Tanning cot

An article of furniture to support a sunbather for enhanced exposure to the rays of the sun, said article comprising:

• a rigid, planar rectangular frame including a pair of rigid, elongated, spaced apart, mutually parallel side members and a pair of rigid, elongated, spaced apart mutually parallel end members interconnected to define a periphery;
• a sheet of flexible open mesh netting secured around its peripheral margin to the frame to stretch said sheet across the frame, each frame side member including a pair of substantially identical sections;
• a hinge for each pair of sections, the hinge being secured to its corresponding sections for swinging about the hinge from a position with the sections of the pair extending in end to end longitudinal alignment to a position with said sections extending in substantially mutual parallelism;
• an elongated, rectangular reflector having side edges for each frame side member respectively, each reflector being swingable secured along one side edge to its corresponding frame side member for swinging between a position in general planar alignment with the netting sheet to a position extending downwardly at an angle from the plane of said sheet, each reflector including a pair of rigid reflective panels disposed end to end, spaced apart longitudinal alignment, and a strip of flexible reflective material interconnecting said panels in the region of the frame section hinges to permit folding the reflectors at said region;
• means for releaseably securing the reflectors in said downwardly angled positions;
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• leg means carried by the frame and adapted to support the latter in vertically spaced, generally horizontal disposition above a supporting surface, whereby the sun's rays may fall directly on a sunbather on the netting and be reflected upwardly against the underside of the sunbather through the netting by said reflectors.