Vehicle sofa-bed and method of use
AssigneePremiere Products, Inc.
InventorDavid Slater
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Abstract
An adjustable sofa-bed assembly for use within a vehicle such as a van or RV. The sofa-bed includes a seat portion, a back portion, and either a permanently fixed base or a removable leg portion which allows the legs to be installed into the vehicle prior to installing the seat and back portions to allow for additional elements to be installed beneath the sofa-bed, such as power elements for a powered sofa-bed assembly or for other equipment. The sofa-bed can be transformed from a sofa configuration with an upright back portion to a bed configuration with a laid-flat back portion. When in the bed configuration, the seat portion and back portion are aligned such that there is no gap between the two portions and the two portions lie completely flat, forming a complete bed assembly.
Claims9
A sofa-bed assembly for a vehicle, the sofa-bed assembly comprising:
- a base assembly affixed to a support structure;
- said support structure connected to a sofa cushion and a rear cushion;
- said sofa-bed assembly transformable between a first, sofa configuration and a second, bed configuration, wherein when in said second, bed configuration said sofa cushion and said rear cushion a placed adjacent to each other and are in a laid-flat configuration;
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- said support structure comprising a sofa-seat support structure configured to support said sofa cushion, and a rear-seat support structure configured to support said rear cushion;
- said sofa-seat support structure connected to a slide element of a leg assembly;
- said rear-seat support structure connected to a scissor-arm element of said leg assembly;
- said leg assembly affixed to said support structure and to an interior space of the vehicle;
- said leg assembly comprising an adjustable cross bar and a pair of adjustable uprights;
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- wherein said adjustable cross bar and said pair of adjustable uprights are configured to be freely adjustable to alter a height and a width of said leg assembly.
A method of deploying transformable furniture within a vehicle, the method comprising the steps:
- installing a sofa-bed assembly within a vehicle, said sofa-bed assembly comprising a base assembly affixed to a support structure, said support structure supporting a sofa cushion and a rear cushion;
- transforming said sofa-bed assembly from a first, sofa configuration to a second, bed configuration;
- whereby said sofa cushion of said sofa-bed assembly rests adjacent to said cushion of said first side-facing sliding seat assembly and said cushion of said second side-facing sliding seat assembly, thereby forming a flat, congruous surface;
- activating a scissor arm assembly connected to said rear cushion, said scissor arm configured to raise and lower said rear cushion;
- wherein said scissor arm assembly comprising a top plate affixed to a bottom face of said rear-seat support structure;
- wherein said scissor arm assembly top plate is located at a vertical height relative to said sofa-seat support structure such that said top place is above said sofa-seat support structure when said sofa-bed assembly is in said second, bed configuration;
- wherein said sofa-bed base assembly comprising a removable leg assembly, said removably leg assembly removably affixed to said support structure;
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- further comprising the steps:
- adjusting a length of a crossbar of said removable leg assembly, thereby adjusting a width of said adjustable leg assembly;
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- adjusting a height of a pair of upright members of said removably leg assembly, thereby adjusting a height of said adjustable leg assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.