Combining Child's Cot with Ordinary Bedstead.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Mar., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 5th Dec., 1895-Accepted, 11th Jan., 1896
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Combining Child's Cot with Ordinary Bedstead.
1 EDWARD JAMES DEANE of 37 Malmesbury Road Canning Town, London, in-
the County of Essex, Electrician do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
In rooms where space is limited it is sometimes difficult to find sufficient room
for a full sized bedstead and a child's cot when these are constructed separately,
and the object of my invention is to secure the combination of a cot with an.
ordinary bedstead in such a way as to economise floor space.
For this purpose I construct a bedstead in which the rails above the main cross-
bar at the foot of the bed are omitted, and in place thereof arrangements are made.
for attaching a cot to the foot posts or to prolongations of them in such a way that
the cot is partly supported over the lower end of the bedstead, and partly overhangs.
below the extremity of the latter, the length of the cot being in direction of the
width of the main bed.
The cot when in position completes the lower or foot frame of the main bedstead
and is placed at such a height as to allow the feet of an adult sleeper upon the
main bedstead to pass beneath it.
If desired the cot may be entirely detachable from the main bedstead and.
provision may be made for varying the extent to which it overhangs the main bed
or the floor beyond.
Dated this Fourth day of March 1895,
EDWARD JAMES DEANE,
Applicant,
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Combining Child's Cot with Ordinary Bedstead,
EDWARD JAMES DEANE of 93 Percy Road, Canning Town London in the
County of Essex, Electrician, late of 37 Malmesbury Road Canning Town
London in the County of Essex Electrician 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 :-
In rooms where space is limited it is sometimes difficult to find sufficient room
for a full sized bedstead and a child's cot when these are constructed separately,
and the object of my invention is to secure the combination of a cot with an
ordinary bedstead in such a way as to economise floor space.
For this purpose I construct a bedstead in which the rails above the main cross
bar at the foot of the bed are omitted, and in place thereof arrangements are made
for attaching a cot to the foot posts or to prolongations of them in such a way that
the cot is partly supported over the lower end of the bedstead and partly overhangs
below the extremity of the latter, the length of the cot being in the direction of
the width of the main bed.
The oot when in position completes the lower or foot frame of the main bedstead,
and is placed at such a height as to allow the feet of an adult sleeper upon the
main bedstead to pass beneath it.

page_text: If desired the cot may be entirely detachable from the main bedstead, and
provision may be made for varying the extent to which it overhangs the main bed
or the floor beyond.
A cot A which may be of any convenient construction supported between the
foot posts by suitable detachable joints B, B, B, and working on sliding bars C, C, C,
through the aforesaid joints.
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.) The combination of a childs cot with an ordinary bedstead in such a manner
as to economise floor space, substantially as in herebefore described and illustrated
in the drawing.
(2.) The combination of a childs cot with an ordinary bedstead, with provision
for extending the cot over the main bedstead or the floor beyond, substantially as
hereinbefore described and illustrated in the drawings.
(3.) The combination of a childs cot with an ordinary bedstead, with provision
for detaching if necessary, substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated
in the drawing.
(4.) The combination of a childs cot with an ordinary bedstead constructed as
bereinbefore described, reference being had to the accompanying sheet of
drawings.
Dated this 4th day of December 1895.
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