Improved Rail-joint for Metal Bedsteads.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Mar., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Dec., 1897-Accepted, 19th Mar., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Rail-joint for Metal Bedsteads.
I, SAMUEL NEWMAN, of 216 & 218, Main Street, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A., Manu̟-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide better means than at present exist for
connecting the side rails to the corner posts of metal bedsteads.
By this invention a substantially triangular bracket is secured at the required
height, to the bed-post, and has angular tenons projecting at right-angles there-
from. The side rails of the bed-usually made of angle iron-fit over the tenons,
and are secured thereto by a bolt which passes through the rail and the tenon and
also a washer, of triangular section, which fits into the inside angle of the tenon
and presents a flat surface, at right-angles to the bolt, against which a nut can be
firmly screwed down.
Dated this 21st day of March 1897
PERCY R. J. WILLIS,
Agent for Applicant.
Improved Rail-joint for Metal Bedsteads.
I, SAMUEL NEWMAN, of 216 & 218, Main Street, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A., Manu-
facturer, 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 better means than have heretofore
been employed for connecting the side rails to the corner posts of metal bedsteads.
Reference being had to the drawings; A refers to the bedpost having the usual
enlargement B, which, by this invention, is provided with angular tenons C. The
tenons C fit the interior surfaces of the bed rail ID as shewn at E. A. bolt F having
an angular shaped head G is passed through coincident perforations H, I, and a
triangular block or washer J which presents a flat surface K at right angles to
the bolt against which the nut L can be tightened.
The block or washer may however be dispensed with, and the tenons C be made
solid, or be cast integral with the block J as will be readily understood.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
(1) In a bedstead having posts provided with the usual substantially tri-
angular enlargement, tenons projecting from said enlargement, the bedrail
having perforations coincident with apertures in the tenons, a bolt passed through
said coincident apertures and having a head shaped to conform to the corner of the
bed rail and a nut adjusted to said bolt and bearing against a triangular block
fitting the interior surfaces of the tenon, substantially as and for the purposes
herein before set forth.
(2) In a bedstead having posts provided with a substantially triangular enlarge-
ment, solid triangular tenons projecting therefrom and adapted to fit the interior
surfaces of the bed rail, a bolt passed through coincident apertures in the bed rail
and tenous substantially as and for the purposes described.
(3) In a bedstead having posts provided with a substantially triangular enlarge-
ment, angular tenons projecting therefrom, and adapted to fit the interior surfaces
of the bed rail, a block of triangular section formed integral with and on the inner
sides of the tenons, a bolt passed through coincident apertures in the bed rail, tenon,
and block, and a nut adjusted to the bolt, substantially as described.
Dated this 22nd day of December 1897.