Improvements in Metallic Cots and Bedsteads.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 7th June, 1889-Accepted, 13th July, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Metallic Cots and Bedsteads.
We JOSEPH TAUNTON of the firm of John and Joseph Taunton of Sherbourne Road
Balsall Heath near Birmingham in the County of Warwick Manufacturers and HENRY
FERRER of No. 69 Belgrade Street Balsall Heath aforesaid Foreman to the said firm
do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:
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Our invention has reference to such metallic cots and bedsteads as are provided.
with movable or sliding side rails for facilitating the making of the bed or the
placing of the child or person in or the removing of the child or person from the
bed and our said invention consists of the improvements herein after described in
the said metallic cots and bedsteads.
Our improvements are particularly applicable to children's cots and we will describe
them as applied to such cots.
We make one or both of the side rails of the cot capable of a vertical sliding
motion outside the side angle bars of the cot frame so that either of the said side
rails can be lowered say to about one half its normal height and its top brought on
a level with or nearly on a level with the bed. When the side rail is so lowered
the top of the rail does not inconveniently interfere with the making of the bed or
the placing of the child in or lifting it from the cot. The vertically sliding side
rail is guided in its motion between guide rollers situated near the ends of the side
angle bar of the cot frame the said rollers turning in horizontal brackets projecting
from the side angle bar. The bottom of the side rail near each end is made with a
depending piece. These depending pieces form downward prolongations of the side
rail near its ends and bear upon the guide rollers when the side rail is in its fully
raised position.
The vertically sliding side rail is supported on the cot frame when in its raised
position by the following parts. At each end of the top horizontal bar of the side
rail and on the underside thereof is a peg and near the top of each of the pillars is
a small bracket or plate projecting outwards and having an eye in its middie. Into
these eyes the pegs on the top bar of the side rail are dropped after the said side rail has
been raised to its highest position. The side rails thus supported by the pegs described
and bearing laterally on the guide rollers may if desired be supported at bottom.
In order to lower the side rail it is first slightly raised so as to lift the pegs on it
from out of the eyes in the brackets on the pillars.
The side rail is then slightly pressed outwards in order that the pegs may escape
the said brackets when the side rail can be lowered the said rail in its descending
motion sliding upon and being guided between the guide rollers at opposite ends of
the angle side bar of the cot frame.
The method described of supporting and guiding the sliding side rails of cots may
be applied to one or both of the end rails of cots as well as to the side and end end
rails of metallic bedsteads.
Improvements in Metallic Cots and Bedsteads.
We JOSEPH TAUNTON of the firm of John and Joseph Taunton of Sherbourne Road
Balsall Heath near Birmingham in the County of Warwick Manufacturers and HENRY
FERRER of No. 69 Belgrave Street Balsall Heath aforesaid Foreman to the said Firm
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page_text: do hereby declare the nature of our invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
Our invention has reference to such metallic cots and bedsteads as are provided
with movable or sliding side rails for facilitating the making of the bed or the placing
of the child or person in or the removing of the child or person from the bed and our
said invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in the said metallic
cots and bedsteads.
Our improvements are particularly applicable to childrens' cots and we will describe
them as applied to such cots.
We make one or both of the side rails of the cot capable of a vertical sliding motion
outside the side angle bars of the cot frame so that either of the said side rails can be
lowered say to about one half its normal height and its top brought on a level with
or nearly on a level with the bed. When the side rail is so lowered the top of the
rail does not inconveniently interfere with the making of the bed or the placing of the
child in or lifting it from the cot. The vertical sliding side rail is guided in its
motion between guide rollers situated near the ends of the side angle bar of the cot
frame the said rollers turning on pegs on the corner blocks of the cot frame or in
horizontal brackets projecting from the side angle bar. The bottom of the side rail
near each end is made with a depending piece. These depending pieces form down-
ward prolongations of the side rail near its ends and bear upon the guide rollers
when the side rail is in its fully raised position.
The vertically sliding side rail is supported on the cot frame when in its raised
position by the following parts. At each end of the top horizontal bar of the side
rail and on the underside thereof is a peg and near the top of each of the pillars is
a small bracket or plate projecting outwards and having an eye in its middle. Into
these eyes the pegs on the top bar of the side rail are dropped after the said side
rail has been raised to its highest position. The side rail thus supported by the pegs
described and bearing laterally on the guide rollers may if desired be supported at
bottom.
In order to lower the side rail it is first slightly raised so as to lift the pegs on it
from out of the eyes in the brackets on the pillars. The side rail is then slightly
pressed outwards in order that the pegs may escape the said brackets when the side
rail can be lowered the said rail in its descending motion sliding upon and being
guided between the guide rollers at opposite ends of the angle side bar of the cot
frame.
Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying Drawing represent side elevations of a
metallic cot provided with our invention and Figure 3 is an end, elevation of the
same Figures 4, 5, 6 and 7 represent details of the same drawn to a larger scale as
hereinafter described.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of
the Drawing. In Figure 1 the movable or sliding side rail is represented in its
raised or normal position and in Figures 2 and 3 in its fully lowered position.
a is the movable or sliding side rail of the cot having a vertical motion outside the
side angle bar & of the cot frame. On the corner blocks d d of the cot frame are
rollers c, e carried by horizontal pegs cast in the said corner blocks.. Or the rollers c, c.
may be carried by brackets projecting from the side angle bar b. The end rods a²; a²
of the side rail a work between the guide rollers ce as represented. One of the
rollers c on the corner block d of the frame is shown in elevation drawn to a larger
seale taken in planes at right angles to one another in Figures 4 and 5. The bottom
of the side rail a near each end is made with a depending piece or downward pro-
longation a³. The outer limbs of these depending pieces a bear upon the guide
rollers c, c when the side rail is in its fully raised position as represented in
Figure 1.
For the purpose of supporting the vertically sliding side rail a a in its fully
raised position, each end of the horizontal top bar a' of the said rail a bas on its
underside a pege and near the top of each of the pillars f is a small horizontal -
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page_text: bracket having an eye in its middle. A side elevation and plan, drawn to a larger
scale, of the end of the rod a' and top of the pillar of showing one of the and
eye brackets are represented in Figures 6 and 7. When the side rail a has been
pegs
raised to its highest position the pegs ee on the top bar a are dropped into the eye
brackets 9:9 as represented in Figures 1, 6 and 7 so as to support the said side rail
in its raised position the said side rail bearing laterally on the guide roller c c.
When it is desired to make the bed or to place a child in the cot or remove a child
from the cot, the side rail a is lowered into the position represented in Figure 2. To
effect this the side rail a is first slightly raised so as to lift the pegs ee from out of
the eyes of the brackets g, g on the pillars ff. The said side rail is then slightly
drawn outwards sufficient to permit the raised pegs e, e to escape the said brackets g g
when the side rail can be lowered, the said rail in its descending motion sliding upon
and being guided between the guide rollers c c at opposite ends of the angle side bar b
of the cot frame as will be understood by an examination of Figures 2 and 3. By
lifting the side rail a sufficiently high to withdraw the prolonged parts as a from
between the rollers cc the said side rail can be completely detached from the cot frame.
Although we prefer to employ the peg and eye bracket arrangement described and
represented for supporting the side rail in its normal position yet other equivalen
arrangements may be used for that purpose.
Both the side rails of the cot may be constructed supported and guided in the
manner described and represented with respect to one of the side rails only and the
method described and illustrated of supporting and guiding the sliding side rails of
cots may be applied to one or both of the end rails of cots as well as to the side and
end rails of metallic bedsteads.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed we declare that we claim as
our invention of "Improvements in metallic cots and bedsteads "
Making one or both of the side or end or side and end rails of metallic cots and
bedsteads capable of a vertically sliding motion outside the angle bar or bars of the
cot or bedstead frame for the purpose and substantially as herein before described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawing that is to say the combination with the
corner blocks or angle bar of the cot or bedstead frame of guide rollers between
which the sliding rail is guided and against which it bears laterally and supporting
the vertically sliding rail in its fully raised position by means of pegs on the ends
of the top bar of the said rail taking into eye brackets near the tops of the pillars
of the cot or bedstead frame or by other equivalent supports substantially as described
and illustrated.
Dated the Sixth day of June 1880
JOSEPH TAUNTON.
HENRY FERRER.