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with a Cojpy of the Letters Patent . 
It is evident, that the common low-post bedstead may 
be connected by the present plan ; or the head and foot 
rail may still be joined permanently to the posts, leaving 
the side rails to be attached by the hinge and bolt. 
The head board is fixed, in my plan, to the posts ei- 
ther by a small moulding attached to them firmly, with 
a fiat posterior surface, against which the front edge of 
the board rests, and which prevents its escaping for- 
wards; whilst behind, the board is provided on each 
side, above and below, with a small bolt sunk into it on 
a level, and which shoots into a corresponding hole in 
the post. Or a small catch, formed like the one half of 
the catch and plate described above, is fixed into the 
head board, in the places of the bolts, and fall down into 
a notch cut into a small piece of brass, which is perma- 
nently fastened into the posts. In either case, it is clear, 
that it may be immediately removed from the bedstead, 
and that its attachment is perfectly adequate to every in- 
tention of this part. 
It is equally evident from this description, that nothing 
more is required to take down this bedstead than merely 
to draw back the bolts beneath the rails, to pull out the 
key from the hinges and to turn them back, when the 
whole is at once separated ; the affixing the parts together 
is equally simple. 
By this improvement, I claim every mode of junction 
in a bedstead formed upon the principle of any union of 
catches, bolts, or hinges, or of either separately of any 
connection by a eommon hook and eye, connected with 
bolts, &c. or by the dining-table staple-fastenings, &c. of 
which last my first attempt consisted, and which I find to 
answer perfectly well. 
John Redman Coxe. 
C Lewis Walker, 
Witnesses. £ Andrew p ETTr [', 
