Bedstead

A bedstead comprising a hollow plinth base of rectangular configuration having opposed elongated sides and opposed elongated ends extending between said sides, said base providing a rectangular ledge extending along said sides and ends of said base and having an inner free side surface and an opposed outer side surface, a T-sectioned mattress support frame having an outwardly extending web resting on the ledge and extending continuously therealong at the opposed sides of said base and at least partly from said opposed sides along said opposed ends of said base, said outwardly extending web terminating in an outer free edge which is substantially in alignment with said outer surface of said ledge, said frame having an inwardly extending web for supporting a mattress, said inwardly extending web forming an integral extension of said outwardly extending web and being situated in the same plane as said outwardly extending web, and said frame having also an integral downwardly extending web which extends continuously along said inner free surface of said ledge at said opposed sides of said base and from the latter at least partly along said opposed ends of said base, said support frame cooperating with said ledge only by resting thereon at said outwardly extending web of said frame while said downwardly extending web thereof cooperates with said inner surface of said ledge to prevent any substantial horizontal shifting of said frame with respect to said base.