US793180A - Davenport-bed. - Google Patents

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PATBNTED JUNE 27, 1905.

R. GOOP-ERSMITH.

DAVENPORT BED.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 23. 1904.

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R. COOPERSMITH.

DAVENPORT BED.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 23,1904.

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No. 793,180. PATENTED JUNE 27, 1905. R. GOOPERSMITH.

DAVENPORT BED.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 23, 1904.

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NITED STATES Patented June 27, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

RUDOLPH COOIERSIVIITH, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- TIIIRI) TO CHARLES J. KIN DEL, OF S". LOUIS, MISSOURI.

DAVEN PORT-BE D.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 793,180, dated June 27, 1905.

Application filed July 23, 1904. Serial No. 217,757.

To a, whom it may concern.-

. 3e it known that I, RUDOLPHOoornnsnrru, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of St. Louis, Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Davenport Beds, of which the following is a specification containing a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying d rawings. forming a part hereof.

Hy invention relates to davenport-beds; and it consists of the novel features herein shown, described, and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of a davenport-bed embodying the principles of my invention and set up as a davenport, the seat being partially elevated to show the operation. Fig.Qisaperspectiveofthedavenport-bed shown in Fig. 1 made up for a bed, the .back of the davenport being stepped over from its vertical position back of the seat to a horizontal position in front of the seat. Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the mechanism for stepping the back from its vertical to its horizontal position, the arm-rest of the davenport being removed. Figs. 4:, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 are views analogous to Fig. 3, the supportingframe being entirely removed and the views being drawn for the purpose of illustrating the operation of stepping the back from its vertical to its horizontal position, as required to transform a davenport into a bed. Fig. 10 is a top plan view of one end of the (lavenportbed, parts being broken away to economize space and parts being broken away to show the construction. Fig. 11 is a view analogous to Fig. 10 and showing a modified construction. Fig. 12 is a detail illustrating the pivoted supporting-leg unfolded. Fig. 13 is a detail showing the leg folded. Fig. 11 is a sectional detail on the line 14 14: of Fig. 10 and looking in the direction indicated by the arrow and showing the seat-frame in its horizontal position. Fig. 15 is a view analogous to Fig. 1% and showing the seat-frame elevated. Fig. 16 is an enlarged detail of the step-over levers and their connections and looking in the direction indicated by the arrow 16 in Fig. 17. Fig. 17 is an elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 16 and looking in the direction indicated by the arrow 17 in Fig. 16.

In davenport-beds most commonly in use it is necessary to move them out from the wall of a room to let down the back to a horizontal position behind the seat or to draw the scat forward part way and let the back down behind it to partially project beyond the scatframe. In the present invention the necessity of moving the davenport away from the wall either in converting it into a bed or reconverting it into a settee is obviated by the special construction and arrangement of links which hold the back in vertical position and also guide and direct it to a horizontal position in front of the seat. In the present invention also the seat forming the cover of the bedding receptacle or box is easily and readily swung up and tilted backward to give access to the receptacle. This is provided for by the link-hinge of special construction made as an article of manufacture and adapted to be readily applied to any bedding or other receptacle to which ready access is desired without the necessity of moving it from the wall.

In the drawings the end pieces of the davenport are indicated by 24;, the box which forms the body portion thereof by 23, and its cover by 25, while 28 indicates the back of the davenport, which in the usual davcnport forms a part of the bed when desired. The box 23, with the end pieces 21, constitute what maybe termed the seat-frame. The links, which serve to hold the back 28 in vertical position and to direct it to its horizontal position, consist of two bars, (indicated by 36,) which for convenience will be termed vertical links, and two bars, (indicated by 37,) which will be termed horizontal links. In the preferred construction each vertical link 36 is pivoted at one end to the end of the back near its upper edge by pivot 411 and at its other end to the adjacent end piece 2 1, near the rear of the seat, by pivot 39. Each horizontal link is connected at one end by pivot 38 to the end of the back near its lower edge, and at its other end it is connected by pivot 10 to the adjacent end piece 24. The

pivots 38 and 11 preferably enter the ends of bars 35, which are screwed or otherwise attached to the end of the back. These bars are covered, preferably, by the upholstery. The pivots 39 and 10 are also preferably secured to the ends of the bar 34, and these bars are screwed or otherwise secured to the inner faces of the end pieces 24. The links 36 are preferably curved forward at their lower ends, and the links 37 curve upwardly at their inner ends, as shown in Figs. 3 and 17, whereby said links are depressed beyond the surface of the cushions of the back and seat. In the preferred construction the links 37 are also placed at the outside of the links 36, so that in. the vertical position of the back the pivots 38 will form stops for the links 36 and the pivots 39 will form stops for the links 37. (See Figs. 16 and 17.) Other forms of stops may be used for this purpose, if desired. By this location of the links 37 at the inside of links 36 another advantage is gained in that when the davenport is in bed form the links 36 will rest upon the pivots 40 to support the edge of the back next to the seat, and the links 37 will clear the pivots 11 when the back is stepped over and laid in horizontal position in front of the seat. The lengths of the links with relation to one another and to their pivotal connections, whereby the back may be shifted, as above described, are best determined by placing the back in the desired horizontal position and, having located the pivots upon the back and upon the seat-frame, substantially as shown, then making the links correspond with the distance between said pivots. In converting the davenport from its settee form, Fig. 3, into its bed form, Fig. 2, the links described raise said back from the rear of the seat-cushion, invert it, and place it in horizontal position in front of the seatcushion, said back assuming in transit the various attitudes illustrated in Figs. 4 to 9. To sustain the front edge of the back when placed in horizontal position, suitable legs, as 42, may be hinged in recesses in the back and are pulled out from said recesses into positions perpendicular to the back to rest upon the floor, as indicated in Fig. 2. The back edge may be supported in the same way, but preferably as above described. To reconvert the davenport to the form of a settee, it is simply necessary to lift the back 28 by the forward edge and push it backward, the links inverting it and guiding it to place in vertical position at the rear of the seat, where it is held by the meeting of the links with the pivots 38 and 39 or with other steps suitably placed for that purpose.

The end pieces 24: of the seat-frame may be omitted or made only high enough to simply support the box at a suitable distance from the floor. In that form the pivots 39 and 40 would be secured in the ends of the box 27, as shown in Fig. 11.

I The link-hinges above referred to, by which the seat is connected with the bedding-receptacle as its cover, each consists of a bar 30, secured to the end of the box in a line extending obliquely from the upper edge of the box toward the lower rear corner thereof, Figs. 14 and 15, a bar 31, about one-third as long, secured in a horizontal position at the lower edge of the end of the cover and near its rear side, a link 32, pivoted at its ends to the forward ends of the bars 30 and 31, and another but shorter link 33, pivoted at its ends to the rear ends of the bars 30 and 31. The link 33 is at its upper end bowed toward. the front of the box, so as to accommodate the back edge of the box when said cover is lifted, as seen in Fig. 15. This avoids the necessity of notching the cover, and thereby providing an entrance for mice and moths. By proportioning the bars and links as shown and described the cover in being lifted moves forward from the rear of the box and may be tilted backward sufliciently to hold it in upright position while placing the bedding in or taking it from the box. The striking of the back edge of the cover against the curved portion of links 33 serves also to limit the backward tilt of the cover in the event of its being lifted when the davenport is in its bed form, and the passage of the pivot joining link 33 and bar 31 across the line connecting the pivots at the other ends of said link and bar aids in maintaining the cover in the tilted position.

Modifications in the form and proportions of parts from those shown and described may be made without departing from this invention.

The invention claimed is 1. In a daven port-bed, the combination with a relatively fixed seat-frame and a movable back, of vertical links pivoted to the back near the top thereof and to the seat-frame near its rear, horizontal links pivoted to the back near the bottom thereof and to the seat-frame near its front, said links crossing one another and being of such lengths with relation to one another and to their pivotal connections as to permit the back to take a horizontal position at the front of the seat and a vertical position at the back of the seat, said links also serving to direct the back from one of these positions to the other, substantially as set forth.

2. In adavenport-bed, the combination with the seat, end pieces and back, of a pair of vertical links one at each end of the davenport and each pivoted to the end of the back near its cal links whereby the back is retained in vertical position, said links serving, in the conversion of the davenport into a bed, to raise the back from the rear of the seat and guide it into horizontal position in front of the seat, suitable supports being provided for the back when in the horizontal position.

3. in a davenport-bed, the combination with the seat, end pieces and back, of a pair of vertical links curved forward at their lower ends there being one at each end of the davenport pivoted to the end of the back near its upper edge and to the adjacent end piece near the rear edge of the seat, a pair of horizontal links curved upward at their rear ends there being one at each end of the davenport and pivoted to the back near its lower edge and to the adjacent end piece near the front edge of the seat, the pivots at the lower ends of the vertical links forming stops for the horizontal links and the pivots at the rear ends of the horizontal links forming stops for the vertical links whereby the back is retained in a vertical position and the curves in said links providing for sinking them beyond the cushioned surfaces of the seat and back, said links serving in the conversion of the davenport into a bed, to raise the backup from the rear of the seat and guide it into horizontal position in front of the seat, legs being hinged in recesses in the back to be swung out to support it when placed in the horizontal position.

4. In a bed, the body portion of which consists mainly of a boX or bedding-receptacle having a hinged cover, the combination with the box and cover of a link-hinge at each end thereof, each hinge consistingof a bar secured to the end of the box in a line extending obliquely from the upper edge of the box toward the lower rear corner thereof, a bar about one-third as long as the other secured in a horizontal position to the lower edge of the end of the cover and near its rear side, a link pivoted at its ends to the forward ends of said bars and another but shorter link having a 'forwardly-bowed upper end, for the purpose specilied, pivoted at its ends to the rear ends of said bars, the bars and links forming an irregular quzulrilateral such that when the box-cover is raised the rear edge thereof will be moved forward and the raised cover allowed to tilt backward.

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

RUDOLPH COOPERSR I IT [-1.

\Vitnesses:

\V. l. ANmnsoa, ALFRED A. lCioks.

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