A Combined Bedstead and Cot.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Sept., 1894-Accepted, 13th Oct., 1894
COME LELE OT BUITIVATION.
A Combined Bedstead and Cot.
I, RICHARD KEYTE, of Whangarei, in the Provincial District of Auckland, in
the Colony of New Zealand, Builder, 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 objects of my invention are to provide a cot in which the child can be
placed near to, and in communication with, the bedstead, so that the child cannot
be overlaid, and can be reached without the mother raising herself or lifting the
child over the side of the cot; also to combine the cot with the bedstead so that it
can be easily attached to any form or size of bedstead or removed therefrom, and
can be folded up so as occupy a small space when not in use.
A convenient form of my invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings
in which,-
Figure 1 is a side view of the bedstead with the cot attached.
Figure 2 is a plan of the same.
Figure 3 shows enlarged sectional details of the sliding supports and sockets.
Figure 4 is a transverse section of the same at A. B.
(a) is the frame of an ordinary bedstead, to the sides of which are firmly fixed
sockets or supports (6) & (6¹) by hooks or bolts (c). In these sockets or supports
can be fixed tubes (d) extending partly across the bedstead as shewn; their inner
ends being supported by larger tubes (d¹) fixed into the socket (61). By these
means it will be seen that two tubular passages extend right across the bedstead,
and as they slide one within the other may be readily made to suit the width of any
bedstead. (e) & (e) are the bottom frames of the cot which carry any usual
description of mattress, the side bottom frames (e¹) being made of tube (by
preference). These side frames (e') project into, and slide within the tubes (d),
which tubes support them together with the cot on a level, or nearly on a level with
the bottom of the bedstead.
The back (g) of the cot is fixed firmly to the bottom frame (e), but the sides (9')
I prefer to fix on hinges (h), and when the cot is in use, to be held in position by
sockets (1) fitting on to pins (), which pins are fixed to, or form a part of the
sockets or supports (b).
The object of the hinges (h) is that when the cot is not in use the sides (9) can
be turned inwards, and the cot folded up and slided up into the position shewn by
the dotted lines in Figure 2. In some cases when the cot is not required I arrange
it so that it will fold up and slide underneath the bedstead or it may be removed
altogether if desired.
I thus provide a simple cot which can be attached to any bedstead in a few
minutes whatever may be the shape or material of the said bedstead. It will be
evident that the details of my invention admit of many arrangements of the
several parts, and that there may be many ways of carrying my invention into
effect.
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,
1. A bedstead and cot combined as and for the purposes substantially as described
herein and illustrated.
2. The combination of a bedstead fitted with tubes (d) & (d¹) with a cot having

page_text: sliding bottom frame sides (e') or mechanical equivalents of the same, substantially
as and for the purposes described herein and illustrated.
3. The combination of a bedstead with a cot having folding sides and sliding
body substantially as and for the purposes described herein and illustrated.
Dated this Tenth day of July 1894.
RICHARD KEYTE.