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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
CHARLES S. FIELDING AND JOHN R. GROGAN, OF QUITMAN, TEXAS.
BED-SLAT FASTENER.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 575,882, dated January 26, 1897.
Application filed July 8, 1896. Serial No. 598,465. (No model,)
To ca~l zvhoomc it 71Ua conccCermc: head 8, which is arranged against the outer
Be it known that we, CHARLES S. FIELDING face of the cleat 2, fits snugly within the open-
and JOHN R. GROGAN, citizens of the United ing 6 of the keeper '1 and entirely fills the 55
States, residing at Quitman, in the county of same, so as to avoid the formation of any
5 Wood and State of Texas, have invented a crevices or recesses which might permit the
new and useful Bed-Slat Fastener, of which accumulation of vermin, and the keeper is
the following is a specification. provided at its upper edge, adjacent to the
The invention relates to improvements in center of the opening 6, with a recess 9, re- Co
bed-slat fasteners. ceiving the shank 7 of the hook 4, whereby
1o The object of the present invention is to the parts are snugly fitted together.
improve the construction of bed-slat fasten- The slat 5 has its end 10 fitting snugly
ers and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and against the inner face of the side rail 3, and
efficient one, capable of being readily applied it is provided at opposite sides with L-shaped 65
to a bedstead and adapted to support a bed- plates 11, secured to the side edges of the
<5 slat firmly in position and to prevent the side slat and having short arms 12, extending lat-
rails of a bedstead from springing outward. erally from the end 10 of the slat and also
A further object of the invention is to pro- fitting against the face of the side rail 3 of
vide a bed-slat fastener in which there will the bedstead. The laterally-projecting arms 70
be no recesses or crevices for the accumula- 12 of the L-shaped plates are received with-
20 tion of vermin. in recesses 13 of keeper-plates 14, located
The invention consists in the construction at opposite sides of the slat and secured di-
and novel combination and arrangement of rectlyto the side rail 3. The recesses are ar-
parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated ranged at the inner faces of the keeper-plates 75
in the accompanying drawings, and pointed at the inner ends thereof, and the arms 12 of
25 out in the claim hereto appended. the L-shaped plates are adapted to be intro-
In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective duced into the recesses 13 simultaneously
view of a portion of a bedstead-slat fastener with the insertion of the head of the T-shaped
constructed in accordance with this inven- hook into the opening of the continuous 80
tion and shown applied to a slat and a side keeper 1.
30 rail of a bedstead. Fig. 2 is a sectional view It will be seen that the slat-fastener is sim-
taken longitudinally of the slat. Fig. 3 is a ple and comparatively inexpensive in con-
detail perspective view of the continuous struction, that it is adapted to be readily ap-
keeper. Fig. 4 is a similar view of the T- plied to a bed without altering the construe- 85
shaped hook for engaging the continuous tion of the slats or the side rails, and that it
35 keeper. connects the slats to the cleats of the side
Like numerals of reference designate corre- rails and also to the side rails, whereby the
sponding parts in all the figures of the draw- slat is firmly supported and the side rails pre-
ings. vented from springing or bulging outward 90
1 designates a continuous keeper, con- without subjecting the cleats to excessive
40 structed of suitable metal, secured to the side strain.
face of a slat-supporting cleat 2 of a side rail Changes in the form, proportion, and minor
3 and arranged to be engaged by a hook 4 of details of construction may be resorted to
a slat 5. The continuous keeper is provided without departing from the principle orsacri- 95
with a substantially rectangular opening 6 ficing any of the advantages of this invention.
45 and is perforated at opposite sides of the What we claim is-
same for the reception of suitable fastening In a bedstead-fastener, the combination
devices for securing it to the cleat 2, and the with a side rail provided with a slat-support-
T-shaped hook 4 consists of a flat shank 7, ing cleat, and a slat arranged on the upper loo
secured to the lower face of the slat, and a face of the cleat and fitting squarely against
50 transverse head 8, depending from the outer the inner face of the side rail, of a continu-
end of the shank and projecting laterally ous keeper 1 secured to the side face of the
from opposite sides thereof. The depending cleat, arranged below the slat and provided
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Fielding, Charles S. & Grogan, John R. Bed-Slat Fastener., patent, January 26, 1897; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174507/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.