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UNITED "STATESPATENT' OFFICE.
GEORGE HENKEL, OF PARIS, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ,KATE
NICHOLS, OF ST. LOUIS,.MISSOURI.
FOLDING BED.No. 830;590.
Specification of Letters Patent..
Application filed January 22, 1906. SeriaLNo. 297,336.To all whom it ma y concern:
Be .it known that I, GEORGE HENKEL, a
citizen of the United States of America, re-
siding at Paris, in the county.of Lamar and
5 State of . Texas, have invented certain .new
and .useful Improvements in Folding Beds;
and I do hereby declare that the following is
a full, clear, and exact description of the in-
yention, such as will.enable others to make
io and use.the same, reference being had to the
accompanying. drawings, forming. a part of
this specification.
The invention has for its object primarily
a folding bed in which the side supports are
15 extensible, and, second, to provide a folding
side member for the head and foot posts of
oridnary beds.
The invention consists in the novel con-
struction and combination of parts, such as
20 will be first fully described and then specific-
ally pointed out in the claims.
In the drawings, Figure 1:is an isometrical
view of the improved ,folding bed, showing
the folding parts in an extended or open po-
25 sition. Fig. 2 is a side view of the invention,
showing the folding parts in a closed position.
Fig. 3 is a detail view in perspective of the
transverse fabric-stretching bar for support-
ing one end of the bed fabric, showing the de-
30 vices for imparting tension to. the fabric.
Fig. 4 is a detail broken perspective view of
one end of the transverse fabric supporting
and stretching bar. Fig. 5 is a detail view of
the bar-carrying arm on the rock-shaft. Figs.
35 6 and 7 are plan and side views, respectively,
of .the upper adjustable connecting devices
for the folding parts of the-bed and the head
and foot supports, and Fig. 8 is a perspective
view of the lower connecting devices for the
40 folding parts. Fig. 9 is a view in elevation
of the. inner portion of a wardrobe bed-stand,
showing the invention applied thereto.
Similar numerals of reference indicate cor-
responding parts in all the figures of the
45 drawings.
Referring. to the drawings, 10 10 indicate
separate-vertical corner-posts of the requisite
height and, as shown, are cylindrical in form,
and upon the upper ends are enlargements or.
50 caps 12, and upon the.lower ends are the.en-
largements or knobs 13. The posts 10 rela-
tively are at the headof. the bed and, as
shown, are mounted on the casters 14. 15Patented Sept. 11, 1906.
.15 indicate the separate vertical corner-posts,
which are located relatively at the foot of the 55
bed and, as shown in the drawings, are nearly
of the height.of .the corner-posts 10 and of
like construction and mounted on casters 17.
Upon the inner side of each of the corner-
posts 10 and 15 are arranged in a vertical po- 6o
sition the angle-bars 18, which extend in
height from a position opposite the foot en-
largement of each post .upwardly nearly to
the enlargement at the upper end of thecor-
ner-posts, and in one side of the angle-bars, 65
which are arranged outwardly and tangen-
tially to the posts, are longitudinal slots 19,
which extend from a point on the angle-bar
the proper height of a bed-bottom above the
floor upwardly nearly the length of said angle- 7c
bars. The attachments for these angle-bars
to the posts at their upper ends consist of
semicircular clamping-arms 20, as seen in
Figs. 6 and 7. The inner ends of the arms
are secured to a longitudinally-slotted arm 75
21, which extends outwardly from the outer
surface of the angle-bar 18 in the direction of
the corner-posts. Through the said inner
ends of the clamping-arms 20 and the slot in
the outwardly-extended arm 21 extends. a 8o
screw- threaded clamping-bolt 22, upon the
end of which is a thumb-nut 23, by means of
which the arms 20 are clamped to the-posts.
The lower portions of the angle-plates are
secured to the posts 10 and 15 by the locking 85
devices 24, which consist of the annular plate
25, as seen in Fig. 8, which extends around
and is secured firmly to the posts and is pro-
vided with a vertically-grooved projection 26,
the sides of the groove being inclined down- 90
wardly and inwardly. 27 indicates the lock-
ing-lug on the angle-bar 18, which is fitted
within the grooved projection 26.
With the angle-bars 18 on each of the cor-
ner-posts 10 at one end of the bed are con- 95
nected the outer ends of crossed levers 28 and
29. These levers consist of narrow channel-
bars, the lower inner ends of which bars are:
pivoted by pivots 30x to the inner surfaces and
lower ends of the slotted portion of the vertical '1oo
angle-bars 18, the channel in the side of the:
bars being toward each other. The upper ends
of the channel-bars 29 are located opposite the
slots 19 and are also upon the inner surfaces
of 'the slotted portion of the angle-bar, the' '105
channel portion of the bars being toward said
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Henkel, George. Folding Bed, patent, September 11, 1906; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth513289/m1/3/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.