Beds – Support means for discrete portion of user – useable with bed... – Simultaneous support for multiple body portions
Reexamination Certificate
2007-10-23
2007-10-23
Engle, Patricia (Department: 3673)
Beds
Support means for discrete portion of user, useable with bed...
Simultaneous support for multiple body portions
C005S630000, C005S632000, C005S657000
Reexamination Certificate
active
11240538
ABSTRACT:
Dual-modal-shaping capability is added as a new feature in bed lounges of the type having a fabric slip-cover enclosing foam padding on a main structure formed from plastic sheet material. User adjustment is provided for back tilt, head-rest tilt and height, arm-rest spacing, and back support location. Modal transition is provided by an internal mechanism that interlinks the two arm-rests via a weighted lock-pin that locks the arm-rests in place for normal use but that can be disengaged by merely inverting the bed lounge so the lock-pin drops out from the linkage gravitationally, thus allowing the arm-rests to be folded out to convert to an overall flat modal-shape that can be conveniently stored, e.g. under a bed or hanging in a closet. For re-deployment, when the bed lounge is manually placed in its normal modal-shape in an upright position, as the arm-rests are moved together to their normal spacing, the weighted lock-pin automatically drops back down into place so as to again lock and retain the bed lounge in its chair-like normal modal-shape.
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Swezey Richard
Swezey Robert L.
Engle Patricia
Liu Jonathan
McTaggart J. E.
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