IMPROVEMENTS IN FOLDING BEDSTEADS, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO TABLES, CHAIRS, AND OTHER FURNITURE
Year: 1880

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Hugh Gearing Grant at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd December 1880. A communication
from abroad by Carl Christian Held, of Stuttgart, in the Empire of
Germany.
HUGH GEARING GRANT, of the Firm of Messrs. Bosshardt and Grant, Patent
Agents, of 24, Bull's Head Chambers, Hopwood Avenue, Market Place, Manchester,
in the County of Lancaster. "IMPROVEMENTS IN FOLDING BEDSTEADS, WHICH
IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO TABLES, CHAIRS, AND OTHER FURNITURE”
A communication from abroad by Carl Christian Held, of Stuttgart, in the
Empire of Germany.
The Invention relates principally to improvements in camp-bedsteads designed
for use for the army and volunteers when camping out, but is also applicable for
use in households where it may be required to fix temporarily a portable bedstead,
and consists, in the first place, in constructing the said bedstead that it may be put
together and taken down in a comparatively short space of time, and, in the second
place, of making it of light materials. To this end flat strips or bars of steel are
suitably connected, so as to form a support for a canvass sheet or bed on which the
occupant may lay. Two horizontal strips of steel are securely connected together
by rivets or otherwise, having a space left between them at each end. At one end
of the said strips two jointed steel strips are connected, each of which forms a foot on
which the bed rests at one end, and to the other end of the said strips of steel two
other jointed strips are connected, which extend to support the bed immediately
thereunder at the other end. To the said metal strips first mentioned bent pins are
attached, which form abutments against which the strips forming the feet and
those supporting the bed come in contact when the bed is fixed. In order to
strengthen the bed at the opposite end a jointed strip of steel is connected at one
end to the under part of the bed, and a foot is formed at the other, being connected
with the herein before mentioned support by means of a pin which is passed through
openings in metal plates formed on the feet strips and through an opening formed
therein. The structure when so connected rests on two feet at one end, and on
one foot at the other. A sheet of canvass or other suitable material on the top,
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page_text: being distended between transverse bars, which bars are connected with the said
metal supports; the two ends of the said metal strips are passed through two slots
formed in the transverse bars at one end, and the end of the other strip is passed
through a slot in the opposite transverse bar, by which means the canvass or other
material stretched between the said transverse bars is supported. At each end of
each transverse bar a jointed metal foot is connected, which when the bedstead is
in position for being used rest on the ground. The parts being jointed at one or
more places, it can be packed in a small compass for transport. The Invention
may be applied with slight modifications to other descriptions of furniture.