Year: 1886

page_text: I EDWARD PEYTON of Bordesley Works Birmingham in the County of Warwick
Metal Bedstead Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This Invention has for its object an improved. construction of metal bedsteads and
relates to the arrangement and application of the brackets employed to strengthen
and support the half testers of such bedsteads.
Heretofore the brackets have been either rigidly fixed to the tester or made
separately therefrom in, which latter case they are liable to be lost in transit and the
object of my present improvement is to permanently connect them to the tester so as
to be capable of moving or swinging thereon for facility in packing and to prevent.
them from being lost.
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: An Improvement in the Construction of Certain Parts of Metal
Bedsteads.
I EDWARD PEYTON of Bordesley Works Birmingham in the County of Warwick
Metal Bedstead 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 :—
This invention has for its object an improved construction of certain parts of metal
bedsteads and relates to the arrangement and application of the brackets employed
to strengthen and support the half testers of such bedsteads.
Heretofore the brackets have been either rigidly fixed to the tester or made
separately therefrom in which latter case they are liable to be lost in transit and the
object of my present improvement is to permanently connect them to the tester so as
to be capable of moving or swinging thereon for facility in packing and to prevent
them from being lost.
And in order that this invention may be more fully understood and readily carried
into practice I will proceed to describe the drawings hereto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 represents a half tester of a metal bedstead with brackets in position when
the bedstead is fixed for use. Figure 2 represents a bracket loose from the tester and
Figure 3 represents a half tester and bracket made in accordance with my improved
method, when the bracket is folded, but not disconnected from the half tester, for
convenience for packing, or when put away in stock or out of use.
Hitherto the bracket shown by Figure 2 has been either altogether disconnected, or
has been permanently attached to the tester in one position, viz., that which it must
occupy when the bedstead is fixed for use, and consequently at a right angle to the
tester, thus being liable to be broken and inconvenient for packing.
Now according to my improvements brackets are attached to half testers, but in
such a manner that at the point of attachment they revolve upon the tester rods, but
cannot move longitudinally.
The advantages of this improved construction are economy but especially the
combination of these two characteristics, viz., that the bracket being attached to the
tester rods cannot be lost, but being moveable can be folded in the same plane with
the half tester rods, for convenience and security when required to occupy the smallest
space for packing or storage.
A is the main stay or principal rod of a half tester to a bedstead. a. a are sockets
forming part of the bracket working loose on the rod A but prevented from moving
longitudinally by the collars b. b. It is obvious that when the bedstead is fixed for
use the bracket can occupy the position represented by Figure 1 and can equally

page_text: well occupy the position represented in Figure 3 when desired for the convenience of
packing or storeage.
The application of my improvements to childrens cots and bedsteads is represented
by Figures 4 and 5 of the drawings. In this case the entire half tester is attached
to a rod connecting the pillars of the cot or bedstead in the same way as in the
arrangement previously described. The brackets are attached to the half tester rod,
and the half tester capable of revolving in the same way as the brackets do.
Figure 4 represents the position of the parts when fixed for use, and Figure 5 the
position when closed for packing or storeage.
As in Figures 1, 2 and 3 A is the rod which is the axis on which the revolving
motion takes place, and a. a. are sockets. The action and advantages are the same as
in the arrangement first described and illustrated by Figures 1. 2 and 3.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is:-
The improved method of mounting or attaching the brackets to the half testers of
metal bedsteads so that the two together form one part of a bedstead, but while
attached thereto the brackets can at pleasure occupy either of two positions, the
one suitable when the bedstead is in use and the other suitable for security from
injury and economy of space for packing or storeage substantially in the manner
herein before described and represented in the drawings annexed.