Convertible chair for either sitting or lying

• US 4,860,393 A
• Filed: 01/11/1988
• Issued: 08/29/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 01/09/1987
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Himolla Polstermobelwerk GmbH
• Original Assignee: Himolla Polstermobelwerk GmbH
• Inventors: Schefthaler, Alois
• Primary Examiner(s): Grosz, Alexander
• Application Number:
  US07/141,988
• Time in Patent Office: 596 Days
• Field of Search: 5/18 R, 5/18 B, 5/19, 5/20, 5/21, 5/22, 5/14
• US Class Current: 5/21
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 17/134 by lifting or tilting

Abstract

A piece of furniture convertible from a chair to a cot and vice versa comprising connected inner and outer carriages which can telescope out of a frame from a chair position within the frame to a cot position outside the frame and having a head cushion hinged to the inner carriage and guidingly received in a frame guide such that it is movable from a stowed position behind a fixed back cushion when the inner carriage is in the chair position to a cot position when the inner carriage is moved into the cot position thereof. The outer carriage has a cushion carrier frame carrying a fixed cushion and a folding cushion, which carrier frame is connected to the outer carriage by a lever system for adjusting the carrier frame from a lowered position when the carriages are in the chair position to a raised position when the carriages are moved into the cot position. A platform is hinged to the inner carriage at an end thereof close to the head cushion for receiving thereon the folding cushion in the cot position of the carriages, and movable supporting elements connected to the lever system being provided for moving the platform to an essentially horizontal position when the carriages are moved into the cot position, which elements are adapted to support the platform when the lever system is in a dead center or over-center position when the carrier frame is in the raised position.

Claims

1. A piece of furniture convertible from a chair to a cot, and vice versa, comprising:

a frame having a curved frame guide and a fixed back cushion;

an inner carriage, and an outer carriage, both movable from a first, chair position within the frame to a second, cot position outside the frame, and vice versa, in said second position the outer carriage being further away from the frame guide than the inner carriage;

a head cushion guidingly received in said frame guide and hinged to said inner carriage, the head cushion being movable from a stowed position behind the fixed back cushion when the inner carriage is in said first position, to a cot position when the inner carriage is in said second position, and vice versa;

said frame having guides along which said inner carriage is displacable within the frame, wheels connected to said inner carriage remote from said head cushion for rolling along a floor;

said outer carriage having a cushion carrier frame, a double cushion on said cushion carrier frame, lever means interposed between said cushion carrier frame and said outer carriage for adjusting the cushion carrier frame from a lowered position when the inner and outer carriages are in said chair position, to a raised position when said inner and outer carriages are in said cot position, and vice versa;

means coupling said inner and outer carriages to each other, said coupling means comprising guide rails at said inner carriage and extending essentially parallel to a bottom of the inner carriage, sliding or rolling means connected to said outer carriage and displacable within said guide rails;

a platform hinged to said inner carriage at an end thereof close to said head cushion, for receiving thereon one part of the double cushion in the cot position; and

means for moving said platform into an essentially horizontal position when said inner and outer carriages are in said the cot position, said moving means including supporting elements connected to said lever means and adapted to support said platform when said lever means is in a dead center or over-center position, when said cushion carrier frame is in said raised position.

2. A piece of furniture according to claim 1, wherein said lever means comprises inner levers on the outer carriage, said inner levers being offset inwardly with regard to said sliding or rolling means, each of said lever means being an angled lever forming an angle pointing toward said cushion carrier frame, said supporting elements being situated respectively at said angle.

3. A piece of furniture according to claim 2, wherein in said lowered position of said cushion carrier frame said supporting elements are situated directly above said sliding or rolling means.

4. A piece of furniture according to claim 1, wherein said lever means includes outer levers, and a torque rod joining said outer levers to each other.

5. A piece of furniture according to claim 1, wherein said inner carriage forms a bedding box.