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Modular high-low adjustable bed bases retrofitted within the volumes of, and cooperatively operative with, diverse existing contour-adjustable beds so as to create high-low adjustable contour-adjustable beds

  • US 5,687,437 A
  • Filed: 02/13/1996
  • Issued: 11/18/1997
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/08/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A high-low base for use in raising and lowering an existing contour bed in elevation above a floor, the contour bed havinga contour-adjustable upper surface upon which is supported a mattress,a box frame open to the bottom, the box frame and the upper surface and the floor defining in combination a volume, anda contouring mechanism, and a contour mechanism motive means for powering the contouring mechanism to adjust the upper surface in contour, that are located within only a portion of the volume, a remainder of the volume being a void, the high-low base comprising:

  • a high-low frame, insubstantially larger in area than is the box frame of the contour bed, on which suitably fits and rests the box frame of the contour bed so that the contour bed is carried upon the high-low frame; and

    an elevation means, fitting within the void, for variably elevating the high-low frame, and the contour bed resting upon the frame, in height above the floor, the elevation means being capable of positioning the high-low frame so that the bottom of the box frame of the contour bed carried upon the high-low frame is substantially at a level of the floor;

    wherein because the high-low frame is insubstantially larger in area that is the box frame of the contour bed, because the elevation means fits within the void, and because the elevation means is capable of positioning the high-low frame so that the carried contour bed is upon the floor, the entire high-low base is both insubstantially larger in area than, and is substantially fitted within, the box frame of the contour bed, and the contour bed, that it serves to variably elevate.

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