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US 9,538,851 B2Granted
Ready-to-assemble bed foundation
OwnerLarry James Craverinventor
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Abstract
A ready-to-assemble bed foundation including a pair of exterior beams connectable to a pair of transverse end members having openings, and an interior beam between the exterior beams having opposing end portions configured to engage the openings in the transverse end members. A method of selling a bed, and a method of assembling a bed are also disclosed.
Claims9
A ready-to-assemble bed foundation comprising:
- a pair of exterior side beams, each of said pair of exterior side beams including an upper member and a lower member spaced apart by blocks such that each side beam defines an outer vertical wall of an assembled foundation,
- a pair of transverse end members having openings, each of the transverse end members including a pair of opposing longitudinal members coupled in spaced apart relation to a plurality of blocks, and
- an interior beam comprising opposing end portions configured to extend into and be retained by the openings in the transverse end members,
- wherein two of the blocks in the transverse end members define one of the openings, which is substantially the same size as the end portions to both receive and retain the interior beam end portions relative to the transverse end members, but to permit give between the interior beam end portions and the transverse end members in response to movement by an occupant.
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A ready-to-assemble bed foundation in kit form comprising in unassembled condition:
- a pair of preassembled side beams having two ends with connectors at each end, each connector including parallel, spaced-apart tongues rigidly supported on a base plate,
- a pair of preassembled transverse end members each having two ends with connectors at each end, each connector including parallel spaced-apart tongues rigidly supported on a base plate and each transverse end member having a medial opening between its ends,
- the tongues of the connectors of the side beams and transverse end members sized and arranged to enable tongues of the side beams to be interleaved with tongues of the transverse end members and provide aligned openings through the interleaved tongues,
- pins for insertion through the aligned openings of interleaved ones of the tongues of the connectors attached to one end of one side beam and one end of a transverse end member,
- a preassembled interior beam including end portions configured to extend into the medial openings in the transverse end members of the same size as the end portions to both receive and retain the interior beam end portions relative to the transverse end members, but to permit give between the interior beam end portions and the transverse end members in response to movement by an occupant, and
- a plurality of slats long enough to span at least the distance from the exterior side beams to the interior beam,
- whereby, during assembly of the bed foundation the unassembled side beams and transverse end members can be assembled into a quadrilateral prismatic shape with the interior beam extending between the transverse end members and the pins can be inserted in interleaved ones of the tongues at corners of the quadrilateral shape to maintain the shape, with the interior beam in position between the transverse ends and at least the distance from the exterior side beams to the interior beam can be spanned by the slats.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.