US936225A - Attachment for holding coverings for furniture. - Google Patents

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M. DOUGLAS. ATTAGHMENT FOR HOLDING GOVERINGS FOR FURNITURE.

APPLICATION FILED N0\T.1B,1908

Patented 0013.5

UNITED STATE FATENT @FFTQE.

MARIE DOUGLAS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

ATTACHMENT FOR HOLDING COVERINGS FOR FURNITURE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NLiRIE DOUGLAS, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and resident of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Attachments for Holding Coverings for Furniture, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an attachment adapted to be applied to an article of furniture such as a bedstead, dining table, ironing table or the like, to clamp and hold the edge of a cloth covering against displacement or dislodgment under the strain to which it is subjected in ordinary use.

The use of my invention in an attachment for a bedstead, to hold the edges ofthe bedclothes and prevent them from being pulled out by the occupant of the bed, is sufiiciently characteristic of my invention and I will therefore address my description to an embodiment of my invention in such an attachment. I desire to have it understood how ever that my invention is not limited to such specific use, but that its use in connection with any article of furniture upon which a removable covering is employed which it is desired to hold or clamp in position, is within the scope of my invention and is contemplated by the claims. Thus, it is equally adapted for an attachment to a dining table to hold the silence cloth or other covering, or to an ironing table to hold the covering thereof, as for an attachment to a bedstead to hold the bed coverings. In short, it is applicable to any article of furniture upon which it is desired to clamp and hold a covering. It will also be understood that while I have illustrated my improvement as applied to but one end or side of an article of furniture, it can as well be applied to more than one side, and should be so applied wherever it is desired to stretch the cloth smoothly over the article of furniture and secure it at two or more edges.

Referring to the accompanying drawings which illustrate one embodiment of my invention, as applied to a bedstead,-Figure 1 is a plan View of the attachment applied to a metallic bedstead of ordinary construction, a fragmentary view of the bedstead being shown; Fig. 2 is an end view of the attachment applied to the bedstead as shown in Fig. l; and Fig. 3 is a detail view in vertical section through lines 33 of Fig. 1.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 18, 1908.

Patented Oct. 5, IQOQ. Serial No. 463,288.

The bed frame comprises the legs or upright members A, end rail B and side rails C.

D represents in dotted lines the position of a mattress.

Mounted on each of the upright members A, is a bracket 1, made with an upwardly extending projection 2, and provided with a pair of spring arms or hands 3 adapted to embrace the upright A and to be clamped thereon by means of a bolt and nut 4: passing through lugs 5 upturned from the ends of arms 3. The arms 3 may be formed from a single piece or ring of flat resilient metal, and the bracket member proper, 1, be secured thereto by rivets 6 as shown in Fig. 3.

The attachment for holding the coverings comprises a bar 7 provided at each end with a bracket 8. The bracket 8 is made with a slot 9 corresponding with the projection 2 of the bracket 1, mounted on the frame, thus affording a rigid but readily separablejoint between the bracket on the bed frame and the bracket on the bar 7. The bracket 8 is also provided with an inwardly facing pocket or recess 10 to receive the end of a second bar 11. A support or ledge 12 is provided at the bottom of the pocket 10 to prevent the bar 11 from dropping therethrough. The bar 11 is made separate from the bar 7 and its brackets, and the pockets 10 are sufficiently large to admit of the movement of bar 11 toward and from the bar 7 The bed clothing or other covering 13 is clamped between bar 7 and bar 11, the latter being pressed toward the former by a spring contained within the pocket or recess 10. Any suitable form of spring may be used for this purpose but I believe the best form to be a leaf spring 14 secured in the upper part of the recess 10 and extending downwardly and away from the wall to which it is attached, thus furnishing an inclined or cam-like surface which admits of the ready insertion of the ends of bar 11 within the recess, at the same time pressing the bar 11 toward the bar 7 to clamp the covering placed therebetween. The leaf spring 1 1 may be reinforced if desired by a coil spring 15 placed behind it. Conceivably a rigid cam-like member could be used in place of the yielding camlike member 14, for clamping the bar 11 against bar 7, the natural yielding and elasticity of the covering 13 serving to exert the necessary pressure to hold the coverings in place after the bar 11 is pressed by the cams toward bar 7 I prefer the spring however since it admits of greater variation in the thickness of the coverings which are to be clamped, and maintains a substantially unlform clamping pressure no matter what the thickness of the material to be held.

It will be understood that bracket-s 1 may be applied to the legs of a table instead of the legs of a bed; that the brackets 1 may be permanently fixed to the frame of the article of furniture instead of removably fixed thereto; and that the form of the structure above described may be otherwise departed from without departing from the spirit of my invention.

The attachment above described being readily separable from the article of furniture with which it is used, may be taken out of its position shown in the drawings and clamped upon the coverings where most convenient and thereafter mounted on the brackets 1 with the coverings held between the bars.

I claim: 7

1. An attachment for an article of furniture, comprising a bar having a bracket at each end adapted to support the attachment upon the article of furniture, said brackets provided each with a pocket or recess to re ceive and hold the ends of a relatively movable clamping bar, aid relatively movable clamping bar having its ends within said pockets, and means within said pockets or recesses to press said relatively movable bar toward the first named bar to clamp and hold a covering placed therebetween.

2. An attachment for an article of furniture, comprising a bar having a bracket at each end adapted to support the attachment upon the article of furniture, said brac ets provided each with an inwardly facing pocket or recess to receive and hold the ends of a relatively movable clamping bar, said relatively movable clamping bar having its inner ends within said pockets, and means within said pockets or recesses to press said relatively movable bar toward the first named bar to clamp and hold a covering placed therebetween.

3. An attachment for an article of furniture, comprising a bar having a bracket ateach end adapted to support the attachment upon the article of furniture, said brackets provided each with an inwardly facing pocket or recess to receive the ends of a relatively movable clamping bar, a ledge within each of said pockets to prevent said relatively movable bar from falling through said pockets, said relatively movable clamping bar, and means Within said pockets to press said relatively movable bar toward said first named bar to clamp and hold a covering placed therebetween 4. An attachment for an article of furniture, comprising a bar having a bracket at each end adapted to support the attachment upon the article of furniture, said brackets provided each with a pocket or recess to re ceive and hold the ends of a relatively movable clamping bar, said relatively movable clamping bar having its ends within said pockets, and means within said pockets or recesses yieldingly to press said relatively movable bar toward the first named bar to clamp and hold a covering placed therebe-- tween.

5. An attachment for an article of furniture, comprising a bar having a bracket at each end adapted to support the attachment upon the article of furniture, said brackets provided each with a pocket or recess to receive and hold the ends of a relatively clamping bar, said relatively movable clamping bar having its ends Within said pockets, and means within said pockets or recesses to press said relatively movable bar toward the first named bar to clamp and hold a covering placed therebetween, said means comprising a leaf spring having a cam-like outer surface.

6. In combination with a pair of upright members of the framework of an article of furniture, a bracket embracing and removably secured to each of said upright members, and a separable attachment comprising a bar having a bracket at each end adapted to engage saidbrackets upon the upright members, and provided each with a pocket or recess, a relatively movable clamping bar the ends of which are held within said pockets, and means to press said relatively movable bar toward said first named bar to clamp and hold a covering placed therebetween.

Signed by me at Boston, Mass, this sixteenth day of November 1908.

MARIE DOUGLAS. lVitnesses ROBERT CUSIIMAN, CHARLES I). ooonERRY.

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