Improvements in Supports to Facilitate the Moving of Bedsteads and other Furniture.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 28th May, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 27th Feb., 1:95-Accepted, 30th Mar., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Supports to Facilitate the Moving of Bedsteads
and other Furniture.
I, HARRIS HEAL, of 195, 196, 197 and 198 Tottenham Court Road, in the County
of Middlesex, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
The object of this invention is to enable bedsteads and other pieces of furniture
to be readily moved without damage to the floor or surface on which they rest.
For this purpose I provide the piece of furniture with concave rollers running on
half round rails upon the floor. The portion of the rail beneath the piece of
furniture when in its accustomed position is fixed to the floor. The remainder of
the rail being hinged by a rule joint to the fixed portion so that when it is not in
use it can be turned back out of the way beneath the piece of furniture. In order
to prevent the rollers from running off the rails stops are provided one at the outer
end of the moveable portion of the rail and the other upon the rule joint the latter
being so arranged that it lies to one side out of the track of the roller when the two
portions of the rail are in a line with each other but comes over the end of the fixed
portion of the rail when the moveable portion is turned back.
Dated this 25th day of May 1894.
HARRIS HEAL.
Improvements in Supports to Facilitate the Moving of Bedsteads
and other Furniture.
1, HARRIS HEAL, of 195, 196, 197 and 198 Tottenham Court Road, in the County
of Middlesex, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The object of this invention is to enable bedsteads and other pieces of furniture
to be readily moved without damage to the floor or surface on which they rest.
For this purpose I provide the piece of furniture with concave rollers running on
half round rails upon the floor. The portion of the rail beneath the piece of
furniture when in its accustomed position is fixed to the floor. The remainder of
the rail being hinged by a rule joint to the fixed portion so that when it is not in
use it can be turned back out of the way beneath the piece of furniture. In order
to prevent the rollers from running off the rails stops are provided one at the outer
end of the moveable portion of the rail and the other upon the rule joint the latter
being so arranged that it lies to one side out of the track of the roller when the two
portions of the rail are in a line with each other but comes over the end of the fixed
portion of the rail when the moveable portion is turned back.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a plan of one of the rails with the parts in the position they assume
when in use.
Figure 2 is a plan showing the moveable part of the rail turned back.
Figure 3 is a section on the line 3-3 Figure 1.
Figure 4 is a right hand end elevation of Figure 2.
Figures 5 and 6 are elevations of one of the rollers.
a is a rail fixed to the floor by screws passing through holes a' in it.
At one end
it has fixed to it a stop a² and at the other end parts a³ forming one half of a rule
joint. is a moveable rail having fixed to it parts b' forming the other half of the
rule joint. 2 is a pin fixed to b₁ and turning in a hole in a³. The pin & has fixed
to it a stop 63 which therefore turns with the rail 6 assuming the positions shown in
Figures 1 and 2. c Figures 5 and 6 is one of the rollers fixed to the piece of
furniture and adapted to run on the rails a and b.
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 combination of a fixed rail and a pivotted rail substantially as described.
2. The stop 63 carried by the pivotted rail substantially as described.
3. Supports to facilitate the moving of bedsteads and other furniture substantially
as described and shown in the drawings.
Dated this 6th day of February 1895.
HARRIS HEAL.