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- 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
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- a couch-bed is shown hav-
- the handle is grasped and rotated the relative positions shown in the drawto disengage the fingers from the side bar ings.
- Each section has four end posts 3 3 3 3 10, the operator then drawing longitudinally 25 4 4 4t 4:, respectively. To the posts are seupon the rod to move the sliding section.
- a conch-bed comprising two nested sec-
- the mattress-supports 6 6 are in a plane tions, one of which is adapted to slide laterparallel to and slightly above the plane of ally with relation to the other, each section those at 5 5, so that the mattresses 12 13 will being provided with a mattress extending not interfere with the movement of the slidfrom end to end, the mattress of one section 45 ing section. (See Fig. 1.) being on a plane higher than the mattress of As thus far explained the couch-bed does not the other section, and a lock for holding said 5 difier substantially from that shown in the sliding section at either extreme of its movepatent to Leighton, No. 667,916, dated Februment. ary 12, 1901. 2.
- a couch-bed comprising two nested sections, one of which is adapted to slide with relation to the other, said sections having side bars, and means for locking the side bar of one section with the side bar of the other section.
- a couch-bed comprising two nested sections one of which is adapted to slide laterally with relation to the other, said sections ,having side bars, and a lock for looking a side ing a look to engage the side bars of the other section.
- Acouch-bed comprising two nested sections, one of which is adapted to slide laterally with relation to the other, said sections having side bars, and a rock-rod jonrnaled in the side bars of the sliding section and having fingers to engage either side bar of the other section.
- a couch-bed comprising two nested sections, one of which is adapted to slide laterally with relation to the other, and a lock located substantially midway between the ends of said sections for locking the sliding section against movement.
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TATES ATENT Fries.
JOHN A. HUTCHISON, OF CAMBRIDGE, AND EUGENE R. LEIGHTON, OF BOS- TON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNORS TO MERRIMAC MATTRESS MANUFAC- TURING COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OE MASSACHUSETTS.
COUCH-BED.
SPEGIFIGATION'forming part of Letters Patent No. 692,140, dated January 28, 1902.
Application filed March 20, 1901. Serial No. 52,046. (No model.)
To all whom it 11mg concern.- Our invention resides in the mechanism Be it known that we, JOHN A. HUTCHISON, now to be described and also the combination of Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex, thereof with the said couch-bed. and EUGENE R. LEIG-HTON, of Boston, in the J ournaled in the side bars 7 8 is a rocking 5 countyofSufiolk,State ofMassachusetts,have rod 14, which is bent downwardly, as at 15,
invented certain new and useful Improvebetween said bars to escape the mattress in ments in Couch-Beds, of which the following case thelatter be depressed by the weight of is a specification. a person thereon. On its outer end the rod This invention has relation to couch-beds is equipped with a handle 16, by which it may IO of the type wherein two telescoping sections be rocked. Two locking-fingers 17 are rigare employed, one of which is adapted to idly attached to the innerend of the rod and slide under and be nested within the other; they lie on both sides of the side bar 8, their and the object of the invention is to provide weight causing them to hang vertically, as means for locking said sections in their open shown. These fingers are long enough to en- 1 5 and their closed positions, respectively. gage either of the side bars 9 and 10, and there- Referring to the accompanying drawings, by lock the sliding section against movement; Figure 1 represents in transverse section a The rod is located substantially midway becouch-bed equipped with ourinvention. Fig. tween the ends of the sliding section, and 2 represents in perspective view a couch-bed hence the handle 16 serves to move the said 20 having the sections locked in open position. section laterally with relation to the other.
On the drawings a couch-bed is shown hav- When it is desired to slide the under section ing two nesting sections adapted to occupy outward, the handle is grasped and rotated the relative positions shown in the drawto disengage the fingers from the side bar ings. Each section has four end posts 3 3 3 3 10, the operator then drawing longitudinally 25 4 4 4t 4:, respectively. To the posts are seupon the rod to move the sliding section. As
cured the mattress-supports or angle-irons soon as said section reaches its limit of out- 5-5 6 6, the former of which are adapted to ward movement the handle. is rotated in the slide under the latter, whereby the angleopposite direction to cause the lock to engage irons 6 6 act as guides for those at 5 5 to prethe side bar 9. It is evident that thelock may 30 vent longitudinal displacement of the sliding be constructed in a variety of other ways and section. Side bars 7 8 connect the posts of located at other points on the bed without dethe sliding section, the posts of the other secparting from the spirit and scope of the invention being connected by similar side bars 9 10. tion. These side bars are so formed and attached Having thus explained the nature of the 35 to their respective posts that when the secinvention and described a way of constructtions are closedt". e. in the position shown in ing and using the same, although without at- 8 5 Fig. 1.-the side bars of the sliding section'are tempting to set forth all of the forms in which substantially directly above those of the other it may be made or all of the modes of its use, section, and when they are opened, as in Fig.2, we declare that what we claim is--- 40 the side bar 8 is directly above the side bar 9. 1. A conch-bed comprising two nested sec- The mattress-supports 6 6 are in a plane tions, one of which is adapted to slide laterparallel to and slightly above the plane of ally with relation to the other, each section those at 5 5, so that the mattresses 12 13 will being provided with a mattress extending not interfere with the movement of the slidfrom end to end, the mattress of one section 45 ing section. (See Fig. 1.) being on a plane higher than the mattress of As thus far explained the couch-bed does not the other section, and a lock for holding said 5 difier substantially from that shown in the sliding section at either extreme of its movepatent to Leighton, No. 667,916, dated Februment. ary 12, 1901. 2. A couch-bed comprising two nested sections, one of which is adapted to slide with relation to the other, said sections having side bars, and means for locking the side bar of one section with the side bar of the other section.
3. A couch-bed comprising two nested sections one of which is adapted to slide laterally with relation to the other, said sections ,having side bars, and a lock for looking a side ing a look to engage the side bars of the other section.
6. Acouch-bed comprising two nested sections, one of which is adapted to slide laterally with relation to the other, said sections having side bars, and a rock-rod jonrnaled in the side bars of the sliding section and having fingers to engage either side bar of the other section.
7. A couch-bed comprising two nested sections, one of which is adapted to slide laterally with relation to the other, and a lock located substantially midway between the ends of said sections for locking the sliding section against movement.
In testimony whereof we have affixed our signatures in presence of two Witnesses.
JOHN A. HUTOHISON. EUGENE R. LEIGHTON.
Witnesses:
M. B. MAY, GEORGE PEZZETTI.
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US2959792A (en) * | 1956-08-27 | 1960-11-15 | Haugard Emil | Patient transfer locking device |
US3048087A (en) * | 1955-07-29 | 1962-08-07 | Ernest F Campbell | Weapon mount |
US3213468A (en) * | 1963-04-29 | 1965-10-26 | Burton Dixie Corp | Front-opening convertible studio couch |
US5392475A (en) * | 1990-05-07 | 1995-02-28 | Mccall; Gene W. | Extensible article of furniture |
US6434766B1 (en) * | 2001-01-22 | 2002-08-20 | Virginia E. Beddawi | Sofa and bed combination |
US20160038360A1 (en) * | 2013-02-05 | 2016-02-11 | Hill-Rom Services, Inc. | Bed having rack and pinion powered width expansion |
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US3048087A (en) * | 1955-07-29 | 1962-08-07 | Ernest F Campbell | Weapon mount |
US2959792A (en) * | 1956-08-27 | 1960-11-15 | Haugard Emil | Patient transfer locking device |
US3213468A (en) * | 1963-04-29 | 1965-10-26 | Burton Dixie Corp | Front-opening convertible studio couch |
US5392475A (en) * | 1990-05-07 | 1995-02-28 | Mccall; Gene W. | Extensible article of furniture |
US6434766B1 (en) * | 2001-01-22 | 2002-08-20 | Virginia E. Beddawi | Sofa and bed combination |
US20160038360A1 (en) * | 2013-02-05 | 2016-02-11 | Hill-Rom Services, Inc. | Bed having rack and pinion powered width expansion |
US9763840B2 (en) * | 2013-02-05 | 2017-09-19 | Hill-Rom Services, Inc. | Bed having rack and pinion powered width expansion |
US10603233B2 (en) | 2013-02-05 | 2020-03-31 | Hill-Rom Services, Inc. | Method of powered width expansion of a bed |
US11376177B2 (en) * | 2013-02-05 | 2022-07-05 | Hill-Rom Services, Inc. | Powered width expansion of articulated bed deck |
US20220287895A1 (en) * | 2013-02-05 | 2022-09-15 | Hill-Rom Services, Inc. | Belt driven width expansion of a bed |
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