US247799A - Brace for bedsteads - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.) I

c. L. OHADTAYNE.

BRAGE FOR BEDSTEADS.

No. 247,799. Patented 001;. 4.1881.

UNITED STATES CHAR-LES L. OHADEAYNE,

PATENT OFFICE.

OF YONKERS, NEW YORK.

B RACE FOR B EDSTEADS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 247,799, dated October 4,1881.

' Application filed June 8,188 1. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be itknown that I, CHARLES L. CHADEAYNE', of Yonkers, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Braces for Bedsteads, of which the following is a specification.

Great trouble and inconvenience is often caused by the sides of a bedstead spreading so as to allow the slats to drop; and the object of my invention is to provide a simple and-inexpensive brace or device which may be applied to bedsteads to hold the sides against spreading, and which may be adjusted in length to suit small variations in bedsteads, or to suit single, three-quarter, or double bedsteads.

The invention consists in a brace for a bedstead composed of or comprising two rods having hooks at their outer ends, aturn-buckle connectin g said rods, and a strap having a line or row of holes,into any one of which one of said rods may be hooked, whereby I provide, for adjustin g the brace to suit slight variations in the widths of bedsteads supposed to be of the same size by means of the turn-buckle, and for adjusting the brace to suit single, three-quarter, or double bedsteads by hooking one of said rods into any one of the holes in the strap. The

- strap and the rod which is connected therewith are preferably embraced by a slide which prevents their accidental detachment one from the other.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a transverse section of the sides of a bedstead connected or held against spreading by my improved brace. Fig. 2 represents a plan of the strap by which one of the hooked rods is connected with one side of the bedstead; and Figs. 3 and 4 represent perspective views of two eyes whereby the hooked rods, destitute of the strap, may be connected directly to the sides of the bedstead.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Adesignates the two sides of a bedstead, and A the slats thereof, which are supported in the usual way by resting upon a notched piece, a, secured to the inner surface of each side A.

B B designate two rods,which are connected at their adjacent'ends by a turn-buckle, G, which may be made of malleable iron or other material, and into which one or both of said which is bent at right angles to the plane of the eye, and adapted to be screwed into the lower edge of the side A.

In lieu of the device D, which is formed of heavy wire, I may use the device E, (shown in Fig. 4,) which comprises an eye, d, into which the hook I) on the rod may be hooked, and a screw-threaded stud or projection, d,which is to be screwed into the lower edge of the side A of the bedstead. Adjacent to the eye (1 is a notch, (1 in which the portion of the rod B adjacent to the hook I; may fit. The rod B is connected with the side of the bedstead by means of a strap, F, of hoop-iron or other material, and having in its end a key-hole slot, 6, which may be detachably secured to the side of the bedstead by a screw, f, the head of which will pass through the larger portion of the slot or eye 0, while the narrow portion of said slot fits the screw below the head.

The strap F, when made of hoop or band iron, is flexible and may berolled or coiled up, if of any considerable length, to enable it to be packed in small space, and in said strap is a line or row of holes, 9, placed at a little distance from each other, andinto any one of which the rod B may be hooked.

In order to prevent the disengagement of the rod B from the strap F, when they are not applied to the bedstead and not under tension, I connect them by a slide, G, which embraces them both and may be attached to the either part so that the other part may slide throughit.

The end of the strap F may be turned over, as at h, to prevent it from being withdrawn entirely from the slide G.

The use of the strap F enables the brace to be adjusted in length to suit single, double, or three-quarter bedsteads by hooking the rod B. into any one of the holes 9 in said strap.

The turn-buckle (1 enables the brace to be adjusted in length to suit slight variations in the width of bedsteads which are supposed to be of one size, and also serves to tighten or put tension on the brace and draw the two sides of the bedstead together.

By my invention I provide a simple and inexpensive brace, which will effectually prevent the trouble at d inconvenience resulting from bed-slats dropping out, and which may be adjusted in width to suit bedsteads of different sizes, or to compensate for slightvnriationsin the Width of bedstcads supposed to be of the same size.

It will also be observed that the brace also serves to prevent the bedstead from being pushed out of square and having its corners strained by being pushed about in a room.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A brace for a bedstead comprising two rods having hooks at their outer ends a turnbuckle connecting said rods, and a strap comprising an n mberoi' holes into any one of which one of said rods maybe hooked, substantially as specified.

2. A brace for a bedstead comprising two rods having books at their outer ends, a turn buckle connecting said rods, a strap havinga line or row of holes into anyone of which one of said rods may be hooked, and a slide embracing said strap and the rod secured thereto, suhstantiall; as specified.

CHARLES L. CHADEAYNE.

Witnesses FREDK. Haynes, CHANDLER HALL.

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