Improvements in Bedsteads.
Year: 1893

page_text: Improvements in Bedsteads.
I, WALTER GOODLIFFE, of Lyndewode Road, Cambridge, in the County of
Cambridge, Clerk in Holy Orders, 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 improvements on an invention for which Letters Patent
were granted to me dated the 14th October 1891 No. 17537 entitled "Improvements
in Bedsteads."
In the Specification of my said Letters Patent I described a movable frame
having pivots fitting in sockets upon carrier-rings sliding up and down the pillars
at the head of the bedstead, and I also stated that this contrivance was liable to
lock, meaning thereby that in this arrangement there was a tendency on the part
of the rings, when the frame was being moved, to slide at different rates of speed
instead of moving together regularly, the result of which was that the frame
sometimes became fixed.
Now the object of my present, improvements is to overcome this objection
and for this purpose 1 provide the carrier-rings with an adjustable connection
as hereinafter more fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings,
in which :--
Figure 1 is a metal bedstead having a movable frame provided with rings
adjustably connected together according to my present invention:
Figure 2 is a side sectional view of one of the rings shewn applied to a bed post
or pillar:
Figure 3 is a front elevation of a pair of such rings applied to their respective
pillars and provided with the said means for adjustably connecting the rings
together:
Figure 4 is a plan of Figure 3 but shewing the pillars in section :
Figure 5 is a sectional elevation illustrating a modified arrangement for
adjustably connecting the rings:
Figure 6 is a front elevation illustrating a further modification; and,
Figure 7 is a side sectional elevation of the same.
Similar letters in all the figures indicate similar or corresponding parts.
a, a are the pillars, and b, b, b the cross rails forming the outer frame of the head
of the bedstead. c is the inner or movable frame, and d, d are the projections or
pivots at its upper end connected to rings e, e sliding upon the pillars a, a, the said
rings being provided with sockets f,f to receive the said projections.
In order to adjustably connect the rings e, e together according to my invention
and for the purpose hereinbefore referred to I may make use of a tie-bar or rod g
as shewn in Figures 1, 3, and 4, which rod is passed through eyes h, Figure 2, in
lugs i on the rings e which may be whole, or split as in Figures 2, 3, and 4 and
provided with a lining j of soft material such as leather, felt or the like to prevent
the rings froin injuring the pillars a. The rod g is provided with a head k at one
end and its other end is screw-threaded to receive an adjusting-nut l, by operating
which the rings e can be caused to grip the pillars a more or less tightly. The
rod g can be placed in front of the pillars a as shewn or at the rear of the same
as will be obvious.
Or the adjustable connection can be effected, as shewn in Figure 5, by screw-
threading the two projections or pivots d, d and sockets ff with threads of opposite
hand so that the act of moving the lower end of the inner frame c forward will
cause the rings e to press upon or grip the pillars a.
Or, as shewn in Figures 6 and 7, I may employ a pair of rings upon each pillar a,
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page_text: cach pair of the said rings being connected together by a bar m having a boss n
in which the screw-threaded socket is formed.
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o, o are the projections at the lower end of the frame which projections
engage with notches in rings 9 when the said frame is not required for use as a
bed-rest.
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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
1. In a bedstead the combination with the pillars at the head of the bedstead
connected together so as to form an outer frame of an inner movable frame having
rings sliding upon the said pillars and adjustably connected together, substantially
in the manner and for the purpose hereinbefore described.
2. In a bedstead having a head framing formed in two parts, one of which can
be adjusted at an angle relatively to the other part, the herein described con-
struction of rings and means for adjustably connecting them together substantially
as hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figures 1 to 4, Figure 5, and Figures 6
and 7 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated the 25th day of August 1893.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.