Foldable bed frame

• US 9,456,699 B1
• Filed: 09/17/2015
• Issued: 10/04/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Grantec ( Xiamen ) Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Grantec ( Xiamen ) Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Oh, Suk Kan
• Primary Examiner(s): Santos, Robert G
• Application Number:
  US14/857,793
• Publication Number:
  US 20160302584A1
• Time in Patent Office: 383 Days
• Field of Search: 520/2, 520/1, 520/01, 525/0, 524/9, 525/91, 526/0, 526/1, 517/4, 517/61, 517/7
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 19/021 Bedstead frames
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 19/122 foldable head to foot only

Abstract

The foldable bed frame contains two frame assemblies side-by-side and laterally joined together. Each frame assembly contains an upper assembly and a lower assembly. Upper beams from the two upper assemblies are end-to-end joined together through upper connection pieces. Lower beams from the two lower assemblies are end-to-end joined together through lower connection pieces and intermediate connection pieces between the lower beams and the lower connection pieces. The various connection pieces are light-weighted and reliable, allowing the bed frame to be folded and unfolded smoothly and conveniently.

Claims

1. A foldable bed frame comprising two frame assemblies joined side-by-side and laterally together by a plurality of upper, lower, and intermediate connection pieces, wherein

each frame assembly comprises a planar upper assembly, a planar lower assembly, and a plurality of vertical column pieces in between;

each upper assembly comprises two parallel first upper beams and two parallel second upper beams end-to-end connected together;

each lower assembly comprises two parallel first lower beams and two parallel second lower beams end-to-end connected together;

each column piece has two ends connected to the upper and lower assemblies, respectively;

each upper connection piece has two ends connected to two first upper beams, one from each upper assembly, respectively, and a support section extended perpendicularly from a major lower edge for supporting the two first upper beams;

each lower connection piece comprises a flat upper section and a flat lower section;

each lower section has two sides connected to two first lower beams, one from each lower assembly, respectively; and

each intermediate connection piece has two ends connected to an upper section of a lower connection piece and a column piece, respectively.

2. The foldable bed frame according to claim 1, wherein each upper connection piece has two through holes at two ends thereof, each for pin-joining a first upper beam of an upper assembly;

each lower section of each lower connection piece has two through holes adjacent to its two lateral edges thereof, each for pin-joining a first lower beam of a lower assembly;

the distance between the through holes on each lower section is smaller than that between the through holes on each upper connection piece.

3. The foldable bed frame according to claim 1, wherein each column piece has a L-shaped with a flat and major first segment having a first through hole at a first end and a flat, coplanar, and shorter second segment extended perpendicularly from a second end oppositely from the first end of the first segment;

the first segment of each column piece has two flat support tabs adjacent to and extended from the first and second ends of the first segment, respectively, perpendicular to first and second segments'"'"' major faces; and

, when assembling the frame assemblies, the support tabs of each column piece are between and against an upper beam and a lower beam, respectively.

4. The foldable bed frame according to claim 3, wherein each of the column pieces of one frame assembly that is closest to the other frame assembly has an indented section in the column piece'"'"'s first segment for joining with an intermediate connection piece.