US753815A - Reclining cot or lounge. - Google Patents

Description

PATBNTED MAR. l, 1904. A. E. WHITE j& W. MILLER.

REGLINING GOT 0R LOUNGE. APPLICIATIQN FILED M411. 18. 1 903.

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PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR E. WHITE AND WEBB MILLER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS; SAID- MILLER ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF OF HIS RIGHT TO SAID WHITE.

RECLINING COT OR LOUNGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 753,815, dated March 1, 1904.

Application filed March 18, 1903.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ARTHUR E. WHITE and WEBB MILLER, citizens of the United States, both residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvementin Reclining Cots or Lounges, of which the following is a specification. This invention relates to that type of reclining cots or lounges in which a base, usually consisting of two side rails united one to the other by cross or tie pieces, has attached thereto at one end of each side rail a spring in the shape of a coil and which is extended to overlie the base and furnish a side rail for the attachment of canvas or other backing, on which the mattress is laid and supported.

The special features of the present invention pertain to the construction of the base as regards the connection of the side rails of the base by the cross ties or pieces so as to make a rigid base; and a further object of the invention relates to the manner of securing the spring for each side rail of the mattress-frame to its end of the base-rail and to the special manner of retaining the mattress on the side rails of its supporting-frame.

The invention consists in the features of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the base and the frame which carries the mattress; Fig. 2, a side elevation of the base and the mattress-supporting frame or arms with the mattress in position; Fig. 3, a cross-section of the base, showing the manner of connecting the crossties or pieces with the side rails of the base; Fig. 4, a'detail in section, showing the manner of attaching the spring end of each side rail of the mattressframe to the end of the side rail of the base; and Fig. 5, a detail showing the corner-pockets at the head end of the mattress for detachably connecting the mattress'to the side rails of its frame or support.

The yieldable or spring frame which carries the mattress is composed of two side rails or arms. Each side rail or arm of the mattress frame or support has an end a, which is Serial No. 148,385. on, inodelJ' straight and extending from which is a coil 12, which, is turned a little more than a complete circle and is located as to its coil portion inside of the inner face of the attached enda. The coil 6 at or about its horizontal center line, as at the point 0, is enlarged in the diameter of its circle and continues as a curved end d, uniting the side rail or bar a of the frame or support for the mattress with the coil 5, so that the side rail or bar 6 will have a yield or spring thereto from-the resiliency of the coil 6, which gives and takes with the application of pressure or Weight to the side rail or bar and with the release of the pressure or weight on the side rail or bar, the spring action being a uniform one, extending over the entire circle of the coil 6 from its start to its finish.

Each side of the-cot or lounge has an attaching end a, a coil 6, and a side rail or bar 6, with the peculiarities just described, and these side arms or rails are spaced the required distance apart for the width of the cot or lounge lgy the spacing apart of the side rails of the ase.

The head end of the mattress support or frame has the ends of the side rails or arms 0 united one to the other by a cross-rod f, thev and locked in place by side screws f or otherwise, rigidly uniting or connecting the head end of the side rails or arms one to the other. The foot end of the side rails or arms are joined one to the other by a connecting-rod g, the ends of which are entered into sockets g, one on each side rail or arm and adjustable thereon and when adjusted held in position by set-screws g or otherwise, rigidly tying or uniting the two side rails or arms one to the other at the foot end.

The base is formed of two side rails h, preferably of wood, and the two side rails are united one to the other by cross ties or pieces 2', preferably of metal, each cross tie or piece having at each end a screw-threaded stem j, on the end of which is entered a nut which is countersunk into the outer face of the rail and by which the side rails of the base the base-rail, a coil continuing from the lower end and a side rail continuing from the coil and having an upward inclination, and a covering extending from side rail to side rail of the mattress-frame and from the cross-ties or end pieces at each end of the mattress-frame, substantially as described.

2. In a cot or lounge, a base consisting of two side rails, cross-ties or end pieces, each cross-tie or end piece having at each end a threaded stem, a nut on each stem and countersunk into the outer face of the side rail, and a perforated guard or protector on the end of each side rail, in combination with a mattresscarrying frame consisting of two side supports, each side support comprising a lower horizontal end passing through the perforated guard or protector into the end of the baserail, a side rail, connected with the entering end and extending in reverse relation thereto, a covering extending from side rail to side rail of the mattress-frame and fixedly attached to the frame-rails, and a mattress having the head-end corners thereof detachably connected to the corners of the head end of the mattress-frame and having its body and foot end loose on the covering and frame, substantially as described.

3. In -a cot or lounge, a base consisting of two side rails, cross-ties each cross-tie having at each end a stem inserted into one of the side rails, a perforated guard or protector on the end of each side rail each guard or protector being provided with a base or foot downwardly extending therefrom, a mattress-carrying frame consisting of two side supports each side support provided with a backwardly-extending end passing through one of the perforated guards or protectors into the end of the baserail and further provided with backwardly- 4 extending side rails connected with the entering ends, substantially as described.

t. In a cot or lounge in combination with a mattress-carrying frame, a base or support consisting of two side rails connected together 4 5 by cross-rails each of the cross-rails provided with a screw-threaded stem passing through the side rail, a nut on each stemcountersunk into the outer face of the side rail, guards or protectors one on each end of each rail the 5 forward guards or protectors being provided with holes in their front faces for the passing of the mattress-carrying frame therethrough, each guard or protector being provided with feet downwardly extending therefrom and

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