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US 4,458,371 AGranted
Bed frame with mattress retainer clip
AssigneeLeggett & Platt, Incorporated
InventorLarry W. Whitehead
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Abstract
A bed frame that includes a novel connector assembly for connecting a cross rail to a side rail at a corner of the bed frame that permits the frame to be easily and quickly set up and taken down, yet which provides a substantially wobble free joint, and a novel box spring retainer bracket that is connected to the frame without use of fasteners yet which is movable between use and storage positions as desired while remaining connected to the frame.
Claims14
A bed frame comprising
- a side rail at least partially comprised of a web, said web including structure that defines a slot therein, and
- a retainer clip of a generally right angular configuration, said clip being pivotally carried in said slot, said clip having a retainer leg adapted to cooperate with a box spring and said clip having a connector leg for connecting said clip with said side rail through said slot, said retainer clip being pivotable on the longitudinal axis of said slot between said upright position where said retainer leg extends upward from the plane of said bed frame for preventing the box spring from sliding across said side rail, and a storage position where said retainer leg extends generally parallel to the plane of said bed frame for allowing said box spring to slide across said side rail.
A retainer clip for a side rail of a bed frame, said side rail having a slot defined in a web thereof, said retainer clip comprising
- a retainer leg adapted to cooperate with a box spring and a connector leg for connecting said clip with said side rail through said slot, said retainer clip being of a generally right angular configuration and being pivotally carried in said slot, said retainer clip being pivotable on the longitudinal axis of said slot between an upright position where said retainer leg extends upward from the plane of said bed frame for preventing the box spring from sliding across said side rail, and a storage position where said retainer leg extends generally parallel to the plane of said bed frame for allowing said box spring to slide across said side rail.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.