EP0594552A1 - Canape lit, un meuble transformable de siège en lit - Google Patents

Canape lit, un meuble transformable de siège en lit Download PDF

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EP0594552A1
EP0594552A1 EP93870190A EP93870190A EP0594552A1 EP 0594552 A1 EP0594552 A1 EP 0594552A1 EP 93870190 A EP93870190 A EP 93870190A EP 93870190 A EP93870190 A EP 93870190A EP 0594552 A1 EP0594552 A1 EP 0594552A1
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Eric Johan Djie
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Sedac Mecobel NV/SA
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47C—CHAIRS; SOFAS; BEDS
    • A47C17/00—Sofas; Couches; Beds
    • A47C17/04—Seating furniture, e.g. sofas, couches, settees, or the like, with movable parts changeable to beds; Chair beds
    • A47C17/16—Seating furniture changeable to beds by tilting or pivoting the back-rest
    • A47C17/17—Seating furniture changeable to beds by tilting or pivoting the back-rest with coupled movement of back-rest and seat
    • A47C17/175—Seating furniture changeable to beds by tilting or pivoting the back-rest with coupled movement of back-rest and seat with tilting or lifting seat-back-rest pivot
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47C—CHAIRS; SOFAS; BEDS
    • A47C4/00—Foldable, collapsible or dismountable chairs
    • A47C4/04—Folding chairs with inflexible seats
    • A47C4/18—Folding chairs with inflexible seats having a frame made of metal
    • A47C4/20—Folding chairs with inflexible seats having a frame made of metal with legs pivotably connected to seat or underframe
    • A47C4/24—Folding chairs with inflexible seats having a frame made of metal with legs pivotably connected to seat or underframe with cross legs
    • A47C4/26—Folding chairs with inflexible seats having a frame made of metal with legs pivotably connected to seat or underframe with cross legs of adjustable type

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  • the present invention relates to a sofa bed, i.e. a piece of furniture convertible from a seat into a bed, provided with an upper part and a support supporting this part and having four legs rigidly connected to one another by connecting parts.
  • the support is provided with four short small vertical legs which are welded two by two to side plates, which are connected to one another by means of a cross beam through a punch system or through a screw connection.
  • An operating mechanism for adjusting the upper part is screwed or welded to the side plates.
  • the back portion and seat portion folded out to a sleeping surface project considerably, both on the front and on the back, beyond the legs so that the piece of furniture tend to tip over if somebody is too close to the edge of the sleeping surface.
  • the legs can, however, not be disposed further to the front or to the back because they would otherwise be situated, in the sofa position of the piece of furniture, before and behind the seat portion which is of course not desired.
  • the invention aims now to provide a piece of furniture convertible from a seat into a bed of the kind mentioned in the preamble, the support of which is relatively easy and cheap to manufacture and which offers nevertheless very good possibilities for a stable support of the piece of furniture, both in the sofa and in the bed position thereof.
  • the piece of furniture according to the invention convertible from a seat into a bed is characterized thereto in that the legs of the support are formed of two at least substantially U-shaped profiles which are disposed cross-wise and which are irrotatably connected to one another by means of attachment means.
  • the support can be built up of only two main components which are easy to manufacture, namely the two substantially U-shaped profiles.
  • These profiles can for example consist of simple tubes but other shapes are of course possible.
  • Due to the cross-wise arrangement of the U-shaped profiles the legs formed thereby can be positioned far to the front and to the back, without being inconvenient in the seat or bed position of the piece of furniture.
  • the U-shaped profiles are directed with their body on the upper side and with the legs downwards, there are no hampering cross connections since the legs of the one U-shaped profile may continue beyond the body of the other U-shaped profile.
  • attachment means for the U-shaped profiles of the support are formed of parts of the upper part.
  • these means are provided with plates disposed on both lateral sides of the support, which plates are each connected at two places to the one U-shaped profile and at one of these places also to the other U-shaped profile, while each of the plates further supports at a third place the other U-shaped profile, the plates being then preferably part of an operating mechanism for adjusting the upper part between a bed position and a seat position.
  • both U-shaped profiles are rigidly and irrotatably fixed to one another on each side only through three connections by means of plates which were already required forthe operating mechanism of the upper part and only the shape of which has to be adapted for the function of attachment means.
  • locking members are advantageously formed on the plates which may engage irremovably at said third place in holes in the body of the other U-shaped profile.
  • the invention further embraces a support for use in the hereabove described piece of furniture.
  • the drawings show very schematically an embodiment of the piece of furniture according to the invention, which is designed in this case as a sofa bed, which forms in the seat position a two or three seat sofa and in the bed position a double bed.
  • the piece of furniture can also be designed as a chair respectively a single bed or may even comprise other combinations.
  • an upper part 1 and a support 2 supporting this upper part can roughly be distinguished.
  • frame parts of the back portion 3 and the seat portion 4 are indicated very schematically.
  • the back portion 3 In the sofa position of the sofa bed according to fig. 1, the back portion 3 is directed obliquely upwards and the seat portion 4 is inclined backwards, while through a manipulation of an operating mechanism 5 represented very schematically in fig. 1-3, the back portion 3 and the seat portion 4 can be displaced and pivoted towards a horizontal bed position as illustrated in fig. 2.
  • the operating mechanism 5 comprises on both lateral sides a four bar system, one bar side of which being formed by a support for the back portion 3, which is connected through two bars 6 and 7 with a stationary bar side, which is a part of a side plate 8.
  • the further construction and functioning of the operating mechanism is not relevant for the present invention and is therefore not described in greater detail. Only the side plates 8 of the operating mechanism are an element of the invention and will be discussed further hereinafter.
  • the upper part 1 of the piece offurniture is supported by the support 2 which is essentially built up of two at least substantially U-shaped tubes 9 and 10, the body 11 of the one U-shaped tube 9 being shorter than the body 12 of the other U-shaped tube 10 in such a manner that the legs 13 of the U-shaped tube 9 serving as legs for the piece of furniture fit accurately between the legs 14 of the other U-shaped tube 10 serving also as legs and both U-shaped tubes 9 and 10 can be connected cross-wise to one another.
  • the upper part 1 is adjustably supported by the bodies 11 and 12ofthe U-shaped tubes 9 and 10 in a not further indicated way, for example through support blocks 15. As shown, caps can further be applied onto the lowermost extremities of the legs 13 and 14.
  • FIG. 5-7 illustrate in which way both U-shaped tubes 9 and 10 are rigidly and solidly connected to one another.
  • the side plate 8 which is a part of the operating mechanism 5, also serves for mutually connecting the U-shaped tubes 9 and 10, the other side plate 8 on the opposite side of the piece of furniture also connecting mirror- wisely both tubes 9 and 10.
  • the side plate 8 is fixed with screws 16 and 17 to the inner side of the leg 13 of the U-shaped tube 9, while the screw 16 serves at the same time for hingedly connecting the legs 13 and 14 of both tubes 9 and 10 to one another at their intersection.
  • both U-shaped tubes 9 and 10 can be pivoted in such a manner with respect to each other from a flat storage or transport position according to fig. 5 that, via the position according to fig. 6, the body 12 of the U-shaped tube 10 is going to lay finally in the position according to fig.
  • the invention provides a piece of furniture convertible from a seat into a bed, the support of which can be manufactured from very little components and in a very easy way, while the extremities of the legs 13 and 14 of the U-shaped tubes 9 and 10 provide in the depth direction of the piece offurniture a very large and therefore stable base for the piece of furniture, so that there is no risk for tipping over in the bed position of the piece of furniture.
  • the legs of the support do not trouble persons sitting on the piece of furniture in the sofa position, which support is moreover also a visually attractive entity.
  • attachment means may also be mounted at other places or can be shaped in a different way.

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EP93870190A 1992-09-17 1993-09-17 Canapé lit, un meuble transformable de siège en lit Expired - Lifetime EP0594552B1 (fr)

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NL9201616A NL9201616A (nl) 1992-09-17 1992-09-17 Tot ligmeubel uitklapbaar zitmeubel.
NL9201616 1992-09-17

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DE (1) DE69310083T2 (fr)
DK (1) DK0594552T3 (fr)
ES (1) ES2101286T3 (fr)
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RU2504317C1 (ru) * 2012-09-21 2014-01-20 Михаил Геннадьевич Шолохов Трансформируемый каркас дивана-кровати

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US2552128A (en) * 1950-05-23 1951-05-08 Parkway Furniture Mfg Company Sofa bed
US2658558A (en) * 1951-09-07 1953-11-10 Gustaf W Carlson Folding chair
FR1180733A (fr) * 1957-07-15 1959-06-09 Chaise-longue
US3589661A (en) * 1968-09-23 1971-06-29 Garrett H Harris Hunter{3 s stool with revolving seat

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US2552128A (en) * 1950-05-23 1951-05-08 Parkway Furniture Mfg Company Sofa bed
US2658558A (en) * 1951-09-07 1953-11-10 Gustaf W Carlson Folding chair
FR1180733A (fr) * 1957-07-15 1959-06-09 Chaise-longue
US3589661A (en) * 1968-09-23 1971-06-29 Garrett H Harris Hunter{3 s stool with revolving seat

Cited By (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
RU2504317C1 (ru) * 2012-09-21 2014-01-20 Михаил Геннадьевич Шолохов Трансформируемый каркас дивана-кровати

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ATE151968T1 (de) 1997-05-15
DK0594552T3 (da) 1997-10-20
ES2101286T3 (es) 1997-07-01
DE69310083T2 (de) 1997-10-16
DE69310083D1 (de) 1997-05-28
NL9201616A (nl) 1994-04-18

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