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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
ALEXANDER STOERMER, SR., OF YOAKUM, TEXAS.
BED-BRACE.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 609,172, dated August 16, 1898.
Application filed June 28, 1897. Serial No, 642,688. (No model.)To all whoim it May concern-
Be it known that I, ALEXANDER STOERMER,
Sr., a citizen of the United States, residing at
Yoakum, in the county of Lavaca and State
5 of Texas, have invented a new and useful Bed-
Brace, of which the following is a specifica-
tion.
My invention relates to an improvement in
braces for bedsteads; and the object in view
1o is to provide a simple, strong, durable, and
efficient brace adapted to form a part of a
bedstead when manufactured or to be applied
to a bedstead subsequent to manufacture to
take up looseness in the joints between the
15 members, the construction of the same being
such as to prevent displacement or vibration
of the head and foot boards with relation to
the extremities of the side rails, while allow-
ing detachment of the bedstead members
20 when required without wholly dismounting
the brace therefrom.
A further object of the invention is to pro-
vide a brace of which the members may be
carried by the head and foot boards when
25 said members are disconnected from the ten-
sion device and may be disconnected from
the side rails, said members being foldable in
planes approximately parallel with the head
and foot boards, respectively, to provide for
30 compactness in storing and transportation,
the side rails being wholly unencumbered by
the bracing devices.
A further object of the invention is to pro-
vide plural - strand or manifolded bracing
35 members, each consisting of a single blank, in
connection with means for preventing the un-
twisting of the reinforced portions.
A further object of the invention is to pro-
vide, in connection with the brace members,
4o a tension device located intermediately of the
bedstead-frame and in such relation to the
slats or other mattress-supporting portions of
the bedstead as to insure the maintenance of
the adjustable member of the tension device
45 at the desired adjustment.
Further objects and advantages of this in-
vention will appear in the following descrip-
tion, and the novel features thereof will be
particularly pointed out in the appended
5o claims.
In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective
view of a brace constructed in accordancewith my invention applied in the operative
position to a bedstead. Fig. 2 is a longitudi-
nal sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a 55
detail view of one of the cables or single-
blank members of the brace. Fig. 4 is detail
longitudinal section of the tension device.
Fig. 5 is a detail view in perspective of the
same. 6o
Similar letters of reference indicate corre-
sponding parts in all the figures of the draw-
ings.
The bracing device embodying my inven-
tion consists, essentially, of a tension device 65
A A' A2 and a series of four divergently-dis-
posed members or cables B. Each bracing
member or cable is of plural-strand construc-
tion, and consists of a single blank of wire of
suitable gage doubled upon itself at its cen- 70
ter, with its strands or folds intertwisted
from the inner or looped end outwardly to an
intermediate point through a distance of ap-
proximately two-thirds the length of the mem-
ber. The looped end of the cable forms an eye 75
c, which obviously is integral with the cable,
and beyond the opposite end of the body or
twisted portion of the cable the strands or
folds thereof are deflected to form upwardly
and downwardly divergent arms or branches d 8o
d',terminatingin eyes for engagement with up-
per and lower screw hooks or eyes g h, which
are threaded into or otherwise permanently
secured to one of the standards of the bed-
stead, preferably contiguous to the upper and 85
lower ends of the mortise F, (shown in Fig.
1,) which is preferably formed in each stand-
ard for the reception of the tongue or tenon
on the contiguous end of the adjacent side
rail. The hooks or eyes g h are spaced apart 90
vertically to occupy positions, as above indi-
cated, respectively contiguous to the upper
and lower ends of said mortise F, in order to
maintain the end members or head and foot
of the bedstead in the proper positions with 95
relation to the side members or rails G there-
of and prevent tilting of said end members.
From their points of attachment to the bed-
stead-standards the arms or branches d d' in-
cline,-respectively, downwardly and upwardly x o0
to intersect in a plane approximately midway
between the horizontal planes of the extremi-
ties of said arms or branches,whereby an equal
strain may be applied to the arms or branches
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Stoermer, Alexander, Sr. Bed-Brace., patent, August 16, 1898; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth508758/m1/2/?q=%22Science+and+Technology%22: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.