Sofa bed folding fixture

Claim 1

A folding fixture for a sofa bed comprising a plurality of sections pivotally connected together end-to-end, each of said sections comprising a pair of bars at opposite sides thereof, a bedspring spanning the said side bars of said sections and connected at its sides to said side bars, said sections along with a mattress supported on the bedspring being adapted to be folded and disposed in the sofa in a retracted position wherein one section constituting a body section extends generally horizontally bottomwise within the sofa, another section constituting an intermediate sEction extends upward from the forward end of the body section at the front of the sofa, and a third section constituting a foot section extends generally horizontally rearward from the upper end of the intermediate section, and means extending between the side bars of the body section adjacent its rearward end for supporting the bedspring when the fixture is in its retracted position within the sofa, said means being mounted for up and down movement relative to said body section between a lowered retracted position relative to said body section spaced from the bedspring permitting the bedspring to yield downward, and a raised position relative to said body section contiguous to the bedspring holding it up against downward yielding, and linkage means operable by the folding and unfolding of the fixture and connected to said bedspring support means for moving said support means to its raised position when the fixture is folded and disposed in its retracted position in the sofa and for moving said bedspring support means to its lowered retracted position when the fixture is unfolded out of the sofa.