IMPROVEMENTS IN CHILDREN'S COTS
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edwin Ambrose Brydges, of the Firm of Brydges &
Co., Engineers & Patent Solicitors, of 73, Königgraetzer Strasse, in the City
of Berlin, German Empire, and 6, St. Leonard's Terrace, Upton, in the County
of Middlesex, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CHILDREN'S COTS."
A communication by Carl Schmidt, Mechanician, of the City of Berlin and
German Empire aforesaid.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edwin Ambrose Brydges at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th February 1881.
EDWIN AMBROSE BRYDGES, of the Firm of Brydges & Co., Engineers & Patent
Solicitors, of 73 Königgraetzer Strasse, in the City of Berlin, German Empire, and
"IMPROVEMENTS
6, St. Leonard's Terrace, Upton, in the County of Middlesex.
IN CHILDREN'S COTS." [A communication by Carl Schmidt, Mechanician, of the
City of Berlin and German Empire aforesaid.]
This Invention relates to improvements in children's cots, designed to prevent
the child from falling out of bed, to prevent all overheating of the genitals, and to.
hinder all possibility of unchastity.
The Invention is further of incalculable value for children's hospitals and for
sick or ailing children.
The principal features of the Invention are a cylindrical or semi circular cover, a
conical breast piece, two arm isolators, and an adjustable head piece.
A mattrass formed preferably in three parts is placed in the cot, and also a
bolster or pillow of wedge like shape or other suitable form. The child is laid on
its back with its arms behind the arm isolators, but so that the child's arms are
not hurt by closing the hollow cylindrical cover. The closed cover fits onto the
arm isolators, and onto a ledge formed on the cot, and is held in its position by
means of a spring catch or other similar device so that the child is not able to
open the cylinder.
The conical breast piece of the cylindrical cover is padded at the forward end so
that the child can suffer no harm.

page_text: When the cover is closed the child can move its arms freely outside the same,
and can turn itself as it may desire.
The cylindrical or semicylindrical cover can be provided with a suitable lining
according to the season.
In order to accommodate the head end of the bed to the size or length of the child,
and to prevent the same from leaving the bed, the head piece is made adjustable.
This moveable head piece is also well padded, and is preferably of semicircular
form. The bolster or pillow is also at its rear end next the head piece of semicircular
or other corresponding form.
The said head piece is guided by means of suitable guide pieces, and can be
moved backwards and forwards by means of a suitable device placed between
the rear surface of the head piece and the panel or head part of the cot.
This device may consist of a screw working in a suitable cylinder, which
cylinder is provided with corresponding screw threads, or a forked lever may be
employed. The upper end of one of the arms of the forked lever is provided with
suitable bearings.
A cramp or oblong ring or its equivalent is arranged to slide up and down on
the fixed arm of the lever so as to force the two arms from each other or bring
them together.
In order to give the child a suitable support for the feet, and to prevent its
slipping too far under the cylindrical or semicylindrical cover, and in order to be
able to use one and the same bed for children of various sizes, a suitable adjustable
foot board is employed.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Edwin Ambrose Brydges in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
24th August 1881.
EDWIN AMBROSE BRYDGES, of the Firm of Brydges and Co., Engineers and Patent
Solicitors, of 73, Königgraetzer Strasse, in the City of Berlin, German Empire,
and 6, St. Leonard's Terrace, Upton, in the County of Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS
IN CHILDREN'S COTS." A communication by Carl Schmidt, Mechanician, of the
City of Berlin and German Empire aforesaid.
My Invention relates to improvements in beds and bedsteads for children of
various sizes to prevent the same from falling out of bed, to further prevent all
overheating of the genitals, and hinder all possibility of unchastity. My said
Invention is further of incalculable value for children's hospitals, sick or ailing
children, etc. Fig. 1 is a plan or top view with the cover open; Fig. 2 is a like
view with closed cover; Fig. 3 is a section on the line 1-2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is an
end view with the cover open.
.
The principal features of my Invention are the cylindrical cover, the conical
breast piece, the two arm isolaters, and the adjustable head piece. A suitable
mattrass A formed preferably in three parts is placed in the bedstead, B, and also
the bolster or pillow C of wedge-like or other suitable form.
The child is laid on its back and its arms behind the arm-isolaters D, but so
that the child's arms are not hurt by closing the hollow cylindrical cover E.
The closed cover E fits on to the arm isolators D, and onto a ledge F on the
bedstead, and is held in its position by means of a spring catch F" or other similar
device, so that the child is not able to open the cylindrical cover E.
The conical breast piece of the cylindrical cover is thickly upholstered or padded
at the forward end so that the child can suffer no harm.
After the cover E has been closed the child can move its arms freely outside the
same, and can turn itself as it may desire.
The cylindrical or semicylindrical cover E can be provided with a suitable lining
according to the season.
In order to accommodate the head-end of the bed to the size or length of the
child; and to prevent the same from leaving the bed, the head piece G is made
adjustable.
For this purpose the moveable head piece G is well padded or upholstered, as
shewn at H, and is preferably of semicircular form. The bolster or wedge like
pillow C is also at its rear end next the head piece G of semicircular or other
corresponding form. The said head piece G is guided by means of suitable guide-
pieces K, K, between the laths or rods, and can be moved backwards or forwards
by means of a suitable device placed between the rear surface of the head piece and
the panel or head part of the bedstead. This said device can consist of a skeleton
frame work R acting as a forked lever, which is so arranged that as soon as the
blocks of wood or the loops, rings, or links of iron or other material are raised, the
frame R and the said head-piece G are moved towards the foot end of the bedstead.
These said blocks of wood M are so provided with a suitable opening that the same
can slide on the uprights N. These said uprights or pillars are firmly attached to
the head of the bedstead B, and are connected with each other by means of suitable
cross bars O. The upper cross bar O is cut out to receive the ends of the arms P
of the frame R, which acts as a forked lever to push the head piece G forward or
towards the foot end, or to withdraw the same, or to allow the head piece to be
drawn towards the head end of the bedstead.
Instead of moving the parts G, R, by hand direct a suitable screw arrangement

page_text: can be applied so as to cause the said part M to slide up and down on the uprights N.
Or the part M can be movably attached to the arms P of the frame-work or forked-
lever R, and arranged to so press against the head-board of the bedstead that a like
adjustment can be effected.
In order to give the child a suitable support for the feet, and to prevent its
slipping too far under the cylindrical or semicylindrical cover, and in order to be
able to use one and the same bed for children of various sizes a suitable adjustable
footboard S is employed. This said footboard is guided in the grooves T.
Having now described my said Invention, and the manner of carrying it into
effect, I desire it to be understood that the general arrangement of the parts of my
said Invention can be modified without departing from the tenour of my Invention,
but what I do claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,―
I. The construction and employment of the cylindrical or semicylindrical cover E
with the conical breast piece to the same, substantially as shewn in the accompanying
Drawings, and described in the foregoing Specification.
II. The construction, arrangement, and employment of the arm isolators D,
substantially as shewn in the accompanying Drawings, and described in the
foregoing Specification.
III. The construction and employment of the adjustable head-piece G and the
parts connected with the same, substantially as shewn in the accompanying
Drawings, and described in the foregoing Specification.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edwin Ambrose Brydges, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this 20th day of August, in the year of our Lord
1001
Witnesses,
JOHN O. TONKIN.
GUST. HUSSMANN.
EDWIN A. BRYDGES. (L.S.).