US1056647A - Wall-bed. - Google Patents

Description

tamed. Mar. 18, 1910.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NAPOLEON B. DOUGLASS, OF BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA.

WALL-BED.

Specication of Letten Patent.

Patented Mar. 18, 1913.

Application tiled December 17, 1912. Serial No. 787,231.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, APOLEON B. D oncmss, a citizen of the Uni ed States, residin at Berkeley, in the county of Alameda an State of California, have invented new and useful Im rovements in- Wall-Beds, of which the ollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to Wall beds, and pertains especially to a Wall bed arrangeiiient by which a full sized, d0iible bed may be so mounted in a closetliaving a door of ordinary width, that this bed may be swung.

in and out of the closet without interference` with or from the door or the door jambs.

into or out of u c oset, having a doorway of much less width than that of the bed; also to provide anl interchangeable,l bed-car ing frame adapted'fur either a right or efthand door, and which may be readily applied in wall structures with doorways of different widths ull without change of the frame or the requirement of special parts. This is a very'- important and novel feature. It is -a further object of the invention to provide u wall bed'mountin in conjunction with a counterweighted d. having lever arms of short radius ada ted to form a butter and su ort for the ed when upright, in addition to'their. ordinary unctions. The invention consists of the parts and the construction and combination of parts las hereinafter more fully described and claimed, havingfroference to the accompany'- invdra'wings, in whichc 4`igurel ism erspeotive of theinvention, with the. be'd iblded upright and in the room.v Fig. 2 'is a detail perspectiveview of one of theflever arms of the carrying frame. Fg-is n transverse horizontal section throngl -a 'wall having a doorway, with the wall bed in front thereof, 4 isa horizontal section"sl'iowingA thewull bed in reversed concealed position behind the wall. In Fig. 1 is sh'o'wxia fragment Q ;oi a Wall, havin a doorway 3v, upon one .of the jambs of which is hinged'at 3f an ordinary stock door 4.

The present invention contemplates and provides a wall bed structure comprising a suitable type of bed-frame 5, preferably of metal, and Wider than the door opening, and adapted to swing iria-nd out of the i'ecess. The bed-frame isshown inv vertical osition in the several:views.V y i l ame 5 is pivot-ally sns'pended by Qlink's 6, connected at one eLndfto 'thebed-'framed the detachable claxnisri'jtlieir otlier'ei'ids being connected to, suitulilefbrackets'f which are detachably seeiiredfto the lieiid-frnnie' 12. 'LinksQ are connected ut I to the bed-l .frameclamp 'Land at 1l to lieadf'frame 12,

which latter forms an important part ,of the present invention." Frame 12', which is ivoted on vertical pivotsadjacen't 'to' the oor butts or butt edge ofthedoor, is preferably of a continuous iec'e'ofv metal, tubing und carries the bedrame," and is 'adapted l to' swin about a verticiilfatis so' is to carry the bed in and out of theclset or recess. his' frame 12 and its bedfrar'ne-han ing 'means are so constructed and` arrange as to provide for a standardization of wall bed construction, whereby the same identical bed can be set up in openings of different widths and at either side ofthe opening, accordingto whether. the bed-frame 5 and vthe door 4, with which it is associated, have to-'tiirn to the left or to the right.'"`This is an exi-- tirely new idea inf-thel wall "bedbusiness, Heretofore beds weremude either rightf'oi left because in buildings it is'no'tpossible" 'to have all doors turnthe same way. Frame 12 is adjustably secured tothe crunk urnis 13-14, having seiits.13-l4 for the recep tion respectivelv` oi" the u per. and l'ower horizontal rail portions o th'e'friime' l2; cach-of these arms Ilili-sind Mbcing adapted for direct pivotal `jmi'rniilinff .iir' suitable ernbly arranged in thelooradjacent to one of the door jainbs, ofithe Wall 2; This lower ]oulnal receives ii'iid =supports the .flower entire wei lit o f the ,carrier frame and all of its loa while the upperorank arm 13,

The' bed-Y' crank arm 1,4', whichearries practically/the with its journal l5, servesto maintain the frame 12 iii a substantially vertical position; the journal 15 bein in-the door jamb and independent ofthe oor 4.

In order that I may readily mount my wall bed upon either right or left-hand doors, I prefer to bolt or otherwise detachubly connect, the.,crank arms 13-14 to'the horizontal .membersI of the frame 12'so that I can; when necessary, adjust the frame 12 sidewise in one'or the other of sets of bolt holes 16. formed in the up er and lower rails of the frame, and wliic sets are positioned near the opposite ends of the rails. The crank arms 13-14 are 'connected to frame 12 a sufficient distance to one side of the vertical center of the frame, so that the major portionof the frame beyond the arms 12E-14 will just have sufficient clearance to allow the frame and bed to swing in and out of the closet opening.

The brackets 7 on the bed-frame 5 are at tached 'a short distance from the head end of the bed to provide the ri ht fulcrum against the cou'nterweight 5. en the bed is in a vertical, position, it is limited in its backward movement by a stop 18 oi t-he underside of,v the brackets 7 which engage the links 9 when the bed is swung `to a vertical position; with the center of gravity of the bed just inside the pivots 7 In order to cause the bed to turn with the door 4 I connect the carrier frame 12 with the adjacent edge of the door by suitable means, as the hook or equivalent device 19 on frame 12, and strap 20.

The crank arms 13-14, which are rigid with and at right angles to the head-frame 12, just clear the rear edge of the door 4. They are of such length that when the door is fully o ened they allow the head-frame 12 t lie flirt. against the door 4; but as the door is only ap roximatelg two-thirds the width of an or inary dou le bed and its carrying frame 12, and as the frame, 12 is usuali less than one-half the height of the door, it is necessary to means for giving a finisi to the back of the ,bed and head-frame when turned into the room, which finish shall give the appearance of a continuous panel or wall behind the bed. It is also important to make the entire structure as light and artistic as possible and avoid clumsy, cumbersome construction. To

this end, I attach a panel 22 directly to the back of the bed-carrying frame 12 and toward the side edge thereof which is awa)1 from and is not against the door 4; this panel 22 gradually swingin into the plane and i'n continuation of an abutting ed ewise against the door 4, when the latter as been opened against the wall to expose the bed ready for use. WVhen the door 4 and panel 22 are thus brought into a common plane, they aggregate a width equal to or rovide some sort of y greater than the overall Width of the bedcarrying` structure and bed, so that a neat and finished background or head structure is formed adjacent to the head of the bed when the latter is adjusted horizontally.

The door 4 is on one side of the crank \arnis 1314 but no part of the bed structure is supported on door 4; while the panel 22 is on the opposite side of and abuts against the crank arms 13--14 and carried at all times von the frame 12. As the door 4 is closed, the anel 22 gradually. moves out of the plane 'o the door 4 until, when the door is fully closed, the.panel 22 stands behind the wall in the closet and in a plane nearly arallel with, but consideraby removed om, the door 4. It is the coperation et' the rigid arms 13-14, frame 12, door 4, and panel 22that forms a combination and mechanical moyement novel and peculiar in the wall bed business and has resulted in increased economy of'manufacture and reduction of space necessary for manipulation; two important considerations in apartment house construction. f

When the bed is in the closet, as in Fig. 4, access may be had to the interior of the closet by simply opening the door 4 sufficiently to ermit a person to pass inte the closet. W en the bed is arranged in exosedI position, with the door 4 opened', as in Fi 3, ingress and egress is provided aroun the edge of the panel 22 and the op osite door joist.

n practice these folding beds are made up in standard sizes,4 usually double width. They will go in any ordinary sized o ening and with any ordinary door. If a oor is hung to open from right to left, as in Fig. 1, then the bed is hung in the manner therein shown. If the door happens to be hung to swing in the opposite direction, then the head-frame 12'is sim l turned around and the brackets 8 and lin s 9 clamped on the other side of the head-frame.

One of the'great features of this in't'en,F tion, as -far as the bed construction is concerned, is the interchangeability and its adaptability to different conditions of' use. The arrangement of the stops 18 is also an important matter as it saves lthe marring of the door and an'el by preventing the foot rail of the be -frame from swinging back against the woodwork.

Havin thus described my invention, what I c aim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a wall bed, the combination with a wall having an opening therethrough of a pair of crank arms journaled at one side ot the opening, a head-frame supported by said crank arms, said head-frame and crank arms constructed and arranged so that the headframe may be connected to the crank arms at different distances from the center thereof attached to either front or back of said headtrainery according to which side of the headt'raxue is outermost.

A wall bed having a head-fra1ne, means t'or hanging it to swing from side to side aboutvertical pivots, a bed-frame, fupper and lower links supporting the bed-frame on the head-:trame to enable the bed-frame to be moved from a horizontal to a vertical posit-ion, or vice versa, and stops on the bedt'rame coacting with one set of links to limit. the vertical swinging movement of the bedframe.

3. In a wall bed, the combination of a head-frame, means for mounting the headframe to swing about vertical pivots, brackets secured to the head-frame, suspending links carried by the brackets, a bedtrame hung from said links, a second pair ot' links which have one endl connected to the head-frame below said brackets and their other end pivoted below the first mentioned links to the bed-frame, and stops carried by and extending rearwardly of the bed-frame engageable with the second set of links when the bed is turnedyinto upright, vertical position.

4. In a wall bed, the combination of a head-frame made of a continuous piece of metal tubing, crank arms having pintl'es at one end for engagement in suitable bearings, means for supporting the head-frame on said crank arms to turn about said pintles as a vertical pivot, brackets interchangeably and reversibly connected to the side members of said head-frame, a folding bedirame, suspending links piyotally connected.. to said brackets on the head-traine and pivoted tn the bed-frame, and a set of interchangeable and reversible links detachably pivoted to the side portions of the head-frame and also pivoted to the bed-frame.

In a reversible Wall bed, ,the combination with a recess having an ordinary door closure therefor, ofla bed considerably wider than the closure pivoted to, the side of the opening adjacent to the door butts butindependent of the door, said bedincluding a head-frame, the pivots of said bed being intermediate the sides of the head-frame, said head-frame extending over the major portion of the door having a part projecting considerably beyond the butt edge of the door, said frame carrying a panel which is substantially the same height as. the door,

said panel and door constructed and ar ranged whereby, when the door and headframe are swung into the VVVroom and sub` stantially parallel with ythe wall, said panel and door will lie in the same plane and in substantial continuation of each other,` and when the door is closed andy t-he head-frame is in the closet., the panel and door will stand in dilierent planes. y, y

6. In a wall bed, the combination ofia .floorf hinged at one edge, a bed-carrying frame pivoted between its side edges on Vertical pivots adjacent'to the door hinges and independent of the door, one side of said frame extending over the'door and the other side of the frame carrying a Vertical panel, said door and panel constructed and-arranged whereby, when the door is opened substantially parallel with its opening and said frame is turned into parallelism with the door.- said anel will lie substantial continuationof said door, and when the parts are reversed through anaro of 180O said panel and door will stand in different planes.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence df two subscribing witnesses. l

NAPOLEON Bi Doncipass. l/Vitnesses W. W. HEALEY, Zon HARRISON.

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