IP Library › Granted Patent US 9,844,273
Granted Patent B2
US 9,844,273 · App. 14/928,618 · Granted Dec 19, 2017

Modular user-assembled adjustable, and high-low adjustable beds

Inventor: Aaron Goldsmith (Postville, IA)
A47C19/005A47C19/025A47C19/045A47C20/041Y10T29/49826
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Patent No.
US 9,844,273
App. No.
14/928,618
Granted
Dec 19, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

A frame for an adjustable has a head section with two longitudinal frame rails separated by at least two lateral members extending between the two longitudinal frame rails, and two sleeves each having a cavity with one of the two sleeves on each of the two longitudinal frame rails. The frame has a foot section having two longitudinal frame rails separated by at least two lateral members extending between the two longitudinal frame rails, and two sleeves each having a cavity with one of the two sleeves on each of the two longitudinal frame rails, and an inner tube with a nose for each of the two sleeves and for moving between a first position retracted in the cavity of the sleeve and a second position extending from the cavity of the sleeve.

Claims (11)

1. A frame for an adjustable bed comprising:

a head section having two longitudinal frame rails separated by at least two lateral members extending between the two longitudinal frame rails, and two sleeves each having a cavity with one of the two sleeves on each of the two longitudinal frame rails;

a foot section having two longitudinal frame rails separated by at least two lateral members extending between the two longitudinal frame rails, and two sleeves each having a cavity with one of the two sleeves on each of the two longitudinal frame rails, and in each sleeve a floating inner tube that is articulable in a transverse and lateral manner within both the sleeve of the foot section and the sleeve of the head section to guide each floating inner tube into the corresponding sleeve of the head section to combine the foot section and the head section, and each floating inner tube is movable for each of the two sleeves of the foot section and for moving between a first position retracted in the cavity of each of the two sleeves of the foot section and a second position extending from the cavity of each of the two sleeves of the foot section; and

wherein the foot section is selectively combined with the head section with a portion of each inner tube of the longitudinal frame rails of the foot section positioned in each sleeve of the longitudinal frame rails of the head section to selectively combine the head section and the foot section.

2. The frame of claim 1 , wherein each inner tube further comprises a first spring pin, and wherein each of the two sleeves on the longitudinal frame rails of the foot section have a hole, and wherein the first spring pin of each inner tube selectively engages the hole to selectively hold each inner tube in the second position extending from the cavity of the sleeve.

3. The frame of claim 2 , wherein each inner tube further comprises a second spring pin, and wherein each of the two sleeves on the longitudinal frame rails of the head section have a hole, and wherein the second spring pin of each inner tube selectively engages the hole of the sleeve on the longitudinal frame rail of the head section to combine each inner tube with the head section and simultaneously the first spring pin of each inner tube engages the hole in the sleeve on the longitudinal frame rail of the foot section to hold each inner tube in the second position extending from the cavity of the sleeve so that each inner tube simultaneously combines the head section and the foot section.

4. The frame of claim 3 , wherein the first spring pin on each inner tube is bulbous-nose in shape and extends under spring force transversely to each inner tube in a region of each inner tube that is inserted into the sleeve on the longitudinal frame rail of the foot section, and wherein the second spring pin on each inner tube is bulbous-nose in shape and extends under spring force transversely to each inner tube in a region of each inner tube that is inserted into the sleeve on the longitudinal frame rail of the head section.

5. The frame of claim 4 , wherein the foot section with each inner tube in the first position is sufficiently small as to fit upon a standard shipping pallet of 48″ by 48″.

6. The frame of claim 5 , wherein the head section is combined to the foot section without the use of tools.

7. The frame of claim 1 , wherein each inner tube has a bull-nose to guide each inner tube into the corresponding sleeve on the longitudinal frame rails of the head section.

8. The frame of claim 1 , wherein each inner tube floats in the corresponding sleeve on each of the two longitudinal frame rails of the head section and the foot section.

Continuity (2)
Continuation 12381444 · Mar 11, 2009
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