Modular hidden bed cabinet
OwnerJohn M Hurdelinventor
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Abstract
A combination bed construction comprising a bed frame, movable between a vertical and horizontal position, in which the bed frame has a pair of elongated boards on each end that extend over to a floor cabinet and engage pivots on each end of the floor cabinet, that when rotated to a vertical position on the pivots, the bed frame comes to rest on top of the cabinet.
Claims6
A combination furniture construction comprising a bed frame, movable between a vertical and horizontal position, in which the bed frame has a right end and a left end endowed with overreaching boards, hereafter referred to as swingarms, of sufficient length to pivotally attach to a corresponding right end and a corresponding left end of a floor structure;
- said bed frame which includes a right swingarm and a left swingarm connected by a plurality of panels including an interior rail and an exterior rail with a bed support panel surrounded within;
- said floor structure which includes a right wall and a left wall connected by a plurality of horizontal panels including a topmost panel of sufficient size to support the bed frame in a first upright mode;
- said topmost panel connecting said right wall's top edge with said left wall's top edge;
- said right wall including an external right base pivot horizontally aligned along a common axis with an external left base pivot on said left wall;
- said right base pivot supporting the right swingarm in the first upright mode;
- said left base pivot supporting the left swingarm in the first upright mode;
- a damping means functioning to counter a force of gravity acting downward on the bed frame during a transition from the first upright mode to a second bed mode wherein a mattress support is revealed;
- said bed frame disposed forwardly adjacent to said floor structure in the second bed mode;
- a useable structure functioning to provide support for the bed frame when said bed frame extends to a level position in the second bed mode,
- wherein said useable structures, hereafter referred to as modules, are of sufficient length and are suspended in between said swingarms and adjacent to said underside by way of modular pivots;
- said modules which include a right end connected to a left end by at least one panel;
- said modular pivots including a right modular pivot which shares a common axis with a left modular pivot at respective ends of said modules;
- said modular pivots positioned substantially toward a center, vertically and laterally, on said module ends in the first upright mode and in the second bed mode and vertically aligned with the base pivots in the first upright mode;
- said modular pivots are further positioned level with base pivots in second bed mode;
- said modular pivots connecting said modules at predetermined points on said swingarms wherein the modules swivel into a position underneath the bed frame in the downward transition to the second bed mode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.