US90820A - Improved spring-bed bottom - Google Patents

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@wat @Milice `OHN L. COOPER ANDp-ELIAS A. MONROE, OF ELMIR, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 90,820, dated Juncl, 1869.

IMPROVED SPRING-BED BOTTOM.

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

ToA all whom fit/may concern:

Be it known that we J OHN L. Coornn and ELIAS A. MONROE, of the city ofEhnira, in the county of Oheinung, and State of New York, have invented certain Vnew and useful Improvements .in Spring-Beds; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specication, and in which- Figure 1 represents a plan View;

' Figure 2, a side view; and

' Figure 3, an end view of our spring-bed.

Similar letters indicate like parts in all the figures.

Our invention relates to improvements in springbeds; and to this end,

It consists in the employment of wires for crossbars, by which means we are able to fasten all the v joints firmly without the use of rivets, making use of the springs -as fasteners, not only of themselves, but of all the joints of the frame.

Our invention further consists in the use of crossrods or wires, at the end of the frame, by which the top of each end and side is fastened to the bottom of each opposite end and side, the object of which will be hereinafter fully described.

lTo enable others skilled in the art to which our in' vention appertains to make and use the same, we will now describe its construction and operation.

In the accompanying drawings- A represents the frame, which consists of the paralle] wires a a and the longitudinal wires b b. The parallel wires are first bent, at each end, over the edge of the frame, as seen in fig. 1. One end of the A longitudinal wires is then secured to the edge of the frame, and passed over the first parallel wire, under the next, and so on to the end of the frame, where it i is secured by a similar bend to the edge of the frame. It will be observed that the first longitudinal wire and every second one passes over the iirst parallel wire, while the remainder pass under the first parallel wire. By Vthis arrangement the wires are made partly secure.

B B represent spiral springs, the ends of which are `bent over the point where the paralleland longitudinal wires cross each, other, as seen in fig. l, whereby.

the springs B B, and the wires a a, b b, are secured without the use of rivets, as is the case when iron straps are used.

D D represent diagonal wires, secured by a bend to the sides of the frame. These wires are placed at suitable distances apart, and are to prevent the bed from leaning over to either side.

E E represent similar diagonal wires, attached to the ends of the frame, to prevent the ends from leaning over.

Having thus fully described our invention,

What we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A spring-bed bottom, consisting of frame A, 'parallel wires a a., longitudinal wires b b, diagonal braces D D, E E, and spiral springs B B, the whole being constructed, combined, and arranged substantially as and for the purpose speciiied.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing .as our own, we our signatures, in presence of two wit nesses.

JOHN L. COOPER. E. A. MONROE.

XVitnesses: v

D. B. NELSON,

W. A. BAGLEY.

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