Concealment cabinet
AssigneeMt Tremper Holdings, LLC
InventorRobert Blum
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Abstract
A concealed furniture article includes a front storage section and a rear hidden storage compartment that is located behind the front storage section. The concealed furniture also includes a safe for storing articles and a lift mechanism that is fixedly connected to the safe and to a rear wall of the concealed furniture article. The lift mechanism is operable to move the safe between a raised position and a lowered position in which the safe is fully concealed within the rear hidden storage compartment.
Claims19
A concealed furniture article comprising:
- a front storage section;
- a rear hidden storage compartment located behind the front storage section;
- a safe;
- and
- a lift mechanism that is fixedly connected to the safe and to a rear wall of the concealed furniture article and is operable to move the safe between a raised position and a lowered position in which the safe is fully concealed within the rear hidden storage compartment.
A concealed cabinet comprising:
- a front storage section;
- a rear hidden storage compartment located behind the front storage section;
- a safe;
- and
- a lift mechanism that is fixedly connected to the safe and to a rear wall of the concealed furniture article and is operable to move the safe between a raised position and a lowered position in which the safe is fully concealed within the rear hidden storage compartment;
- wherein the lift mechanism has:
- 1) a motorized mount to which a rear of the safe is attached;
- and 2) a guide mechanism for supporting a front mass of the safe, thereby taking stress off the lift mechanism at a rear of the safe, the guide mechanism includes a pair of slides, each slide including a first slide part fixedly attached to one respective side of the safe and a second slide part coupled to one side wall of the rear hidden storage compartment, the second slide part having an extendable length to accommodate raising of the safe to the raised position.
A concealed furniture article comprising:
- a front storage section;
- a rear hidden storage compartment located behind the front storage section;
- a safe;
- and
- a lift mechanism that is fixedly connected to the safe and to a rear wall of the concealed furniture article and is operable to move the safe between a raised position and a lowered position in which the safe is fully concealed within the rear hidden storage compartment;
- wherein the lift mechanism includes a shelf on which the safe rests, the shelf including a first modular connector that engages a second modular connector formed along a bottom surface of the safe to establish an electrical connection.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.