Improved Bedstead Stretcher.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 27th May, 1891
Complete Specification, Left, 25th Feb., 1892-Accepted, 26th Mar., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Bedstead Stretcher.
I, RICHARD HARRIS ELGOOD 29 Castle Street Leicester Metal Worker do.
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide a simple and adjustable arrangement
for expanding or stretching the framework of bedsteads and taking up the slack
in the auxiliary parts thereof.
After bedsteads have been in use any time they drop in the centre which makes.
it very uncomfortable.
According to my invention I provide a rod or strut of iron tubing or other
suitable material upon each end of which bears suitably shaped levers supported by
projections or hinged upon the said levers; one end of each of these levers is so.
shaped or bent so as to form a hook or hold upon the frame or angle iron of the
bedstead, or the levers may be arranged to bear upon the inside of frame of bed--
stead. The other end of these levers are secured in place by a worm and thumb
screw, or screwed tension rod and nut, or other suitable means, so as to be able to.
draw the said levers closer together, and in so doing expand the bed frame. The
strut or tube before mentioned serves as the fulcrum for the said levers, which when.
forced toward each other, expand the frame of the bedstead and so tighten the
laths. If desired these levers may be worked by eccentrics bearing on the bed
frame or the levers may be dispensed with and the strut tightened by means of
eccentrics or screwed collars on one or both ends which being screwed partly off
the strut would press against the frame of the bedstead.
Dated this 27th day of May 1891
E. EATON,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Bedstead Stretcher.
1, RICHARD HARRIS ELGOOD 29 Castle Street Leicester Metal Merchant 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 provide a simple & adjustable arrangement for
expanding or stretching the framework of bedsteads and taking up the slack in the.
auxiliary parts thereof.
After bedsteads have been in use any time they drop in the centre which makes
it very uncomfortable. According to my invention I provide a rod or strut of iron
tubing or other suitable material upon each end of which bears suitably shaped
levers, & supported by projections or hinged upon the said levers.
One end of each of these levers is so shaped or bent as to form a hook, or hold,,
upon the frame or angle iron of the bedstead, or the levers may be arranged to
bear upon the inside of frame of bedstead. The other end of these levers are
secured in place by a worm and thumb screw or screwed tension rod & nuts, or
other suitable means, so as to be able to draw the said levers closer together, and
in so doing expand the bed frame. The strut or tube before mentioned serves as
the fulcrum for the said levers which when forced towards each other, expands the
frame of the bedstead & so tighten the slats or laths.
If desired these levers may be worked by excentrics bearing on the bed frame, or
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page_text: the levers may be dispensed with and the strut tightened by means of excentrics,
or screwed collars on one or both ends, which being screwed partly off the struts
would press against the frame of the bedstead.
In order that my invention may be fully understood I annex drawings to which
I now refer.
Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of my bedstretcher.
Figure 2. shows a modified arrangement.
In Figure 1, a, a, are the side angle pieces of the bed; b, b, are two levers which
at c, c, bear upon the sides a, a, & by means of the projections d, d, support the
fulcrum rod e. Through the lower ends h, h, of these levers a screwed rod f
passes, on which the nuts or thumb screws g, g, are placed.
It will be seen that on screwing up the nuts g, g, so as to bring the ends h, h, of
the levers b, b, closer together, that the ends c, c, will stretch the sides a, a, of the
bed frame, by receding from one another.
In Figure 2, the rod i is supported by the hooks and collars j, j, to the sides a, a,
of the bed frame, one or both ends of the rod may be screwed and carry the cap k,
which when partially unscrewed from the rod i will stretch the sides a, a, of the bed
frame, or one or both ends of the rod i, may be provided with an excentric 1, by
the operation of which the bed frame may be stretched, by its bearing and pressing
against the frame of bedstead a, a.
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) In bedstead stretchers the combination & arrangement of the various parts
substantially as described & for the purpose set forth.
(2) In bedstead stretchers the use of two or more levers b, b, fulcrumed on
the rod e and operated by the screwed rod and nuts or thumbscrews 9, 9, sub-
stantially as described and for the purpose set forth.
(3) In bed stretchers, the use of a rod i supported to the bed frame by hooks
and collars in combination with and operated by screw caps or excentrics 1,
substantially as described & for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 25th day of February 1892.
E. EATON,
Agent for Applicant.