US388223A

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Publication number: US388223A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1888-08-21
Anticipated expiration: 1905-08-21

Description

(No Model.)

B. RUMPEL.

EXTENSION LOUNGE. No. 388,223. Patented Aug. Z1, 1888.

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BERNHARD RUMPEL, OF BROOKLYN, NFV YORK.

EXTENSION-LOUNGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 388,223, dated August 21, 1888.

Application filed April 17, NF8.

To all whom, it may concern,.-

Be it known that 1, BERNHARD RUi\1PI1L,ot` Brooklyn, New York, have invented a new and Improved ExtensiouLounge, of which the following is a speci tication.

This invention relates to a lounge provided with a drawercontaining a mattress. The seat of the lounge may be lowered so as to be in line horizontally with such mattress, the whole thus constituting one continuous bed.

Theinventiou consists in the various features of improvement more fully pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front View of the lounge. Fig. 2 is a similar view with the drawer removed. Fig. 3 is a back View of the lounge with the back partly removed and with the seat lowered. Fig. 4 is a crossvseetion on line x x, Figs. 1 and 2.

lhelettera represents the frame ot a lounge, which is open in front for the acconnnodation of a drawer, b, beneath its seat. This frame is supported upon the legs d. The drawer b contains a mattress and other kinds of bedding. It may be pushed in and ont and is supported at its front by legs d that are of the same length as the legs d. The seat c rests upon a pair of ledges, e e, one of which has the offset c to prevent aceidental displacement. The seat c is pivoted to the baekfof the lounge by a pair of slotted links, gl/1,- but at its right and left end the seat is entirely disconnected l'rom the trame, so that it may be tilted lengthwise. The ledges e e overhang or project inwardly from the head and foot piece ofthe lounge, respeetively,and beneath each ledge there is thus a free space for the temporary reception of one end ofthe seat while it is being tilted.

In use the drawer b is first pulled out, as in Fig. 4. Then the seat c is by a strap, h, raised Serial No. 270,010. (No model.)

at one end to clear offset e, as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 2. Next the seat is pushed back beneath the head-rest if, when it can be placed flat upon the bottom j. Thus the seat c is brought in line hm'izontally with the mattress in the drawer b, the whole constituting onecontinuousdoublebed. To close thclounge the seat c is again tilted and replaced upon the ledges e, after which the drawer is pushed beneath the seat.

It will be seen that in this lounge the seatframe is brought down to a level with the drawer when the lounge is converted into a bed. Thus a low bed is obtained, which is very desirable.

I am aware that is not new to provide a lounge with a seat that may be slid outward, and with a false bottom that may be raised to a level with the seat to i'orm a bed. Such a construction is, for example, shown in latent No. 178.111, granted to W. ll. Buser May 30, 1876. The objectionable feature in constructions of this kind is that the bed is high in lieu of being low, and that the lower portion of the head-rest is entirely covered np and out of use when the lounge is con verted into a bed. This construction l do not claim; but

I do claim-- The combination, in asofa-frame,ot' a drawer sliding back and forth in said frame, ledges e c at each end ofsaid sofa-frame, and a detached seat frame normally suspended on said ledges and adapted to be lowered to the space occupied by the drawer when the latter is drawn out to forni the bed, substantially as described.

BERN H ARD RU P EL.

lVitnesses:

F. v. Bmnsnu, ALFRED JoNGnMANs.