AN IMPROVED BEDSTEAD."
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Stanislas Antoine Baron, of Paris, in the Empire of
France, Gentleman, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED BEDSTEAD.""
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Stanislas Antoine Baron at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and
Declaration, on the 16th September 1864, pursuant to the 9th Section of
the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL. TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, STANISLAS
ANTOINE BARON, of Paris, in the Empire of France, Gentleman, send
.greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "AN IMPROVED BED-
STEAD," and have petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto me, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for the same, and have
made solemn Declaration that I am the true and first Inventor thereof:-
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Stanislas Antoine Baron, do hereby
declare that the following Complete Specification under my hand 'and 'seal
fully describes and ascertains the nature of the Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, reference being had to the accom-
panying, Drawings, and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to
say
My Invention consists in making a bedstead which, containing besides the
usual frame for mattresses and bedding divers compartments and drawers,

page_text: may serve as a substitute for night tables and other bedroom accessories, and
which I call and intend to be known as Baron's improved bedstead. This
bedstead is composed of an ordinary bedstead frame, made either of wood or
metal or metal and wood combined, and is represented in the accompanying
Drawings, Fig. 1 of which is an elevation, and Fig. 2 a plan view of the
same.
In both Figures, A is the bedstead; B, doors of cupboards in front of bed-
stead, which should shut hermetically; C, knob for opening doors; D, spring
corresponding to knobs C; E, cupboard for the ordinary chamber pot; F,
cupboard for the reserve chamber pot; G, inside door, shutting up hermeti-
cally the, reserve chamber pot; H, cupboard for washstand; I, drawers;
J, partitions; K, boxes, containing the cupboards and drawers; L, cushion
covering the washstand; M, doors of the drawers; N, spring mattress;
O, hinged rod, carrying a table top.
At the head and foot of the bedstead I place two boxes, in which are made
.compartments forming cupboards and drawers, intended for the following uses,
that is to say
Firstly, the compartment or cupboard placed at the foot of the bed in front
is intended to receive the ordinary chamber pot, the back one, shut in
hermetically by an inside door, is intended for placing a reserve chamber pot,
which may be used in case of sudden indisposition or illness.
Secondly, the cupboard placed at the head of the bed would contain the
objects necessary for ladies' toilet purposes.
At the back of each of these cupboards are placed two drawers, where shoes
or other articles may be put out of the way. The intermediate part is
intended for receiving the spring or other mattress. At the head, in order to
supply the absence of the mattress, the box is covered by a cushion; at the
same end may be placed a hinged rod O, fixed against one of the bedstead
panels, and carrying a small tablette or table top, which would replace the
top of the night table. In order to complete the bedding, one or
mattresses may be added, as for ordinary beds.
more
The object of this Invention is to do away with the night table generally
placed at the bed head, and to carry the chamber pots in the compartment at
It also allows of
the foot, thus preventing all disagreeable emanations.
economising the place usually occupied by the night table and other bed-room
furniture, and presents thus a great advantage in large towns where apart-
ments are generally of small size; lastly, a saving is effected in the price of the
spring mattress.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in

page_text: which the same is to be performed, I claim making bedsteads with compart-
ments intended for receiving toilet and other necessary accessories, and with a
table top and hinged rod (O), the whole substantially as above described and
represented in the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Stanislas Antoine Baron, have hereunto.
set my hand and seal, this Seventh day of September, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
STANISLAS A. BARON. (L.s.)