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US 9,468,305 B2Granted
Folding bed for space saving storage within a cabinet
OwnerIqbal Singh Florainventor
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Abstract
A folding bed for storage within a cabinet has a flat platform made from a front panel and an inside front panel. Rear extension panels are hingedly attached to the rear face of a drawer such that in the closed cabinet position the rear extension panels are parallel to the rear drawer face and moveable when in the open bed position to be parallel with the side drawer faces. The cabinet sides and the cabinet top have hinges to permit opening up the upper structural section. A method of transforming an apparatus from a cabinet to a bed pulling out a base drawer involves unfolding panels to form a platform out of a front panel, an inside panel and a cabinet floor, unfolding a mattress from within the apparatus onto the platform, and unfolding side panels to reduce visible obstructions.
Claims20
Apparatus for transforming between a bed and a cabinet, having an upper structural section comprising
- a rear cabinet panel,
- a cabinet top orthogonal to said rear cabinet panel and attached to said rear cabinet panel along a top edge,
- two cabinet sides orthogonal to said rear cabinet panel and orthogonal to said cabinet top, said cabinet sides each attached to said rear cabinet panel along a side edge respectively,
- said cabinet sides being hingedly moveable between a closed cabinet position orthogonal to said rear cabinet panel and an open bed position in which a side view through said upper structural section is not visually blocked at least inside a C-shaped side support structure of said upper structural section,
- a cabinet floor,
- two side supports provided on top of said cabinet floor, said side supports being sized and structured to support an underside of said cabinet top;
- a movable sleeping section comprising
- a front cabinet panel hingedly attached along a bottom edge to said cabinet floor,
- an inside front panel hingedly attached along a top edge to said front cabinet panel,
- said front cabinet panel and said inside front panel being moveable between said closed cabinet position orthogonal to said cabinet floor and said cabinet top and parallel to said rear cabinet panel to said open bed position parallel to said cabinet floor and said cabinet top and orthogonal to said rear cabinet panel;
- and having a base section comprising
- two base side panels,
- a drawer coupled to said base side panels, said drawer having a front drawer face, a rear drawer face, and two side drawer faces and a drawer base orthogonal to said front, rear and side drawer faces.
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Apparatus for transforming between a bed and a cabinet, having an upper structural section comprising
- a rear cabinet panel,
- a cabinet top orthogonal to said rear cabinet panel and attached to said rear cabinet panel along a top edge,
- two cabinet sides orthogonal to said rear cabinet panel and orthogonal to said cabinet top, said cabinet sides each attached to said rear cabinet panel along a side edge respectively,
- a cabinet floor,
- two side supports provided on top of said cabinet floor, said side supports being sized and structured to support an underside of said cabinet top;
- a movable sleeping section comprising
- a front cabinet panel hingedly attached along a bottom edge to said cabinet floor,
- an inside front panel hingedly attached along a top edge to said front cabinet panel,
- said front cabinet panel and said inside front panel being moveable between a closed cabinet position orthogonal to said cabinet floor and said cabinet top and parallel to said rear cabinet panel to an open bed position parallel to said cabinet floor and said cabinet top and orthogonal to said rear cabinet panel;
- and having a base section comprising
- two base side panels,
- a drawer having a front drawer face, a rear drawer face, and two side drawer faces and a drawer base orthogonal to said front, rear and side drawer faces,
- rear extension panels hingedly attached to said rear drawer face and to said base side panel such that when in the closed cabinet position the rear extension panels are parallel to the rear drawer face and moveable when in the open bed position are parallel to said side drawer faces;
- a hinge bisecting each of said cabinet sides, said cabinet sides being movable between a closed position where each bisected portion is coplanar and an open position where each bisected portion is parallel but not coplanar;
- a hinge bisecting said cabinet top, said cabinet top being movable between a closed position where each bisected portion is coplanar and an open position where each bisected portion is orthogonal;
- a central support provided on top of said cabinet floor, said central support being sized and structured to support an underside of said cabinet top;
- said cabinet sides being movable to an open position parallel to said rear cabinet panel;
- wherein more than half of the width of said cabinet sides is not blocking a side view through said upper structural section in at least a central portion of said upper structural section;
- a locking mechanism attached to said side panels to said cabinet front panel for releasably securing said side panels to said cabinet front panel;
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- wheels attached to an underside of said drawer base, and
- wheels attached to an underside of said rear extension panels, said wheels attached to said underside of said rear extension panels via rotatable attachment permitting the wheels to face forward as said rear extension panels unfold about said hinges moving from said closed cabinet position to said open bed position.
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