NEW OR IMPROVED COMBINED TRUNK AND BED
Year: 1885

page_text: I, GEORGE VUITTON, trading as Louis Vuitton, of 289 Oxford Street, London,
Trunk and bag manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of said invention for
A NEW OR IMPROVED COMBINED TRUNK AND BED, to be as follows:-
This invention embraces the combination of a trunk or case with a folding
travelling or camp bedstead, and making the trunk when open to act as a partial
support to the bed when open also when shut air and water tight-The trunk is
made so as to open in two pieces with sides of equal height, and in the sides are
four eyes into which pass four legs of the bed, the remaining two being supported
by a cross bar, outside the box-head and tail boards are used and serve also as cross
ties or stretchers, the frame of the bed is made of metal or wood or of both
combined of convenient lengths with butt hinges and a canvas bottom-the edges
of the sides of the box, either the upper or lower are supplied with a rubber tube
or piece of rubber which when the box is shut abut against or into a grooved or
other formed edge of the corresponding edges of the box and thus form an air and
water tight joint.
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HERBERT & Co.,
Agents, 67, Strand,
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Combined Trunk and Bed.
1, GEORGE VUITTON, trading as Louis Vuitton, of 289 Oxford Street London,
trunk and bag manufacturer, 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:-
This invention embraces the combination of a trunk or case with a folding
travelling or camp bedstead, and making the trunk when open, to act as a partial
A New or Improved Combined Trunk and Bed.
I, GEORGE VUITTON, trading as Louis Vuitton, of 289 Oxford Street London,
trunk and bag manufacturer, 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 :-
This invention embraces the combination of a trunk or case with a folding
travelling or camp bedstead, and making the trunk when open, to act as a partial

page_text: support to the bed when open, also when shut air and water tight.-The trunk is
made so as to open in two pieces with sides of equal height, and in the sides are
four eyes, into which pass four legs of the bed, the remaining two being supported
by a cross bar outside the box; head and tail boards may be used serving also as
cross ties or stretchers; the frame of the bed is made of metal of convenient lengths
with butt hinges and a canvas bottom. The edges of the sides of the box, either
the upper or the lower, are supplied with a rubber tube or piece of rubber, which,
when the box is shut, abut against or into a grooved or other formed edge of the
corresponding edges of the box and thus form an air and water tight joint.
In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 is a side elevation, Fig. 2 a plan, Fig. 3 an
end elevation and Fig. 4 a cross section of an extended camp bed and open trunk
embodying my invention.
A1 A2 A3 and A' are the different sections of the two hinged sides or top bars.
B and C are legs hinged to the ends of the section A² and held in sockets of the
trunk H J. D, D are a pair of detachable legs supporting the extremities of the
end sections A* A*. E and F are cross bars or ties connecting the two sides or top
bars and hinged to metallic plates d d attached to the cross beam G. H and J are
the two halves of the trunk or box, hinged together, and provided in their corners
with socket pieces b, b for the reception of the legs B, B, as illustrated by Figs. 4
and 5, which latter is a horizontal section of Fig. 4. The legs D and cross bar F are
connected with the section A' of the frame by a pair of rods f, bent at a right angle
and inserted into sockets formed in the contiguous ends of the legs D and cross
bar F. A similar joint is formed between the detachable cross bar E and the
sections A¹ A¹ of the frame.
The direction in which the different pieces are turned on their hinges for folding
the frame together are indicated in Fig. by arrows. Fig. 6 shows the frame A
and hinged legs in the folded position. Fig. 7 is a detail view of the cross bar F
and bent rods or hooks f. Fig. 8 represents a camp bed folded together, but with a
somewhat different shape of legs.
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
The combination of a folding bed with a trunk or box, adapted to serve as a
base or stand, substantially as described and illustrated.