US 3,965,502 AGranted

Folding cot

AssigneeGoode Products, Inc.

InventorWallace H. Bertram

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Abstract

A full-size cot including a pair of parallel side rails, a flexible body-supporting sheet connecting the side rails, and a plurality of legs connectible to the side rails, the legs having a length which supports the body-supporting sheet at a conventional height. The legs are removable and foldable so that the entire cot may be collapsed into a smaller and more convenient size than known heretofore.

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A folding cot comprising:

a pair of side rails, each side rail having at least two sections, the sections of each side rail being interconnected in a manner permitting folding of each side rail at least in half;
a flexible body-supporting sheet connecting said side rails;
and
a plurality of support members located beneath said side rails and said body-supporting sheet and being removably connectible thereto for supporting said side rails and said body-supporting sheet in a horizontal plane, each of said support members comprising:
a pair of legs, the upper end of each leg being removably connectible to one of said side rails, the lower end of each leg being adapted to contact a horizontal support surface, each of said legs of each of said support members being laterally offset at a point intermediate the opposite ends thereof, the ends of each leg on opposite sides of said offset portion being parallel, the upper ends of the legs of each support member being spaced by an amount less than the spacing between the lower ends thereof when said legs are connected to said side rails;
a reinforcing bar positioned between said legs;
and
a pair of identical hinges connecting the ends of said reinforcing bar to said legs, each of said hinges comprising a bifurcated portion defining a pair of arms, the ends of said arms being pivotably connected to said legs adjacent the lower ends of said offset portions of said legs, said legs being positionable in first positions in which said legs are essentially parallel to each other and perpendicular to said reinforcing bar, said hinges preventing movement of said upper ends of said legs toward each other beyond said first positions, said arms straddling said offset portions of said legs when said legs are in said first positions with said upper ends of said offset portions resting against said ends of said reinforcing bar, thereby stabilizing said legs against both horizontal and vertical rotation relative to said reinforcing bar, said hinges permitting, upon removal of said upper ends of said legs from said side rails, pivotable movement of said legs relative to said reinforcing bar, in opposite directions, through angles of approximately 90.degree., said lower ends of said legs moving toward each other to second positions in which said legs and said reinforcing bar are essentially parallel, the overall length of said support member with said legs in said second positions being approximately equal to the length of each section of said side rails.

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Abstract

A folding cot comprising:

a pair of side rails, each side rail having at least two sections, the sections of each side rail being interconnected in a manner permitting folding of each side rail at least in half;
a flexible body-supporting sheet connecting said side rails;
and
a plurality of support members located beneath said side rails and said body-supporting sheet and being removably connectible thereto for supporting said side rails and said body-supporting sheet in a horizontal plane, each of said support members comprising:
a pair of legs, the upper end of each leg being removably connectible to one of said side rails, the lower end of each leg being adapted to contact a horizontal support surface, each of said legs of each of said support members being laterally offset at a point intermediate the opposite ends thereof, the ends of each leg on opposite sides of said offset portion being parallel, the upper ends of the legs of each support member being spaced by an amount less than the spacing between the lower ends thereof when said legs are connected to said side rails;
a reinforcing bar positioned between said legs;
and
a pair of identical hinges connecting the ends of said reinforcing bar to said legs, each of said hinges comprising a bifurcated portion defining a pair of arms, the ends of said arms being pivotably connected to said legs adjacent the lower ends of said offset portions of said legs, said legs being positionable in first positions in which said legs are essentially parallel to each other and perpendicular to said reinforcing bar, said hinges preventing movement of said upper ends of said legs toward each other beyond said first positions, said arms straddling said offset portions of said legs when said legs are in said first positions with said upper ends of said offset portions resting against said ends of said reinforcing bar, thereby stabilizing said legs against both horizontal and vertical rotation relative to said reinforcing bar, said hinges permitting, upon removal of said upper ends of said legs from said side rails, pivotable movement of said legs relative to said reinforcing bar, in opposite directions, through angles of approximately 90.degree., said lower ends of said legs moving toward each other to second positions in which said legs and said reinforcing bar are essentially parallel, the overall length of said support member with said legs in said second positions being approximately equal to the length of each section of said side rails.

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