Improvements in Combination Bedsteads.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Oct., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 26th July, 1894-Accepted, 1st Sept., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Combination Bedsteads.
ADA FLINT EAST, Norton, Shawford, near Winchester, no profession or calling.
I, ADA FLINT EAST do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
"
"The College
""Combined bedstead and wardrobe is a bed arranged on the
top of a set of drawers which is made in two sections-upper & lower-so that it
can be taken apart in the centre & easily moved. The top section contains
3 drawers, the lower section 3 lockers, or drawers if required instead. One end
drawer to be converted into a shut up washstand, the other end drawer for a closed
writing table-if required. The upper section fits on to wooden pegs fixed in
lower section & is also made firm by movable screws from inside of lockers. At
the top of the drawers there is a 6 inch free board with holes for ventilation under
wire or lath mattress, which is placed 3 inches from top of chest. There are
4 movable brass posts supporting 4 curtain rods & a movable head board which can
be placed either end.
Dated thie 25th day of October 1893.
ADA FLINT EAST.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Combination Bedsteads.
I, ADA FLINT EAST, Norton, Shawford, near Winchester, 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:-
The combined bedstead and wardrobe forming the object of this invention is a
bed arranged on the top of a set of drawers which is made in two sections-upper
and lower so that it can be taken apart in the centre and easily moved. Prefer-
ably the top section contains 3 drawers and the lower section 3 lockers or drawers if
required instead. One end drawer may be converted into a shut up washstand, and
the other end drawer into a closed writing table if required. The upper section
fits on to wooden pegs fixed in lower section and is also made firm by movable
screws from inside of lockers. At the top of the drawers there is a 6 inch free
board with holes for ventilation under the wire or lath mattress, which is placed
3 inches from top of chest but these dimensions may be varied. There are
4 movable brass posts supporting 4 curtain rods and a movable head board which
can be placed at either end.
Figure 1 is a front elevation,
Figure 2 an end elevation,
Figure 3 a plan, and
Figure 4 a vertical section of a combined bedstead constructed according to my
invention.
The upper section extends from A to B Figure 1 and the lower section from
C to D, they are secured together by pegs (not shown in the drawings) on one
section which enter holes in the other section.
At the top of the upper section are sockets (Figures 3 and 4) to receive the
curtain poles E. FF are the perforated fell boards, the back one is preferably

page_text: made so that it can be removed in order that a double bed may be formed by
placing two of the bedsteads back to back. G is a head board secured by rings 9
to the poles E. H Figures 3 and 4 is a lath mattress resting on brackets h h.
I, J and K are three drawers in the upper section and L M and N are three lockers
in the lower section. Either the upper or the lower section may be divided
into two.
Figures 5 and 6 are front and side elevations of a modification in which the
sections are separable from one another along vertical instead of horizontal planes
the divisions extending from O to P and from Q to R Figure 5. In other respects
the bedstead is similar to that shown at Figures 1 to 4.
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
1. A bedstead substantially as described made in two or more sections separable
from each other along a horizontal plane or planes, the upper section carrying
supports for the mattress and having below the latter an air space for ventilation
and the lower section or sections containing one or more drawers or lockers.
2. A bedstead substantially as described made in two or more sections separable
from each other along a vertical plane or planes the sections carrying supports for
the mattress and having below the latter an air space for ventilation and one or
more drawers or lockers.
3. A bedstead substantially as described and shown at Figures 1 to 4 of the
drawings.
4. A bedstead substantially as described and shown at Figures 5 and 6 of the
drawings.
Dated this 1st day of Wahu 1804
ADA FLINT EAST.