US10313A - Bedstead-fastening - Google Patents

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UNITED sTATEs v'PATENT oEEioE.

W. E. MERRILL AND F. TUPPER,

OF NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

BEDSTEAD-FASTENING.

Specification of Letters Patent No.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, WESTLEY E. MER- RiLL and FREEMAN TUPPER, of Nashua, in the county of Hillsboro and State of New Hampshire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bedsteads; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which* Figure l, is a plan or top View of the bedstea'd; the posts being bisected in order to show clearly the manner in which the canvas is attached to the rails. Fig. 2, is a transverse vertical section of the vbcdstead taken through the center. Fig. 3, is a section showing the device by which the rails are secured tothe posts. Fig. 4, is also a section further illustrating thedevices in Fig. 3.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts, in each of the several figures.

The nature of our invention consists in a peculiar device, which will be hereinafter described, for securing the rails to the posts.

By the above improvements, thev bedstead is rendered very portable; as it may beV taken apart and again put together, in a short period of time; and thevcanvas or sacking bottom may be taken from, or adjusted to, the rails, with the greatest facility.

To enable others skilled in the art to fully understand and construct our invention, we will now proceed to describe the same.

A, (more particularly seen in Fig. 1,) rep,- resents a canvas or sucking bottom, having a series of holes around its edges.

B, B, B, B, represent the rails, having upon their upper surfaces, a series of buttons, (a), which pass through the holes in the canvas or sacking bottom, when the said canvas isv secured to the rails, as seen in Fig. 1.

To the under side of the canvas A, are attached a series of springs, (b), seen 1n dotted lines in Fig. 2, which springs are 10,313, dated December 13, 1853.

secured to horizontal slats, (c). These slats, (c), rest upo-n cleats, (05), which are secured to the head and foot rails of the bedstead, as seen-in Fig. 2. The slats, (c), are not attached to the cleats, but merely rest upon them, or in recesses made in the cleats. f

By the above arrangement, it will be seen that the canvas may be taken from, or adjusted to, the rails, in a moment of time, and with the greatest facility.

At the ends o-f the rails, B, there are attached corner irons, C; each corner iron being bent in Zig-zag form, so as to make a recess for the reception of the post; this is seenin Figs. 3, and 4. The iron on thev end of one rail has two prongs or-angular the recess formed by the iro-ns, C, and binds what we claim as new and desire to secure A by Letters-Patent, is-

We claim securing the posts and rails together, by means of the corner-irons, C, attached to the ends of the rails, and the clamp or dog, E, attached 4tothe posts; the said corner-irons and clamps or dogs being constructed and arranged substantially as herein shown and described.

W. E. MERRILL, Y F. TUPPER; itnesses ENOCH MERRILL, j GEO. E. DowNEs.

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