Improvements in Framing for Bedsteads, Ambulance Litters, Stools, Chairs, and other Furniture.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 6th May, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 8th Feb., 1897-Accepted, 20th Mar., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Framing for Bedsteads, Ambulance Litters, Stools,
Chairs, and other Furniture.
I, PETER JENSEN, of 77 Chancery Lane London, Chartered Patent Agent, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention, a communication from Karl Hilmer
Johansson Kollén trading as Svenska Mått and Tumstock-Fabriken of Sture-Platsen
Gothenburg, Sweden, Manufacturer, to be as follows:-
These improvements relate chiefly to means for readily joining and as readily
taking apart the frame parts of bedsteads, ambulances, stools, chairs and other
furniture.
At the end and inner side of one part, say the side limb of a bedstead framing is
formed a notch about three fourths circular in plan, the remaining fourth forming the
opening of the notch towards the inside of the framing. This notch is tapering to a
smaller size at the top. The other side limb has a similar notch. To connect the two
side limbs the cross limb is at each end provided with a conical or pyramid shaped
socket, say of sheet iron of a form and size corresponding to the conical notch in the
side limb of the framing. The socket is fixed to the cross limb by means of flanges
or in some other suitable manner, the flanges joining the circular part with rounded
corners, thus ensuring a firm union of the parts. The conical interior of the socket
serves to receive the leg. In a bedstead the framing would thus consist of two side
limbs and two cross limbs which are detachably united thereto by the cone sockets
described and carry the four legs.
A foursided stool or chair framing would be joined in a similar manner. If the
framing of the stool or other furniture has only three sides or more than four sides,
the number of sockets will be similarly according to the number of sides.
In connection with the aforesaid framing when applied to an ambulance litter,
tourist's bedstead and the like a roof of cloth or other suitable material is provided
which is hooked or buttoned on to ribs bent half round and attached to the side limbs
of the framing by two buttons at each end or otherwise so as not to swing out of
their upright position, the whole forming as it were a tent. The ribs may be steel
springs.
The improvements are applicable to framings of wood or of iron or to composite
framings.
1000
JENSEN & SON,
77 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Framing for Bedsteads, Ambulance Litters, Stools,
Chairs, and other Furniture.
I, PETER JENSEN of 77 Chancery Lane London Chartered Patent Agent do
hereby declare the nature of this invention, a communication to me from abroad by
Karl Hilmer Johansson Kollén trading as Svenska Mått & Tumstock-Fabriken of
Sture-Platsen Gothenburg Sweden, Manufacturer, and in what manner the same is to
be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
These improvements relate chiefly to means for readily joining and as readily
taking apart the frame parts of bedsteads, ambulances, stools, chairs and other
furniture.
Fig. 1 of the drawings is a vertical section and Fig. 2 a plan of the invention as
applied to a wooden bedstead frame; Fig. 3 is a plan view shewing it applied to
an iron bedstead frame with tubular sides. Figure 4 is a plan view shewing it
applied to a stool.
At the end and inner side of one part, say the side limb d of a bedstead framing,
is formed a notch about three fourths circular in plan, the remaining fourth forming
the opening of the notch towards the inside of the framing. This notch is tapering
to a smaller size at the top. The other side limb has a similar notch at each end.
To connect the two side limbs d the cross limbs bare at each end provided with a
conical or pyramid shaped or truncated socket a, say of sheet iron, of a form and
size corresponding to the conical notch in the side limb d of the framing. The
socket a is fixed to the cross limb b by means of flanges or in some other suitable
manner, the flanges as here shewn joining the circular part with rounded corners.
Or the sockets may be made in one piece with the cross limb b. The conical interior
of the socket serves to receive the leg c. In a bedstead the framing would thus
consist of two limbs d and two cross limbs b which are detachably united thereto by
the cone sockets described and carry the four legs c.
If
A four sided stool or chair framing would be joined in a similar manner.
the framing of the stool or other furniture has only three sides as shewn in Fig. 4
or more than four sides the number of sockets will be similarly according to the
number of sides.
Fig. 5 is a vertical part section, Fig. 6 a plan and Fig. 7 an end view
of the framing when applied to an ambulance litter, tourist's bedstead and
the like, a roof of cloth or other suitable material being then provided which
is hooked or buttoned or sewn on to ribs e bent half round and attached to
the side limbs of the framing by being inserted in a pocket formed by a recess in
the side limb d and by a plate which may be flush with the outside as shewn and
is so arranged that the ribs e cannot swing out of their upright position but never-
theless be very readily attached and detached; but the ribs may if desired be attached
at each end to the side limbs by means of two buttons and keyhole shaped slots or
by turnbuttons or by other suitable means. The whole thus forms as it were a tent.
The ribs e may suitably be flat steel springs that will pack flat for easy transport and
transit.
The improvements are applicable to framings of wood or of iron or to composite
framings; aluminium being in some cases applied.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what 1
claim is:-
1. Framing for bedsteads and other furniture consisting of three limbs and

page_text: characterized by that one limb is provided with a conical end socket the outside of
which fits in a corresponding conical notch in the second limb and the inside of which
receives the conical end of the third limb substantially as set forth.
2. The construction of framing in which the three limbs form the corner of a
bedstead or other piece of furniture, the legs at the upper end being shaped to fit
in the socket which latter forms the end of the side or end limb of the bed frame
while the recess wherein the socket enters is formed in the end or side limb of the
bed frame substantially as described with reference to Figs. 1 to 3 and 5 to 7.
3. The construction of framing for stools, and other furniture described with
reference to Fig. 4.
Dated this Eighth day of February 1897.
JENSEN & SON,
77 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.