Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1901 — Sanitary Folding Bed. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Sanitary Folding Bed.

The ordinary folding bed has proved itself so great an attraction to the bedbugs that it is with difficulty they can be kept out of it, largely because in this class of beds there are hiding places which easily escape notice, where the bugs can dwell in safety and from which they can sally forth at night in search of prey. This has al-

ways been a good argument in favor of the ordinary enameled and brass beds as supplanters o f th? old wooden kind, and it will apply equally as well to the metallic folding bed illus-

trated in the cut. The bed differs slightly from the enameled and brass beds now in use, the improvement being in the manner of connecting the side rails at the head and foot and in the-joints at the center of the sides, which allow the bed to be closed into small compass. When it is desired to shut the bed up the center is lifted at either side to a sufficient height to break the joints, when the head and foot are grasped in the hands and drawn together, as shown. When the foot has been drawn up to the head the curtain is drawn around on the overhead rod and the bed Is hidden from view To open It again the foot section is pulled out a short distance, after the curtain has been drawn, and the weight of ths sides and mattress will force It into its normal position.