US897671A - Metal bedstead. - Google Patents

Description

. PATENTED SEPT. 1,1908. L. B. SNYDER & S. T. HERON.

METAL BEDSTEAD. APPLICATION FILED JULY 13,1907.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

LON B. SNYDER AND SHIRLEY T. HERON, OF CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE.

METAL BEDSTEAD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 1, 1908.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, LON B. SNYDER and SHIRLEY T. HERON, citizens of the United States, residing at Chattanooga, in the county of Hamilton and State of Tennessee, have invented new and useful Improvements in Metal Bedsteads, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to metal bedsteads, and more particularly to improvements in the connections between the side rails of the bedstead and the posts at the head and foot frames on the bedstead.

The invention has for one of its objects to provide a simple, inexpensive and durable means for connecting the side bars to the corner posts of the bedstead and which permit of the side bars to be readily reversed.

A further object of the invention is the provision of bolt-carrying blocks on the posts of a bedstead and slotted heads on the ends of the side rails with tongue and groove joints for preventing relative turning between the blocks and heads, the bolts being disposed in the slots of the heads for fastening the parts together.

With these objects in view and others, as will appear as the description proceeds, the invention comprises the various novel features of construction and arrangement of parts which will be more fully described hereinafter and set forth with particularity in the claims appended hereto.

In the accompanying drawing, which illustrates one of the embodiments of the invention, Figure 1 is a plan view of one corner of a bedstead with the corner post in section. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the side rail in reversed position. Fig. 3 is a vertical section on line 33, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a similar section on line 4-4, Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one of the heads or terminal blocks of one of the side rails or bars of the bedstead. Fig. 6 is an elevation of a portion of the corner post showing the block thereon.

Similarreference characters are employed to designate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawing, 1 designates a corner post of a bedstead on which is fixed a block 2 that serves to support one end of i the cross bar 3.

The inner end 4 of the block is preferably vertical, and extending horizontally therefrom is a stud 5 that is preferably threaded. This stud may be formed integral or in any other suitable manner and is adapted to extend through the slot 6 in the head or end block 7 formed on the side bar 8 of the bedstead, there being a nut 9 on the bolt that bears against the head 7 for rigidly securing the side bar to the corner post. It is to be understood that the opposite end of the side bar is connected with the correspondingly disposed corner post of the bedstead by means of a similar connection, and in order to prevent the side bar from turning on the bolts 5, interlocking tongues and grooves 9 and 10 are formed on and in the opposed surfaces of the blocks and heads 7, and the tongues are held in engagement with the grooves by drawing the nuts 9 tightly home. The tongues and grooves are so arranged that the side bars, which are preferably angle irons, can be turned so that either web 11 thereof may be disposed horizontally. To adjust the position of the side bars, it is merely necessary to loosen the nuts 9 a sufficient distance to permit the head and foot frames of the bedstead to be moved to one side a distance sufficient to free the tongues from the grooves, thereby permitting the side rails to be turned on the bolts through ninety degrees or one hundred and eighty degrees, and then clamped in position again by the tightening of the nuts.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, the advantages of the construction and of the method of operation will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art to which the invention appertains, and while we have described the principle of operation of the invention, together with the apparatus which we now consider to be the best embodiment thereof, we desire to have it understood that various changes may be made when desired, as are within the scope of the claims.

Having thus described the invention, what we claim is The combination of a side bar, a block shaped head thereon provided with a slot extending entirely through the same, a corner post, a block fixed thereon and provided with a horizontally extending stud adapted In testimony whereof, We afiix our signeto extend through the slot, means on the stud tures in presence of two Witnesses.

for rigidly securing the head and block to- LON B. SNYDER.

gether, tongues on the block radially dis- SHIRLEY T. HERON. 5 posed around the stud adapted to extend l/Vitnesses:

into correspondingly shaped grooves on the D. S. GREEN,

head. W. E. HERON.

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