and 10. At the corner of its inner angle the said clampinghead is provided with a fillet 11, which constitutes-a cam-surface. A thumb-screw 12 works through the detent or clamping-foot 10.

When the side bar of the spring-frame is applied'to the stub-bar 4, as above described, I

and is made to afford side rails to the bedstead, the overlapped bars 6 and 4 are adjustably but rigidly secured together by the clamping device just described, which device is applied as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, wherein it will be noted that the foot 9 thereof presses against the top of the bar 6, that the cam or fillet 11 thereof engages the corner of the stubbar 4, and that the set-screw 12 impinges against the inner edge of the said stub-bar.

This being the case, it will be understood that by tightening the set-screw the bars 6 and 4 are drawn together in two directions. More specifically stated, the clampdraws thebars 4 and 6 together laterally, and'the cam 11 5 causes the clamp to draw said bars together and an independent bed-rail or side bar 13 is employed. This bar or rail is preferably of angle-iron, like the other bars described. In Fig. the said rails are shown as overlapped with the stub-rails 4 and secured thereto by the clamp device precisely in the same manner as is the rail or bar 6 shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3. In Fig. 6, however, the rail 13 is turned upside down and placed with its inner angle receiving the outer corner-angle of the stub-bar 4. The clamp is applied very much as before described; but in this case, of course, the detents or clamping-feet 9 10 overlap the edges of both of the bars 4 and 6.

In Fig. 5 the bed-spring is indicated by the numeral 14, and its angle-iron framework is indicated by the numerals and 16, which numerals indicate, respectively, the side and end bars of said frame. These parts are indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 5, and it will be noted that the end bars 16 project beyond the side bars 15, so that their horizontal flanges rest on top of the stub-rails 4, or in some instances directly upon the feet 10 of the clamp 8.

In Fig. 6 the bed-spring 17 is provided with an ordinary wooden frame 18 19, and in this illustration the side rails 18 and the ends of the end bars 19 rest directly in the angle of the bed-rail 13, as clearly shown in said Fig. 6.

Figs. 1 to 4, inclusive, illustrate what may be designated as the preferred form of my invention, since the side bars or rails of the bedspring frame are made to serve as bed-rails. This feature I consider novel, and it has two important advantages-to wit, that of economy and that of rigid construction which follows from clamping the stub-rails 4 to the side rails or bars of the said frame.

In all of the arrangements illustrated the longitudinal adjustment between the stubrails 4 and the bars which constitute the side rails of the bed is very important, since the bedstead, in view of this feature, may be adjusted to closely fit the frame of the bedspring. The doubleacting clamp, already clearly described, constitutes another important feature of my invention.

From the foregoing description and statements made it will be understood that the device described is capable of considerable modifications within the scope of my invention.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is as follows:

In a bedstead, the combination with a corner-post 1, stub-bar 4 and corner-block 2 rigid on said parts 1 and 4, and rigidly uniting the same, of an angle-iron side rail overlapping the said stub-bar, and a clamping device involving the L-shaped head 8, with clampingfeet 9 and 10, and fillet or cam-surface 11 in the angle thereof, and the set-screw 12 working through said foot 10, the said parts operating substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MARK J. CASEY.

Witnesses:

HENRY MODERMOTT, ANDREW DENNEEN.

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