Improved Bedstead and Letters Patent . &83 
No. 57. 
Description of an Improvement in the Common Bed- 
steady by John Redman Coxe, with a Copy of the 
Letters Patent, granted for the same . 
(With an engraving.) 
THE United States of America, to all to whom these 
letters patent shall come : 
Whereas John Redman Coxe, a citizen of the United 
States, hath alleged that he has invented a new and use- 
ful improvement in the construction of bedsteads, which 
improvement he states has not been known or used before 
his application; has made oath that he does verily be- 
lieve that he is the true inventor or discoverer of the said 
improvement, has paid into the treasury of the United 
States, the sum of thirty dollars, delivered a receipt for 
the same, and presented a petition to the Secretary of 
State, signifying a desire of obtaining an exclusive pro- 
perty in the said improvement, and praying that a patent 
may be granted for that purpose: These are therefore to 
grant, according to law, to the said John Redman Coxe, 
his heirs, administrators, or assigns, for the term of four- 
teen years, from the sixteenth day of October, 18 IS, the 
full and exclusive right and liberty of making, construct- 
ing, using and vending to others to be used, the said im- 
provement ; a description whereof is given in the words 
of the said John Redman Coxe himself, in the schedule 
hereto annexed, and is made a part of these presents. 
In testimony whereof I have caused these letters to be 
made patent, and the seal of the United States to be here- 
unto affixed. 
Given under my hand, at the city of Washington, this 
sixteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord, one 
thousand eight hundred and twelve ; and of the indepeiiv 
