Folding bed storage cabinets
AssigneeGCMB Inc.
InventorPeter Ferdinand Faltenbacher
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Abstract
Chests and cabinets configured to transition between a closed (stowed) position and an open (deployed) position having a folding mattress and a mattress platform stored within. The chest or cabinets may include a separable portion which acts as a support for the mattress platform when the cabinet is in the deployed position and as a drawer when in the stowed position. The mattress platform includes at least one feature for securing it to the separable portion when in the deployed position.
Claims20
A sleeper bed cabinet configured to transition between a stowed position and a deployed position, comprising:
- a top panel having a first portion and a second portion, the first portion being configured to fold back onto the second portion, two side panels, and a rear panel defining an interior cabinet volume;
- an interior panel disposed between the two side panels and below the top panel and dividing the interior cabinet volume into an upper interior volume and a lower interior volume;
- a front panel having a first subpanel hingeably mounted to the interior panel and a second subpanel hingeably mounted to the first subpanel and having at least one securing cleat;
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- a separable platform stowable in the lower interior volume and having a securing ledge with at least one securing recess configured to accept the at least one securing cleat;
- wherein the front panel is configured to transition between a stowed position and a deployed position, the first subpanel forming a medial mattress platform and the second subpanel forming a distal mattress platform in the deployed position;
- wherein the separable platform is removable from the lower interior volume and positionable to form a support platform for the second front panel subpanel;
- wherein the at least one securing cleat is secured to the at least one securing recess when the separable platform is supporting the second front panel subpanel.
A sleeper bed cabinet configured to transition between an open position and a closed position, comprising:
- a top panel having a first portion and a second portion, the first portion being hinged to fold back onto the second portion, two side panels, and a rear panel defining an interior cabinet volume;
- an interior panel disposed between the two side panels and below the top panel dividing the interior cabinet volume into an upper interior volume and a lower interior volume and which forms a proximal portion of a sleeping platform when the cabinet is in the open position;
- a front panel having a first subpanel hingeably mounted to the interior panel and a second subpanel hingeably mounted to the first subpanel and having at least one securing feature;
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- a separable platform stowable in the lower interior volume and having a securing ledge with at least one securing recess configured to accept the at least one securing feature;
- wherein the front panel is configured to transition between a closed position and an open position, the first subpanel forming a medial portion of a sleeping platform and the second subpanel forming a distal portion of a sleeping platform when in the open position;
- wherein the separable platform is removable from the lower interior volume and positionable to form a support platform for the second front panel subpanel;
- wherein the at least one securing feature is secured to the at least one securing recess when the separable platform is supporting the second front panel subpanel.
A sleeper bed cabinet configured to transition between a stowed position and a deployed position, comprising:
- a top panel having a first portion and a second portion, the first portion being hinged to fold back onto the second portion, two side panels, a rear panel, and a front panel defining a cabinet interior volume;
- an interior panel disposed between the two side panels, the front and rear panels, and below the top panel dividing the cabinet interior volume into an upper interior volume and a lower interior volume, the interior panel forming a proximal portion of a mattress platform when the cabinet is in the deployed position;
- the front panel comprising a solid first subpanel hingeably mounted to the interior panel and a slatted second subpanel hingeably mounted to the first subpanel;
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- a separable platform stowable in the lower interior volume;
- wherein the front panel is configured to transition between a raised position when the cabinet is in the stowed position and a lowered position when the cabinet is in the deployed position, the first subpanel forming a medial portion of a mattress platform and the second subpanel forming a distal portion of a mattress platform when in the lowered position;
- wherein the separable platform is removable from the lower interior volume and positionable to form a support platform for the second front panel subpanel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.