Support structures and methods of fabricating support structures
OwnerDwayne D. Loberg, Walter M. Viveirosinventors
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Abstract
An assembly, including a first support structure having a first removable support member and a set of first slats supported for receiving and supporting a first body supporting element, a second support structure having a second removable support member and a set of second slats supported for receiving and supporting a second body supporting element, with the first and second removable support members removed, a connector assembly engagable with the first and second sets of slats and with the first and second support structures, the connector assembly and the first and second sets of slats for receiving and supporting a body supporting element different from the first and second body supporting elements.
Claims8
In a first body supporting element having a supporting surface, a second body supporting element having a supporting surface and a third body supporting element having a supporting surface greater than the supporting surface of each of the first and second body supporting elements, a modular support system comprising:
- a first framework having ends and a removable first support member;
- a second framework having ends and a removable second support member;
- a first plurality of slats;
- and
- a second plurality of slats;
- the modular support system movable between first and second conditions,
- the first condition comprising:
- the first framework engaged to the first plurality of slats for supporting the first body supporting element, and
- the second framework engaged to the second
- plurality of slats for supporting the second body supporting element;
- and
- with the first support member removed from the first framework and the second support member removed from the second framework, the second condition comprising:
- a connector assembly interconnecting the first framework with the second framework and each cooperating together supporting the first and second pluralities of slats for receiving and supporting the third body supporting element, the connector assembly comprising a plurality of separate elongate elements each corresponding to one of the first and second frameworks, wherein one of the elongate elements includes ends engaged to the ends of one of the first and second frameworks and the other of the elongate elements includes ends engaged to the ends of the other of the first and second frameworks.
In a first body supporting element having a supporting surface, a second body supporting element having a supporting surface, a third body supporting element having a supporting surface greater than the supporting surface of each of the first and second body supporting elements and an adjustable body supporting element, a modular support system comprising:
- a first framework having ends and a removable first support member;
- a second framework having ends and a removable second support member;
- a first plurality of slats;
- a second plurality of slats;
- an adjustable support assembly;
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- a connector assembly including a plurality of separate elongate elements each having ends;
- the modular support system movable between first, second and third conditions,
- the first condition comprising:
- the first framework engaged to the first plurality of slats for supporting the first body supporting element, and
- the second framework engaged to the second plurality of slats for supporting the second body supporting element;
- with the first support member removed from the first framework and the second support member removed from the second framework, the second condition comprising:
- the connector assembly interconnecting the first framework with the second framework, the first and second frameworks cooperating together supporting the first and second pluralities of slats for receiving and supporting the third body supporting element, wherein one of the elongate elements includes ends engaged to the ends of one of the first and second frameworks and the other of the elongate elements includes ends engaged to the ends of the other of the first and second frameworks;
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- with the first support member removed from the first framework and the second support member removed from the second framework, the third condition comprising:
- the connector assembly interconnecting the first framework with the second framework, the first and second frameworks cooperating together supporting one of the first and second pluralities of slats for receiving and supporting one of the first and second body supporting elements and for receiving and supporting the adjustable e support assembly for receiving and supporting the adjustable body supporting element.
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