Beds – Window – floor – ceiling – or room to room – Bed stored in ceiling
Patent
1996-05-23
1997-06-17
Trettel, Michael F.
Beds
Window, floor, ceiling, or room to room
Bed stored in ceiling
5118, A47C 1733
Patent
active
056385595
ABSTRACT:
A berth arrangement for installation in a sleeping compartment having a ceiling formed with a downwards open recess, comprises a berth holder and a bearing for mounting the berth holder for turning relative to the ceiling structure between a generally horizontal retracted position and a generally vertical lowered position. A berth is journalled in the holder to be turnable when the holder is in its lowered position between an extended position, in which the berth extends substantially horizontally away from the holder, and a folded up position, in which the berth is disposed substantially vertically and is close to the holder. A first gas spring is effective against the holder for exerting, over substantially the entire range of angular movement of the holder, a torque that tends to turn the holder in the direction from its lowered position toward its retracted position and increases as a function of the angle through which the holder turns in the direction from its lowered position toward its retracted position over substantially the entire range of angular movement of the holder. A second gas spring is effective between the holder and the berth and exerts a torque that tends to turn the berth in the direction from its extended position toward its folded up position.
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Flythstrom Per
Natri Veikko
Sarkka Juhani
Kvaerner Masa-Yards Oy
Trettel Michael F.
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