US815258A - Footboard for iron bedsteads. - Google Patents

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VSpeeoation of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 3,194. Serial No. 231,182.

To' all whom it may concern/.i

Be it known that L'Lnwrs O. BREKKE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented c ertain new and Vuseful Improvements in Footboards for lron 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 relates to footboards for iron bedsteads, and has" for its object to improve the same in point of simplicity, convenience,

and eliiciency.

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

Avery general objection found to the use of iro'n bedsteads is the Jfact that the clothes cannotvbe tucked securely at the foot of the mattress and thatV thereis no support at the Jfoot of the bed to assist in holding the clothes' and preventing the -eet from being kicked out fromv under the covers.

A permanent footboard of the proper size and dimensions would beobjectionable, because the clothes could not be thrown over the same in the day-time without giving the bed an awkward and unusual appearance. My improved Jootboard is so mounted that when 1t is desired to use the same lit may be thrown upward into position projecting above the mattress and in the day-time or y when it is not reqluired may be quickly dropped down into a position below the upper portion of the mattress. l

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

Figure 1 is a view in side elevation, showing the foot portion of an iron bedstead having one of my'improvediootboards applied thereto and showing also portions of a bedspring and mattress, the said footboard being thrown upward in to an operative position. Fig. 2 is a view corresponding to Fig. 1, but showing the footboard dropped down into an inoperative position. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the parts shown in Figs. 1 and 2, some parts 'being broken away and the mattress being removed; and Fig. ,4 is a transverse section on the line :riot1 Fig. 3, some parts being removed. 4

The numeral 1 indicates the skeleton Jfoot member, andthe numeral 2 the rails, of an iron bedstead of ordinary construction.

The numeral 3 indicates anordinary bedlspring; the numeral 4 an ordinary mattress,

both applied in the usual way. n

The numeral 5 indicates the ootboard, which at its ends is rigidly secured to the rear ends of a pair of quite long arms 6,`preferably formed by flat. straps of iron. The arms 6 are by the board 5 so spaced apart that they are adapted to embrace the sides of the spring 3 and mattress 4 and to directly overlie the side rails 2. said arms 6 are pivoted to clamping-heads 7, which are slotted, so that they are adapted to be slippedonto the inturned flange of the rails 2, as best shown in Fig; 4.' Set-screws 8 work through the lower prongs of the'heads 7 and impinge against the anges of the rails 2 and rigidly, but detachably and adjustably, secure/said heads to said rails. To the arms 6 are pivoted short legs 9, which when turned downward rest upon the rails 2, as shown in Fig. 1, and holdv the footboard 5 raised above the mattress in an operative position.

When the footboard 5 is raised, as shown in Fig. 1, the bedclothes may be tucked between the same and the foot of the mattress. When it is desired to drop the footboard into an inoperative position, as shown in Fig. 2,

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At their forward endthe legs 9 are turned into line with the arms 6, and the said footboard will then of course drop into its inoperative position entirely out of the way and below the upper portion of the mattress, so that the bedclothes may then be dropped over the said ootboard,

thereby entirely covering the same, leaving the bedclothes smooth at the foot of the mattress. y v

' The footboard above described, while eX- vtremely simple and of small cost, is eflicient What l claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is as follows:

The combination with a bedstead and a` bed-spring supported thereby, of a footboard said bedstead and the bed-spring andA the V5 arranged to work between the side rails of IIO foot of said bedstead, a air of arms 6 rigidly p secured at their free en s to the intermediate portion of the ends of said footboard and pivoccupied by the hed-springs substantially as otally attaohedrat their other ends to the described. 1o side rails of said bedstead, and supporting- In` testimony whereof I affix mysignature Iegs 9 pivotally attached to the intermediate in presence of two witnesses.

portion of said arms 6 and adapted to be LEWIS O. BREKKE.

y turned downward into engagement with the Witnesses:

side rails of the bedstead to support said foot- ROBERT C. MABEY. board and lie outside of the horizontal place F. D. MERCHANT.

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