Adjustable bed and control apparatus

Claim 1

AN ADJUSTABLE BED COMPRISING A RIGID SUPPORT STRUCTURE INCLUDING TWO SIDE FRAMES AND TWO TORTUOUS CROSS SUPPORT MEMBERS; SAID CROSS SUPPORT MEMBERS INTERCONNECTING SAID SIDE FRAMES NEAR OPPOSITE ENDS HAVING RAISED SURFACE PORTIONS PROVIDING HEAD AND FOOT SUPPORTING SURFACES, RESPECTIVELY, IN A COMMON HORIZONTAL PLANE; A HEAD FRAME PIVOTALLY MOUNTED TO SAID SUPPORT STRUCTURE BETWEEN SAID CROSS SUPPORT MEMBERS, SAID HEAD FRAME INCLUDING FIRST SIDE MEMBERS EXTENDING PARALLEL TO WHILE LATERALLY DISPLACED OUTWARD FROM RESPECTIVE SIDE FRAMES AND PROJECTING FROM ITS PIVOTED SUPPORT BEYOND SAID HEAD SUPPORTING SURFACE, SAID FIRST SIDE MEMBER, A FRAME TRUSS THEIR PROJECTED ENDS BY A FIRST TIE MEMBER, A FRAME TRUSS CONNECTED TO SAID TIE MEMBER AND HAVING A LENGTHWISE MEMBER INCLINED FROM THE PLANE OF SAID HEAD FRAME TO A POINT BETWEEN SAID CROSS SUPPORT MEMBERS AND BETWEEN SAID SIDE FRAMES, SAID LENGTHWISE MEMBER BEING VERTICALLY MISALIGNED FROM SAID RAISED SURFACE PORTION OF THE HEAD CROSS SUPPORT MEMBER; A FOOT FRAME PIVOTALLY MOUNTED TO SAID SUPPORT STRUCTURE BETWEEN SAID CROSS SUPPORT MEMBERS, SAID FOOT FRAME INCLUDING SECOND SIDE MEMBERS EXTENDING PARALLEL TO WHILE LATERALLY DISPLACED OUTWARD FROM RESPECTIVE SIDE FRAMES AND PROJECTING FROM ITS PIVOTED SUPPORT BEYOND SAID FOOT SUPPORTING SURFACE, SAID SECOND SIDE MEMBERS BEING JOINED AT THEIR PROJECTED ENDS BY A SECOND TIE MEMBER AT ONE END PIVOTALLY CONNECTED TO SAID SECOND TIE MEMBER AT ONE END PIVOTALLY CONNECTED TO SAID SUPPORT STRUCTURE AT THE OTHER END AND AT A POINT BETWEEN SAID CROSS SUPPORT MEMBERS, SAID STRUT MEMBER BEING VERTICALLY MISALIGNED FROM SAID RAISED SURFACE PORTION OF THE FOOT CROSS SUPPORT MEMBER; WHEREBY SAID HEAD FRAME AND SAID FOOT FRAME CAN BE PIVOTED THROUGH SAID COMMON HORIZONTAL PLANE AND SAID FRAME TRUSS AND STRUT MEMBER BEING UNOBSTRUCTED BY SAID RAISED SURFACE PORTIONS; AND MEANS FOR ACTUATING SAID HEAD AND FOOT FRAMES INTO VERTICALLY INCLINED POSITIONS FROM POSITIONS BELOW SAID HORIZONTAL PLANE.