US759698A - Canopy-holder for bedsteads. - Google Patents

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PATENTED MAY 10, 1904.

J. M. GRAHAM.

CANOPY HOLDER FOR'BEDSTEADS.

APPLIOATION FILED MAY 6 1901,

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Patented May 10, 1904.

PATENT OEEIcE.

JOSEPHINE M. GRAHAM, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CANOPY-HOLDER FOR BEDSTEADS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 759,698, dated. May 10, 1904.

Application filed May 6, 1901.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPHINE M. GRAHAM, a citizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Canopy-Holders for Bedsteads, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a cheap and simple form of canopy-holder for bedsteads which can be readily applied to or removed from the bed, can be easily and quickly adjusted to suit different sizes of beds, and will provide for the support of the canopy at any desired height. This object I at tain in the manner hereinafter set forth, re'lference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure 1 is a perspective View of a bedstead with canopy-holder constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation, partly in section, of one of the side bars of the canopy-holder and its supporting devices. Fig. 3 is a sectional plan on the line a a, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a View of the transverse foot-bar of the canopy-holder. Fig. 5 is a sectional view illustrating the construction of one of the supporting members of the canopy-holder when the same is intended for application to a wooden headboard. Fig. 6 is a view of one of the side bars and its supporting-rod when said side bar is flat instead of tubular, and Fig. 7 is a plan View of the same.

Suitably secured to the head of the bed are a pair of sockets 1 and a pair of clips 2, which serve to support and confine to said head of the bed a pair of upright rods 3, each of said rods carrying one of the side bars of the canopy-holder.

As shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, the socket 1 and clip 2 have wings 4 extending on each side of and part way around a vertical rod of the head of the bed, the inner ends of the wings being secured together by means of a clamp-screw 5, as shown in Fig. 3, so as to securely confine them to said rod. i/Vhen, however, the device is intended for attachment to a wooden headboard instead of to a metallic bed, the socket and clip may be secured to the headboard by means of ordinary wood-screws Serial No. 58,969.

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shown in Figs. '3 and 5, one on the outside of the canopy-supporting rod 3 and the other between the same and the rod or headboard of the bed structure, so as to prevent direct con tact of said supporting-rod 3 with the bed structure. Each of the rods 3 has at the up per end a clip 7 with clamp-screw 9, and this clip has two projecting arms 10 and 11, which serve to pivot and support the side bar of the canopy-frame, said side bar being composed of telescopic sections 12 and 13, the inner section 12 being pivoted to the outer end of the arm 10 by means of a bolt 14, and said inner section also resting in a socket 15 at the outer end of the arm 11, so that lateral play of the same is prevented, and it is not only supported vertically, but properly held in line longitudinally.

The outer end of the sliding section 13 of the telescopic bar has a block 16 notched for the reception of one end of the transverse foot-bar of the canopy-support, this bar being likewise telescopic and composed of sections 17 and 19, one sliding within the other and each being preferably of tubular form flattened at the ends, as shown at 20 in Fig. 4, for engagement with the blocks 16 of the side bars.

As the clips 7 can be adjusted to any desired vertical position on the rods 3, the top 01 the canopy can be held at any desired height above the bed, the telescopic character of the side and end bars of the canopy-holder permitting adjustment of the same to suit any desired length and width of bed.

The canopy-holder can be readily applied or removed from the bed by simply lifting the rods 3 out of or dropping them into the supports provided by the sockets 1 and clips 2 without necessitating the removal of the latter from the bed, and when the canopy is not in use during the day the side bars can be contracted to their full extent and thrown back against the wall without removing the canopy therefrom, so that the same will be out of the way and will occupy but little space.

In the modification of my invention shown in Figs. 6 and 7 fiat bars 21. and 22 replace the round bars 12 and 13, these bars being pivoted together at 23 and the inner bar being pivoted to the supporting structure 24 at 25. The structure 24 depends from the rod 3, so as to support the canopy at a lower level than the top of the rod, and the lower projecting arm 26 of the supporting structure is twisted at the end, so as to form a socket 27 for the support of the inner bar 21, the outer bar 22 being supported horizontally in line with the bar 21 by a projecting lug 29 on the latter.

Having thus described my invention,1 claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent' 1. A canopy-holder for bedsteads comprising vertical rods secured to the head of the bed, canopy-supporting bars, and pivot structures therefor having clamps vertically adjustable upon said vertical rods, substantially as specified.

2. The combination of the canopy-supporting bar of a canopy-holder for bedsteads, with a pivot and supporting structure therefor comprising an upper arm to which the bar is pivoted a projecting lower arm having a socket which embraces and laterally confines said bar, and a clamp carrying both of the arms and adapted to be secured to a vertical supporting-rod on the bed frame, substantially as specified.

3. The combination of substantially vertical rods having means for attachment to a bed, clips mounted to slide on said rods having means whereby they may be maintained in any desired position thereon,with a canopysupporting bar for each clip, said bars being pivotally connected to their respective clips and being supported by a portion of the clips at a point other than that of their pivotal connection therewith.

4. The combination in a canopy-holder for bedsteads, of canopy-supporting bars, vertical rods carrying the same, and clamping devices for securing said vertical rods to the bed-frame, each of said clamping devices comprising a bent plate embracing a rod of the bed-frame, another bent plate embracing both the canopy-supporting rod and the rod of the bed-frame, and a clamp-screw for drawing together the free ends of said plates, substantially as specified.

5. The combination with a vertical rod having means whereby it may be connected to a bed, a two-armed piece carried by the upper portion of said vertical rod, with a canopysupporting bar engaged by both of the arms of said piece, one of said arms being pivoted to the bar and the other having means for engaging and supporting said bar, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' JOSEPHINE M. GRAHAM.

Witnesses:

F. E. BEoH'roLD, J os. H. KLEIN.

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