An Improvement in Bedsteads.
Year: 1897

page_text: An Improvement in Bedsteads.
I, JOHN PINCHES, Medallist, of 27, Oxendon Street, Haymarket, S.W., in the
County of London, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to a construction of bedstead in such a manner that it
can be readily and easily inverted so as to form a table or can be put in such
a position as to occupy little room in an apartment.
For this purpose, I provide the mattress frame with pivots or trunnions, one at
each end which are fitted to revolve in standards standing up from a base
which may be mounted on casters.
On each side of the mattress frame are pivotted a pair of rods which can be
turned down so as to bear on the floor serving as legs to maintain the bed in a
horizontal position in which it may be farther secured by a suitable bolt at or
near the trunnion. When it is desired to use the bed as a table, the bed
clothes are secured by suitable wrappers tied over them and the mattress frame
is turned on its pivots so as to present its underside uppermost, in which position
it is secured by bolting.
When it is desired that the bed shall occupy little room in the apartment, the
mattress frame is turned on its pivots so that it stands vertical, and in that position
can be moved close up to the wall of the apartment.
The bolt for holding the mattress frame in its various positions may be arranged
to engage in notches of a disc.
Dated this 28th dox of Databor 1807
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
An Improvement in Bedsteads.
I, JOHN PINCHES, Medallist, of 27, Oxendon Street, Haymarket, S.W., in the
County of London, 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 a construction of bedstead in such a manner that it
can be readily and easily inverted so as to form a table or can be put in such
a position as to occupy little room in an apartment.
For this purpose as shewn in side view by Fig. 1 and end view by Fig. 2 of
the accompanying drawing. I provide the mattress frame A with pivots or
D

page_text: trunnions B one at each end, which are fitted to revolve in standards C standing
up from a base D which may be mounted on casters.
The mattress frame can be maintained in a horizontal position by suitable
bolts E. When it is desired to use the bed as a table, the bed clothes are secured
by suitable wrappers F tied over them and the mattress frame is turned on its
pivots so as to present its underside uppermost, in which position it is secured
by the bolts E.
When it is desired that the bed shall occupy little room in the apartment, the
mattress frame is turned on its pivots so that it stands vertical, as indicated by the
dotted lines A¹ in Fig. 2, and in that position the bed can be moved close up to
the wall of the apartment.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is:
A bedstead wherein the mattress frame is mounted on trunnions or pivots and
provided with means of bolting it in several positions substantially as and for
the purpose set forth.