Adjustable bed system

• US 6,735,797 B1
• Filed: 11/26/2001
• Issued: 05/18/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 11/24/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: L&P Property Management Company (Leggett & Platt Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: L&P Property Management Company (Leggett & Platt Incorporated)
• Inventors: Long, Thomas P., Pottschmidt, Paul E., Haley, Jack E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Santos, Robert G.
• Application Number:
  US09/994,186
• Time in Patent Office: 904 Days
• Field of Search: 511/8, 561/3, 561/7, 561/8, 296/190.02
• US Class Current: 5/118
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 17/80 adapted to be used in or connected to vehicles

Abstract

In one aspect of the invention, an adjustable bed system is contained within a truck sleeper compartment. The adjustable bed system includes: a base frame; an upper-body frame system and a lower-body frame system, with each frame system being pivotally attached at one end to the base frame and pivotable from a horizontal position to a position which is at an acute angle with the horizontal position; a first adjustable-linkage system adjustably connecting the upper-body frame system to the base frame; and a second adjustable-linkage system adjustably connecting the lower-body frame system to the base frame.

Claims

1. In combination with a truck sleeper compartment, an adjustable bed system contained within the truck sleeper compartment, the adjustable bed system comprising:

a base frame;

an upper-body frame system pivotally attached at one end to the base frame and pivotable from a horizontal position to a position at an acute angle with the horizontal position;

a lower-body frame system pivotally attached at one end to the base frame and pivotable from a horizontal position to a position at an acute angle with the horizontal position;

a first adjustable-linkage system adjustably connecting the upper-body frame system to the base frame; and

a second adjustable-linkage system adjustably connecting the lower-body frame system to the base frame,

wherein the base frame includes a first frame subassembly and a second frame subassembly, each of the first and second frame subassemblies having a longitudinal section, a spaced-apart longitudinal section, and a transverse member connecting the longitudinal section and the spaced-apart longitudinal section.

2. The combination of claim 1 wherein each of the longitudinal sections and the spaced-apart longitudinal sections has an inner end, with the longitudinal-section inner ends being adjacent each other, and the spaced-apart longitudinal-section inner ends being adjacent each other.

3. The combination of claim 2 wherein the longitudinal sections are fastened to each other using a connector element, and the spaced-apart longitudinal sections are fastened to each other using a connector element.

4. In combination with a truck sleeper compartment, an adjustable bed system contained within the truck sleeper compartment, the adjustable bed system comprising:

a base frame;

an upper-body frame system pivotally attached at one end to the base frame and pivotable from a horizontal position to a position at an acute angle with the horizontal position;

a lower-body frame system pivotally attached at one end to the base frame and pivotable from a horizontal position to a position at an acute angle with the horizontal position;

a first adjustable-linkage system adjustably connecting the upper-body frame system to the base frame; and

a second adjustable-linkage system adjustably connecting the lower-body frame system to the base frame,

wherein the base frame includes oppositely disposed first and second side members, each side member including an upper section pivotally connected to a lower section, whereby the base frame may be collapsed.

5. In combination with a truck sleeper compartment, an adjustable bed system contained within the truck sleeper compartment, the adjustable bed system comprising:

a base frame;

an upper-body frame system pivotally attached at one end to the base frame and pivotable from a horizontal position to a position at an acute angle with the, horizontal position;

a lower-body frame system pivotally attached at one end to the base frame and pivotable from a horizontal position to a position at an acute angle with the horizontal position;

a first adjustable-linkage system adjustably connecting the upper-body frame system to the base frame; and

a second adjustable-linkage system adjustably connecting the lower-body frame system to the base frame,

wherein the upper-body frame system includes first and second frame elements, each frame element pivotally attached at one end to the base frame, and wherein the base frame includes oppositely-disposed first and second side-members, the upper-body frame-system first frame-element attached at one end to the first side-member, and the upper-body frame-system second frame-element attached at one end to the second side-member.

6. The combination of claim 5 wherein the first adjustable-linkage system includes first and second telescoping-fittings, each fitting having a plurality of user-selectable settings, whereby a user may selectively adjust the length of the fitting, the first fitting telescopically connecting the upper-body frame-system first frame-element to the first side-member, and the second fitting telescopically connecting the upper-body frame-system second frame-element to the second side-member.

7. In combination with a truck sleeper compartment, an adjustable bed system contained within the truck sleeper compartment, the adjustable bed system comprising:

a base frame;

an upper-body frame system pivotally attached at one end to the base frame and pivotable from a horizontal position to a position at an acute angle with the horizontal position;

a lower-body frame system pivotally attached at one end to the base frame and pivotable from a horizontal position to a position at an acute angle with the horizontal position;

a first adjustable-linkage system adjustably connecting the upper-body frame system to the base frame; and

a second adjustable-linkage system adjustably connecting the lower-body frame system to the base frame,

wherein the lower-body frame system includes first and second frame-elements, each frame element pivotally attached at one end to the base frame, and wherein the base frame includes oppositely-disposed first and second side-members, the lower-body frame-system first frame-element attached at one end to the first side-member, and the lower-body frame-system second frame-element attached at one end to the second side-member.

8. The combination of claim 7 wherein the second adjustable-linkage system includes first and second telescoping-fittings, each fitting having a plurality of user-selectable settings, whereby a user may selectively adjust the length of the fitting, the first fitting telescopically connecting the lower-body frame-system first frame-element to the first side-member, and the second fitting telescopically connecting the lower-body frame-system second frame-element to the second side-member.