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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE
BENJAMIN OTTINGER, OF GEORGETOWN, TEXAS.
INVALID-BED.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 509,674, dated November 28, 1893.
Application filed July 17,1893. Serial No, 480,757. (No model,)To all whom it nay concern:
Be it known that I, BENJAMIN OTTINGER, a
citizen of the United States of America, resid-
ing at Georgetown, in the county of William-
5 son and State of Texas, have invented cer-
tain new and useful Improvements in Invalid-
Beds, of which the following is a specifica-
tion, reference being had to the accompany-
ing drawings.
o - This invention relates to certain new and
useful improvements in bedsteads, and par-
ticularly to those known as invalid bedsteads,
the object of the invention being to provide
means whereby the hinged head section of the
15 bed may be adjusted to any desired angle
of elevation; furthermore providing suitable
means for retaining it in its adjustable posi-
tion.
A further object of the invention is to pro-
20o vide means where the desired result may be
obtained with but slight exertion on the part
of the operator.
A still further object of the invention is to
provide simple and inexpensive parts that
25 may be easily adjustable and readily remov-
able to renew parts that are worn or broken,
as the case may be.
Finally the invention abounds in various
novel details of construction, arrangements
30 and combinations of parts, to be hereinafter
more fully described and specifically pointed
out in the claim.
In describing the invention in detail, ref-
erence is had to the accompanying drawings
35 forming part of this specification, wherein
like letters indicate corresponding parts in
the several views, in which--
Figure 1. is a perspective view of my im-
proved invalid bedstead showing the mech-
40 anism attached at the head board. Fig. 2. is
a detail view of the adjusting mechanism
showing in dotted lines the different angles of
the adjustinglever. Fig. 3, is a detail view of
the movable section of the interior frame.
45 In the drawings,-A, A, A, A, indicate the
bed post and B, B, the connections forming a
rectangular frame for the support of the in-
terior frame a, on which the springs and mat-
tress are designed to rest. This interior frame
50 a, is divided into the permanent section B',
and the movable and adjustable head sectionb, hinged on each side, near the connecting
side pieces as at b". To the center of this in-
terior frame adjacent to the head board of
the bedstead is attached a flexible connection 55
C, at c, which passes over a pulley D, arranged
in the center and at the top of the head board,
thence passing downwardly to a pulley E,
which is arranged in alignment and secured
so as to operate transversely with the pulley 60o
D, at the bottom of the head board, with which
the said connection C engages, the opposite
end of this flexible connection being attached
to the end of the lever F, which is pivoted at
f, and secured at a point between the pulleys 65
D and E. The lever F, contains a slot G, de-
signed to embrace the semi-circular or seg-
mental guide or rack II, having apertures h,
h, arranged equi-distantly for the reception
of the securing pin in I, which passes through 7o
the hole h', in the lever and the apertures h,
h, of the rack, by which means it will be ob-
vious the adjustment is accomplished. This
adjustment may also be attained by means of -
a set screw passing through the lever far 75
enough to engage the outer surface of the
segmental guide by which means, it will be
apparent, the lever may be retained or held
at any point in its path of travel.
The lever I, is elongated for the purpose of 80
increasing the leverage and thereby facilitat-
ing the operation of this device, and I call
particular attention to the fact that it may be
so arranged as to operate from either side of
the pulley E, where the bedstead occupies a 85
position where access to one side is practica-
bly impossible; another advantage being that,
this mechanism can be operated from the side
of the bed which is impossible in numerous
winding processes now in use. 90
The mechanism may be constructed of any
suitable material and various changes may be
made in the detail construction of the device
without departing from the general idea in-
volved. 95
Having fully described my invention, what
I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters
Patent, is-
The combination with a bed, provided with
a movable head section, of means for raising Too
and lowering said head section, said means
comprising a slotted lever pivotally secured
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Ottinger, Benjamin. Invalid-Bed., patent, November 28, 1893; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173572/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.