Folding Bedstead with Spring-mattress.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 14th Jan., 1895-Accepted, 23rd Feb., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Folding Bedstead with Spring-mattress.
I, CARL FRIEDRICH FÖRSTE of 35, Demmeringstrasse, Leipzig, Germany,
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :—
The present invention relates to a folding bed-stead, which, when folded up, has
the appearance of a cup-board. In consequence of its peculiar construction, it is of
exactly the same stability as an ordinary bed-stead, and it provided with a spring-
mattress especially suitable for this construction. The bed-frame is arranged to
swing in pivot-bolts of the cup-board-frame, which has a lid, opening upwards on a
hinge, and serving to hold the bed-frame when folded up. When the lid is lifted,
the bed-frame can be folded down; the legs, which are fixed by means of hinges,
serving with the aid of props, which are connected by joints with the legs and
joined to the cup-board-frame by bolts-to securely support the bed in horizontal
position.
The spring-mattress used, possesses an extraordinary elasticity. In its frame,
on cross woods, upright standing spiral springs are fixed, pressing against longi-
tudinal steel bands, the latter being connected with the frame by means of
horizontal spiral springs. Bands serve to support the material to be stretched all
over the mattress.
Dated this 25th day of April 1894.
Folding Bedstead with Spring-mattress.
I, CARL FRIEDRICH FÖRSTE of 35 Demmeringstrasse, Leipsic-Lindenau,
Germany, Manufacturer, 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 present invention relates to a folding bed-stead, which, when folded-up, has
the appearance of a cup-board. In consequence of its peculiar construction, it is of
exactly the same stability as an ordinary bed-stead, and it is provided with a
spring-mattress especially suitable for this construction.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawing, is the front view of the bed-stead folded up.
Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the bed-stead when open.
Fig. 3 and 4 represent a section and the upper view of the spring-mattress.
The bed-frame C is arranged to swing in the pivot-bolts c of the cup-board-
frame which has a lid B, opening upwards on the hinge b, and serving to hold the
bed-frame C when folded up.
When the lid B is lifted the bed-frame C can be
folded down the legs d, which are fixed by means of the hinges e, serving-with
the aid of the props g, which are connected by points with the legs d, and joined
to the cup-board-frame A by bolts h-to securely support the bed in horizontal
position.
The spring-mattress (Figs. 3. 4.) used, possesses an extraordinary elasticity. In
its frame D, on cross woods E, upright standing spiral springs F are fixed, pressing

page_text: against longitudinal steel bands H, the latter being connected with the frame D by
means of the horizontal spiral springs G. The bands i serve to support the material
to be stretched all over the mattress.
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. In a folding bed-stead, the combination of the legs d, with the bed-frame C
to which they are fixed by means of hinges e and strutted with the cup-board-
frame A by the jointed props g, substantially as set forth.
2. In a spring-mattress the longitudinal bands H, which-covering the vertical
spiral springs of the mattress and receiving the pressure of the latter are fixed to
the frame D by horizontal spiral springs G, in order to obtain a uniform longitudinal
elasticity, substantially as described.
Dated this 9th day of January 1895.