US868002A - Combined berth and seat for passenger-carriages. - Google Patents

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PATENTED OCT. 15, 1907. l

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No. 868,002. PATENTED'00T.15, 1907.

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COMBINED BERTH AND SEAT IOR PASSENGER GARRIAGES.

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-To all whom it may concern.'

-new and useful Improvements in a ,positions and placed in inverted positions side by side DAVID T. OWEN, OE CLEVELAND, '\OI-VIIO, ASSIGNORTO THE D. T.

OF CLEVELAND, OHIO,

OWEN COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

COMBINED BERTH AND SEAT Fon PASSENGER-CARRIAGES.

Patented Oct. 15, 1907.

Speeication of Letters Patent.

' ippscaion ned August 25, 1905. sem-a1 No. 275,764.

strap 3 at the front of the frame connecting the sides 4 thereof. Suitable guide-ways 5 carry the said sides or side-bars 4, and in this instance the said guide-ways and bars 4 are dovetailed, but not necessarily, especially if both cross connections 2 and 3 are used. If these 'cross connections were omitted the bars 4 would at their insides front and Be it known that I, DAVID T. OWEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county'of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented I certain Combined Berth and Seat for Passenger-Carriers, and do declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it Aappertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in combined berths and seats for passenger coaches and carriers, and the invention consists in a construction wherein the back and the seat proper may be inverted to form a berth or bed bottom, or bottom for the mattress of the berth or bed, all substantially as shown and described and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings Figure l is a longitudinal sectional elevation of the parts made up as a berth or bed, presumably in a sleeping-car. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional elevation showing the parts at the left of the view made up as a seat, and at the right with the seat and bed portions omitted and disclosing more particularly the means for supporting said parts, as will hereinafter appear. Fig. 3 is a view on -line x, fr, Fig.- l looking to the left, and Figs. 4 and 5 are perspective views in detail .of the seat and back, respectively. l

The essential novelty of theinvention as thus shown lies in the adaptation of the separate seats and the backs, respectively, to be converted into the bedbottom proper, so that when these parts have served theirv purpose for-comfortably seating passengers they can be utilized, also, for providing them with comfortable the only change necessary in such parts be liftedv from 4their original construction mightA be changed and afford equivalent supports. A flexible apron 9 along the front of the rear on the bottom of the seat frame prevent it from slipping back and forth when The back Dy for the seat is provided with projections or flanges l2 and 13 at its edges adapted in one instance to rest on cross portion or projection 2 on the bed frame and in the other on ledge or projection 14 on the wall A. This occurs when the bed'is made and frame B is drawn forward and the back is inverted and laid thereon behind the seat to complete the bed bottom adapted to receive the spring'mattress. The said back is sustained in its position, Fig. 2, by means of short lugs or Aprojections 15 on the side supports Af, which are engaged by case being that said in the bed frame or supports. In these latter positions said parts themselves form the bed-bottom proper, and they contribute to the utility and comfort of the berth by being themselves provided with springs that come into more or less helpful service through the spring mattress above. l I

In the present development of the invention I show the usual cross partition or wall A between adjacent seats back to back in a sleeping car, and the combined seat and bed supports A at the sides, which, however, have mostly the appearance of sides for the seats. l

B represents a sliding support or supports for both the seat and the bed, and Iin this instance is shown as a rigid frame supported in the sides of the supports A/ and adapted to be drawn bodily out, as at the right in Fig. 2, half way the space between seats and to be met thereby the like frame or supports from the other side, Fig. l. These frames or supports comprise a cross-bar 2 at their rear flush with the sides of` the said frame at its top, and a downwardly curved or bent cross-bar or in the appointed relation to the seat and yet leave the back free to be lowered and inverted when a bed is to be made. These projections do not interfere with the use ofthe bed because they come below .the top plane of the hair mattress, which overspreads the spring mattress beneath. i

The spring mattress, for convenience, is made in four sections F and G, two of each, which are carried bythe use. This takes care of said mattress sections when the invention is'made up for seating, and brings them at once to the top in using relation when a bed is made, as in Fig. l.

When down, as in Figjl, the backs of the seat rest at their front on frames B and on wall A, and the mattress portions g at what becomes the end of the bed when they are down and which serve catches 16 on the back and serve to hold the back firmly backs D, when used as in Fig. 2. In this position, ii preferred, a dog or catch 17 may be employed to secure said parts against any tendency to tilt forward.

II is the hood or head section oi the seat back hinged at its top and adapted to be swung up out oi the way when not in use, Fig. I. In this particular instance links h serve as the hinges or hangers for said hood, and a catch h to hold it up out oi the way. When down it rests at its lower edge back against the top edge oi back D.

When seat G is inverted it is simply turned end for end upside down with the same edge at the iront, and the upper edge oi; the back D becomes the outer edge when inthe bed and inverted. The mattress sections have about the same width as the seat and back, respectively and the slight gapl or space between them when down as in Fig. I is bridged by the hair mattress and does not become noticeable. This makes an exceedingly comfortable bed and leaves abundance of room beneath for disposing oi dress-suit cases and other usual baggage. The space behind and within hood Il may be utilized `ior the storing oi bedding.

v What I claim s:-

l. In combined seats and berths for passenger' carriers, the combination of separate invertible seats and invertible seat backs respectively provided on their rear with spring.;- mattress sections. and means to support said seats and backs edge to edge in inverted positions to form a complete bed `'bottom comprising slid-able trames and fixed rests. A

2. In combined seats and berths for passenger carriers, the combination ot' separate invertible seats and seat backs, separate bed mattress sections for said seats and backs, respectively, means to support said seats and backs in angular relation and also edge to edge in inverted position on the same plane with said mattress sections uppermost, Aand a movable head rest adapted to term a continuation ot' the back at its top.

i l i to be shifted for a bed, a couch 3. In combined berths and seats for passenger carriers, sldable supports having,- inwardly extending projections, in combination with separate seats and backs constructed at their edges to rest upon said supports in inverted position, and fixed rests for the said backs at their outer edges independent 0l said slidable supports.

4. In combined berths and seats for passenger carriers, a complete berth comprising two slidable frames adapted to meet edge to edge at the middle et' the berth, in combination with inverted seats and backs in said trames, the bottom of said seats and backs constituting the bottom for said berth.

5. In a combined berth and seat tor passenger carriers, slidable supports adapted to be drawn toward each other and to meet half way. in combination with invertible seats and seat backs provided with projections at their edges adapted Vto rest on said slidable supports and to constitute a bed bottom, and a separate mattress section i'or each seat and back.

G. ln a combined berth and seat, stationary supports, and side-bars constructed to carry the seats and the berth slidably engaged in said supports, in combination with inverted backs forming the ends of said berth, inverted seats forming the middle portion thereof, and the said backs adapted to rest in part on said stationary supports.

7. In a combined berth and seat, an invertible seat hav inga spring mattress section upon its bottom, and u supporting flange at its iront and rear, a couch back adapted to be lowered to form a berth with said seat when iuverted, and having llanges at its front and rear edges, supports for said back and seat tianges when used both as couch and berth, and a head rest above said couch back.

S. In a combined berth and seat, a couch seat adapted back provided with :1 springmattress upon its back and adapted to be lowered and inverted to combine with said seat to form a berth, a head rest above said couch back and supports for said seat and back.

In testimony whereof I sign this specticatien presence of two witnesses.

in the DAVID '.l. OWEN.

Witnesses R. B. Mosnn, C. A, SELL.

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