US820719A - Cot-canopy. - Google Patents

Description

PATBNTED MAY 15, 1906.

I. G. KERRIDGE.

GOT CANOPY.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

COT-CANOPY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 15, 1906.

Application filed December 5, 1905. Serial No. 290,437.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IsAAo CURTIs KER- RIDGE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Corpus Christi, in the county of Nueces and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Cot-Canopy, of which the following is a specification. This invention relates to cot and bed canopies, and has for an object to provide a device of the class embodying new and improved features of adaptability, simplicity, convenience, and efliciency.

A further object of the invention is to provide a cot canopy embodying improved 1 means for folding and for insuring insecttight contact between the edges of the covering fabric and the cot.

With these and other objects in view the present invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that changes in the form, proportion, size, and minor details may be made without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved cot-canopy applied and in operative position. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one end of the canopy and cot partially folded. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the lower corner adjustment as indicated by arrow 3. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the upper corner adjustment indicated by arrow 4. Fig. 5 is a fragmentary detail perspective showing the means of securing the cot and canopy folded and united for storage and transportation.

Like characters of reference designate corresponding parts in all of the figures of the drawings.

In its preferred embodiment the improved canopy forming the subject-matter of this application comprises frame-bars and 11 crossed and pivoted, as at 12 and 13, and secured to the side rails 14 and 15, as by the winged screw 16, through the holes 17. The lower ends of the frame-pieces 10 and 11 are extended below the side rails, as at 18 and 19, and the extremities provided with long shanked hooks 20, which engage eyes, as 21, in the side rails and serve as braces to increase the rigidity of the frame.

The upper extremities of the end pieces 10 and 11 support the longitudinal frame- pieces 22 and 23, which are connected therewith in any approved manner, as by the bent rods 24, and vertical uprights 25 and 26 are connected by eyes 27, embracing the rods 24, and larger eyes 28, slidably embracing the pieces 10 and 11.

Upon the uprights 25 and 26 are slidably mounted the horizontal bars 29 and 30, as by the eyes 31, and a cord or cable 32 is connected at each end to the middle of the bars 29 and and extends through or over the longitudinal frame- pieces 22 and 23 and by use of which the sliding rods may be raised to permit a person to enter the canopy.

The frame described supports a fabric 33 of any approved mesh to prevent the passage of insects, the supporting being accom plished in any approved manner, as by the rings 34, and the longitudinal edges are formed with hems 35, embracing the sliding rods 29 and 30, and flexible or fabric strips 36 are secured transversely and upon which the bedding used may be laid to hold the fabric securely in contact with the cover, as 37, of the cot.

To one of the side rails, as 14, is secured a strap 38, proportioned to embrace the device when folded and to secure it in such folded condition by engaging the other rail.

In operation the canopy is secured to the cot by the screws 16 and braces 20, and a person enters by raising either one of the sliding bars 29 or 30 by the cord 32, and by which they may be supported until the occupant is properly within, when the bars are dropped and contact with the side rails of the cot. To remove the canopy, the braces 20 are unhooked and the screws 16 removed. The canopy may then be folded, as indicated in Fig. 2, the uprights moving slidably upon the end pieces and the sliding bars sliding vertically upon the uprights into juxtaposition with the longitudinal frame-pieces. The cot and canopy may also be folded simultaneously and without disconnecting, as shown in Fig. 2, wherein the sliding bars 29 and 30 are raised to more clearly show the complete operation; but in simply folding while upon the cot the sliding bars will not be raised relative to the uprights 25.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is 1. A cot-canopy comprising a frame including spaced lon itudinal bars, a horizontal bar vertically s idable upon the frame, a fabric supported by the frame and with its edge secured to the sliding bar and means to raise the sliding bar and suspend it from the frame.

2. A cot-canopy crossed and pivoted end pieces spaced longitudinal frame-pieces supported at the upper extremities of the end pleces, vertical uprights slidably mounted upon the end pieces, a horizontal bar vertically slidable upon the uprights and means to raise the horizontal barand suspend it from the frame.

3. In a cot-canopy, crossed and foldable end pieces normally spaced horizontal pieces supported at the extremities of the crosspieces, vertical uprights slidably mounted upon the end pieces, a horizontal bar vertically slidable upon the uprights, means to raise the horizontal bar and suspend it from the frame, means to connect the end pieces to a cot and means carried by the end pieces to brace the frame relative to the cot.

4. A canopy comprising a collapsible frame having horizontal bars spaced apart, uprights connected to the horizontal bars and a fabric covering supported by the horizontal bars and normally hanging between the uprights, the end portions of said fabric having inwardly-extending flaps at their lower edges.

5. A canopy comprising a collapsible frame having horizontal bars spaced apart, uprights connected to the horizontal bars and the fabric covering supported by the horizontal bars and normally hangin between the uprights, the end portions of said fabric having inwardly-extending flaps at their lower edges, and said bars supported by the side portions of the fabric and slidably mounted on the uprights.

6. A canopy comprising a collapsible frame having horizontal bars spaced apart, uprights connected to the horizontal bars, a fabric covering supported by the horizontal bars and normally hanging between the uprights and side bars supported by the fabric and slidably mounted upon the upri hts.

7. A canopy comprising a co lapsible frame having horizontal bars spaced apart, uprights connected to the horizontal bars, a fabric covering supported by the horizontal bars and normally hanging between the uprights and side bars supported by the fabric and slidably mounted upon the uprights, means for independently raising or lowering the side bars, and inwardly-extending flaps upon the end portions of the covering.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

ISAAC CURTIS KERRIDGE.

Witnesses:

VAN N. HOPKINS, J. H. KING.

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