US1153423A - Combination morris chair and bed. - Google Patents

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F. H. DONOVAN.

COMBINATION- MORRIS CHAIR AND BED.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 8.1914.

Patented Sept. 14, 1915.

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COMBINATION MORRIS CHAIR AND BED.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 14, 1915.

Application filed July 8, 1914. Serial No. 849,644.

To all whom it may concern: v Be it known that I, FRANK H. DONOVAN, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Wellston, Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination Morris Chairs and Beds, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in a combination Morris chair and bed, and has for its object two sections hingedly con nee-ted together, which when folded together constitute a comfortable Morris chair and when unfolded form a complete double bed.

A further obj ect of my invention is to construct a device of a plurality of members hinged together the same being provided with means for supporting the several members either in the form of a Morris chair or in the form of an extended double bed.

Figure 1, is a top plan view of any invention showing the same in theposition of a bed. Fig.2, is a side View showing my in vention folded together and in the form of a Morris chair. Fig. 8, is a side view of my invention with the back members lowered ready to convert the chair into the form of a bed. Fig. 4, is a detail perspective view of one of the connecting members by which two of the members are hinged together. Fig. 5, is a detail perspective view of one of the brackets made use of by which the back members are hingedly attached. Fig. 6, is a detail perspective view of one of the corners of the seat member showing the spacer by which the same is partially elevated from the opposite seat member. Fig. 7 is a detail perspective view of one of the supporting arms made use of for supporting the back in tilted position. Fig. 8, is a detail perspective view of one of the frame rails showing the leg in folded position therein. Fig. 9, is a detail perspective view of a portion of the frame showing the leg in supporting position. Fig. 10, is a detail perspective view of one of the legs and supporting arms forming a part of the upper section and by which the same is supported when unfolded.

In carrying out my invention I construct a combination Morris chair and bed by providing a base or chair section 11, consisting of standards 12 and 18, mounted on horizontal rails 14, which rails are provided with legs 15, provided with the usual casters 16. The standards 12 and 13 are connected at their upper edges by side rails 17 and crossbars 18; the cross-bars 18 are suitably perforated as indicated by the numeral 19, and in these perforations are firmly attached the ends of the wire fabric or spring 20. On the back of the rear cross rail 19, are firmly attached brackets 21, which act as hinges; and to the free ends thereof is hingedly connected a frame 22, consisting of side rails 28, and cross-bars 24, which bars are also perforated, and the same is firmly attached a wire fabric 25. On the free back end of the frame 22, and onthe two corners is provided a projection or short leg 26, and on the same are mounted hooks 27, which engage with buttons 28 or the like, formed on detachable legs 29, which are pivotally connected at the point indicated by the numeral 80, to links 81, also pivotally connected at the point in dicated by the numeral 82, to the side rails 28. Vihen this trams is in a tilted position as that shown in Fig. 2, the legs 29, are permitted to be folded, after the hooks have been released, into the side rails 23, as illustrated in Fig. 8, and the same are held in such folded position by the means of the latch 88.

To the base section 11, and to the cross rails 18, is hingedly attached a seat section 34, consisting of side rails 85, and cross bars 86, firmly attached to uprights 87 the upper ends of the uprights are provided with arm rails 88, which act as arm rests when in chair position, and also act as legs or supports when that section is converted into bed position, as shown in Fig. 1. The cross bars 86, are in this instance likewise provided with openings to which a wire fabric 89 is supported. This section is pivoted or otherwise connected to the base section by the hinge members 40, constructed as shown in Fig. 4. The hinge members 40 are each provided with a projection 41, which acts as a spacer both when in extended or folded position; and on the opposite ends of the rails 86, is provided a pivoted member 42, which acts as a spacer to correspond with the hinge 40, when the two members are folded one on top of the other, and which can be folded down upon the rail when the two top members are in extended position as that shown in Fig. 6, so as not to interfere with the bed-clothes. On this section 84, is also attached brackets 48, to which the frame 44, is hingedly connected and which frame is similarly constructed as the frame 22, and is also provided with a wire netting to avoid confusion.

. lshed and when placed in position as shown Copies of this patent may be obtained for 45. This section is provided with legs 46, hingedly connected at the bottom and supported by braces 47, which can be released from their position and permit the legsfl6, together with the bracesto be folded against the side rails so as not to interfere'when the in Fig. 2, is held in upright chair form by means of the pivoted arms A8, pivoted to the V uprights 37, the free end being in the form of a hook and adapted to be placed over buttons or projections 49, formed on the side rails of the lower member 22. 7

Having fully described my invention what I claim is:

1. A combination Morris chair and bed comprising a base member, a bed member pivoted thereto; a seat member held to the base member, a bed member pivoted to the seat member, and means for holding the I members in a folded inclined position to form a Morris chair, substantially as specified.

2. A device of the class described comprising a base member, a seat member, means for 'hinging the two together and for properly spacing the same apart; bed member hinged to the base and seat members and 7 means for holding the same in a folded inclined position, substantially as specified.

8. A device of the class described comprising a base member, a wire fabric supported thereby; a seat member hinged to the base member; spaces located between the same, and fabric supported in the base of the seat member; bed members hinged to the base member and to the seat member, folding legs formed by the bed members for supporting the bed member on a level with the seat and base member, and means for supporting the bed members in tilted position when in a chair position.

In testimony whereof, I, have signed my name to this specification, in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANK H. DONOVAN.

\Vitnesses:

ALFRED A. EICKS, WALTER O. STEIN.

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Washington, D. G.

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