Convertible chair

Claim 1

A piece of furniture, comprising a seat with a generally horizontal upper surface; a rear wall extending upwardly behind said seat, said surface extending transversely to said Rear wall at its junction therewith; a backrest extending generally upwardly from said upper surface in a seating position, a pair of arms pivoted to said seat at a first pair of fulcra and pivoted to said backrest at a second pair of fulcra, the spacing of said pairs of fulcra being sufficient to allow said backrest to be swung forwardly from said seating position into an alternate position in which a front surface facing forwardly in said seating position is turned upwardly and is coplanar with said upper surface; leg means connected with said backrest on a rear surface thereof opposite said front surface, said leg means coming to rest on the ground in said alternate position; and a bed covering fixedly attached at one of its ends to a rear edge of said seat at said junction and at its opposite end to an underside of said backrest near said leg means, said bed covering overlying said seat and said backrest in said alternate position and being folded over said seat in said seating position, with a foldline lying between the forward and rearward edges of said upper surface of said seat, and a cushion adapted to cover said foldline.