Classifications

• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
  • A47B—TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
  • A47B83/00—Combinations comprising two or more pieces of furniture of different kinds
  • A47B83/04—Tables combined with other pieces of furniture
  • A47B83/045—Tables combined with cabinets
• • 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
  • A47C17/52—Cabinet beds; Table beds, or like beds; Wardrobe beds

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• a triangular cupboard vertically containing a ready-for-use bed is subject of the present invention.
• the technical problem therefore arises of creating a multifunctional cupboard, adapted for containing a ready-for-use bed and for being disposed in correspondence with the corners and similar formations of the walls of a room, in such a way as to allow either a portion of the total volume of the cupboard to be recovered for other purposes, such as the accommodating of cabinets, chests of drawers and the like, or the use of areas normally wasted because they are not sufficiently large to be used for other purposes.
• the present invention provides a cupboard, adapted for containing, inside itself, a ready-for-use bed or a similar element of furniture and that possesses a fixed base of triangular shape in plan and a vertical lateral space parallel to one side of the base triangle, in which there is installed the ready-for-use bed or similar element of furniture, a plate being associated with said bed or the like by hinged connecting means disposed at the corner of one long side of said plate and adapted for allowing the plate to be rotated, in succession, about two mutually perpendicular horizontal axes, one rotation enabling the plate to be inserted into the space in a vertical position in the sense of its thickness and parallel to one side of the base triangle and the bed to be extracted from said containing space, the second rotation enabling the bed to be brought into its flat position on end supports.
• More particularly said fixed base has the plan shape of a right-angled triangle or an isosceles right-angled triangle.
• the coupling means are preferably composed of a double hinge, firmly attached to the base, having two horizontal axes of rotation perpendicular to each other, of which the first is disposed parallel to the front face of the cupboard and is constitued of a bar element outside the base, which supports the bed when the latter is extracted from the cupboard and is placed flat ready for use.
• said bed is composed of a schenss connected to said plate by means of straps or the like and in that the floor support for the plate is assured by a frame forming the support legs firmly connected to same.
• the cupboard according to the invention may, in alternative, contain a table or similar element of furniture and may furthermore be coupled to another cupboard along one of the respective cathetates or along one of the respective hypotenuses.
• FIG 1 a front view of the cupboard according to this invention
• Figure 2 a plan view of the cupboard of Figure 1;
• FIG. 6 a cupboard according to Figure 1 containing, as a variant, a table and a bed;
• the cupboard according to this invention is composed basically of a fixed base 1 , having the shape of an isosceles right-angled triangle, to which is firmly fixed a bar element 2, extending throughout the whole length of one of the two cathetuses of the base 1, and comprising a flat part 2a for anchoring to the base 1 by means of screws or the like, not illustrated in the Figure.
• the bar 2 is interrupted with the insertion of a hinge having a horizontal axis 3, firmly attached to a second hinge 4, itself also having its axis horizontal but perpendicular to the axis of the first, and in turn being fixed to the plate 5 which, by virtue of the double hinge formed in this manner, is able to rotate either about a horizontal axis parallel to the front surface of the cupboard, or about a horizontal axis perpendicular to that.
• a frame 5a To the plate 5 there are also firmly connected a frame 5a, rotatable about hinges 5b and constituting the floor support legs for the plate 5, and a mattress 5c connected to the plate 5 by straps 5d or the like, the whole forming a bed 50.
• the cupboard according to the present invention is, furthermore, completed by an upper body 6, itself also of triangular shape corresponding to the base 1, this body being secured to the base 1 by known means, not illustrated, external walls 7a and internal walls 7b being also provided, which define the various spaces of the cupboard.
• the fixed base 1 which is internally hollow, may in turn be completed by a triangular drawer 8, mounted on wheels 8a.
• the cupboard may also contain, alone or associated with the bed, a table 9 equipped with a leg 9a, the table being firmly connected to a base 1' disposed above the base 1, by means of a hinge 3' attached to a bar 2'; as shown in Figure 7, the table may be pulled out and replaced by using the same procedure as that described for the bed.
• FIGs 11 and 12 there are shown two further variants of coupling together, in which two cupboards are placed face to face along the hypotenuse 12, 12' instead of along one of the two cathetuses: in Figure 11, the arrangement of the hinges enables the beds to be pulled out and positioned parallel to the walls, but perpendicularly to each other, whereas in Figure 12 the two beds are arranged parallel to the walls and are aligned with each other.

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• 1990
  • 1990-06-20 IT IT02070390A patent/IT1248784B/it active IP Right Grant
• 1991
  • 1991-06-08 WO PCT/EP1991/001072 patent/WO1991019441A1/en active Application Filing

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