US46091A - Improved crib and cradle - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY W. EASTMAN, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

IMPROVED CRIB AND CRADLE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 46,091, dated January 31, 1865.

To LZZ whom, t may concern,.-

Be it known that I, HENRY W. EASTMAN, of the city and county of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements upon a patent granted me on the 9th day of April, 1861, for a Portable Folding Bedstead.

This invention consists in fastening, in a peculiar and novel manner, the head and foot boards to the bed-frame When up in position; also, folding crib sides hinged to the side rails of the bed-frame to couvert the bedstead into a crib or trundle bedstead; also, rockers attached to the folding posts, forming, when up, a rocking cradle or crib; also, a metallic 1nosquito-barframe,7 hinged to the back of the head and foot boards, for the purpose of supporting a mosquito-net when the bedstead is up in position; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of crib when up in positim; Fig. 2, a top view when folded.

`L in Fig. 1 is a bolt and thu1nb-nut,7 which pass through the frame A. 'lhere are two of these bolts, one at each end of the frame.

K K are hooks,7 attached to the head and foot boards when the bedstead is up in position. The hooks pass around the bolts and are tightened by the thumb-nuts.

M M are rockers,7 so attached to the folding posts B B as to form, when up, a rocking crib, and when folded pass over and rest on the frame A, as in Fig. 2.

N N are folding crib sides,7 hinged to the side rails of the bed-frame A, thus converting the bedstead, when up in position, into a childs crib or trundle-bedstead. These crib` sides fold upon the mattress in such a Way as to allow the. head and footboards to fold close to and pass over them, as in Fig. 2.

O O are metallic mosquito-bar frames,

hinged sides N N, rockers M M, bolts and thumb-nuts L, hooks K, and metallic fra-me O, all constructed and arranged substantially as and for the purposes set forth and dcscribed.

Witnesses: H. W. EASTMAN.

ANDW. J. H. WAY, JOHN W. BUTLER.

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