Combined bed frame and box spring assembly

• US 4,597,118 A
• Filed: 05/31/1984
• Issued: 07/01/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/1984
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Frank J. Mis
• Original Assignee: Frank J. Mis
• Inventors: Mis, Frank J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Grosz, Alexander
• Application Number:
  US06/615,567
• Time in Patent Office: 761 Days
• Field of Search: 5/236 R, 5/239, 5/241, 5/245, 5/246, 5/247, 5/248, 5/279 B, 5/279 C, 5/200 R, 403/230, 403/241, 403/232.1
• US Class Current: 5/246
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 23/043 using wound springs
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 23/05 Frames therefor; Connecting the springs to the frame ; Interconnection of springs, e.g. in spring units
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 9/01 Welded or bonded connections
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 403/46 Rod end to transverse side of member

Abstract

A bed spring assembly and a supporting rectangular steel frame structure incorporating leg supports, the frame structure including cross beams which in certain embodiments are prestressed in tension or compression to obtain maximum load support without sagging and wherein the springs of the spring assembly are directly fastened to hooks or eyes formed on the cross beams. The invention also discloses round and square corner frame constructions and an attachment if the spring assembly upholstery to either metal frame by providing a hem with a wire threaded therein in the lower edge portion of the skirt of the fabric and pinning the edge portion about the wire to the metal frame or in another embodiment by providing flanges about the lower edge of the frame to which the fabric is clamped.

Claims

1. A combined bed spring and frame assembly comprising a metal frame having end and side beams integrated into a generally quadrilateral structure having a generally horizontal top wall,

a plurality of transverse bed-spring mounting and supporting beam members extending between said side beams and connected at their ends thereto,

a pair of transverse leg support beam members extending between and connected at opposite ends to said side beams,

each of said transverse beam members having vertical side wall means and a top web with an end portion comprising an upwardly offset tab,

said side wall means having upper edges spaced vertically below said tab and defining a horizontal slot therewith snugly admitting a portion of the top wall of the adjacent side beam therein between said upper edges and said tab,

and means weld-connecting the tab to said portion of the adjacent side beam.

2. The invention according to claim 1 and said transverse beam members each comprising laterally extending tabs on said wall means thereof weld connected to the respective side beams and said tab on said end portions extending longitudinally of the respective beam member.

3. The invention according to claim 2 and said leg support beam members being loaded in compression and providing bed-supporting leg mountings and being of greater depth and width that the other transverse beam members.

4. A combined bed spring and frame assembly comprising a metal frame having end and side beams integrated into a generally quadrilateral structure having a generally horizontal top wall,

a plurality of transverse bed spring mounting and supporting beam members extending between said side beams and connected at opposite ends to said side beams,

a pair of transverse leg support beam members extending between and connected at opposite ends to said side beams,

each of said transverse beam members having a top web with an end portion comprising an upwardly offset tab defining a horizontal slot therebeneath admitting a portion of the top wall of the adjacent side beam therein,

means weld-connecting the tab to said portion of the adjacent side beam, each said transverse beam member having side walls with laterally extending lugs at each end,

each side beam having a vertical wall,

and means weld-connecting each lug to the vertical wall of the adjacent side beam.

5. The invention according to claim 4 and said top wall of each of said beam members comprising spring-mounting and securing means.

6. The invention according to claim 5 and a bed spring assembly supported upon said beam members and having springs secured to respective spring-mounting and securing means on said members.

7. The invention according to claim 6 and a fabric covering said spring assembly and comprising a portion underlapped with respect to said side and end beams,

and means for fastening said fabric portion to said side and end beams.

8. The invention according to claim 7 and said side and end beams having a bottom horizontal wall and said fastening means comprising an upturned lip on said bottom wall and said fabric overlapping the lip and a clip embracing said overlapping portion of said fabric and clasping it against opposite sides of the lip, and securing means extending through the lip and the overlapped portion of the fabric and the clip.