Improvements in and connected with Bedsteads and Mattresses.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Feb., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 16th Nov., 1894-Accepted, 29th Dec., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Bedsteads and Mattresses.
GEORGE RYDILL 14 Tudor Street Sheffield Merchant do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists and has for its principal object in the first place the
construction of a wood or metallic bedstead bottom or a bedstead and mattress
that shall form from the head of a bedstead to the foot of a bedstead an incline
plain to sleep upon by making a bedstead bottom or mattress in the form of an
incline plain or by mechanical or other means to raise the legs of a bedstead or a
rising bar or rail at the head of a bedstead for the purpose of raising a boarded
bottom and mattress lath frame and mattress or a strained metallic wire spring
mattress fixed in a frame made the length and width of a bedstead bottom into a
slanting inclination of an incline plain by raising a bedstead or a bedstead bottom
at the head end for the purpose of causing a person when sleeping on a bed to
breath with greater ease than hitherto by enabling the heart, liver, lungs and
kidneys to work in a more natural position for keeping up Natures electricity in
the body while sleeping causing the digestive organs to work better giving an
easier circulation of the blood and enabling the kidneys more easily to pass water
from the body thereby preventing the accumulation of uric acid in the system
which is known to be the cause of rheumatism as well as many other diseases
when it remains too long in the system and the invention may be applied wholly or
in part to bedsteads that are already made without necessitating alterations of
parts as hereinafter set forth by which a more effective device of this character is
produced than is now in ordinary use and is especially beneficial to human life.
The object of the invention is to construct a wood or metallic bedstead the
head and foot of the bedstead being similar to those of the ordinary wood and
metallic bedsteads with the following exceptions or additions the side rails are not
horizontal but form an inclination of an incline plain from the head of the bedstead
to the foot by the legs being higher or longer at the head end on the underside
of the bedstead bottom than they are at the foot by attaching the side rails of a
bedstead to the bed posts or their connections one on each side at the head of the
bedstead at a higher level at the head of a bedstead by one, two, three, four, five,
six or inore inches than the bedstead legs or supports are made and attached to
the posts at the foot of the bedstead causing the bottom of a bedstead on which a
person rests to form a slanting inclination of an incline plain so that a person
sleeping on a bed rests in a position that the head body and legs are at a higher
level than the heels of the feet which may be accomplished when the joints of a
bedstead are beveled a little or made to fit each other to give stability without any
additional cost in the make of a new bedstead..
In wood bedsteads that are already made the laths run crosswise leaving a space
of several inches betwixt the back rail at the head of a bedstead and the first lath
placed across at the head end of several inches. But in metallic bedsteads which
are already made the metallic laths stretch both across from one side rail to the
other and longitudinally from the foot rail across the bottom of a bedstead to
the cross rail at the head of a bedstead which does not leave a clear open space
from one side rail to the other at the bedstead head end. But in order that an

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open space may be left or made when desired at the head end of a bedstead
extending from one side rail to the other I place across the bedstead bottom a
rail of wood or metal at a distance according to requirements of one, two or more
inches from the cross rail at the head of the bedstead and substantially fix the
same to the side rails by screws bolts and nuts or by any other suitable means
being strong enough to carry and hold in a fixed position longitudinally the
metallic laths of a bedstead bottom extending from the bottom cross rail at the
foot of a bedstead to the cross rail of wood or metal fixed across and near
the bedstead head cross rail and the metallic laths are attached in the usual way
when such an additional rail is found necessary.
In making
a new bedstead having a slanting inclination of an incline plain of
four, five, six or more inches from the bedstead head to the foot such a bedstead
may be raised at the head when desired one, two, three, four, five, six or more
additional inches by placing suitable turned wood, iron moulded glass, earthenware,
marble, stone, burnt clay or other suitable substance having a hollow on the top
side to receive the underside of the bedposts or casters at the head end of the
bedstead and the substances to raise the bedstead feet may be made if desired to
carry a caster on the underside which substances may be readily placed under the
legs or feet of a bedstead or cot in order to give them an inclination of an incline
plain.
Or the legs at the head end of a bedstead or cot when not hollow are bored out
on the underside to receive and retain a she screwed threaded metallic socket having
a flange on its outer end in order that it may be fixed by screws firmly on to the
underside of the bedstead head posts or cot feet and a screwed threaded he bolt
having a flanged end is made to screw into the screwed she socket and attached to
the flange of the screwed he bolt on its underside is fixed a suitable turned piece
of wood, metal caster or other suitable substance so that when the he bolt is
screwed up into the she socket and on unturning the foot end of the screwed bolt
such raises the bedstead or cot at the bead end to form an inclination of an incline
plain from the head to the foot.
Or the two legs on the underside of a bedstead bottom at the head end may be
screw threaded on the outside and a hollow screwed socket may be screwed on to
each leg in order that the height of a bedstead at the head end may be regulated
or the hollow sockets may be unscrewed and by means of a screwed nut or nuts
working on each screwed leg the height at the head end of a bedstead may be
regulated to form an incline plain. Or holes may be bored through an unscrewed
hollow socket one placed on each leg to correspond with holes bored through and
up each leg and by means of a screw or bolt put through the holes in each socket
and the legs, and by means of a screwed nut or nuts the hollow sockets may be
fixed at any required height at the head end of a bedstead to form an inclination
of an incline plain.
Or a bedstead is made of wood or metallic substance having its bottom formed
to have an incline plain and on placing a packed mattress filled with spiral springs,
straw, woollen flock, hair or other material made in the form of an incline plain
and on placing the same on the top of the incline plain bedstead bottom such gives
to the bedstead a greater inclination of an incline plain but when such is found
not to give a sufficient inclination of an incline plain then I remove the packed
incline plain mattress from the top of the incline plain bedstead bottom and place
a piece of wood hollow metal or other suitable substance across the bedstead
bottom at the head end of any required thickness which is bolted or fixed to the
side rails of the bedstead or attached to the posts or back rail of the bedstead
and on placing a suitable made boarding being the length and width of the
bedstead bottom on the top of the cross piece of wood, hollow metal or other
suitable substance at the head end extending to the foot of the bedstead and on
placing the incline plain packed mattress on the top of the incline plain boarding
forms a greater inclination of an incline plain which may be readily adapted to
the ordinary type of iron or wood bedsteads.

page_text: In constructing a wood or metallic bedstead having the bottom made forming an
inclination of an incline plain I place a piece of wood, rolled or cast hollow metal
or other substance to form a sleeper of three or more inches in thickness of any
required breadth having a groove on the top side or two holes are bored or drilled
in or through the piece of wood rolled or cast hollow metal or other substance
which is placed across the bedstead bottom at the head end to form a sleeper
which ends are fixed to the two side rails of the bedstead by screws bolts and nuts
or fixed by any other suitable means to keep the sleeper in a fixed position.
When it is required to have the head end of a bedstead raised or built up in
sectional parts so that any required inclination of an incline plain may be obtained
I form a groove on the top side of a second sleeper piece of wood rolled or cast
hollow metal or other substance having a tongue on the underside made to fit into
the groove when placed on the top of the first fixed sleeper piece of wood rolled
or cast hollow metal or other substance or two short pieces of iron or other metal
may have one end screwed or fixed into the second sleeper piece of wood rolled or
cast hollow metal or other substance on its underside at a suitable distance to fit
into the holes of the first fixed hollow groove piece of wood rolled or cast hollow
metal or other substance.
In this way any required number of sections of any required thickness may be
-placed with firmness one upon another and on placing a wood boarding and
mattress, lath frame and mattress or a strained metallic wire spring mattress fixed
in a frame made the length and width of the bottom of a bedstead on the top of
the bedstead bottom such boarding and mattress, lath frame and mattress or a
metallic strained wire spring mattress can be readily attached to the side rails or
posts at the foot of a bedstead by hinges, bolts or a metal guide projection fixed
to the side rails in order to prevent slipping on one side, allowing the wood
boarding and mattress, lath frame and mattress or a strained metallic wire spring
mattress fixed in a frame to be raised or lowered at the head end of a bedstead to
form any desired inclination of an incline plain and in order to give support in the
middle on the underside of such boarding and mattress lath frame and mattress or
a strained metallic wire spring mattress I place a wood sleeper or a row of
tempered spiral steel or other metallic springs set betwixt two pieces of wood or
metal extending across about the middle of the bedstead bottom from one side rail
to the other being suitably fixed to the side rails on the top of the bedstead
supporting the underside of the wood boarding carrying a mattress lath frame
and mattress or a strained metallic wire spring mattress in order to give support.
Or tempered spiral springs of any required strength or height may be fixed
betwixt two pieces of wood or metal and extend across from one side rail to the
other at the head end of a bedstead and the top piece attached to the springs may
work or slide in a groove or other guide to keep the springs upright in order to
carry the wood boarding and mattress lath frame and mattress or a strained metallic
wire spring mattress with a view to give support and ease to a bedstead bottom on
which a person rests.
I have named simple and almost inexpensive arrangements to effect this without
mechanical appliances but by leaving a clear open space near to the bedstead head
end I am enabled to fix under the bedstead bottom or on the top side at the head
end to each standard bedpost at the head of the bedstead and to the rail connecting
the two bed posts together grooved racks made of wood or metal so that a strong
suitably made piece of wood or metal can extend across the bedstead at the, head
end and slide into grooves at any required height the outer edge projects and may
carry a moulding like a shelf and by means of screws or bolts can be held in a fixed
position or released when desired and again fixed in grooves at a lower or a higher
level to regulate the height and support a wood boarding carrying a mattress, lath
frame and mattress or a strained metallic wire spring mattress fixed in a frame.
Or instead of two grooved racks two metallic tooth racks the teeth of which turn
upwards like a tenter hook and the same may be fixed at the head end to each
standard bedpost and to the rail connecting the two bedposts together and a suitable.
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page_text: made piece of wood or metal extends across at the head end of the bedstead which
carries two bent irons suitably made to hook on to the metallic tenter hook racks
and by means of screws can be held in a fixed position or released when desired by
unscrewing the screws and again fixed at a higher or a lower level for the purpose
of supporting a wood boarding carrying a mattress lath frame and mattress or a
strained metallic wire spring mattress fixed in a frame for the purpose of forming
an incline plain.
Or I make a wood or metal frame attached in any suitable way that will give
firmness at the head end of a bedstead under the bedstead bottom fixed to the two
bedstead standards or posts and the rail connecting the two bedposts together.
At each end of the frame a number of holes are bored one above another and screw
taped to which is fixed by screws a wood or metal projecting kind of shelf which
may be fixed or lowered as desired at the head end of a bedstead by screwing and
unscrewing the screws which fix it to the frame for the purpose of supporting a
wood boarding carrying a mattress, lath frame and mattress or a strained metallic
wire spring mattress fixed in a frame for the purpose of forming an incline plain.
Or two hollow metallic tubes or sockets are made any required shape the length
and width of each bedstead leg on the underside of the bedstead bottom at the
head end the ends of each tube or socket are made up and may carry a caster in
case I wished to raise the legs of a bedstead at the head end four inches I put into
the two hollow metallic tubes or sockets small metal balls pellets or other suitable
substance to the thickness of four inches and on placing the foot of each bedstead
leg into each tube or socket such are raised four inches at the head end.
the bedstead legs at the head end are larger at the bottom than they are higher up
the legs I then make two half rounds or two half squares or any other shape to fit
on to the top of the tubes or sockets to keep them in a upright position in this way
the bedstead legs may be raised or lowered according to requirements.
In case
Or I effect the adjustment of a rising or a falling bar or rail by making a one
sided or a two sided wood or metal frame the ends of which are made to carry
suitable metallic bearings for a metallic shaft carrying two toothed cogwheels to
work in opposite the two cogwheels are fixed or formed in the wood or metal frame
two metallic dovetail grooves for two metallic dovetailed tooth racks attached to a
rising or falling bar or rail to slide in and the two toothed dovetail tooth racks work
in gear with the two toothed cogwheels. The metallic shaft may be made to revolve
by means of a handle fixed on to the end of the metallic shaft and by means of a
pawl the cogwheels are held in a fixed position until released.
This wood or metallic frame I attach in any suitable way that will give firmness
and strength at the head end of a bedstead under the bedstead bottom fixed to the
two bedstead standards or posts and the cross top rail fixed betwixt the bedstead
posts for the purpose of carrying raising or lowering at the head end of a bedstead
a wood boarding and mattress, lath frame and mattress or a strained metallic wire
spring mattress fixed in a frame.
Or a rising or a falling bar or rail may be made in wood or metal in the form of
a shelf extending across the bedstead at the head end the ends of which slide in
two grooves formed at each end of a wood or metal frame fixed on the underside of
the bedstead bottom and on the back side or on the front side of the frame is fixed
near the top a metallic shaft working in two suitable metallic bearings and two
small wire ropes are attached on the underside of the rising and falling bar or rail
near each end and the other ends of the wire ropes are attached to the metallic
shaft which carries a toothed cogwheel and by means of a handle and pawl the
bar or rail is raised or lowered and retained at any required height for the purpose
of supporting a wood boarding and mattress lath frame and mattress or a strained
metallic wire spring mattress fixed in a frame for the purpose of forming an incline
plain.
This bedstead invention is simply to obtain any desired inclination of an incline
plain which may be accomplished in different ways but for good working effect and
to do away with a feeling that it is not an invalid bedstead made for infirm disabled

page_text: or sick to lay upon the raised bedstead bottom and the rising and lowering
appliances at the head end are out of sight.
Dated this 16th day of February 1894.
GEORGE RYDILL 14 Tudor Street Sheffield Merchant do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to he
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention consists and has for its principal object in the first place the
construction of a wood or metallic bedstead bottom or a bedstead and mattress that
shall form from the head of a bedstead to the foot of a bedstead an incline plane to
sleep upon by making a bedstead bottom or mattress in the form of an incline
plane or by mechanical or other means to raise the legs of a bedstead or a rising
bar or rail at the head of a bedstead for the purpose of raising a boarded bottoni
and mattress, lath frame and mattress or a strained metallic wire spring mattress
fixed in a frame made the length and width of a bedstead bottom into a slanting
inclination of an incline plane by raising a bedstead or a bedstead bottom at the
head end for the purpose of causing a person when sleeping on a bed to breath with
greater ease than hitherto by enabling the heart liver, lungs and kidneys to work
in a more natural position for keeping up Natures electricity in the body while
sleeping causing the digestive organs to work better giving a easier circulation of
the blood and enabling the kidneys more easily to pass water from the body
thereby preventing the accumulation of uric acid in the system which is known to
be the cause of rheumatism as well as many other diseases when it remains too long
in the system and the invention may be applied wholly or in part to bedsteads that
are already made without necessitating alterations of parts as hereinafter set forth
by which a more effective device of this character is produced thau is now in
ordinary use and is especially beneficial to human life.
The object of the invention is to construct a wood or metallic bedstead the head
and foot of the bedstead being similar to those of the ordinary wood and metallic
bedstead with the following exceptions or additions the side rails are not horizontal
but form an inclination of an incline plane from the head of the bedstead to the
foot by the legs being higher or longer at the head end on the underside of the
bedstead bottom than they are at the foot by attaching the side rails of a bedstead
to the bed posts or their connections one on each side at the head of the bedstead
at a higher level at the head of a bedstead by one, two, three, four, five, six
or more inches than the bedstead legs or supports are made and attached to the
posts at the foot of the bedstead causing the bottom of a bedstead on which a
person rests to form a slanting inclination of an incline plane so that a person
sleeping on a bed rests in a position that the head body and legs are at a higher
Jevel than the heels of the feet which may be accomplished when the joints of a
bedstead are beveled a little or made to fit each other to give stability without any
additional cost in the making of a new bedstead.
In wood bedsteads that are already made the laths run crosswise leaving a space
of several inches betwixt the back rail at the head of a bedstead and the first lath
placed across at the head end of several inches. But in metallic bedsteads which
are already made with metallic laths stretch both across from one side rail to the
other and longitudinally from the foot rail across the bottom of a bedstead to the
cross rail at the head of a bedstead which does not leave a clear open space from.
one side rail to the other at the bedstead head end. But in order that an open
space may be left or made when desired at the head end of a bedstead extending

page_text: from one side rail to the other I place across the bedstead bottom a rail of wood or
metal at a distance according to requirements of one, two or more inches from the
cross rail at the head of the bedstead and substantially fix the same to the side rails
by screws bolts and nuts or by any other suitable means being strong enough to
carry and hold in a fixed position longitudinally the metallic lath of a bedstead
bottom extending from the bottom cross rail at the foot of a bedstead to the cross
rail of wood or metal fixed across and near the bedstead head cross rail and the
metallic laths are attached in the usual way when such an additional rail is found
necessary.
In making a new bedstead having a slanting inclination of an incline plane of
four, five, six or more inches from the bedstead head to the foot such a bedstead
may be raised at the head when desired one, two, three, four, five, six or more
additional inches by placing suitable turned wood iron moulded glass, earthenware,
marble, stone, burnt clay or other suitable substance having a hollow on the top
:side to receive the underside of the bed posts or casters at the head end of the
bedstead and the substances to raise the bedstead feet may be made if desired to
carry a caster on the underside which substances may be readily placed under the
legs or feet of a bedstead or cot in order to give them an inclination of an incline
plane.
Or the legs at the head end of a bedstead or cot when not hollow are bored
out on the underside to receive and retain a she screwed threaded metallic socket
having a flange on its outer end in order that it may be fixed by screws firmly on
to the underside of the bedstead head posts or cot feet and a screwed threaded he
bolt having a flanged end is made to screw into the screwed she socket and attached
to the flange of the screwed he bolt on its underside is fixed a suitable turned piece
of wood metal caster or other suitable substance so that when the he bolt is screwed
up into the she socket and on unturning the foot end of the screwed bolt such raises
the bedstead or cot at the head end to form an inclination of an incline plane from
the head to the foot.
Or the two legs on the underside of a bedstead bottom at the head end may be
screw threaded on the outside and a hollow screwed socket may be screwed on to
each leg in order that the height of a bedstead at the head end may be regulated
or the hollow sockets may be unscrewed and by means of a screwed nut or nuts
working on each screwed leg. the height at the head end of a bedstead may be
regulated to form an incline plane or holes may be bored through an unscrewed
hollow socket one placed on each leg to correspond with holes bored through and up
each leg and by means of a screw or bolt put through the holes in each socket and
the legs and by means of a screwed nut or nuts the hollow sockets may be fixed at
.any required height at the head end of a bedstead to form an inclination of an
incline plane.
Or a bedstead is made of wood or metallic substance having its bottom formed to
have an incline plane and on placing a packed mattress filled with spiral springs,
straw, woollen flock, hair or other material made in the form of an incline plane
and on placing the same on the top of the incline plane bedstead bottom such gives to
the bedstead a greater inclination of an incline plane but when such is found not
to give a sufficient inclination of an incline plane then I remove the packed incline
plane mattress from the top of the incline plane bedstead bottom and place a piece of
wood hollow metal or other suitable substance across the bedstead bottom at the
head end of any required thickness which is bolted or fixed to the side rails of the
bedstead or attached to the posts or back rail of the bedstead and on placing a
suitable made boarding being the length and width of the bedstead bottom on the
top of the cross piece of wood hollow metal or other suitable substance at the head
-end extending to the foot of the bedstead and on placing the incline plane packed
mattress on the top of the incline plane boarding forms a greater inclination of an
incline plane which may be readily adapted to the ordinary type of iron or wood
.bedsteads.
In constructing a wood or metallic bedstead having the bottom made forming.

page_text: an inclination of an incline plane I place a piece of wood, rolled or cast hollow
metal or other substance to form a sleeper of three or more inches in thickness of
any required breadth having a groove on the top side or two holes are bored or
drilled in or through the piece of wood, rolled or cast hollow metal or other
substance which is placed across the bedstead bottom at the head end to form a
sleeper which ends are fixed to the two side rails of the bedstead by screws bolts
and nuts or fixed by any other suitable means to keep the sleeper in a fixed position.
When it is required to have the head end of a bedstead raised or built up in
sectional parts so that any required inclination of an incline plane may be obtained
I form a groove on the top side of a second sleeper piece of wood rolled or cast
hollow metal or other substance having a tongue on the underside made to fit into
the groove when placed on the top of the first fixed sleeper piece of wood rolled
or cast hollow metal or other substance or two short pieces of iron or other metal
may have one end screwed or fixed into the second sleeper piece of wood rolled or
cast hollow metal or other substance on its underside at a suitable distance to fit
into the holes of the first fixed hollow groove piece of wood rolled or cast hollow
metal or other substance.
In this way any required number of sections of any required thickness
may be placed with firmness one upon another and on placing a wood
boarding and mattress lath frame and mattress or a strained metallic wire
spring mattress fixed in a frame made the length and width of the bottom
of a bedstead on the top of the bedstead bottom such boarding and inattress
lath frame and mattress or a metallic strained wire spring mattress can be
readily attached to the side rails or posts at the foot of a bedstead by hinges,
bolts or a metal guide projection fixed to the side rails in order to prevent
slipping on one side allowing the wood boarding and mattress, lath frame and
mattress or a strained metallic wire spring mattress fixed in a frame to be raised
or lowered at the head end of a bedstead to form any desired inclination of an
incline plane and in order to give support in the middle on the underside of such
boarding and mattress, lath frame and mattress or a strained metallic wire spring
mattress I place a wood sleeper or a row of tempered spiral steel or other metallic
springs set betwixt two pieces of wood or metal extending across about the middle
of the bedstead bottom from one side rail to the other, being suitably fixed to the
side rails on the top of the bedstead supporting the underside of the wood boarding
carrying a mattress, lath frame and mattress or a strained metallic wire spring
mattress in order to give support.
Or tempered spiral springs of any required strength or height may be fixed
betwixt two pieces of wood or metal and extend across from one side rail to the
other at the head end of a bedstead and the top piece attached to the springs may
work or slide in a groove or other guide to keep the springs upright in order to
carry the wood boarding and mattress lath frame and mattress or a strained
metallic wire spring mattress with a view to give support and ease to a bedstead
bottom on which a person rests.
1 have named simple and most inexpensive arrangements to effect this without
mechanical appliances but by leaving a clear open space near to the bedstead
head end I am enabled to fix under the bedstead bottom or on the top side at the
head end to each standard bed post at the head of the bedstead and. to the rail
connecting the two bed posts together grooved racks made of wood or metal so
that a strong suitably made piece of wood or metal can extend across the
bedstead at the head end and slide into grooves at any required height, the
outer edge projects and may carry a moulding like a shelf and by means of
screws or bolts can be held in a fixed position or released when desired and again
fixed in grooves at a lower or a higher level to regulate the height and support a
wood boarding carrying a mattress, lath frame and mattress or a strained metallic
wire spring mattress fixed in a frame.
Or instead of two grooved racks two metallic tooth racks the teeth of which
turn upwards like a tenter hook and the same may be fixed at the head end to each

page_text: standard bed post and to the rail connecting the two bed posts together and a suitable
made piece of wood or metal extends across at the head end of the bedstead which
carries two bent irons suitably made to hook on to the metallic tenter hook racks
and by means of screws can be held in a fixed position or released when desired by
unscrewing the screws and again fixed at a higher or a lower level for the purpose
of supporting a wood boarding carrying a mattress, lath frame and mattress or a
strained metallic wire spring mattress fixed in a frame for the purpose of forming
an incline plane.
Or I make a wood or metal frame attached in any suitable way that will give
firmness at the head end of a bedstead under the bedstead bottom fixed to the
two bedstead standards or posts and the rail connecting the two bedposts together.
At each end of the frame a number of holes are bored one above another and screw
taped to which is fixed by screws a wood or metal projecting kind of shelf which
may be fixed or lowered as desired at the head end of a bedstead by screwing and
unscrewing the screws which fix it to the frame for the purpose of supporting a
wood boarding carrying a mattress, lath frame and mattress or a strained
metallic wire spring mattress fixed in a frame for the purpose of forming an incline
plane.
Or two hollow metallic tubes or sockets are made any required shape the length
and width of each bedstead leg on the underside of the bedstead bottom at the
head end. The ends of each tube or socket are made up and may carry a caster
in case I wish to raise the legs of a bedstead at the head end four inches I put
into the two hollow metallic tubes or sockets small metal balls, pellets or other
suitable substance to the thickness of four inches and on placing the foot of each
bedstead leg into each tube or socket such are raised four inches at the head end.
In case the bedstead legs at the head end are larger at the bottom than they are
higher up the legs I then make two half rounds or two half squares or any other
shape to fit on to the top of the tubes or sockets to keep them in a upright
position in this way the bedstead legs may be raised or lowered according to
requirements.
Or I effect the adjustment of a rising or a falling bar or rail by making a one
sided or a two sided wood or metal frame the ends of which are made to carry
suitable metallic bearings for a metallic shaft carrying two toothed cogwheels to
work in opposite the two cogwheels are fixed or formed in the wood or metal frame
two metallic dovetail grooves for two metallic dovetailed tooth racks attached
to a rising or falling bar or rail to slide in and the two toothed dovetail tooth
racks work in gear with the two toothed cogwheels. The metallic shaft may
be made to revolve by means of a handle fixed on to the end of the metallic shaft
and by means of a pawl the cogwheels are held in a fixed position until released.
This wood or metallic frame I attach in any suitable way that will give firmness
and strength at the head end of a bedstead under the bedstead bottom fixed to the
two bedstead standards or posts and the cross top rail fixed betwixt the bedstead
posts for the purpose of carrying raising or lowering at the head end of a
bedstead a wood boarding and mattress lath frame and mattress or a strained
metallic wire spring mattress fixed in a frame.
Or a rising or falling bar or rail may be made in wood or metal in the form
of a shelf extending across the bedstead at the head end the ends of which slide
in two grooves formed at each end of a wood or metal frame fixed on the under-
side of the bedstead bottom and on the back side or on the front side of the
frame is fixed near the top a metallic shaft working in two suitable metallic
bearings and two small wire ropes are attached on the underside of the rising and
falling bar or rail near each end and the other ends of the wire ropes are attached
to the metallic shaft which carries a toothed cogwheel and by means of a handle
and pawl the bar or rail is raised or lowered and retained at any required height
for the purpose of supporting a wood boarding and mattress, lath frame and
mattress or a strained metallic wire spring mattress fixed in a frame for the
purpose of forming an incline plane.

page_text: This bedstead invention is. simply to obtain any desired inclination of an incline
plane which may be accomplished in different ways but for good working effect
and to do away with a feeling that it is not an invalid bedstead, made for infirm
disabled or sick to lay upon the raised bedstead bottom and its rising and lowering
appliances at the head end are out of sight.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is-
1. The construction of wood or metallic bedsteads so that the side rails and
bottom of a bedstead form a slanting inclination of an incline plane from the head
to the foot as and for the purpose set forth.
2. The construction of a wood or metallic bedstead having a cross rail of wood
or metal substantially fixed to the side rails of a bedstead at a distance of one or
more inches from the back rail at the head of a bedstead in order to leave an open
space from one side rail to the other for the purpose of supporting longitudinally
the metallic laths as berein described.
3. The raising of bedstead feet at the head end one, two or more additional
inches by placing suitable turned wood, iron, moulded glass, earthenware, marble
stone, burut clay or other suitable substance which may carry a castor as herein
described.
4. The making of hollow or boring out of wood or metallic bedstead legs on the
underside at the head end to receive and retain a she screwed threaded metallic
socket for receiving a screwed he bolt carrying a castor for the purpose of raising
a bedstead at the head end to form an inclined plane as herein described.
5. The making of wood or metallic bedstead legs on the underside of a bed-
stead at the head end screw threaded on the outside to receive a hollow
screwed socket on each of the two legs in order to regulate the height or the
hollow sockets may be unscrewed and by means of a screwed nut on each
leg regulates the height or I bore holes through unscrewed legs and place
bored hollow sockets on them and by means of screws or bolts put through
the holes in each socket so that any required height may be obtained to form
an incline plane as herein described.
6. The making of an incline mattress and raising the same at the head of a
bedstead by means of wood or metal sections as herein described.
7. The raising of a wood boarding and mattress lath frame and mattress or a
strained metallic wire spring mattress fixed in a frame as herein described.
8. The adaptation of spiral springs placed betwixt two pieces of wood or
metal at the head end of a bedstead in order to carry a wood boarding and
mattress lath frame and mattress or a strained metallic wire spring mattress as
herein described.
9. The fixing of a grooved rack at the head of a bedstead to carry a moulding
like a shelf to regulate the height and support a wood boarding lath frame and
mattress or a strained metallic wire spring mattress.
10. The raising of bedstead feet at the head end by means of metallic tubes
or sockets carrying a castor to be filled on the inside to any required height
with metal balls or other suitable substance to raise the bedstead legs at the
head end and to give firmness to the legs two half rounds or squares of metal fit
into the tubes round the top as herein described.
11. The adjustment of a rising bar or rail by making a wood or metal frame
carrying suitable bearings and a metallic shelf, cog wheels pawl and rack fixed on
the underside of the bed to the bed posts at the head end in order to regulate the
height of a wood boarding and mattress lath frame and mattress or a strained
metallic wire spring mattress as herein described.
12. The raising or lowering of a falling bar or rail sliding in grooves fixed on
the underside of a bedstead at the head end by means of wire ropes metal shaft,
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page_text: cog-wheel and pawl to enable a wood boarding and mattress lath frame and
mattress or a strained metallic wire spring mattress fixed in a frame to be regulated
as herein described.
Dated this Fifteenth day of November 1894.