US765A - Mode of making and stretching the sacking op bedsteads - Google Patents

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UNTTED sTATEs PATENT oEEIcE.

WILLIAM S. ANDERSON, 0E SHELBYVILLE, TENNESSEE.

MODE 0F MAKING AND STRETCHING THE SACKING- 0F BEDSTEADS.

Speccation of Letters Patent No. 765, dated June 4, 1838.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM S. ANDER- soN, of Shelbyville, in the county of Bedford and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Common Bedsteads; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and eXact de-l scription.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is the sacking, made fastened and stretched substantially as hereafter described in combination with the stretcher as heretofore described.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe it. The bed posts and rails do not differ from the common bedstead, eX- cept that the rails are round. The sacking consists of two separate pieces of the same size and shape (represented in the accompanying drawing by the letters A and B.) These twopieces of sacking are cased on the side and end so as to slip on the side and end rail; they are not to reach to the head rail by 10 inches, and are not to meet in the middle by 6 or 8 inches. Near the inner edge of each piece of sacking there are eyelet holes for the cord to pass through. Through the center and middle of the head rail, from the outside passes a screw, (represented in the drawing by the letter C). Parallel to the head rail on the inside, and nearly of the same length and size of it is what I call the stretcher (represented by the letter D), which is also perforated by the screw. The stretcher in the middle is about the size of the head rail and tapers olf toward each end. The cord is first inserted in the lowest eyelet holes next to the foot; one end of the cord in one eyelet hole and the other end in the opposite hole, so thatthe middle of the cord will lie between the two lowest eyelet holes; the ends of the cord are then passed through the other eyelet holes crossing from side to side, as represented in the drawing, until they are passed through them all, 4and they are then passed through holes in the stretcher and there fastened to it. There may either be a single cord as above described, or two, as exhibited by the accompanying drawing. The outside and lower end of the sacking are supported by passing around the rails, and the middle by the cord just described; but to support the upper end, other eyelet holes are made in it, and cords drawn through those eyelet holes, are fastened to the stretcher (as represented in the drawing by the letters E, E.) To tighten the sacking, the screw must be turned, which operating upon the stretcher and thatupon the cords, does in a moment what it now requires considerable time and labor to perform.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is-' The sacking, made, fastened and stretched substantially as herein described in combination with the stretcher as herein described.

WILLIAM S. ANDERSON. Witnesses:

E. J. FRIERsoN, M. A. LONG.

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