US115485A - Improvement in bedsteads - Google Patents

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MICHAEL LALLY, on EAST rALnsrrNE, onio.

i t, iMPRovEMENT IN `Broers/Ans.

Speciiication forming part of Letters'Pat'ent No. 115,485, dated May 30,1871.

To all lwhom it may concern.-

Be itknown `that I, MICHAEL LALLY, of

East Palestine, in the county of Columbiana and State of Ohio, have invented new and usei i'ul Improvements in Bedsteads; and do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear,- and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing makinga part of this specification, inwhich- Figure lisa perspective view-of a hedstead containing my improvements; Fig. 2 1s a plan view of the same; Fig. 3 1s 'a perspective view `of the center or binding slat; andFig. 4 is a like view of the central portion of one of the `side rails.

Letters of like name and kind refer to like parts in each of the gures.

As usually constructed the side rails of a latter would increase `thedistance between them, and cause the slats to drop to the iloor.

In addition tothe above, the applicat-ion of suiiicient weight to the centerof the slats to cause them to spring4 downward, would cause a, their bearing ends cooperate as inclined planes and force `outward the side rails.` To obviate these objections andV render certain the relative positions oi"J the side rails and slats is the `design of` myiinvention, which con sistsin the employment of a central slat provided with laterally-projecting metal studs,

' `which engage with corresponding metal plates secured to or upon the side rails, substantially [as and for the purposehereinafter shown.

-v In the annexed drawing,'A and A represent the side rails of a bedstead, connected toi gether at their ends bymeans ofthe head and i'oot rails B and C, respectively, and the posts D', all in the usual manner. Resting within suitable recesses or notches e cut within the upper edge of a supporting-strip, E, that is secured to or upon the innenface of each side rail, is a series of slats, F, to the center one of which, F', upon its edges and near its ends, are secured four metal bars, G, having their outer ends g bent outward at a right angle to the line of said slat, so that when in place said angular ends or studs bear' against the inner face of said supporting-strip. Attached to or upon the inner face 'of each supportingt strip E at each sideof the center slat'is a metal plate, H, which, extending horizontally inward against said slat, is provided with a recess or notch, b, that contains the stud g, and holds said slat and the rails firmly in their relative horizontal positions, and prevents the latter from spreading.

To disengage the slat it is only necessary to 'raise it until its ends and the studs g are released from their recesses, ai'terwhich the bedstead may Vbe taken apart in the usual manner. v y f @The devices above described are simple in construction, comparatively inexpensive, and can be easily applied' to any bedstead in which cross-slats are employed.

` Having thus fully set forth the nature and merits of my invention, what I claim as new The center slat Fl provided with the studs g, in combination with the side rails A, and supporting-strips E provided with the lockingplates H, substantially as and for the purpose specified. Y

y In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 2dday of May, 1871.

Witnesses:

NATHAN BALL, J. T. CHAMBERLIN.

MICHAEL LALLY.

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