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Portable and collapsible bed assembly
Assignee: Individual
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Filing: 1986-10-24
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Granted: 1987-08-25
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Expires: 2006-10-24
Abstract
Abstract A readily set-up and knocked-down portable bed assembly for animals or persons includes flexible sheeting for supporting such animal or person and a frame assembly which includes a plurality of interengageable short side members, connectable to the flexible sheeting so as to brace and support the flexible sheeting. Each frame side member includes opposite end portions interengageable with opposed complementary end portions of adjacently - positionable frame side members. For ready set up, the frame side members are adapted such that by linking of all but one pair of opposed frame side members end portions, the last non-linked opposed end portions of adjacently positioned frame side members overlap in the planar position, and are readily connectable by moving the non-linked end portions to a position skewed from the planar position of the otherwise partially assembled structure, in which position the flexible sheeting is bowed. The final position of the bed assembly is attained by stretching apart, aligning, engaging and interfitting the skewed end portions, and pressing the interfitted skewed end portions into the planar position. The procedure is reversed for ready knock-down of the bed assembly. The bed, after assembly, may be rectangular, round, triangular or square or of some other shape. The bed is preferably spaced supported with respect to the ground by means of legs engaging the frame side members. The bed may be formed with cross-bracing intermediate the ends thereof functioning as legs and may also have a back rest or upstanding frame structure, supported by said frame side members, for the purpose of carrying webbing, and completely or partially enclosing the bed assembly.
Inventors
- 👤 Gary W. Lantz
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-08 11:01
CPC Classifications
A; A47; A47C; A47C19/00; A47C19/005
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 20
Claim 1
Independent Claim
237 words
A bed assembly kit adapted to be readily set-up or knocked-down, comprising: (a) flexible sheeting, adapted to be supported in a position elevated above a support surface, which flexible sheeting includes a plurality of side portions each of which includes a peripheral sleeve; and (b) frame assembly members, adapted to support the flexible sheeting in the position elevated above said support surface, including a plurality of interfittable strut and leg members adapted to define a framework, each of the strut members adapted to extend through said peripheral sleeves of said flexible sheeting and each of said leg members adapted to project downwardly from said strut members, all but one adjacently positionable pair of the interfittable members of said framework being adapted to interfit so as to form a partially assembled bed assembly in a substantially planar position, and the remaining non-interfitted adjacently positionable pair of members being adapted to overlap in the said substantially planar position and to enable the non-interfitted portion to be skewed from the substantially planar position so as to be interfittable by engaging complementary end portions of said adjacent members in the position skewed from said substantially planar position, said complementary end portions of said adjacent members being relatively rotatable with respect to each other, and such interfittable skewed adjacent pair of members being adapted to be returnable to the planar position by relative rotational movement thereof into the said substantially planar position.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
237 words
A bed assembly kit adapted to be readily set-up or knocked-down, comprising: (a) flexible sheeting, adapted to be supported in a position elevated above a support surface, which flexible sheeting includes a plurality of side portions each of which includes a peripheral sleeve; and (b) frame assembly members, adapted to support the flexible sheeting in the position elevated above said support surface, including a plurality of interfittable strut and leg members adapted to define a framework, each of the strut members adapted to extend through said peripheral sleeves of said flexible sheeting and each of said leg members adapted to project downwardly from said strut members, all but one adjacently positionable pair of the interfittable members of said framework being adapted to interfit so as to form a partially assembled bed assembly in a substantially planar position, and the remaining non-interfitted adjacently positionable pair of members being adapted to overlap in the said substantially planar position and to enable the non-interfitted portion to be skewed from the substantially planar position so as to be interfittable by engaging complementary end portions of said adjacent members in the position skewed from said substantially planar position, said complementary end portions of said adjacent members being relatively rotatable with respect to each other, and such interfittable skewed adjacent pair of members being adapted to be returnable to the planar position by relative rotational movement thereof into the said substantially planar position.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
29 words
A bed assembly as in claim 1, in which the flexible sheeting is further adapted to be supported in a taut position upon complete interfitting of said frame assembly.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
35 words
A bed assembly as in claim 1, in which the end portions of each strut member are tubular, and a dowel is secured in one end of each strut member so as to project therefrom.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
31 words
A bed assembly as in claim 1, in which the end portions of each strut member are tubular, and one tubular end portion of each strut member is reduced in diameter.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
39 words
A bed assembly as in claim 1 wherein said complementary end portions of said adjacent members are moved into substantially planar position after the interfitting thereof by relative rotatable movement from said skewed position to said substantially planar position.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
13 words
A bed as in claim 1, in which each strut member is straight.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
15 words
A bed assembly as in claim 1 in which the flexible sheeting is generally octagonal-shaped.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
15 words
A bed assembly as in claim 1 in which the flexible sheeting is generally circular-shaped.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
15 words
A bed assembly as in claim 1 in which the flexible sheeting is generally elongated.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
15 words
A bed assembly as in claim 1 in which the flexible sheeting is generally square-shaped.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
14 words
A bed as in claim 1 in which each leg member is generally U-shaped.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
24 words
A bed assembly as in claim 1 in which each leg member is interfittable between strut members at the corners of said bed assembly.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
24 words
A bed assembly as in claim 1 in which each leg member is interfittable between strut members intermediate the ends of said bed assembly.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
38 words
A bed assembly as in claim 1 further comprising: a flexible carrying sheet having a plurality of sleeves formed therein, defining holding means for at least some of said members defining said frame assembly of said bed assembly.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
26 words
The bed assembly of claim 1 further comprising a bag dimensioned to hold said flexible sheeting, said carrying sheet and said members defining said frame assembly.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
53 words
The bed assembly of claim 1 further comprising: at least one pair of support modules, each support module being rotatably mounted onto a strut member and having a support means affixed thereto, a support framework for sheet material, the ends of said support framework being engageable with and supported by said support means.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
18 words
The bed assembly of claim 1 wherein said support means of each support module comprises a cylindrical projection.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
40 words
The bed assembly of claim 1 wherein said pair of support modules is rotatably mounted to said strut members in transverse alignment intermediate the ends of said bed assembly to provide, with said support framework a transversely pivotal backrest support.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
58 words
The bed assembly of claim 1 further comprising: at least one pair of transversely aligned support modules rotatably mounted to said strut members, each support module pair being mounted near the ends of said bed assembly to provide, with said support framework engageable by said support means of said support modules, at least one transversely pivotal upstanding support.
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