Improvements in and relating to Folding Beds or Bedsteads, and the Combination therewith of a Dressing Bureau or its Equivalent.
Year: 1887

page_text: This Specification was, upon the 3rd day of June 1887, amended under
Sections 18 to 21 of the Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Act, 1883.
ated from abroad by WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER ILSLEY, TOR
Street, New York City, in the United States of America, Merchant.]
Improvements in and relating to Folding Beds or Bedsteads, and the
Combination therewith of a Dressing Bureau or its Equivalent.
I JAMES YATE JOHNSON of 47 Lincolns Inn Fields in the County of Middlesex
Gentleman 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 stateinent :-
This Invention relates to certain improvements in that class of beds or bedsteads
which have an erect part or "standard" and a part which forms the bed proper
which part is adapted to be turned up out of the way or turned down for use.
The first part of the Invention relates to the combination with the standard of the
hed and the hed proper of a projecting part constituting a dressing bureau or other
equivalent article which is by preference furnished with a top or slab preferably of
marble slate stone or other moderately heavy material and having also usually drawers
or similar receptacles to form a dressing case stand or bureau. This part in con-
nection with the standard is also usually provided with a dressing mirror and the
whole presents the usual appearance of a dressing bureau. This bureau is so placed
with respect to the bed that the weight of the projecting part and slab of the bureau
serves to prevent the standard of the bed from being pulled over when the bed proper
is pulled down-During the day or when the bed is not turned down the dressing
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page_text: bureau front of the structure is turned outward from the wall thus serving not only as
a bureau but as a means of wholly concealing the character of the structure as a bed
while at night or when the bed is required for use the bureau front is turned toward
the wall so that the bed proper may be pulled down.
The structure is preferably mounted on castors for convenience of moving it. If
the room be large enough, the bed may stand out in the room so that access can be
had to the dressing bureau when the bed is turned down, or in use.
The object of this construction is in the main to enable the heavy weights com-
monly employed to be dispensed with and also to avoid the necessity of securing the
standard of the bed to the wall as is usually done when springs are used in lieu of
weights.
The second part of this Invention relates to the arrangement of a spring under the
projecting part of the dressing bureau portion of the combined structure, and the
manner of connecting said spring to the bed-proper.
By this construction which permits the bed-proper to be turned towards the wall
when not in use the usual cabinet work finish of the bottom of the bed-proper and the
deep bed spring usually employed can be dispensed with thus making the bed-proper
very shallow.
Indeed a woven wire bed spring is used by preference, and the
bottom of the bed proper is not closed at all.
I will describe with reference to the accompanying drawings the manner in which
this Invention may be carried into effect.
Figure 1 is a front view of the structure as it appears when the dressing bureau
front is presented, the bed proper being behind and invisible from this point of view.
The design employed for the dressing bureau front is not material to this Invention.
The drawing shows merely a good design for a dressing bureau with a mirror a a
top 6 (say of marble) shelves or receptacles e and sundry drawers d. These may be
varied in arrangement as may be desired. The whole will usually be surmounted by
an ornamental cornice e.
Figure 2 is a vertical section or sectional side elevation, showing the bed proper A.
in position for use. B represents the housings, at the sides of the standard C.
between which the bed A stands when it is turned up. In this view represents the
woven-wire bottom of the bed; g. the track on the housing B, over which a roller /, on
the bed A rolls in lowering and raising the bed; i represents the folding legs of the
bed the supporting chain of the bed, and k, the sheave or pulley over which the
said chain passes. There are two sets of these chains, tracks and sheaves, as usual in
such beds, one at each side of the bed.
Figure 3 is a part sectional view on a larger scale than Figure 2, showing the bed
turned up, and illustrating better the arrangement of the counterbalancing spring.
This latter spring 1, is in the form of a volute and is mounted in a box m, under the
projecting part of the dressing bureau D; and a chain », preferably a Vaucanson
chain passes through the said spring, at the small end of which it is secured to a
block o, which slides in the box m when the spring is compressed, and at its other end
is attached to the end of the bed A. When the bed is turned up the chain n stands
slack, but when the bed is turned down, after it reaches an angle where the leverage
becomes excessive, and the weight considerable, the chain becomes strained and the
weight is thrown on the spring 7, tending to compress it. The chain now rides over a
sheave or roller mounted in the standard as clearly shewn in Figures 2, and 3.
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The end of the chain is secured to the respective parts by means of a key-
hole slotted plate, s seen in the detached view Figure 4. In effecting the attach-
ment the chain is passed through a hole in the wood and through the larger part of
the slot in plate s. The plate is then slipped so as to cause the narrower part of the
slot to engage the slender part of the link, when the plates is screwed fast. Any
means of attachment may be employed, however in lieu of this.
It will be readily seen by inspection of Figure 2, how the projecting marble top b,
of the dressing bureau D and the weight at rear generally serves to oppose a resistance
to the bed when it is pulled down, thus dispensing with heavy directly applied weights
and 'allowing the use of a spring to balance the bed when part way down.

page_text: 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.
Firstly. A folding bed or bedstead, wherein the bed proper, which turns down, is
provided with a resisting spring, and wherein the standard is kept in position by a
backward extension in the nature of a dressing bureau with a slab or the equivalent
thereof to furnish weight substantially as hereinbefore described.
Secondly. In a folding bed or bedstend, the resisting spring arranged under
the backward extension or bureau-D-substantially as hereinbefore described-und
illustrated.
Thirdly. Secondly. In a folding bed or bedstead, the arrangement of the resisting
spring in its box m, the chain 22., the guide block U, and the guide sheave or roller »,
all operating substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated.
Fourthly. In a folding bed or bedstend, the means for connecting the chainn, at
its end, said means comprising the key hole slotted plates, constructed, arranged and
operating substantially as illustrated in figure 1 of the necompanying drawings.
Fifthly Thirdly. The general arrangement and combination of parts constituting
the combined folding-bed or bedstead and dressing bureau or the equivalent thereof
substantially as herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.

page_text: Improvements in and relating to Folding Beds or Bedsteads, and the
Combination therewith of a Dressing Bureau or its Equivalent.
I JAMES YATE JOHNSON of 47 Lincolns Inn Fields in the County of Middlesex
Gentleman 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 relates to certain improvements in that class of beds or bedsteads
which have an erect part or standard and a part which forms the bed proper
which part is adapted to be turned up out of the way or turned down for use.
The first part of the Invention relates to the combination with the standard of the
bed and the bed proper of a projecting part constituting a dressing bureau or other
equivalent article which is by preference furnished with a top or slab preferably of
marble slate stone or other moderately heavy material and having also usually drawers
or similar receptacles to form a dressing case stand or bureau. This part in con
nection with the standard is also usually provided with a dressing mirror and the
whole presents the usual appearance of a dressing bureau. This bureau is so placed
with respect to the bed that the weight of the projecting part and slab of the bureau
serves to prevent the standard of the bed from being pulled over when the bed proper
is pulled down-During the day or when the bed is not turned down the dressing

page_text: bureau front of the structure is turned outward from the wall thus serving not only as
a bureau but as a means of wholly concealing the character of the structure as a bed
while at night or when the bed is required for use the bureau front is turned toward
the wall so that the bed proper may be pulled down.
The structure is preferably mounted on castors for convenience of moving it. If
the room be large enough, the bed may stand out in the room so that access can be
had to the dressing bureau when the bed is turned down, or in use.
The object of this construction is in the main to enable the heavy weighis com
monly employed to be dispensed with and also to avoid the necessity of securing the
standard of the bed to the wall as is usually done when springs are used in lieu of
weights.
The second part of this Invention relates to the arrangement of a spring under the
projecting part of the dressing bureau portion of the combined structure, and the
manner of connecting said spring to the bed-proper.
By this construction which permits the bed-proper to be turned towards the wall
when not in use the usual cabinet work finish of the bottom of the bed-proper and the
deep bed spring usually employed can be dispensed with thus making the bed-proper
very shallow.
Indeed a woven wire bed spring is used by preference, and the
bottom of the bed proper is not closed at all.
I will describe with reference to the accompanying drawings the manner in which
this Invention may be carried into effect.
Figure 1 is a front view of the structure as it appears when the dressing bureau
front is presented, the bed proper being behind and invisible from this point of view.
The design employed for the dressing bureau front is not material to this Invention.
The drawing shows merely a good design for a dressing bureau with a mirror a a
top (say of marble) shelves or receptacles c and sundry drawers d. These may be
varied in arrangement as may be desired. The whole will usually be surmounted by
an ornamental cornice e.
Figure 2 is a vertical section or sectional side elevation, showing the bed proper A.
in position for use. B represents the housings, at the sides of the standard C.
between which the bed A stands when it is turned up. In this view represents the
woven-wire bottom of the bed; g. the track on the housing B, over which a roller h, on
the bed A rolls in lowering and raising the bed; represents the folding legs of the
bed the supporting chain of the bed, and k, the sheave or pulley over which the
said chain passes. There are two sets of these chains, tracks and sheaves, as usual in
such beds, one at each side of the bed.
Figure 3 is a part sectional view on a larger scale than Figure 2, showing the bed
turned up, and illustrating better the arrangement of the counterbalancing spring.
This latter spring 1, is in the form of a volute and is mounted in a box my under the
projecting part of the dressing bureau D; and a chain, preferably a Vaucanson
chain passes through the said spring, at the small end of which it is secured to a
block 0, which slides in the box me when the spring is compressed, and at its other end
is attached to the end of the bed A. When the bed is turned up the chain n stands
slack, but when the bed is turned down, after it reaches an angle where the leverage
becomes excessive, and the weight considerable, the chain becomes strained and the
weight is thrown on the spring 7, tending to compress it. The chain now rides over a
sheave or roller mounted in the standard as clearly shewn in Figures 2, and 3.
The end of the chain is secured to the respective parts by means of a key-
hole slotted plate, s seen in the detached view Figure 4.
In effecting the attach-
ment the chain is passed through a hole in the wood and through the larger part of
the slot in plate s. The plate is then slipped so as to cause the narrower part of the
slot to engage the slender part of the link, when the plates is screwed fast.
means of attachment may be employed, however in lieu of this.
Any
It will be readily seen by inspection of Figure 2, how the projecting marble top b,
of the dressing bureau Dand the weight at rear generally serves to oppose a resistance
to the bed when it is pulled down, thus dispensing with heavy directly applied weights
and allowing the use of a spring to balance the bed when part way down.

page_text: 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.
Firstly. A folding bed or bedstead, wherein the bed proper, which turns down, is
provided with a resisting spring, and wherein the standard is kept in position by a
backward extension in the nature of a dressing bureau with a slab or the equivalent
thereof to furnish weight substantially as hereinbefore described.
Secondly. In a folding bed or bedstead, the resisting spring arranged under
the backward extension or bureau D substantially as hereinbefore described and
illustrated.
Thirdly. In a folding bed or bedstead, the arrangement of the resisting spring / in
its box m, the chain n, the guide block o, and the guide sheave or roller r, all operating
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated.
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Fourthly. In a folding bed or bedstead, the means for connecting the chain n,
its end, said means comprising the key-hole slotted plate s, constructed, arranged and
operating substantially as illustrated in figure 4 of the accompanying drawings.
Fifthly. The general arrangement and combination of parts constituting the com-
bined folding-bed or bedstead and dressing bureau or the equivalent thereof sub-
stantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.