IMPROVEMENTS IN BEDSTEADS
Year: 1884

page_text: We, JOHN MARTIN of 47 Gerard Street Islington in the County of Middlesex
Inventor and JOHN Cox MINEARD of 24a Barnsbury Grove Islington in the
County of Middlesex Bedroom Furniture Maker do hereby declare the nature of
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BEDSTEADS " to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to simplify and cheapen the construction of
bedsteads & so that they will take to pieces and can be fitted together more readily,
and so as to be more convenient and suitable for hospital invalid and general use.
The Invention is especially applicable to the ordinary bedstead with angle iron
frame which thereby is made cheaper and made suitable for receiving a wood lath
bottom, such form of bottom being of especial value because of comfort cleanness
and health both for hospital asylums and the like and for general domestic use.
By this invention we also do away with the usual iron lath bottom and with the
fastening buttons and stretchers now used. We also render the bedstead especially
suitable as a hospital and invalid bedstead. For this purpose we provide the end
rails or side rails of the bedstead frame with detachable appliances or clips for
supporting the bed bottom or parts thereof and also provide detachable clips for
the head corner posts in connection with a frame with panel which is to serve as
a head rest.
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We support the bed bottom whether made of wood laths or otherwise by means
of clips or brackets made in one piece or jointed and which can slide easily along
the angle iron or tubular end rails or side rails of a bedstead and which can be
attached and detached in a moment and which when in position may if desired or
required be fixed with great convenience by wedging, by screws, or otherwise.
The clip is by preference made in one piece and may be made of steel, wrought
iron or malleable cast iron. As applied to the simplest and cheapest form of
bedstead that is to say the one constructed with angle iron side rails and end rails
it consists mainly of a vertical part or member sliding on the outer vertical side of
the angle iron rail, an upper part or member which rests on the upper horizontal
part of the said angle iron rail and a lower part or member slanting upwards and
inwards. It is also either on the aforesaid upper part or the aforesaid lower part
formed or provided with a hook peg, eye or other suitable part onto which or into
which the aforesaid bearing bar or other part carrying the bed bottom is fixed.
When we support the bed bottom by the upper member of the clip the latter will
generally not need any wedging or other means of fastening and inay be made of

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steel or wrought iron. When we support the bed bottom by the bottom member
of the clip we make the clip by preference of malleable cast iron and leave room
between the inside or bottom of the horizontal member of the angle iron rail and
the slanting bottom member of the clip for the insertion of a hard wood wedge
for fixing the clip in position or for a separate intermediate wedge like piece which
is formed with the hook, peg eye or other suitable part into which or onto which
the bearing bar or other part carrying the bed bottom is fixed. When the clip is
used for supporting the transverse head and foot bar of a woven wire web or other
web bed bottom we place the clips on the side rails and having tightened up the
web lengthwise by suitable or usual tightening screws or other means we fix the
clips in position thus relieving the screws of strain and wear. When the clips are
adapted to tubular side or end rails we form the clip to lap partly round the rail
and fix it by a screw; this is a simple form of detachable clip, but it. might of
course if desired be made jointed or in parts as described. By the use of the above
clips the whole of the bed bottom may be removed cleaned and replaced in a few
minutes without taking the bedstead to pieces. We further on each tubular head
corner post or upright provide a detachable clip made in two parts jointed together,
one part being formed with a projecting lug against which abuts the end of a set
screw which is tapped through a lug formed on the other part, which latter lug is
also formed with an eye or socket to receive a cross bar to which one end of a
canvas or other head rest panelling is attached; we prefer however for convenience
of detaching to make one clip with an eye and the other with a half eye or open
bearing. The canvas or other panel is placed on a frame (of which the aforesaid
cross bar forms a part) the lower part of the said frame resting on the side rails of
the bedstead or on the mattress.. The head rest is adjustable as to inclination by
shifting the clips on the uprights and may also be drawn up entirely so as to form
a panelling for the head of the bedstead, thus also if desired for cheapness' sake
doing away with the usual tubular metallic panelling frame or filling in of the
head.
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page_text: We, JOHN MARTIN of 47.Gerrard Street Islington, in the County of Middlesex,
Inventor, and JOHN COX MINEARD of 24ª Barnsbury Grove, Islington in the
County of Middlesex Bedroom Furniture Maker do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to bo
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:―
. The object of this Invention is to simplify and cheapen the construction of
bedsteads and so that the whole. of the bottom can be removed without taking
the bedstead to pieces and so as to be more convenient and suitable for hospital,
invalid and general use. The Invention is specially applicable to the ordinary
bedstead with angle iron frame which thereby is made cheaper and made suitable
for receiving a wood lath bottom, such forin of bottom being of especial value
because of comfort, cleanness and health both for hospital asylums and the like and
for general domestic use. By this Invention we also do away with the usual iron.
Jath botton. and with the fastening buttons and stretchers now used:
render the bedstead specially suitable as a hospital and invalid bedstead. For. this
purpose we provide the end rails or side rails of the bedstead frame with detachable
appliances or clips for supporting the bed bottom or parts thereof and also provide
detachable clips for the head corner posts and side rails in connection, with a frame
with pannel which is to serve as a head rest.
We also
We support the bed botton whether made of wood laths or otherwise by means
of clips or brackets made in one piece or jointed and which can slide easily along:
the angle iron end rails or side rails of a bedstead and which can be attached and
detached in a moment and which when in position may if desired or required be
fixed with great convenience by wedging, by screws, or otherwise. The clip is by
preference made in one piece and may be made of steel wrought iron or malleable
cast iron."
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings is a perspective view of a bedstead
shewing the invention applied to the simplest and cheapest form of bedstead that
is to say one constructed with angle iron side rails and end rails. The clip A which
is also shewn separately in Figure 2 consists mainly of a vertical part or inember a
sliding on the outer vertical side of the angle iron rail B, an upper part or member a¹
which rests on the upper horizontal part of the said angle iron rail, and a lower
part or member a slanting upwards and inwards. The bearing bars C and D
which may be round or otherwise rest in the hook part as of the clips and support
the wood laths E preferably made of pitch pine. The clips are formed or provided
with a hook, peg, eye or other suitable part or to which or into which the aforesaid
bearing bar or other part carrying the bed bottom is fixed and such hook, peg, eye
or other supporting part may be either on the upper member a' or on the lower
member a. When we as shewn in Figures 1 and 2 support the bed bottom by the
upper member a¹ of the clip the latter will generally not need any wedging or
other means of fastening and may be made of steel or wrought iron or malleable
cast iron. When we support the bed bottom by the bottom member of the clip as
shewn in Figure 3 we make the clip by preference of malleable cast iron and leave

page_text: room between the inside or bottom of the horizontal member of the angle iron rail
and the slanting bottom member a' of the clip for the insertion of a hard wood
wedge F for fixing the clip in position or for a separate intermediate wedge like
piece which is formed with the hook, peg, eye, or other suitable part into which or
onto which the bearing bar or other part carrying the bed bottom is fixed.
Figure 4 shews a clip formed with a peg a passing freely through a bearing
bar C. When the clip is'used for supporting the transverse head and foot bar G
Figure 5 of a woven wire web or other web bed bottom we place the clips on the
side rails B¹ and having tightened up the web lengthwise by suitable or, usual
tightening screws or other means we fix the clips in position by the wedges F thus
relieving the screws of strain and wear. By the use of the above clips the whole
of the bed bottom may be removed cleaned and replaced in a few minutes without
taking the bedstead to pieces.
We may further on each tubular head corner post or upright provide a detachable
clip H I as shewn in Figure 1 and shewn full size in the plan view Figure 6 made
in two parts H and I jointed together, one part H being formed with a projecting
lug Hagainst which abuts the end of a set screw K which is tapped through a
lug 1 formed on the other part I which latter lug is also formed with an eye or
socket I² to receive a cross bar M to which one end of a canvas or other head rest
pannelling is attached; we prefer however for convenience of detaching to make
one clip with an eye and the other with a half eye or open bearing. The canvas
or other panne! is placed on a frame (of which the aforesaid cross bar forms a part)
the lower part of the said frame resting at each end in an eye or hook or the like
formed on the clips L which drop on the side rails of the bedstead or on the
mattress. The head rest is adjustable as to inclination by shifting the clips on
the uprights, and may also be drawn up entirely so as to form a panelling for the
head of the bedstead, thus also if desired for cheapness sake doing away with
the usual tubular metallic panelling frame or filling in of the head. The head
rest frame may have an air pillow adjustably fixed thereto.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is
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First The application of a removable wood lath bed bottom supported or
arranged substantially as described and shewn to angle iron bedstead frames..
Second-The detachable clip constructions for supporting bed bottoms and head
rests substantially as described and shewn.