Means or Appliances for Retaining Bed Clothing upon a Bed or the like.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Nov., 1886
Complete Left, 18th Aug., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 30th Sept., 1887.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Means or Appliances for Retaining Bed Clothing upon a Bed or
the like.
1, WILLIAM LLOYD WISE, of No. 46 Lincolns Inn Fields, in the County of Middlesex,
Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention,
(a communication to me from abroad by Jean Louis Remy, of Antwerp, in the
Kingdom of Belgium, Retired Captain of Infantry, Knight of the Order of Leopold,)
to be as follows:-
Persons reclining on a bed or couch are liable through turning or moving whilst
asleep to displace the coverings, and in this way chills are caught that sometimes cause
serious illness. Now the object of the present invention is to provide simple and
ready means of securing the bed covering clothing upon a bed or couch without
fastening the corners or causing inconvenience to the occupant who can readily adjust
the device to his or her liking. The appliance is such as will serve also to prevent
children falling out of bed, without at the same time unduly confining them. The bed
covering, though retained in place, is not so confined as to prevent the covering of
the occupant's shoulders, or even of his or her head when desired; and, as will be evident,
the use of this invention will in many cases obviate the necessity of placing the bed
or couch in proximity to a wall. The appliance comprises bands or straps arranged
crosswise, and provided with a central connection. The ends of the bands are
provided with hooks to engage with rings attached at the sides of the bedstead,
couch, or spring mattress, or it may be of the berth on board a ship, at convenient
distances respectively from the head and from the foot. The details may be varied
in practice.

page_text: According to one arrangement four bands or straps are employed which are
connected by a central ring of suitable material such as brass, which serves as a
kind of pivot or centre about which each of the straps may be independently
moved. The outer end of each band or strap is provided with a hook, it may
be a simple hook, or a small swivelling snap hook; the band being passed through
an opening in the part in which the hook proper swivels, and being provided with a
buckle with or without a tongue and buckle-strap. In the case of a metal bedstead
the rings provided at the sides for the hooks to engage with may be secured by split
rings surrounding the metal bars of the bedstead.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Means or Appliances for Retaining Bed Clothing upon a Bed or
the like.
I, WILLIAM LLOYD WISE, of No. 46 Lincolns Inn Fields, in the County of
Middlesex, Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention (a communication to me from abroad by Jean Louis Remy of Antwerp,
in the Kingdom of Belgium, Retired Captain of Infantry, Knight of the Order of
Leopold,) and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
Persons reclining on a bed or couch are liable through turning or moving whilst
asleep to displace the coverings, and in this way chills are caught that sometimes cause
serious illness. Now the object of the present invention is to provide simple and
ready means of securing the bed covering or clothing upon a bed or couch without
fastening the corners or causing inconvenience to the occupant who can readily adjust
the device to his or her liking.
The appliance is such as will serve also to prevent children falling out of bed,
without at the same time unduly confining them. The bed covering, though retained
in place, is not so confined as to prevent the covering of the occupant's shoulders, or
even of his or her head when desired, and as will be evident, the use of this invention
will in many cases obviate the necessity of placing the bed or couch in proximity to a
wall.
The appliance comprises bands or straps arranged crosswise, and provided with a
central connection.
The ends of the bands are provided with hooks to engage with rings attached at
the sides of the bedstead, couch, or spring mattress, or it may be of the berth on
board a ship at convenient distances respectively from the head and from the foot.
The details may be varied in practice.
According to one arrangement four bands or straps are employed which are
connected by a central ring of suitable material such as brass, which serves as a kind
of pivot or centre about which each of the straps may be independently moved. The
outer end of each band or strap is provided with a hook, it may be a simple hook, or a
small swivelling snap hook; the band being passed through an opening in the part in
which the hook proper swivels, and being provided with a buckle with or without a
tongue and buckle-strap. In the case of a metal bedstead the rings provided at the
sides for the hooks to engage with may be secured by split rings surrounding the metal
bars of the bedstead.
Referring to the accompanying illustrative drawing.
a, b; c, d ef; and 9
h
are four bands or straps arranged crosswise of the bed and
connected to each other at O by suitable means such as a ring or a metal connector

page_text: to which their adjacent ends are independently jointed or connected. Their other
ends a. de h are provided with hooks that engage with rings at M, N secured to the
sides of the mattress or to the bedstead as may be convenient. The bands or straps
are each passed through an opening in the part that carries the hook proper and are
provided with buckles so that the length may be readily adjusted according to
requirement, in a manner that will be readily understood.
It will be obvious that the number and arrangement of the bands or straps may be
variously modified, thus two bands or straps only may be used the one taking the
place of those marked a band g h in the drawing and the other the place of those
inarked c d and ef, the two being connected by a ring as before.
C
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claimed is :-
For retaining bed clothing upon a bed or the like, bands or straps arranged and
adapted to be applied substantially in the manner herein above described.
Dated th 19th at Ant 1007