US90329A - Improved bedstead-fastener - Google Patents

Description

diluted lteres H. s. WING, oF PLATTSBURG, .NEW YORK'.

Letters Potent No. 90,329, dated May 18, 1869.

l IMPRO'VED BEDSTEADJ'ASTENER.

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

To all whom it ma/y concern.-

Be it known that I, H. S. WING, of Plattsburg, in the county of Clinton, and in the State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bed-Joint Fasteners; and do hereby declare that the followin gis afull, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of thisl specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a cheap, simple, and effective fastener for beds, tables, or other joints, or pieces of wood joined together; and consists in the arrangement of the devices hereafter set forth and described.

Figure l is an edge view of my invention.

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the same, when th hooked bolt is secured in position.

Figure 3 is a similar view of the same, when the hooked bolt is loose, ready to be fastened.

Letter A represents a common bed-post, to which is attached the rail B. p

Each end of this rail has a bed or opening sunk in its face, corresponding to the size and shape of the hooked bolt O, just under the cleats D. These openings or beds should be a little longer than vthe hook, so as to allow them to slide freely backward and forward.

Sunk into these beds are the hooked bolts C, by means of which the posts and rails are secured rmly together. Y

The hooked bolts are mere fiat iron plates, provided with a knob or button upon one end, while the other is formed into two small prongs, which have a notch out upon both to and bottom.

In theside of he post A there are two small mortises out, in the lower parts of which a bolt is passed,

upon which the notches onthe prongs catch, so as to hold the rail tightly against the posts.

By having the notches cut in each side, the rail can be turned around, and the ends reversed.

' Attached to the hooked bolt O is the increasing-cam E, which has a slot cut in it, so as to pass under the head of the knob or button upon the hook. By pressing this cani downward, the increasing part is made to bear against the edge of the cleat, thus drawing the hooked bolt backward, making the hooks ou the ends grasp the bolts rmly and tightly, thus drawing and holding the post and frame together.' By means of this slot iu the cam, it can be removed from the plate, so that, when the rail has been reversed, it can be moved from the under to the upper side again.

Around the edge, where this cam bears against the cleat, it should be provided with a rim, so as to make the edge thicker, and prevent its cutting into the cleat.

This hooked bolt can also be formed in the shape oi' a horseshoe or half moon, and the cam be placed within the curve. The bolt then, upon which the cam would turn, would be passed through thelcleat and cam into the rail, the increase of the cam bearing upon the inside of the bolt instead of upon the cleat asrnow.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat-

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