Improvements in Bedsteads.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 5th July, 1897-Accepted, 30th Oct., 1897
Improvements in Bedsteads.
JOHN FRICK, Civil Engineer, of No. 1 Glazbury Road, West Kensington,
London, W., 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:-
My invention relates to improvements in bedsteads, to convert them into
another piece of furniture in a bedroom.
In order that my invention be clearly rendered reference may be had to the
accompanying three sheets of drawings:
Sheet No. 1 Fig. No. 1 shews a bedstead, thus shaped and balanced that any-
body, after having removed the wedge a may lift up the bed against the wall of
the bedroom, and by means of same wedge, as shown in Fig. 3, will make it
stand steadily upright, then converted into a sofa. In that position it will
occupy scarcely one third of the area the bed filled in the bedroom.
Fig. 6 shews the important quarter-circle piece on which the reversing is per-
formed; the centre of gravity of the bedstead is at Fig. 4; as soon as the weight
of the bed goes beyond it, the whole weight of the frame, will lay flat on the
tangent bg, and the sofa will be steady. The seat may then be raised, and
accommodation will be found for pillows and blankets in the box d Fig. 13bis.
The wedge Fig. 7 may have two knobs, corresponding to two little holes on the
quarter-circle, to prevent sliding. At Fig. 2, f, two small knobs are thus placed,
that the housemaid, with the handle of the broom, working as a crow-bar, will
easily adjust the bed against the wall. The two legs of the bedstead are removed,
as shown in Figs. 8 and 9, and put in the bottom of the box under the pillows;
Fig. 12, at d shows the box. The hole i, at Fig. 5, is filled with an ornamental
plug at Fig. 2; at Fig. 1, works as a handle to assist lifting, and as a rack
when the frame works as a bedstead.
Sheet 2 Fig. 10, shows same bedstead and sofa as a book-case, the supposed
shutters of the case at 7 are lowered, and turn on a hinge m; the seat is then
raised to meet, and works as a prop, and this arrangement supplies a desk, as
shown in Fig. 11; n Fig. 12, shows a small shutten to make the sofa-box accessible
when the frame is working as a hedstead; Fig. 13, and 13bis, show the way the
wire mattress is fixed, and how through a wedge and a small narrow board it
is raised and stiffned at discretion. Fig. 14-19 show how the legs of the bed-
stead are constructed, and that without screwing and simply by detaching
the knob b (Fig. 15 and Fig. 25b), to which the spigot is fastened, (Fig. 27) the
leg a together with the socket w of Fig. 25bis, are left loose. Fig. 17 at a,
shows a metallic ring to strengthen the leg in case it may be made of wood.
Sheet No. 3 shows how, by reversing the frame y, the bottom of bed z becoming
top of table, the bedstead is converted into a table; Fig. 22 shows how the
bed-fittings are stowed in the bed frame, and how they are kept in place, when
the frame is reversed, by three slabs b, b, b; Figs. 24, and 25, and 25bis, are
Cross sections showing the spigot and socket arrangement, and how the legs are

page_text: either attached or detached to the frame to form a table; and Fig. 26-27 the
way same legs are shortened to suit the height of the bedstead by the elimination
of b, Fig. 25.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
First. In a bedstead, the framing, combination, shape and parts whereby it
may be converted into another piece of furniture, or, vice-versa, any piece of
furniture converted into a bedstead, as herein described and shown.
Second. In a bedstead the reversing arrangement to lift it and fix it, and the
leg-adjustment and contrivance of spigot and socket, and the additional piece to
raise or lower bedstead or table, substantially as herein described, with reference
to the appended three sheets of drawings.