Improvements in or relating to the Construction of Bedsteads and the like.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Aug., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 20th May, 1890-Accepted, 28th June, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to the Construction of Bedsteads and
the like.
We, EDWARD PAGET GILLAM HEADLY of Stoneygate Road, Leicester, Agricultural
Engineer, and ISAAC BARRADALE, Stoneygate Road, Leicester, Architect and Surveyor,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to improvements in the construction of bedsteads and the
like. Heretofore, as far as we are aware bedsteads have been constructed nearly
wholly of iron or nearly wholly of wood; in the former case the designs are frequently
not of a pleasing character and in the latter case serious objections exist from a
sanitary point of view in consequence of the tendency to verminate.
We however, seek by a combination, such as is hereafter described, to combine
the advantages of iron and brass bedsteads and by a judicious employment of wood
to overcome or minimize the aforesaid objections to wooden bedsteads, at the
same time to obtain designs of an artistic nature that are at once pleasing and
attractive.
To carry our invention into practice, instead of constructing bedsteads either
wholly of wood or of metal, we prefer to employ wooden piers, pillars, or standards,
in combination with metal or other framework or carcase provided with laths in the
usual manner for carrying the bed. The wooden pillars, standards, or uprights may
be carved, turned, decorated or otherwise embellished to any conceived pattern,
design or configuration and may be provided with the ordinary bedstead joint, or
corner block or otherwise suitably adapted or constructed to receive and support the
ends and side bars of the framework which may be of iron, brass or any suitable
metal. It will at once be soen that by constructing bedsteads upon this principle
and according to our invention an obvious advantage over those of ordinary
construction is obtained inasmuch as the terminal pillars, uprights or standards may
be made in character with the other bedroom furniture and may be carved or
otherwise treated to correspond and thus form a work of art, while the liability to
verminate is reduced to a minimum.
The ends of the bedstead may also be of wood, if desired, and an important feature
of the bedstead above described is that it can be fixed and taken down in a similar
manner to an ordinary iron bedstead.
Dated this 21st day of August. 1889.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to the Construction of Bedsteads and
the like.
We, EDWARD PAGET GILLAM HEADLY of Stoneygate Road, Leicester, Agricultural
Engineer, and ISAAC BARRADALE, Stoneygate Road, Leicester, Architect and Surveyor,
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 :-
Our invention relates to improvements in the construction of bedsteads and the
like.
Heretofore, as far as we are aware bedsteads have been constructed wholly of
metal or wholly of wood; in the former case the designs are frequently not of a

page_text: pleasing character and in the latter case serious objections exist, from a sanitary point
of view, in consequence of the tendency to verminate.
We, however, seek by a combination, such as is hereafter described, to combine
the advantages of iron and brass bedsteads and by a judicious employment of wood
to overcome or minimize the aforesaid objections to wooden bedsteads, at the
same time to obtain designs of an artistic nature that are at once pleasing and
attractive.
To carry our invention into practice, instead of constructing bedsteads either
wholly of wood or of metal, we prefer to employ wooden piers, pillars or standards,
in combination with iron or other metal framework or carcase, provided with metal
laths in the usual manner for carrying the bed. The wooden pillars, standards, or
uprights may be carved, turned, decorated or otherwise embellished to any conceived
pattern, design or configuration and may be provided with the ordinary bedstead
joint or corner block or otherwise suitably adapted or constructed to receive and
support the ends and side bars of the framework which may be of iron, brass or any
suitable material.
It will at once be seen that by constructing bedsteads upon this principle and
according to our invention an obvious advantage over those of ordinary construction
is obtained inasmuch as the terminal pillars, uprights, or standards may be made in
character with the other bedroom furniture and may be carved or otherwise treated
to correspond and thus form a work of art, while the liability to verminate is reduced
to a minimum.
The ends of the bed stead may also be of wood, if desired, and an important feature
of the bedstead above described is that it can be fixed and taken down in a similar
manner to an ordinary iron bedstead.
The accompanying drawing is a perspective view of one form of bedstead
constructed according to this invention. The metal parts being represented in solid
black as contra-distinguished from the wood parts which are shaded.
The wooden pillars or standards A may be provided with the usual joint or corner
block B or any other convenient form of joint to which the metal side bars B may
be attached, and the ends A' between the wooden pillars A may be of metal, or of
wood as shown.
It will be seen from the drawing that the whole of the wooden parts, i.e. e
pillars and ends will be almost completely exposed to view even when the bed is made
ready for sleeping purposes and therefore readily admits of being under daily
supervision and of being kept clean and free from vermin.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inve
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what v.
claim is :
:-
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1. The construction of bedsteads partly of wood and partly of metal, substantially
in the manner and for the purpose described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawing.
2. In a bedstead the combination with a metal framework of wooden pil
standards, or ends, substantially as and for the purpose described and illustrateu
the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 19th day of May 1890
EDWARD PAGET GILLAM HEADLY.
ISAAC BARRADALE.
W. P. Thompson & Boult,
Agents for the Applicants.