Classifications

• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
  • A47C—CHAIRS; SOFAS; BEDS
  • A47C17/00—Sofas; Couches; Beds
  • A47C17/52—Cabinet beds; Table beds, or like beds; Wardrobe beds
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
  • A47C—CHAIRS; SOFAS; BEDS
  • A47C17/00—Sofas; Couches; Beds
  • A47C17/52—Cabinet beds; Table beds, or like beds; Wardrobe beds
  • A47C17/62—Table beds; Billiard table beds, or like beds
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
  • A47C—CHAIRS; SOFAS; BEDS
  • A47C17/00—Sofas; Couches; Beds
  • A47C17/84—Suspended beds, e.g. suspended from ceiling
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
  • A47C—CHAIRS; SOFAS; BEDS
  • A47C19/00—Bedsteads
  • A47C19/20—Multi-stage bedsteads; e.g. bunk beds; Bedsteads stackable to multi-stage bedsteads
  • A47C19/207—Mezzanine beds
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
  • A47C—CHAIRS; SOFAS; BEDS
  • A47C19/00—Bedsteads
  • A47C19/22—Combinations of bedsteads with other furniture or with accessories, e.g. with bedside cabinets

Definitions

• a bed conventionally consists of a base which, most often formed of four feet, provides the raised seat of a horizontal frame on which one can deposit a mattress covered by other bedding articles. like the sheet, the blanket, or the duvet, in particular to isolate the man from the mattress.
• Many efforts have been developed in recent years in order to give the beds an aesthetic character, often respecting the evolution of society while being dependent on the spirit of their innovators.
• the first alternative is that of "communicating vessels” which consists of "emptying" the room in question while “filling” a neighboring room and vice versa.
• This alternative therefore requires light structures which are more particularly intended for removable beds, often called extra beds, such as the camp bed essentially consisting of a foldable frame furnished with straps or a large canvas serving as a box spring and mattress.
• the second alternative is the retractable bed which consists in pivoting said bed on one of its sides preferably on its lateral side of the headboard so as to be able to draw it up parallel to one of the walls to which it will be retained in this position. once erected by maneuvering it from the other lateral side of the footboard so as to cause the said bed to rock.
• This method of the type that makes it possible to move the bed from a horizontal position of use known as sleeping towards a retracting position known as storage and vice versa is, according to the invention, remarkable in that it consists in arrange the frame of said bed in the sleeping position in a horizontal plane raised above the ground so as to release below, a housing high enough to receive other furnishing elements and / or work facilities to equip the room in addition to said bed.
• the great advantage of such a retraction process is therefore that it makes it possible to have a bed which, in the sleeping position, keeps its location completely free on the ground so that it can dedicate the permanent installation of a other furnishings or appliances.
• the retraction method of the invention therefore makes it possible to envisage obtaining a space saving of almost 40% which can thus be filled with other equipment.
• Another advantage of the invention in addition to that essential of the aforementioned gain in space resides in the fact that the bed which is rarely an aesthetic piece of furniture in rooms of the studio or student bedroom type where moreover order is not often the first quality of its inhabitant, can be hidden from view thanks to the retraction process which retains its primary function here.
• the invention provides various embodiments of the method of retracting a bed.
• a first embodiment consists in retracting the bed by a vertical movement of the chassis towards a storage position located in a plane parallel to the plane of the sleeping position at a height sufficient to clear a free working space above the elements of furniture and / or work installation to authorize their use.
• the chassis of the aforesaid bed may evolve from a retracted storage position to a sleeping position of use by a vertical sliding movement.
• Another embodiment consists in retracting said bed by a horizontal movement of the chassis towards a storage position located in the same horizontal plane. as that of the sleeping position at a height sufficient to thus free up to the ceiling a free working space above the furnishing elements and / or work installation to authorize their use.
• FIG. 1 is a partially exploded perspective view of a bed equipped with the above-mentioned retraction method according to the invention.
• FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a room with the bed of the figure in the retracted position.
• Figure 3 is a perspective view of a room with the bed of the figure in the sleeping position.
• the bed of the invention referenced 100 as a whole, consists of a slatted frame (with a central cross member forming a stiffener) acting as a bed base 110 and whose upper face facing the ceiling (not shown) of the room in which the bed 100 is installed, receives a not shown mattress which covers other bedding items such as a sheet, blanket, or quilt to insulate the man from the mattress.
• the box spring 110 of the bed 100 cooperates with a retraction device consisting of a lifting device 200 allowing, along a vertical axis to the plane from the ceiling and / or from the ground, to raise (arrow E oriented towards the ceiling) and to suspend said chassis 110 from the ceiling in an upper plane close to the latter and in which it is shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, this in order to to release below the volume he occupied in the room for full and complete use of the table top 310 of a work desk 300 located below.
• the same lifting device 200 also makes it possible to descend (direction of the arrow C oriented towards the ground of FIG.
• the box spring 110 in a lower horizontal plane to define a horizontal position of use known as sleeping but raised relative to on the ground so as to always leave a slot below it high enough to leave in place the table 310 of the work desk 300 with various work accessories placed on it (computer, desk lamp, files, bottles, etc.).
• the lifting device 200 is in particular constituted by a guide assembly making it possible to raise (arrow E) or descend (arrow C) the box spring 110 of the bed 100 freely sliding in a vertical axis between the floor and the ceiling of the room and by a compensation set balancing the forces necessary to ensure the lifting (arrow E) of the box spring 110 towards its high retracted position.
• the guide assembly consists of two pairs of rails 210a, 211a and 210b, 211b erected between the ground and the ceiling on either side of the two lateral sides 110a and 110b formed by the two crosspieces of the head and footboard of the bed frame 110, to define a rolling or sliding path of the frame 110 (according to the sliding movement of the arrows C and E) of the bed frame 110 d 'a lower sleeping position (illustrated in Figure 3) to a retracted upper position (as illustrated in Figures 1 and 2) and vice versa.
• the compensation assembly consists, for its part, of two counterweight systems 220a and 220b which, forming an assembly heavier than the weight of the sliding bed (100) and arranged behind each lateral side of the bed frame 110, are connected at the two crossmembers 110a and 110b of the bed frame 100 by a conventional device of cables and return pulleys, balance the forces necessary to ensure the lifting (arrow E) of the bed frame 110 towards its high retracted position.
• human intervention is limited to one person for the retraction in the storage position or for the lowering in the sleeping position, whereas before moving a bed to another room required the intervention of 'at least two people.
• the upper and lower parts of the two pairs of rails are dressed two by two by two low side boxes 230a and 230b erected from the floor of the room and two high side boxes 240a and 240b starting from the ceiling which boxes, covering the lower and upper parts of the four guide rails 210a, 211a and 210b, 211b, are of a depth projecting inwardly of the box spring 110 so that the upper faces 230a ' and 230b 'of the bottom boxes 230a and 230b and the lower faces 240a' and 240b 'of the top boxes 240a and 240b act as bottom and top limit stops for sliding movements (arrow C and arrow E respectively) of the bed frame 110 of the bed 100.
• this adjustment device is made up of two stabilizing systems which, housed in longitudinal boxes 260c and 260d fixed in a manner suspended from the ceiling directly above the front longitudinal posts 110c and rear HOd of said frame-frame 110, are made up each by an endless cable driven crosswise around two deflection pulleys wedged on the two upper axes of the deflection pulleys of the two counterweight systems 220a and 220b of the compensation device.
• these crossed cables are arranged independent of each other on the left side and on the right side so as to ensure security in maintaining the horizontal plane during the descent (arrow C) of the bed frame 110, breakage of one of the two cables.
• the various lifting, suspension and lowering operations of the bed frame 110 of the bed 100 of the invention can be carried out by an electric motor actuating the lifting device 200 and remotely controllable. It is understood that the bed with its retracting device, which has just been described and shown above, has been for disclosure rather than limitation. Of course, various arrangements, modifications and improvements could be made to the above example, without going beyond the ambit of the invention taken in its broadest aspects and spirit.
• a storage staircase 400 could be permanently installed near the bed 100 to facilitate access to the latter in the sleeping position
• a locking handle 120 associated with the apparent spar 110c of the bed frame 110 of the bed 100 will allow, like the known system of cremone bolt (two metal rods maneuverable) to lock the sliding movement of the bed frame 110 in the low bed position 100
• - members sliding pads of the "Teflon" type, etc.
• a bedside table with headboard sconce will be fixed to the wall at a suitable height when the bed is in the sleeping position
• - a handrail 250 on both sides and on the other side of the bed will be fixed to the visible spar 110c while leaving a free passage to access the bed from the side of the storage staircase 400 and leaving access to the bedside just mentioned

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