Improvements in Metallic and Non-metallic Bedsteads.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Apr., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 21st Dec., 1893-Accepted, 27th Jan., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Metallic and Non-metallic Bedsteads.
I HORATIO GRECE REGNART of Highgate Lodge Westhill in the County of
Middlesex Director of Maple and Company Limited No. 149 Tottenham Court
Road London do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in bedsteads of
the kind commonly called twin bedsteads. My invention is especially applicable to
metallic bedsteads but is also applicable to non-metallic bedsteads.
I will describe my invention as applied to a metallic twin bedstead.
I make two mattress frames in the ordinary way excepting that the angle iron
forming the head ends of the twin bedstead is in one piece and of a length greater
than the combined lengths of the heads of the two frames. The side bars of the
said frames are so connected with the angle iron forming the compound head end
that the completed frames are parallel and are situated at such a distance apart
that although joined at the head a person can readily walk between them. The
angle bars at the foot end are of the ordinary kind and are unconnected.
The twin bedstead has a head rail common to the two beds but each bed has its
own foot rail. The adjacent pillars of the foot rails may extend to a height of
about six feet and be connected at top by an arch. Four pillars at the four
outer angles of the twin bedstead may extend to the ordinary height and be
surmounted by a canopy..
My invention is applicable to bedsteads of various kinds the essence of my
invention consisting in connecting the two frames of the twin bedstead by a common
head angle iron or bar the said frames being at such a distance apart that a person
may conveniently walk between them.
Twin bedsteads constructed according to my invention have the advantage of
enabling the occupants to get into or leave the bed at either side.
Dated this 8th dox of ▲ nril 1803
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Metallic and Non-metallic Bedsteads.
I HORATIO GRECE REGNART, of Highgate Lodge, Westhill in the County of
Middlesex, Director of Maple and Company Limited No. 149 Tottenham Court
Road, London, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :—
My invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in bedsteads of
the kind commonly called twin bedsteads. My invention is especially applicable to
metallic bedsteads but is also applicable to non-metallic bedsteads.
I will describe my invention as applied to a metallic twin bedstead.
I make two mattress frames in the ordinary way excepting that the angle iron
forming the head ends of the twin bedstead is in one piece and of a length greater
than the combined lengths of the heads of the two frames. The side bars of the
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page_text: said frames are so connected with the angle iron forming the compound head end
that the completed frames are parallel and are situated at such a distance apart
that although joined at the head a person can readily walk between them. The
angle bars at the foot end are of the ordinary kind and are unconnected.
The twin bedstead has a head rail common to the two beds but each bed has its
own foot rail. The adjacent pillars of the foot rails may extend to a height of
about six feet and be connected at top by an arch. Four pillars at the four outer
angles of the twin bedstead may extend to the ordinary height and be surmounted
by a canopy.
My invention is applicable to bedsteads of various kinds the essence of my
invention consisting in connecting the two frames of the twin bedstead by a
common head angle iron or bar the said frames being at such a distance apart that
a person may conveniently walk between them.
Twin bedsteads constructed according to my invention have the advantage of
enabling the occupants to get into or leave the bed at either side and the bed
maker to gain access to the inner sides of the beds.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in perspective a metallic
twin bedstead constructed according to my invention and Figure 2 represents in
plan the two mattress frames of the same.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in both figures.
a, a, a, a and b, b, 62, 63 are the two mattress frames of the twin bedstead
constructed according to my invention formed of angle bars and corner blocks
jointed together by dovetail joints the space between the parallel inner side bars a
and b of the two mattress frames being marked c. The angle bar a², 6 forming
the head end of the two mattress frames is in one piece and of a length greater
than the combined lengths of the heads of the two frames as best seen in the plan
Figure 2, the connecting piece a between the inner head corner blocks crossing
the space or passage c between the two mattress frames, at the head end. The
inner side bars of the two mattress frames are supported at the head end by the
legs d, d. The angle bars a³, 68 at the foot ends of the two mattress frames are of
the ordinary kind and are unconnected. The head rail e of the two bedstead
frames is common to both frames and the outer head end pillars carry the
ordinary half tester or Persian or Italian rails and brackets ff; but each
foot end of the twin bedstead has its own foot rail the said foot rails being
marked respectively h and i. The adjacent foot pillars k, 1 of the two mattress
frames are extended upwards and are connected at top by an arch m, or other
equivalent connection to act as a stay. Portions of the foot rails h, i are also
extended upwards and are joined by an arch as represented in Figure 1. The
extended inner foot pillars and foot rails and arched tops of the same may be
dispensed with and the foot rails h, i terminate at the adjacent inner ends at the
same height as the outer ends of the said foot rails, the inner pillars k, l in this
case are provided with the ordinary terminal knobs, but I prefer to use the
arrangement of parts represented in the accompanying drawing.
In place of the Italian rail and brackets represented in Figure 1, the head and
foot pillars at the outer angles of the twin bedstead may all extend upwards and
be surmounted by a canopy.
From the foregoing description and by reference to the accompanying drawing
it will be understood that although the twin bed is joined at the head so as to
cross the space or passage c between the two beds, yet the said space or passage is
open or accessible at the foot end of the two beds thereby converting it into a
walking space or passage so that a person can readily walk between the said beds
and enter and pass out of the space at the open foot end, thus enabling the
occupants of the two beds to get into or leave the bed at either side and the bed
maker to gain access to the inner sides of the beds for making them.
I apply my improvements to twin non-metallic bedsteads substantially in the
manner hereinbefore described and illustrated with respect to a twin metallic
bedstead.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I
claim as my invention;―
The improvements in twin metallic and non metallic bedsteads hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing; that is to say, constructing
each of the two mattress frames of twin bedsteads with an independent foot bar
and foot rail so that the space between the inner side bars and foot bars of the
two frames of the twin bedstead is open thereby converting the space between
the two beds into a walking space or passage open at the foot end, and enabling the
occupants of the two beds and the bed maker to enter and leave the said walking
space or passage at the open foot end thereof for the purposes and substantially as
hereinbefore described and illustrated.
Dated the 20th day of December 1893.