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US 4,563,037 AGranted
Convertible furniture
AssigneeTiffany & Tiffany
InventorH. Robert Tiffany
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Abstract
A chair or couch is convertible into a bed by pivoting each of the seat portion and back portion about discrete horizontal axes extending between opposite sides of a frame.
Claims6
In a convertible seating unit which converts from a seating configuration to a sleeper configuration, having a seat section extendable forwardly from the unit when the unit is in a sleeper configuration, the improvement comprising:
- a frame having a bottom for resting on the floor;
- a back section having a bottom edge, a top edge, a back side and a front side;
- abutment means on the frame which cooperate with back side of back section for preventing rearward motion of the back section when it is in a seating configuration;
- a link with the first end rotatably attached at the bottom edge of the back section at a point which is below the seat sections when when the unit is in the seating configuration, and a second end rotably attached near the bottom of the frame at a location defining a radius of travel for the first end of the link to a point contiguous with the seat section when in the sleeper configuration;
- support means on the frame for supporting the back side of the back section in approximately coplanar relationship with the seating section when the unit is in the sleeper configuration.
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A convertible seating unit comprising:
- a frame having a bottom for resting on the floor;
- a seat section consisting of a first and second seating member each having, a top side, a bottom side, a front edge and a back edge, the back edge of said first seating member hingedly connected to the front edge of the second member;
- the second seating member rotably connected to the frame near the back edge of said second member, whereby said seating members can be moved from a seating configuration in which the seat members are in folding engagement to a sleeper configuration with the top side of the seating members extending in a coplanar relationship;
- a back section having a bottom edge, a top edge, a back side, and a front side;
- abutment means on the frame which cooperate with back side of back section for preventing rearward motion of the back section when it is in a seating configuration;
- a link with a first end rotably attached at the bottom edge of the back section at a point which is below the first seating member when the unit is in the seating configuration and a second end rotably attached at the bottom of the frame at a location on the frame defining a radius of travel for the first end of the link to a point contiguous with the back edge of the second seating member when in the sleeper configuration;
- means for supporting the back section in a coplanar relationship with the seating sections when in the sleeper configuration.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.