Adjustable bed

• US 4,095,296 A
• Filed: 04/27/1976
• Issued: 06/20/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Contour Chair-Lounge Company Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Contour Chair-Lounge Company Incorporated
• Inventors: Ferro, Arthur Charles
• Primary Examiner(s): Dorner, Kenneth J.
• Application Number:
  US05/680,758
• Time in Patent Office: 784 Days
• Field of Search: 5/63, 5/66, 5/67, 5/68, 5/69, 5/352, 5/357
• US Class Current: 5/616
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 20/041 by electric motors
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 20/08 with means for adjusting two or more rests simultaneously
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/015 divided into different adjustable sections, e.g. for Gatch position

Abstract

An adjustable bed or like furniture has a frame, a box spring with articulated base sections for different parts of the body, a box spring having a plurality of coil springs attached to each of the base sections, with framelike means to enable the box spring sections to hinge, a matress having like sections, frame and coil springs, a single motor pivotally connected to the frame producing movement fore and aft of the bed, drive means including levers and a cable connected through the levers to elevate the head section to slant it upward toward the head end of the frame and to elevate the upper leg section to slant it upward towards the foot end of the frame, the arrangements of the springs and frames causing the box spring and mattress to follow these elevations of the sections.

Claims

1. An adjustable bed comprising a support and an articulated base;

the base including a first section having a back edge and a foot edge, said first section being secured to the support so as to be immovable thereon;

a second back section pivoted to the back edge of the first section so as to vary its angle relatively to the first section, a third section having a foot end and back edge, said third section back edge being pivoted to the foot edge of the first section so as to vary its angle relatively to the first section; and

actuating means connected to the second and third sections to pivot the second section and third section up relatively to the first section simultaneously by a movement thereof comprising a first lever attached to the second section, a second lever attached to the third section, means to cause movement of the first lever to move the second lever including a linkage cable connected to the first lever and extending in a first direction from the first lever toward the foot end past the second lever to sliding engagement with the support and thence extending in a second direction substantially opposite to the said first direction to the second lever and connected to the second lever.

2. The structure of claim 1 wherein the actuating means further comprises a power mechanism pivotally attached to the support having a shaft with means to be connected to drive the first lever.

3. The structure of claim 1 with a fourth section pivoted to the foot end of the third section, and means in the actuating means to pivot the fourth section about the foot end of the third section simultaneously with movement of the third section including a rigid member pivotally attached to the fourth section and pivotally attached to the support.

4. An adjustable bed comprising a support and an articulated base, the base comprising a first section having a back edge and a foot edge, said first section being secured to the support so as to be immovable thereon;

a second back section pivoted to the back edge of the first section so as to vary its angle relatively to the first section, a third section having a foot end and back edge, said third section back edge being pivoted to the foot edge of the first section so as to vary its angle relatively to the first section, means for pivoting the second and third sections up relatively to the first section comprising a first lever rigidly attached to the second section to be integral and immovable therewith to pivot the second section, a second lever rigidly attached to the third section to be integral and immovable therewith to pivot the third section, and comprising elongated linkage engaged to the first and to the second levers so that counter clockwise movement of one lever pivots that section to which it is integrally connected and transfers force through the linkage to cause clockwise movement of the other lever and that section to which said other lever is integrally connected.

5. The structure of claim 4 with a fourth section pivoted to the foot end of the third section, and means to pivot the fourth section about the edge of the third section simultaneously with movement of the third section including means attached to the fourth section and attached to the support.

6. The structure of claim 5 wherein the means to pivot includes a rod pivotally attached to the fourth section and pivotally attached to the support.

7. The structure of claim 4 wherein the linkage connecting the levers is a cable.

8. The structure of claim 4 wherein the length of the first lever is different from the length of the second lever so that the pivotal movement of the second section by the first lever is of a different magnitude than the pivotal movement of the third section by the second lever.

9. The structure of claim 4 wherein the first lever is of shorter length than the second lever so that movement of the first lever pivots the second section through a larger angle than the angle the third section is pivoted by the second lever.

10. The structure of claim 4 further comprising a motor engaged to the support with the motor shaft engaged to the first lever to move the same to pivot the second section.

11. The structure of claim 4 further comprising a power mechanism engaged to the support and engaged to the second section to pivot the second section.

12. An adjustable bed comprising a support and an articulated base, the base comprising a first section having a back edge and a foot edge, said first section being secured to the support so as to be immovable thereon;

a second back section pivoted to the back edge of the first section so as to vary its angle relatively to the first section, a third section having a foot end and back edge, said third section back edge being pivoted to the foot edge of the first section so as to vary its angle relatively to the first section, means for pivoting the second and third sections up relative to the first section comprising a first lever rigidly attached to the second section to be integral therewith to pivot the second section, a second lever rigidly attached to the third section to be integral therewith to pivot the third section, and further comprising a pulley secured to the support toward the foot end of the second lever and linkage comprising a cable connected to the first lever that extends in a first direction from the first lever to the pulley and around the pulley and extends from the pulley in a second direction substantially opposite the said first direction to engagement with the second lever.

13. An adjustable bed comprising a support having a head end and an articulated base;

the base comprising a first section having a back edge and a foot edge, said first section being secured to the support so as to be immovable thereon;

a second back section pivoted to the back edge of the first section so as to vary its angle relatively to the first section, a third section having a foot end and back edge, said third section back edge being pivoted to the foot edge on the first section so as to vary its angle relatively to the first section;

means to rigidly attach a first lever to the second section so as to be integral therewith so that movement of the first lever can pivot the second section, a power mechanism having an extendable member, said power member being connected to the support head end and pivotally connected to the first lever so that the power mechanism can be extended and contracted to pivot the second section;

means to rigidly attach a second lever to the third section so as to be integral therewith so that movement of the second lever can pivot the third section;

and a linkage cable connected to the first lever and extending therefrom in a first direction toward the foot end past the second lever to engagement with the support and thence extending in a second direction substantially opposite to the first direction toward the second lever and connected to the second lever.

14. The structure of claim 13 wherein the means to rigidly attach the first lever comprises a pair of bars extending longitudinally to the second section and rigidly secured thereto, and a transverse rod connected to the longitudinal bars, said first lever being secured to the transverse rod.

15. The structure of claim 13 wherein the means to rigidly attach the second lever comprises a pair of bars extending longitudinally to the third section and rigidly secured thereto, and a transverse rod connected to the longitudinal bars, said second lever being secured to the transverse rod.