Housing assembly with convertible housing units

Claim 2

A housing assembly including a plurality of substantially like side-by-side modular housing units, each unit including a living-dining room and kitchen and a pair of bedrooms parallel to said living-dining room and kitchen, the living-dining room and kitchen of a first unit adjacent to a second unit being contiguous to the bedrooms of said second unit, with one bedroom of said second unit juxtaposed to said kitchen of said first unit and the second bedroom of said second unit juxtaposed to the living-dining room of said first unit, there being a wall between the living-dining room and kitchen of said first unit and said bedrooms of said second unit in which a passage may be selectively provided between the living-dining room of said first unit and said second bedroom, the bedrooms of each unit having therebetween an enclosure extending into each bedroom and having back-to-back powder-room facilities, a facility extending into and serving each bedroom and a bathtub between said powder-room facilities, and relocatable wall means within said enclosure selectively relocatable on the side of said bathtub adjacent either of said powder-room facilities, whereby two adjacent modules may be selectively either two two-bedroom apartments or a one one-bedroom apartment, including said one bedroom of said second unit, and one three-bedroom apartment including said second bedroom of said second unit, with said relocatable wall means positioned so that said bathtub is in the bathroom of said one bedroom of said second unit.

Claim 3

In a modular housing unit a pair of bedrooms having a common separation therebetween and having, extending from said sepration on each side, an enclosure including back-to-back powder-room facilities, a powder-room facility for each of said bedrooms, and one bathtub and relocatable wall means selectably interposed between said bathtub and the powder-room facilities on one side of said separation or on the other side of said separation, so that selectively a full bathroom may be associated with either bedroom and a powder-room with the other.

Claim 4

In a modular housing unit a pair of bedrooms having a common separation therebetween and having, extending from said sepration on each side, an enclosure including back-to-back powder-room facilities, a powder-room facility for each of said bedrooms, and one bathtub and relocatable wall means selectably interposed between said bathtub and the powder-room facilities on one side of said separation or on the other side of said separation, so that selectively a full bathroom may be associated with either bedroom and a powder-room with the other.

Claim 5

In the utilization of a housing assembly including a plurality of substantially like side-by-side modular housing units, each unit including a kitchen-living-dining-rooms section and a bedrooms section, each bedrooms section having juxtaposed first and second bedrooms with a passage communicating between said first and second bedrooms, said bedrooms section including back-to-back bathrooms separated by a relocatable wall and serving said first and second bedrooms respectively, the said bathrooms including a bathtub adjacent said wall, a first of said units being juxtaposed to a second of said units with a common wall separating the first and second bedrooms of said first unit from said second unit, the said first and second units being normally each a two-bedroom unit with said relocatable wall on the side of said back-to-back bathrooms nearest said second bedroom and said bathtub serving said first bedroom, the method of converting said first and second units into a three bedroom unit and a one bedroom unit, the said method comprising interposing a closure in the passage between the first bedroom and the second bedroom of the first of said units, relocating said relocatable wall so that it is nearest said first bedroom and said bathtub serves said second bedroom and providing an opening in the common wall between said first bedroom of said first unit and said second unit.

Claim 6

In the utilization of a housing assembly including a plurality of substantially like side-by-side modular housing units, each unit including a kitchen-living-dining-rooms section and a bedrooms section, each bedrooms section having juxtaposed first and second bedrooms with a passage communicating between said first and second bedrooms, said bedrooms section including back-to-back bathrooms separated by a relocatable wall and serving said first and second bedrooms respectively, the said bathrooms including a bathtub adjacent said wall, a first of said units being juxtaposed to a second of said units with a common wall separating the first and second bedrooms of said first unit from said second unit, the said first and second units being normally each a two-bedroom unit with said relocatable wall on the side of said back-to-back bathrooms nearest said second bedroom and said bathtub serving said first bedroom, the method of converting said first and second units into a three bedroom unit and a one bedroom unit, the said method comprising interposing a closure in the passage between the first bedroom and the second bedroom of the first of said units, relocating said relocatable wall so that it is nearest said first bedroom and said bathtub serves said second bedroom and providing an opening in the common wall between said first bedroom of said first unit and said second unit.

Claim 7

The method of claim 3 including the step of providing closets for said first and second bedrooms respectively about the closure as a common wall between said closets.

Claim 8

A housing assembly formed of a plurality of substantially like modular units, each unit including a kitchen-dining-living-rooms section and a bedrooms section juxtaposed to said kitchen-dining-living-rooms section, each bedroom section having a first bedroom and second bedroom, a first of said units being disposed side-by-side with a second of said units with a common wall separating the bedrooms section of said first unit from said second unit, said common wall having first means therein to be selectably opened, to afford access between said first bedroom of said bedrooms section of said first unit and said second unit, or closed to prevent such access, said bedrooms section of said first unit having means, providing a passage between said first bedroom and said second bedroom, said passage having therein second means for selectably opening said passageway, to afford access between said first and second bedrooms, or for closing said passageway to prevent such access, said first means being closeD with said second means open and said first means being open with said second means closed, a bathroom being associated with each said first and second bedrooms and relocatable wall means being selectively interposed between said bathrooms, the said bathrooms including a bathtub adjacent said wall, said wall being on the side of the bathtub remote from the first bedroom when the second means is open and the first bathroom is in communication with the second bedroom through the passage and on the side of the bathtub remote from the second bedroom when the second means is closed and the first bedroom is in communication with the second unit.

Claim 9

A housing assembly formed of a plurality of substantially like modular units, each unit including a kitchen-dining-living-rooms section and a bedrooms section juxtaposed to said kitchen-dining-living-rooms section, each bedroom section having a first bedroom and second bedroom, a first of said units being disposed side-by-side with a second of said units with a common wall separating the bedrooms section of said first unit from said second unit, said common wall having first means therein to be selectably opened, to afford access between said first bedroom of said bedrooms section of said first unit and said second unit, or closed to prevent such access, said bedrooms section of said first unit having means, providing a passage between said first bedroom and said second bedroom, said passage having therein second means for selectably opening said passageway, to afford access between said first and second bedrooms, or for closing said passageway to prevent such access, said first means being closeD with said second means open and said first means being open with said second means closed, a bathroom being associated with each said first and second bedrooms and relocatable wall means being selectively interposed between said bathrooms, the said bathrooms including a bathtub adjacent said wall, said wall being on the side of the bathtub remote from the first bedroom when the second means is open and the first bathroom is in communication with the second bedroom through the passage and on the side of the bathtub remote from the second bedroom when the second means is closed and the first bedroom is in communication with the second unit.