Improvements in Metallic Bedsteads.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Aug., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 17th Mar., 1896-Accepted, 18th Apr., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Metallic Bedsteads.
I, WILLIAM PARISH HOSKINS of Trinity Street, Bordesley, in the City of
Birmingham, Ships Berth Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows :—
This invention has relation principally, to the elevated brackets employed in
supporting distensible mattress sackings above the level of the sides or general
framing, and consists, first, in an improved construction of upright bracket, which
may be carried at any part of the end or side framings, but preferably within the
width of the pillars and lignable with, and in the same vertical plane as, the sides ;
and secondly, in the connections of the sacking bars with the brackets, without the
use of loose pins or bolts.
By ny said invention, which is an improvement upon the invention described in
the Specification of former Letters Patent granted to me and bearing date the
7th day of August 1889 No. 12488, and also upon the invention described in the
Specification of Letters Patent granted to Thomas Frederick de Saulles and
bearing date the 19th day of January 1892 No. 996, of which I am the assignee
the passing of loose parts through thoroughfare holes in the brackets is dispensed
with.
According to one form of my improvements, I take a fast frame, and support
the same by legs or pillars, with the one end bar fitted with upright brackets
coming within the breadth of the pillars and in line with the sides, and with
tightening screws passed through holes in the said brackets and taking into screw
boxes or screwed holes formed in the sacking bar at that said end. The other end
bar of the trame has like upright brackets as at the first-described end, but of a
bifurcated or forked construction, the gap thereof being of about the breadth
of a headed bolt, pin or stalk projecting outwardly from the outer edges of the
sacking bar.
The front side of the bottoms of the clefts may be sunken to receive the heads
of the pins or equivalents carried by the sacking bar at that end, that is, the
sacking bar at the bifurcated bracket end of the bedstead has permanently fixed
outstanding and headed bolts, preferably shouldered to a distance a little greater
than the thickness of the forks of the bracket, and passed horizontally through the
said bar up to shoulders, which have plate washers as abutments, and nuts taking
upon the ends of the bolts which extend through the sacking bar.
The distance left between the front of the sacking bar and the head of the bolt
is more than sufficient to admit of the said bolt passing over the forked bracket,
and for the heads to drop into the sinkings and thereby prevent the sacking from
rising.
In making the connection of the end of a sacking to a bedstead frame, it is only
necessary to drop the shanks of the bolts between the forks, and make a slight.
longitudinal movement of the bar when the bolts become locked in the recesses or
sinkings in the faces of the brackets.
The bifurcated brackets may be upon both ends of the bedsteads, for receiving
either the tightening up screws or the permanently-fixed bolts, and are cast, as
bands, around the bedstead end members or are cast integral with the corner
locks at the ends of the side members, which have dovetails upon their outer sides,
aking into corresponding dovetails formed upon the inner sides of the corner
locks of the pillars.

page_text: The gap of the bracket, instead of being disposed vertically, may be disposed
horizontally with the end turned down vertically, thus making an Ĺ shaped gap,
which said vertical end may be sunken upon its face to receive the head of the
bolt.
The sides of the bedstead frame may be made of angle iron, or tube, or of any
other organization desired.
As a modification, I may employ a converse arrangement to that described, in
which the bifurcated connection brackets are carried by the stretcher bars and
the outstanding headed bolts, pins or equivalents are carried by the end framings.
Dated this 1st day of August 1895.
Improvements in Metallic Bedsteads.
I, WILLIAM PARISH HOSKINS of Trinity Street, Bordesley, in the City of
Birmingham, Ships Berths Manufacturer, 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 has relation principally, to the elevated brackets employed in
supporting distensible mattress sackings above the level of the sides or general
framing, and consists, first, in an improved construction of upright bracket, which
may be carried at any part of the end or side framings, but preferably within
the width of the pillars and lignable with, and in the same vertical plane as, the
sides; and secondly, in the connections of the sacking bars with the brackets,
without the use of loose pins or bolts.
By my said invention, which is an improvement upon the invention described
in the Specification of former Letters Patent granted to me and bearing date the
7th day of August 1889 No. 12488, and also upon the invention described in the
Specification of Letters Patent granted to Thomas Frederick de Saulles and
bearing date the 19th day of January 1892 No. 996, of which I am the assignee
the passing of loose parts through thoroughfare holes in the brackets is dispensed
with.
According to one form of my improvements, I take a bedstead whose frame is
made up of head and foot ends supported by pillars which are connected together
by loose sides through the medium of he and she dovetail joints. Both ends or
heads of the said sides have upright bifurcated or open topped brackets, through
which the shanks of headed screw pins carried by the mattress sacking bar at one
end and headed plain pins carried by the sacking bar at the other end, drop
and are secured by the heads of the pins being taken into sinkings or recesses
in the brackets by the rotation of nuts on the screw pins at the one end.
As another form of my improvements, the screw pins may be threaded through
holes in brackets at one end of the bedstead frame.
The sides of the bedstead frame may be made of angle iron, tube or of any
other organization as may be desired.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a perspective view of a bed-
stead provided or fitted with means for connecting the mattress ends to the
bedstead framing, consisting of bifurcated brackets at the ends of the side frames,
disposed within the width of the pillars and in line with the sides, and headed pins
carried by the sacking bars in accordance with one form of my invention.
Figure 2 represents a perspective view of the bedstead head-end rail and the side
bars carrying the open-topped brackets separately.

page_text: Figure 3 represents, upon an enlarged scale, a bedstead corner pillar with an end
of the side rail and bifurcated bracket connected therewith.
Figure 4 is a longitudinal vertical section of the bedstead and mattress framing,
showing the gapped. brackets at the ends of the bedstead sides and the headed bolts
or pins of the mattress frame lying in the gaps, with the heads of the said pins
seating themselves in the recesses or sinkings formed in the outer faces of the said
brackets.
In Figures 1 to 4, a is a bedstead frame, consisting of a head end rail a', and a
foot end rail a², supported by their respective corner pillars a³, a', and being con-
nected together by side rails b, lying within the width of the said pillars and
having she dovetails 62, sunken within the outer sides of their ends for taking upon
he dovetails a, carried upon chilled corner blocks aº, cast around the pillars a³, a*,
respectively.
care end brackets, of a bifurcated character, that is, they have open gaps c², and
the outer sides are provided with sinkings or recesses c³, for receiving the head
ends d, e, of bolts d, and e, passing horizontally through the sacking bars f, to
which the ends of the sacking 9, are connected. The plain bolts d, each have a
neck d, with a shoulder d³, against which a distance washer d*, comes and forms
an abutment for securing the said bolt to the sacking bar, which is secured by a
nut d, taking upon the screwed end d.
The other and screwed bolts e, each have a head e¹ and a wormed shank e³,
taking through a thoroughfare hole f¹, in the sacking bar and through a fast
nut d', attached to or carried by the said sacking bar.
In making the attachment of the mattress, drop the necks of the pins into the
gaps of the brackets with the heads coming outwards, then screw up the tightening
screws e, when the inner sides of the heads take into the sinkings in the brackets,
whereby the sacking is secured in position and prevented from rising.
Figure 5 represents a modification of the tightening end of the mattress in
which the screw pins are passed through thoroughfare holes in the upright brackets
instead of being dropped into gaps as in the preceding arrangement.
Figure 6 is a front elevation of a part of one of the brackets separately.
g is a distensible sacking, f the stretcher bar, e the screw pin, i the bracket
attached to the bedstead end and having a thoroughfare hole, for receiving
the pin.
Figure 7 represents a modified form of my method of attaching a mattress
sacking to a bedstead frame.
Figure is an end elevation of the bracket and a part of the stretcher bar.
fis the sacking bar, g the sacking and c a gapped bracket secured to the said
bar and having a gap c² and sinking c³. d is a stud or pin carried by the corner
pillar a³, of the framing a, of the bedstead.
Figure 9 represents a further modified form of my improvements, in which the
gap is formed in the side of the bracket instead of being directed from the top or
bottom.
c is the bracket, c³ the gap, c³ the sinking for the head d¹, of the bolt d, to lie
within and the sacking bar.
Figure 10 represents a modification of Figure 9.
c is the bracket, attached to the sacking bar, c³ is the angle gap in the bracket
and the sinking for the reception of the head d¹, of the bolt d.
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. In metallic bedstead, securing the sacking to the bedstead framing by
headed pins, studs or equivalents on the one part being dropped over and made
to engage with gapped or bifurcated brackets on the other part, or vice versa,
substantially as described and set forth.
Secondly. In metallic bedsteads, securing the sacking to the bedstead framing

page_text: by bifurcated brackets carried by the framing at one end in combination with eyed
or thoroughfare-holed brackets at the other end of the framing substantially as
.described and set forth in Figure 5.
Thirdly. In metallic bedsteads, the combination with the gapped or bifurcated
brackets as referred to in the preceding claims, of sinkings formed therein for the
reception of the heads of the pins on the sacking bars, for preventing the sacking
from rising, substantially as described and set forth.
Fourthly. The improvements in metallic bedsteads and in the means of
-connecting mattress sackings thereto, substantially as herein described and set
-forth.
Dated this 16th day of March 1896.
WILLIAM PARISH HOSKINS,
.
By Henry Skerrett,
24 Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.