1903 Patent No. 26,492 extension beds or couch beds, Adrian de Piniec-Mallet, NY

Patent No. 26,492 A.D.1903 "Improvement in Extension-beds or Couch-beds"

"I, Adrian de Piniec-Mallet, of No. 180 Bay 25th Street, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, in the City of New York, in the County of Kings and State of New York, one of the United States of America, Inventor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement: This invention relates to extension-beds or couch-beds, the object of the invention being not only to provide a bed simple in construction and comparatively inexpensive to manufacture, whereby it may be placed upon the market at low cost, but to provide a structure having all the advantages of a couch-bed, while permitting the sections of which it is composed to be used independently of each other in the same or different rooms..."

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