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US 4,141,093 AGranted
Sleeping berth for passenger car compartment
AssigneePullman Incorporated
InventorDennis B. Marsden
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Abstract
A sleeping berth for a passenger car compartment includes a tubular bed frame and mattress combination which is hingedly movable between use and non-use positions to a side wall of the car. The bed frame is latched in the non-use position and includes webbing which is spring loaded to urge the bed into the non-use position upon initial movement when raising the berth from a sleeping or use position.
Claims22
A suspended sleeping berth arrangement supported on a side wall and ceiling structure comprising;
- a bed frame including front and rear side frame members,
- end frame members connected to said side frame members,
- said frame members including means for supporting a mattress thereon, hinge means connected to said wall and to said rear frame members whereby said bed frame may be hingedly moved between relatively horizontal in-use and vertical non-use positions,
- flexible means connected to said frame for suspending said frame from said ceiling,
- said flexible means urging said frame into said non-use position during initial manual hinging movement of said frame,
- manually operable latch means on said front frame members and,
- a keeper element on said ceiling structure engaging said latch means for maintaining said frame in said non-use position,
- said latch means including a latch lever movably connected to said front frame members,
- means on said lever in a latched position engaging said keeper element, and
- said lever being accessible below said frame in said non-use position.
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A suspended sleeping berth arrangement supported on a wall and an overhead structure comprising;
- a bed having a wall side means and a user access side means,
- hinge means connected to said wall and to said wall side means of the bed for swinging said bed between a relatively horizontal sleeping position outwardly of the wall and a vertical stored position adjacent the wall,
- suspension means connected with the overhead structure and the access side means of said bed for suspending said bed from above in the horizontal position, and
- means operably associated with said suspension means and operable to move the suspension means in a stowed position assisting to move the bed into the stored position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.