US116712A - Improvement in spring bed-bottoms - Google Patents

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WILLIAM O. HUBBARD, OF HUBBARDSTON, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR rIO HIMSELF, JEROME J. ROBBINS, AND WILLIAM VVYOARNER, OF SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SPRING BED-BOTTONIS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 116,712, dated July 4, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LWILLIAM C. HUBBARD, of the village of Hubbardston, township of North Plains, in the county of Ionia and State of Michigan, have invented a new and improved Mode of Constructing Spring Bed-Bottoms, and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, referen ce being had to the accompanying drawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in the manner of supporting the slats or hanging the saine to the head and foot cross-pieces of the bed-bottoni.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation niore minutely.

Figure 1 is the bed-bottom in plan, showing the head and foot cross-pieces H H in position; also, slats S S S; also, upper end of rubber webbing-loops a e a as they inclose the wooden supporting-pins P P I.

Fig. 2 is a detached View of one of the crosspieces H, as seen from the top, showing upper end of rubber webbing-loops a a a as they inclose Wooden supporting-pins I) P Fig. 3 is a detached view of one of the slats S, showing the mortise through it at D, through which inortise the rubber webbing-loop passes when in position.

. Fig. 4 isa side elevation ofthe bedstead-rail It, legs L L 5 also, a cross-section of head and foot cross-pieces H H, to which the Slat S is attached by means of the rubber webbing-loops orY e, as further shown by the red line, and passing through the inortise c c in head a-nd foot cross-pieces H H, and inclosing wooden supporting-pins I) P, the pins resting in a countersink the length of pin on ltop ot' cross-piece; also, showing loop passing through nloi'tise in slat S and inclosing wooden supporting-inns I P on under side of slat.

Fig. 5 is an end eleva-tion of the bed-bottom, illustrating the edge of one ofthe cross-pieces H and 'end of slats S S S, also, upper and lower ends of rubber webbingloops c a as they inclose wooden supportingpins l) .P P, both on top of crosspiece H and under side of slats S S S. In the center' of this iigure I have shown two sla-ts, S S, as they would appear with a load upon them, and the rubber webbing-loops a a stretched to their full length.

What I cla-im as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The inortise I) through the slat S, through the head and foot cross-pieces H I-I, with wooden supporting-pin l? resting in countersink on top of cross-pieces, and wooden supporting-pin crossing inortise 011 under side of slat, substantially in the manner and for the purpose as herein described and set forth.

IILLIAM C. HUBBARD.

Titnesses J'. W. MILES, B. G. GooLEY.

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