Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1917 — HANDY SLEEPING-CAR BERTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HANDY SLEEPING-CAR BERTH

Invention of Montana Man Provides Aisle for Dressing—Section Hinged to Swing Upward. The Scientific American in illustrating and describing an improvement on a sleeping-car berth, the invention of P. R. Odell of Butte, Mont., says: “The invention is an improvement in sleeping-car berths, and has for its object to provide a section wherein a

dressing aisle may be provided in connection with each of the berths. The upper and lower berths each have a section hinged to swing upwardly to provide dressing space and a foot board supported below the said section of the upper berth, said section and foot board being at the opposite ,end of the berths from the hinged section of the lower berth.”

Improved Sleeping-Car Berth.