US89209A - Improved bedstead-fastener - Google Patents

Description

EDWARD S. EARLEY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters Patent No. 89,209, dated April 20, 1869.

IMPROVE!) BEDSTEAD-FAS-TENER.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all fwhom it may concern:

- Be it .known that I, EDWARD S. EARLEY, of the city and county of Philadelphia, and State'of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Bedstead- Fastening; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, sufficient to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains tomake and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a palt of this specification, and in which- Figure lis a longitudinal central section of my fastf enng applied;

'Figure 2 is a front view ofthe same; and

Figure 3, a detail view, to be hereinafter referred to.

This invention is an improved device, especially intended for fastening the parts of bedsteads together.

` lhe fastening consists of an angular or curved plate, which is attached to the end of the rail of the bedstead, and'which is provided with recesses to receive headed pins xed in the post, the device being locked by means of a sliding bolt, moving in aslot in the plate, and entering a socket in the part which is provided with the headed pins.

indicate corresponding parts in the two figures, con? sidered in connection with the following detail description.

In the drawings- A represents a plate, provided with a flange, a, the upper surface of which is bevelled; Instead of an angular' or flanged plate, a curved plate, or one made thicker at the bottom than at the top, may be used.

On the back of this plate, near the top, may be a projection, b, which enters a corresponding recess in the piece B. i

The plate A may be further secured by screws, or bolts c c. Y

In the flange a of plate A are formed slots, or recesses d d.

At the ends of these recesses open cavities c care made in the wood, as shown in fig. 1.

'i i are screws, or headed pins, set inthe piece D, in an inclined position.

The heads of these screws, or pins are made toenter the cavities c c, and then, by noving either the part B or D, said pins, or screws enter the recesses d (t, the bevelled surface of the flange c wedging between the top of piece D and the under side ofthe heads of the screws, or pins.

As a lock to hold the parts more frmlytogether and strengthen the fastening, I employa bolt, E, which moves vertically in a chamber formed in the partB, and passes down vthrough an opening, k, in the flange a of plate A, and finally enters a socket in the part D.

This bolt E has an angular or curved head, l, (in this instance made T-shaped,) and moving in a slot, m, in theplate A.

It will be seen that the parts B D can not be detached until the bolt E is withdrawn.

The mode of attaching and detaching the parts is obvious.

I desire to state here that the headed screws, pins, or projections may be attached to the plate A, in which case they will enterslots formed in the'part D,

'or in an attachment thereto.

The advantages of this device will be readily pery ceived and appreciated by those interested in the manufacture of be'clsteads, as well as by the user. By the use of the bolt the fasteningis greatly strengthened, and the accidental detachment of the parts is almost impossible.

Having thus described my invention,

What `I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. An angular or curved plate A, having a slot, m, to receive and guide the head of a bolt, E, and slots d d for the auxiliary fastenings, for the purposes set forth.

2. In combination therewith, the angular or curved-A headed bolt E, for the purposes described.

To the above I have signed my name, this 10th day of March, 1869.

EDWARD S. EARLEY.

Witnesses:

" W. A. WIEDERSHEIM, H. M. WIEDERSHEIM.

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