US3528113A - Combined sitting and lying furniture - Google Patents

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US3528113A
US3528113A US728998A US3528113DA US3528113A US 3528113 A US3528113 A US 3528113A US 728998 A US728998 A US 728998A US 3528113D A US3528113D A US 3528113DA US 3528113 A US3528113 A US 3528113A
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    • 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
    • A47C17/04—Seating furniture, e.g. sofas, couches, settees, or the like, with movable parts changeable to beds; Chair beds
    • A47C17/16—Seating furniture changeable to beds by tilting or pivoting the back-rest
    • A47C17/165—Seating furniture changeable to beds by tilting or pivoting the back-rest with forward tiltable back-rest, e.g. back cushion
    • A47C17/1655—Seating furniture changeable to beds by tilting or pivoting the back-rest with forward tiltable back-rest, e.g. back cushion forming top surface of the bed with non-rotatable seat cushion

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  • the cushion is slidable longitudinally relative to the frame and is thus movable to an overhanging position which uncovers a portion of the frame, with an auxiliary cushion then being adapted to fit over the portion so uncovered.
  • a means is provided for engaging the rigid cushion with the frame so as to maintain the two parallel to each other even when the rigid cushion is in a substantially overhanging position.
  • the underframe of the seating sofa is a storage box for bedclothes, in such a manner, that the storage box can be pulled out or the seat cushion is lifted or turned up for providing access to the bedclothes.
  • this combination furniture when it is being used for sitting shall not unnecessarily infringe upon the often limited room space being utilized during day-time. Therefore, it has been tried in different ways to reduce the length of the furniture in its state intended for sitting purposes, but none of the known constructions has succeeded in combining simplicity with daintiness and easy operation.
  • a self-supporting rectangular seat cushion can be displaced longitudinally to a stop position located such, that the seat cushion together with a separate cushion filling the exposed space on the underframe, preferably a back cushion associated with the furniture, forms a lying cushion of normal length.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 show a front view and a lateral view, respectively, of an embodiment of the combined sitting and lying furniture according to the invention
  • FIG. 3 on an enlarged scale shows a detail of the view in FIG. 2
  • FIGS. 4 and 5 show front views of the furniture in bedding and lying position, respectively
  • FIG. 6 shows a perspective exploded view of the furniture construction.
  • the furniture comprises an underframe in the form of a storage box 1 for bedclothes.
  • a self-supporting seat cushion 2 with back cushions 3 placed upright thereon.
  • the seat cushion 2 on its lower surface is provided along each of the longitudinal edges with a strip 4 having steps or recesses 5, so that on every strip two stops 6 and 7 are formed.
  • an angular block 8 is mounted, one angular leg of said blocks forming a lateral protrusion 9 for engaging below a longitudinal bar 10 on the inside of the longside of box 1 close to its upper edge.
  • FIG. 3 As appears from FIG. 3,
  • FIG. 1 the furniture is shown in its state serving as sitting sofa, in which state it preferably may have a length of about cm.
  • the back cushions 3 are removed whereafter by an easy turn of the hand-lifting of the end of cushion 2 which is the righthand end in the figure, and pulling out the cushion until the stop 7 of the strip 4 is locked by the upper edge 11 on the right-hand short end of box 1 (FIG. 4) there is comfortable access to the bed-clothes stored in the box.
  • the cushion 2 is pushed back until the stop 6 of the strip 4 snaps down behind the upper edge of the short end of the box.
  • the cushion end which then still is projecting may have a length of, for example, about 40 cm.
  • one of the back cushions 3 is now being placed so as to lie as shown in FIG. 5.
  • the cushion 3 has such a width (equals height in seat position), that it entirely fills the free space whereby with the dimensions stated, a lying cushion of a total length of about 200 cm. is obtained, i.e. normal bed length. As appears most clearly from FIG.
  • the back cushion 3 is provided on its rear side with two transverse strips 12 the ends of which, in lying position of the cushion, guide against the inside of the upper edge on the longsides of the box, as well as one strip (the lower one in FIG. 6) forms a stop against the inside of the upper edge of the short end of the box (see FIG. 5).
  • a sofa bed comprising in combination:
  • a bottom frame portion defining a cushion supporting surface
  • a rigid seat cushion having a length substantially equal to that of said frame and being supportable on said supporting surface and being also longitudinally slidable thereon in at least one direction from a central in-register position where said cushion is centrally disposed on said frame to a position wherein one end of said cushion substantially overhangs said frame
  • said first means comprising an element on said bottom frame portion cooperating with an element on said rigid seat cushion for substantially preventing vertical motion therebetween as said rigid seat cushion is longitudinally slid relative to said bottom frame portion,
  • said bottom frame portion includes front and side members enclosing a storage compartment to which top access is provided by sliding said rigid cushion to said overhanging position.
  • auxiliary cushion comprises a rear back-rest cushion when said sofa bed is being used as a sofa.
  • said first means comprises at least one longitudinally extending strip on said frame and means on said rigid cushion adapted to extend under and slide along the bottom edge of said strip.
  • the sofa bed of claim 1 which further includes stop means for determining a first overhanging position of said rigid cushion relative to said frame in which the uncovered portion of said frame substantially matches a linear dimension of said auxiliary cushion.
  • stop means also determines a second overhanging position of said rigid cushion in which the amount of overhang is substantially greater than in said first overhanging position, whereby ready access is provided to the space in said frame beneath said rigid cushion.

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US1610832A (en) * 1925-02-17 1926-12-14 Royal Easy Chair Company Bed couch
US2412628A (en) * 1943-05-24 1946-12-17 Pullman Couch Company Sofa bed
DE847476C (de) * 1949-11-29 1952-08-25 Kurt May Bettsofa
DE884403C (de) * 1950-11-09 1953-11-12 Alice Cordes Bettcouch
DE1036484B (de) * 1954-01-02 1958-08-14 Heia Moebelwerkstaetten Friedr Sitz- und Schlafsofa
US2937384A (en) * 1958-09-22 1960-05-24 Shield Chair Co Inc Convertible sofa-bed
US3060460A (en) * 1959-12-21 1962-10-30 Dream Flex Inc Convertible couch

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US1610832A (en) * 1925-02-17 1926-12-14 Royal Easy Chair Company Bed couch
US2412628A (en) * 1943-05-24 1946-12-17 Pullman Couch Company Sofa bed
DE847476C (de) * 1949-11-29 1952-08-25 Kurt May Bettsofa
DE884403C (de) * 1950-11-09 1953-11-12 Alice Cordes Bettcouch
DE1036484B (de) * 1954-01-02 1958-08-14 Heia Moebelwerkstaetten Friedr Sitz- und Schlafsofa
US2937384A (en) * 1958-09-22 1960-05-24 Shield Chair Co Inc Convertible sofa-bed
US3060460A (en) * 1959-12-21 1962-10-30 Dream Flex Inc Convertible couch

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