Improvements in the Manufacture of Metallic Bedsteads and Bedstead Bottoms.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 16th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 18th Nov., 1893
* PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Metallic Bedsteads and
Bedstead Bottoms.
I, SAMUEL WILSON Bedstead Manufacturer 156 Ledsam Street Birmingham
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
It consists in so constructing the bottom or lying on surface of metallic or other
bedsteads that one bedstead shall have two or dual bottoms.
In carrying out my invention I proceed as follows
I take take a head and foot angle iron of the required length for the width of
the bedstead such as is usually used in the centre of the said angles I fix on by
casting or otherwise dovetails lengthwise, into these dovetails I insert a bar of
angle or preferably T iron having on each end corresponding dovetails the said
bar running centrally and longitudinally from head to foot of bedstead this centre
bar is studded in the usual manner but with two rows of studs I then affix cross
lathes, from each of the outer bars to the centre longitudinal bar, which are
fastened in the ordinary manner.
Instead of proceeding in the before mentioned manner I sometimes prefer to
construct my dual or twin bedstead with three legs or pillars at the head and foot
end of bedstead instead of two pillars as is usually the case one of the legs or
pillars being in the centre of the head and foot rail of bedstead and midway-
between the outer longitudinal bars of the bedstead frame or bottom, to each of
these centre legs or pillars I attach by casting or otherwise dovetails two being
lengthwise and one right hand and one left hand into these lengthwise dovetails I
insert two bars of angle or other iron, having corresponding dovetails on each end,
running centrally a little apart, and longitudinally from the head to foot of bed-
stead and into the right and left hand dovetails I insert the corresponding dovetails
on the head and foot angle bars which in this case I make of half the required
width of bedstead, these bars are studded & fitted with laths in the usual manner.
In this method I may as an alternative use only one central longitudinal angle
or T iron bar double studded and constructed as described in the first named
method.
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In these latter method I may elect to carry the centre legs or pillars to the
height only of the angles usually called the seat of the bedstead or I may continue
the legs or pillars above the seat to any suitable height and finish the top of said
pillars with a suitable mount or ornament, and incorporate these continued pillars
into the design of the head & foot rails or panels of the bedsteads so as to give the .
design and appearance of two separate foot and head rails.
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At a suitable height on the centre pillars or on the central angle bars and above
the seat I fix eyes or sockets into which I hinge or place a tubular or other
movable bar which bar I may, for convenience of folding when not in
telescopic, the object of this bar is to depress and divide the bedding and clothing
longitudinally and in the centre and to fix and hold the said bedclothing in its
proper position on the bedstead when in use.
Dated this 14th day of January 1893.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Metallic Bedsteads and
Bedstead Bottoms.
I, SAMUEL WILSON, of 156 Ledsam Street, Birmingham, Bedstead 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 :-
My invention relates to improvements in the construction of or additions to
bedsteads, and has for its object the dividing up or portioning off of a single
bedstead required to be occupied by two or more persons, and this I accomplish by
employing a parting rail or rails disposed above the bed clothes, and directed
longitudinally from the head end to the foot end.
My new or improved bedstead thus constructed or provided separates or divides
off the occupants, and besides enhancing the comfort of them by one person not
disturbing the rest of another by the pulling of the bed clothes and the like, the
said bedsteads so provided are also more healthy to the said occupants.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents in longitudinal vertical section
a bedstead constructed and provided with, improvements made according to one
form of my invention.
The bedstead framing is made of a dual form, and in sectional and interchange-
able parts.
Figure 2 represents a transverse vertical section of the same upon the dotted
lines A B Figure 1, showing the application of the parting rail for portioning off
longitudinally the bedding and bed clothes.
Figure 3 represents a topside plan of the said portioned-off bed, and with the
pillars and some of the connecting end portions of the parting rail shown in
section.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in Figures 1 to 3.
a, a is a twin bedstead framing, made up of interchangeable and sectional
parts a, a, a, a, a. Thus the bedstead framing is practically made up of two
portions or two framings, separated from each other and the whole supported by six
legs or pillars, and each said portion is provided with a distensible sacking b, upon
which separate wool mattresses or the like h, are supported, whilst one set of bed
clothes k, serves for both portions of the bed, and which clothes are divided off by
a parting rail c, having end fittings d and e.
Thus both the head end f, and the foot end g, are fitted with fixed and slotted
uprights,, (the slots of which are marked *) and within which slots adjustable
screw pins, j, work.
The pin, at the foot end which has a nut j³, at its end, is carried by an under-
cut block, having a slot (see Figure 4) wherein the end c', of the parting rod c,
having a head e, takes, whilst the said head c², lies at the back of the block.
The other end c, of the rod is hooked at e, and takes through a loop j³, of the pin
or connection, which has a screw nut j, upon its outer end.
Now assuming that the parting rod c, has been removed by first depressing its
end c, and by a lateral movement removing the said end from the connection 13,
and then unhooking the other end, both beds are clear and the one set of bedclothes,
which are common to both, are then laid in their ordinary form. This having been
done, the portioning-off of the bed for two occupants is effected by first hooking on
the end, to the loop, and then by a depressing and lateral movement engaging
the end, with the connection c. This done, then depress the rod and its end
connections and affix the same rigidly in its parting position by screwing up the
nuts, as represented in the sectional view Figure 2.
I wish it to be understood that I do not confine myself to the means of affixing
the parting rail in position, as the same may be made adjustable by the ends
working vertically within slots in the pillars, and which slots have side gaps
wherein the ends of the rods engage by a lateral movement for locking.

page_text: It will be seen that the opposite sides of the bed clothes hang down loose in the
ordinary way, whilst the middle parts of them only are held or clamped down by
the parting rod, thus making as it were two beds by one set of bedclothes.upon
a common framing.
The ends of the parting rail or rod may be held down, and automatic tension
given to them by connecting the said ends to the terminal ends of distended
springs fixed by clips or otherwise to the opposite sides of the framing of the
bedstead.
Or the said ends may be secured by rack shaped links jointedly connected by
clips or otherwise to the general framing of a bed.
Figure 5 represents a further form of bedstead frame constructed according to
my invention.
a is the general frame, composed of detachable and interchangeable side, end and
middle rails a, a, a, supported by pillars or posts a³, a, and with each of the
sectional parts provided with he and she dovetail ends.
The parting rod or bar is clamped or secured at its ends by the same taking into
the slots and being clamped to the upright brackets i, .
Figure 6 represents an existing four-post bedstead having fitted to the middles of
the end rails, upright brackets i,, for the carrying and affixing thereto of the
parting rod or bar, which is not shown.
Figure 7 represents the bracket and hook ended bar; which bracket is made
attachable and detachable and is fixed by a clamping screw pin n, taking through
a portion of a lower clawed part it, of the said brackets i or, and impinging
against the angle framing a².
Figure 8 represents a telescopic parting bar.
Instead of the parting board coming upon the top clothes it may come upon some
of the under ones, and with the counterpane coming upon the two in the ordinary
way.
The parting rail, instead of being connected as aforesaid, may be hinged at one
end and have a catch fastening arranged at the other end. My new or improved
parting rail may be employed in connection with the bottoms of bedsteads such as
frame mattresses.
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 :-
:-
First Employing in connection with a bed frame or a bed bottom, a parting
rail or an attachable and detachable or hinged parting rail, rod or its equivalent
suitably connected and held down at its ends, and with the same coming upon the
topside of the whole or a portion of the bedclothes so as to make two beds or two
portioned off parts upon one framing, substantially as described and set forth in the
several figures of the drawings.
Secondly: In a double bedstead frame, making the same up of a series of end,
side and middle detachable and interchangeable parts, substantially as described
and set forth in Figures 1, 2 and 3.
Thirdly-The improvements in the construction and arrangement of the parts
of bedsteads substantially as described and set forth in Figures 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
Fourthly The means herein described for affixing down and securing in
position the parting rails of portioned-off beds substantially as described and set
forth in the several figures of the drawings.
Dated this 14th day of October 1893.
SAMUEL WILSON,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.