Citations:bedfast

English citations of bedfast, bed fast, and bed-fast

Piece of hardware

• 1877 February 7, Somerset Herald, volume 25, number 35, Somerset, PA: Somerset Print. Co., →ISSN, page 3:

  Furniture Men will find at Blymyers' the best Varnishes, Oils and Turpentine, Bed Fasts, Castors, Moulding &c., at the lowest possible prices.

• 1883 February 1, “Local Intelligence”, in Sacramento Daily Record-Union, Sacramento: Sacramento Pub. Co., →ISSN, page 3:

  Merchandise for Sacramento—Freight for Sacramento passed Ogden on the 28th instant as follows: For Lindley & Co., 9 packages tobacco; Huntington, Hopkins & Co., 2 boxes braces, 1 box bed fasts, 1 box walnut knobs, 1 barrel clamps, 2 boxes hardware, 1 barrel pulleys, 1 box butts, 1 barrel twine; […]

• 1888 December 13, “Items”, in The Iron Age, volume 42, →ISSN, page 914:

  James L. Haven Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, have issued their illustrated catalogue No. 15. It comprises illustrations and prices of a large variety of goods, including Shutter, Gate and Spring Hinges, Axle Pulleys, Barn Door Rollers, Grindstone Fixtures, Clamps, Jack Screws, Casters, Bed Fasts, Drills, Tire Benders, Repair Links, Pump Curbs, Meat Cutters, Standard Mills, Agricultural Imprements, &c.

• 1895 July 10, L. E. Ericson, “Something about that increase in the price of chamber suites”, in Furniture Trade Review and Interior Decorator, volume 15, number 9, New York: Review Pub. Co., →OCLC, page 45:

  Glue, sandpaper, screws, nails, bed-fasts, hinges, locks, casters and slats

• 1902 August 22, “Furniture Made by Wholesale in Prison”, in San Francisco Call, volume 92, number 83, →ISSN, page 2:

  Then from the witness was drawn the admission that hardware was extensively used in the carpenter-shop. There were casters and bedfasts and locks and drawer-pulls. The requisition book showed this. Requisitions had been made for 60 sets of casters, 60 dozen drawer-pulls, 276 locks and 1000 bedfasts in one lump.

• 1905, Report of the Department of Trade and Commerce for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30 1904 (Sessional Papers of the Dominion of Canada, vol. 39, no. 4; paper no. 10), Ottawa: S. E. Dawson, →OCLC, page 100:

  Steel of No. 12 gauge and thinner, but not thinner than No. 30 gauge, imported by manufacturers of buckle clasps, bed-fasts, furniture casters and ice creepers

• 1916 August, M. H. Brigham, “Making an Inlaid Walnut Bedstead”, in American Carpenter & Builder, volume 21, number 5, Chicago: American Carpenter & Builder Co., →ISSN, page 78:

  The mill-bill and drawings are self explanatory with the exception of the bed-fasts that are used. These are stock articles that can be procured from any good hardware store, and are made especially for wood bedsteads. To the writer's knowledge, there is no better method of putting the bed together than by the use of a good set of bed-fasts.

• 1953, Emerson F. Hooker, Steel side rail for wood beds‎^[1] (patent), USPTO, US2631305A, column 1:

  A further object of the invention is to provide an improved manner of attaching the bed fasts to the terminals of a steel bed rail and in reinforcing the attachment of the bed fasts thereto.

• 1954, E. L. Herbert, A. S. Lentz, D. O. Burker, Case Study Data on Productivity and Factory Performance: Wood Furniture, U.S. Department of Labor, →OCLC, page 101:

  The bedrails are purchased in their finished size. They are sanded and run through the bed lock machine which cuts a slot and bores holes for the attachment of the bedfasts. Another worker inserts the bedfasts into the slot and secures it with the pins.

• [1954, E. L. Herbert, A. S. Lentz, D. O. Burker, Case Study Data on Productivity and Factory Performance: Wood Furniture, U.S. Department of Labor, →OCLC, page 155:

  Bed fast: A device for the rigid assembly and easy disassembly of the side rails to the posts of a bed.]

• 1955, Emerson F. Hooker, Steel side rail and bedfast for wood beds‎^[2] (patent), USPTO, US2706300A, column 2:

  As so far described, a very sturdy and simplified construction has been provided for securing the bedfast to the bed rail, and reinforcing the ends of the latter and the connection of the bedfast thereto.

Bedridden patient

• 1906 September, “New Patents For Sale”, in The Inventive Age, 18th year, number 9, Washington, D. C.: Inventive Age Pub. Co., →OCLC, page 7:

  For Sale outright or on royalty—Patent No. 775,482. Invalid's perfect prop and bed table. Cheapest, lightest, best made. Nursing mothers need it. Invaluable to bedfasts.

• 1916, H. C. B., “Fatal Abstinence”, in Westralia Gift Book, →OCLC, page 87:

  Ten minutes later Dave was called from the bedfasts by Jack, who wore a face of extreme solemnity. He drew the attendant aside and said: "We needn't 'a' stowed away that stretcher. Hooshta's gone. This is a unlucky day for the ward […]

  A story set in an asylum.

• 1952, “Horn Nursing Home”, in Nurses' Alumnae Association — Bulletin, University of Maryland, →OCLC, page 79:

  24-Hour Nursing Service for / Convalescents, Bedfasts, Geriatrics / Private and Semi-Private Rooms

• 1970, Larry L. Neal, editor, Recreation's Role in the Rehabilitation of the Mentally Retarded, Eugene: University of Oregon, →OCLC, page 28:

  There is not any activity that has ever been conducted in any community recreation and park program that we have not conducted at our center, even for bedfasts. I have yet to see an activity that cannot be adapted in some way to include the most severely retarded and handicapped.

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