Improvements in Bedsteads and Cots.
Year: 1898

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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bedsteads and Cots.
We, JOHN EBENEZER HOSKINS, Managing Director of Hoskins and Sewell,
Limited, of Bordesley, in the City of Birmingham, Bedstead Manufacturers, and
GEORGE RATHERAM PAYNE, of Hazelwood, Wake Green Road, Moseley, near
Birmingham, aforesaid, Manager of Department, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows;
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This invention relates to an improved means for connecting the head and foot
end rails or the pillars thereof, to the framings of bedsteads and cots, and has for
its object principally, to dispense with the employment of cast junctions and
corner mounts, thereby reducing the cost of manufacture and producing a novel
and ornamental appearance.
In carrying out one form of the improvements, each corner chill or dovetail
block of the bedstead frame is provided with a projection or lug disposed out-
wardly in the longer direction of the bed. This lug is adapted to engage into
and fit within the corresponding corner pillar, which is preferably of a square or
other angular section, with its inner sides lying against the sides of the lug, whose
outer face has a screwed stalk projecting through, or disposed in line with, a
piercing in the front side of the angular and hollow pillar and adapted to receive
a washer and a sleeved or other nut and inside screwed cap by which the con-
nection of the parts is effected. An internal strengthening plate, which may also
be slipped onto the pin, is provided to come against the inner side of the pillar
and prevent the same being bulged inwards by the screwing up of the clamping
nut, the head of which may be of any shape in character with the head or foot
rail to be produced.
To prevent the downward strains coming directly upon the hollow pillars, con-
cealed legs are provided, whose upper ends are screwed and take into wormed
vertical holes in the projecting lug, whilst the lower ends are cast into feet,
having castors as usual, and upon the top sides of which, the lower edges of the
hollow pillars rest. By this arrangement, the whole of the weight applied to a
bedstead is borne by the concealed leg members, which are made sufficiently strong
for the purpose.
As another arrangement, the upper ends of the said screened legs or supports
may have long stout wires or pegs cast with or otherwise connected to them,
which are passed through thoroughfare vertical holes in the lugs of the corner
blocks engaging the hollow pillars and project through to and beyond the upper
ends of the latter. The said projecting parts of the pegs are screwed and receive
knobs or other terminals, which act as nuts for drawing together the assembled
parts when wrung up.
It is understood that in every case, the lugs of the corner blocks approximate

page_text: in shape to the inside of the hollow pillars, so that the connection of the one to
the other is made rigid.
Dated this 28th day of November 1898.
JOHN EBENEZER HOSKINS,
GEORGE RATHERAM PAYNE,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicants.
Improvements in Bedsteads and Cots.
We, JOHN EBENEZER HOSKINS, Managing Director of Hoskins and Sewell
Limited, of Bordesley, in the City of Birmingham, Bedstead Manufacturers, and
GEORGE RATHERAM PAYNE, of Hazelwood, Wake Green Road, Moseley, near
Birmingham, aforesaid, Manager of Departament, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particu-
larly described and ascertained in and by the following statement;-
This invention relates to means for connecting bedstead or cot framings to
their pillars or supports without the employment of outstanding corner blocks
or junctions, and is particularly applicable to bedsteads in which the square or
angular sectioned tubular members are employed in the construction of the end
rails and pillars.
The principal object of the invention is to conceal the means of connection
between the said parts, whereby the plain character of the pillars is preserved
and the simplicity of the design of the rails is not interrupted or marred by
unsightly corner junctions, mounts or other projecting parts."
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents an elevation of the foot rail
of a bedstead, made up from square sectioned members, and to the pillars of
which the framing is connected by concealed means in accordance with one form
of our invention.
Figure 2 is an edge view of Figure 1.
Figure 3 represents, upon an enlarged scale, a portion of one of the pillars
within which the connection means is concealed.
Figure 4 represents a section of Figure 3 upon the dotted line, and looking
towards the pillar.
Figure 5 represents a vertical section of the said pillars and its concealed con-
nections upon the dotted line, Figure 3, showing also the concealed leg by
which the weight of the bed is borne instead of by the pillar.
Figure 6 shows partly in similar section and partly in elevation, the whole of
the parts separately.
Figure 7 is a section of Figure 5 upon the dotted line r³.
Figure 8 represents the several separated parts, some of them being shown in
plan and others in section upon the said dotted line.
Figure 9 represents a separate front elevation of the nut or cap.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the said Figures 1
to 9.
In carrying out this form of our invention, each corner chill or dovetail
block a of the bedstead frame is provided with a shank-like extension or lug b,
disposed outwardly in the longer direction of the bed, and adapted to be passed
inwardly through a corresponding gap or hole c¹, in the contiguous side of a
pillar c, which, in the form shown in the drawings, is of a square section, whilst
the lug extension of the dovetail block is of a similar section, so that when

page_text: engaged with the said pillar, the outer sides of the one come against the inner
sides of the other, whereby a rigid connection is obtained. Fitted to the outer
end of the lug extension is a screwed stalk d, projecting through a piercing,
in the front side, of the angular and hollow pillar and adapted to receive the
sleeved part el, of a nut or inside screwed cap e, by the screwing up of which the
connection of the parts is effected. An internal strengthening plate or liner f
is provided to come against the inner side of the said front of the pillar and
prevent the same being bulged inwards by the screwing up of the clamping nut,
the head of which may be of any shape in character with the head or foot rail to
be produced.
To relieve the hollow corner pillars of the weight of the bed, each said pillar
may be provided with a concealed leg such as y, whose upper end is fitted with
a screwed stalk g', taking into a wormed vertical hole 1, in the lug extension b,
which fills up the interior scape between the sides of the pillar at the part where-
into it engages, whilst the lower end g², of the said concealed leg is fitted with
a castor h, which may be of any approved construction.
By securing a bedstead bottom frame to the angular sectioned hollow pillars of
the end rails in the manner herein described, viz., by a lug extension of the corner
block fitting within, and filling up a portion of the interior of, the said pillar,
with the engaging parts being fastened together by a screw, nut and liner plate
arrangement, the connection is both neatly and rigidly effected, and there is a
complete absence of any projecting or unsightly parts likely to mar that simplicity
of design which is the principal characteristic of end rails made up of straight
and plain square or like sectioned members. Further, by relieving the said
pillars of direct strains by the employment of concealed legs in conjunction with
the internally located lug extensions of the corner blocks, an auxiliary means for
preventing the disconnection of the corners from the pillars is provided, the
attachment of castors is facilitated and the structure is materially strengthened,
whilst the pillars may be made of comparitively thin metal (usually brass)
without weakening the bedstead.
Figure 10 represents a sectional view of a modification of our invention in
which the sleeved nut c, of the previously described form is dispensed with so that
the front face of the pillar is perfectly flush throughout.
« is one of the corners of a bottom frame and b is the square-sided lug extension,
approximating in shape, or nearly so, to the inside of a square-sectioned hollow
pillar c, of an end rail, having a gap c, to admit of the said lug being introduced
into the interior of the said pillar. These said parts are secured together by a flush
headed screw e, passed from the front through a hole ², in the pillar and into a
tapped hole 6 in the lug and in order to strengthen the part of the said front wall
through which the screw passes, an internal support or liner f, is provided and
secured in position by small screws f', or otherwise. Concealed legs for relieving
the pillar of the weight of the bed may be employed in connection with this
arrangement.
Figure 11 represents an elevation of another form of our invention and
Figure 12 is a vertical section thereof.
Figure 13 is a horizontal section on the dotted line ..
In this modification, the upper end gl, of each of the concealed legs is provided
with a long stout wire or peg h cast in, or otherwise connected, and passing
upwardly, through a thoroughfare hole, in the internally located lug b, of the
corner block, to and beyond the upper end of the hollow pillar c.
The upper
extremity of the said peg is screwed at h¹, to receive a knob or other terminal i,
which acts as a nut for drawing together the assembled parts when screwed up,
whilst by the peg from the concealed leg passing through the extension of the
block, the disconnection or withdrawal of the latter from the pillar is prevented
without the employment of nuts or screws introduced from the side of the said
pillar, whose plain appearance is thereby preserved.
Or the rod made fast to the knob or terminal with its lower and wormed end

page_text: passed through a hole in the lug and screwing into a tapped hole in a plug at
the top of the concealed leg.
Instead of the pillars being square as described and represented they may be of
any other suitable section.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
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First Connecting the framings of bedsteads to their pillars or supports by a
lug or extension of the said frame taking into the interior of the pillar through
a hole in the side thereof and being there retained by a nut or equivalent engaging
with a screw on the said lug, substantially as described and set forth in Figures 1
to 9.
Secondly-Connecting the framings of bedsteads to their pillars or supports
by a lug or extension of the said frame taking into the interior of the pillar
through a hole in the side thereof, and being there retained by a screw passed
from the outside of the pillar into the said lug, substantially as described and set
forth in Figure 10.
Thirdly: In bedsteads and cots, the combination with the concealed con-
nections between the framing and its pillars or supports referred to in the
preceeding claims, of internal reinforcing plates or liners for preventing the
distortion of the pillars by the fastening nuts or screws, substantially as herein
described and set forth.
Fourthly In bedsteads and cots having concealed connections between the
framing and its pillars or supports, the employment of a concealed leg located
within the interior of the pillar connected to and directed downwards from an
inserted lug or projection of the frame, and to the lower end of which a castor or
foot is or may be attached, substantially as and for the purpose described and
set forth.
Fifthly Connecting the framings of bedsteads and cots to their pillars or
supports by concealed means substantially as represented in Figures 11, 12 and 13,
consisting of a peg or stalk passing through a hole in an inserted frame lug or
extension, and secured either by a knob or other terminal screwing onto its
upper end, or by its lower end screwing into the top of a concealed leg for the
purpose herein described.
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1000
JOHN EBENEZER HOSKINS,
GEORGE RATHERAM PAYNE,
By Henry Skerrett,
24, Temple Row, Birmingham,
Agent for Applicants.