Sofa sleeper with seat height adjustment

Claim 1

In a sofa sleeper which has pivotally interconnected main intermediate and outer bed sections, and linkage means including a pair of front support arms which are pivotally mounted on the ends of a rectangular sofa frame for movement between a generally horizontal position and a generally upright position, and said arms being pivotally connected to the front portion of the main bed section to swing the bed sections during said movement between a sofa position within the frame and an intermediate position above and extending forwardly of the frame, in both of which positions the main section is lowermost, the outer section is inverted over the main section to provide a seat deck, and the intermediate section is upright at the front, means for varying the angle of said bed sections to the horizontal in sofa position to adjust the pitch of the seat deck, said means comprising, in combination: a pair of parallel brackets on the front support arms, said brackets extending generally rearwardly in intermediate position and extending generally downwardly in sofa position; a stabilizer bar mounted on said brackets, said bar in sofa position supporting the front portion of the main bed section; and adjusting means interconnecting saId bar and said brackets to vary the distance between a horizontal plane through the bar and a horizontal plane through the pivotal mountings of said arms.