Abstract: A knockdown type of bed frame constructed predominantly from plastic components. The bed frame includes a pair of parallel side-tube members and a pair of cross-tube members. The end positions of the side-tube members and the cross-tube members are received in corresponding sockets formed in floor engaging leg members. Means are provided for retaining the side-tube members and the cross-tube members within the sockets formed in the leg members. The leg members are formed with substantially horizontal surfaces for receipt of mattress means thereon.The leg members are provided with floor engaging means. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention the floor engaging means is a caster wheel assembly incorporating a brake mechanism for applying a braking action to a caster wheel upon application of a predetermined downward force thereto.

Abstract: A mattress support for a crib having a frame defining a space comprises four vertical brackets connected to four posts of the crib frame. Each bracket has a plurality of vertically spaced open ended slots with open mouths of each slot facing toward a centerline of the crib. A pair of beams which each have pins extending from their end are engaged with the vertical brackets so that at least one pin at one end of each beam is engaged in one slot of each bracket. A cross member engages the beams to hold them apart and hold their pins in the appropriate slot.

Abstract: A bed frame having inset legs comprised of an inclined, inwardly extending upper portion and a vertical lower portion. The legs each include a first portion connected to an end of a cross-frame member and a second portion connected to a side-frame member. The first and second leg portions are telescopically associated to connect the side-frame and cross-frame members, and to support the resulting bed frame upon the floor.

Abstract: A knockdown sofa having a base, a pair of end members, a pair of side wall members, a pair of mounting block members and a pair of cap members. The mounting block members are employed to provide a mount for the end wall members and the cap members are employed to cap an end of the side wall members. The positions of the side wall members may be reversed, so that the left side wall becomes the right side wall and vice versa. Similarly, the end wall members are also reversible one with the other. When a reversal of these members is made, the positions of the mounting block members and the cap members reverse as well. In this manner, the sofa is made with half the parts that would be required in the absence of reversible parts. In sofas requiring reupholstering, all of the parts of the sofa requiring reupholstering may be removed individually from the base of the sofa and taken into the reupholstery shop.

Abstract: A knockdown platform or storage bed employs single or double rows of U-shaped channel members to join laterally opposed sideboards, through a detachable coupling at opposed ends of the channel members, to receivers fixed to the inside of the sideboards at longitudinally spaced positions and at both ends. The channel members are provided with C-shaped slots to each side slidably receiving insertable panels to form with the channel members a planar mattress support. The sideboards act in conjunction with endboards to define via a sideboard ladder frame and through other U-shaped channel members, a support system for drawers slidably insertable through the open ladder frame, to create a storage bed. The panels are sized to the slidably insertable drawers to function as covers, overlying the drawers when the drawers are removed. The couplings include pivotable, overcenter latches mounted to the interior of the U-shaped channel members at their ends.

Abstract: A waterbed pedestal frame is provided with exterior flat side panels having connector joints on their interior surfaces. A pair of central panels can interconnect a pair of side panels and a plurality of flat, rectangular connector boards can be positioned to space these central panels. Connector posts are provided on the central panel for supporting the weight of the waterbed. The frame can be assembled without additional fasteners by afixing the side panels into a square configuration and interconnecting them with the central panels and the connector members.

Abstract: An improved knock-down, fold-up metal bed frame is disclosed which provides a sturdy and easily manipulated interconnecting mechanism for the cross-rail portions of the bed frame with a positive interlock between the cross-rail portions. A hand-manipulated positive interlocking mechanism is also provided for a center brace which is employed to interconnect opposed cross-rails or side rails.

Abstract: A bed frame comprising a headboard, footboard, and a pair of side rails interconnecting the headboard and footboard. The side rails each include a pair of hooks on the end of the rails insertable into vertical slots in the legs of the headboard and footboard. These hooks are engageable with transverse pins which extend across the slots. A longitudinally slideable latch is mounted on the end of each rail and is cooperable with one of the hooks on the end of each rail to lock the rails to the headboard and footboard such that the rails may not be inadvertently dislodged or disengaged from the headboard or footboard.

Abstract: An expandable support frame for providing supportive confinement for variously sized flexible mattresses. The frame includes a support member suitable for being positioned on a supporting surface such as the floor. An expandable mattress housing is mounted on the top of the support member and includes interlocking segments which define a supportive base bound by four vertical sides for retaining the mattress. A housing expansion segment combines with the housing segments to expand the effective size of the housing for supporting various size mattresses.

Abstract: A bed construction adapted to be supported on a generally horizontal floor surface including a frame assembly defining a generally vertically extending mattress receiving opening therethrough to the floor surface; a resilient foundation removably received in the mattress receiving opening and supported on the floor surface; and a resilient mattress removably received in the mattress receiving opening in said frame on top of the foundation with the frame assembly confining the foundation and mattress in directions parallel to the floor surface.

Abstract: A bed frame having generally parallel side rails which can be laterally adjusted to fit standardized twin, full and queen size beds with each side rail including an inwardly extending end plate with each end plate being provided with an engager in the form of a hook plate having a pair of hooks along one vertical edge thereof for orientation in an upwardly opening position or a downwardly opening position to hook under the pins in the headboard to lift the headboard off the floor or to hook over the pins so that heavier headboards can rest on the floor. Each engager is provided with a vertical slot spaced from the hooks and the opposite vertical edge of the plate for receiving the end plate on the side rail to enable lateral adjustment of the engager in relation to the end plate and reversibility of the engager so that the hooks face upwardly or downwardly.

Abstract: A bed or bed frame is disclosed including a base plate on which is mounted a plurality of pyramids which have their bases arranged in a contiguous side-by-side manner with truncated apices in a common plane, and a bedding support or platform is mounted and support on the pyramids at the common apices.

Abstract: A base for a bed comprising (preferably two or four) light-weight thermoplastics platforms interlocked together by couplings which engage skirts and lugs depending from the platforms so as to prevent rotation of one platform relative to another. The platforms are easily separated for transport by a vertical lifting force yet they resist separation by unintentional rotational forces caused by sitting on or lifting their peripheral edges.

Abstract: Bed frame members are provided for quick, snap-together, interlocking assembly for preventing relative rectilinear motion between members without loose or screwthread parts. One frame member has a first slot with an enlarged retaining portion and a mating frame member has a projection disposed thereon for entrance into the slot. The projection carries a Belleville washer having its conical convex face disposed for engagement with the slot for compression as the projection moves into and for retaining engagement with the periphery of the enlarged retaining portion of the slot when the projection has been fully inserted in the slot. A second slot in one of the frame members has a portion thereof disposed at a substantial angle to the first slot and receives a second projection disposed on the other frame member.

Abstract: A dismountable bed stand is formed of side rails, and cross members comprising telescopic horizontal members terminating in vertical legs, the side rails and cross members interlocking rigidly without the use of fastenings and without obstructing the bed supporting surfaces on the side rails, while the whole stand may be fabricated from only three different metal sections.

Abstract: A platform bed frame for a platform bed is provided which is capable of supporting a conventional mattress and box spring combination, or a mattress alone. The platform bed frame includes side plates and end plates which are connected together at each corner of the bed frame by a plate having downwardly extending pins which are received in apertures defined by the side plates and end plates.

Abstract: A leg assembly for a bed frame comprising a main body member having an upright passageway and a caster unit having a stem insertable into the passageway by moving it upwardly therein. Flexible tab members on the body member project into the passageway and into a recess formed in the stem when the stem is inserted into the passageway to a predetermined position to inhibit retraction of the stem from the passageway.

Abstract: A platform bed frame for a platform bed is provided which is capable of supporting a conventional mattress and box spring combination, or a mattress alone. The platform bed frame includes side plates and end plates which are connected together by tapered pins on the side plates and end plates which coact to produce a rigid structure.

Abstract: A platform bed frame for a platform bed is provided which is capable of supporting a conventional mattress and box spring combination, or a mattress alone. The platform bed frame includes side plates and end plates which are connected together by coupling members which in preferred embodiments may be interlocked without using screws and bolts to form a rectangular platform bed frame. In preferred embodiments the coupling members are integral with the end plates and side plates so that they cannot be lost during shipment.

Abstract: An improved bed frame structure that includes initially separate headboard and footboard members, the legs of the headboard and footboard being connected by initially separate side rails. In the preferred embodiment, two tension rods are connected in an X-pattern between the side rails. The tension rods are sized, relative to their connection points with the side rails, so that the rods are maintained under tension, i.e., so that the side rails are slightly bowed inwardly when the frame is erected, thereby locking the headboard footboard and side rails into a tight bed frame configuration.

Abstract: An adjustable angle iron bed frame has interfitting end rails which are retained in preadjusted assembled positions by generally U-shaped wire clips which extend diagonally through the respective backs and sides of the interfitted end rails to capture the inner and outer rails together in predetermined adjusted position.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTIONThis invention relates to adjustable folding bed frames of the Hollywood type in which the end rails are formed from angle iron material. The end rails are pivotally attached to their respective side rails and are adjustably interfitted or connected one with the other and secured by a locking or attaching means at preselected, spaced-apart widths of the side rails.

Abstract: The mattress foundation apparatus includes a flat continuous upper component from which downwardly depend a pair of end walls and a pair of side walls. A continuous raised rim about the upper perimeter of the flat upper component retains the mattress in its desired position. A series of solid lateral struts are integrally formed with the upper component and depend downwardly therefrom. The entire mattress foundation apparatus constitutes an inelastic, downwardly opening, hollow structure useful for persons with back or orthopedic problems.

Abstract: A connector means for lockably releasably connecting the rigid side frame members containing the flexible container for a waterbed each connector means including a keeper member having openings for receiving the projecting members of a latch member. A locking member mechanically connects the latch member to the keeper member.

Abstract: A wooden waterbed frame structure including a pedestal assembly for supporting a mattress frame with the corner joints on both the pedestal assembly and the mattress frame being of special interlocking configuration to facilitate assembly and produce a durable product of exceptional structural strength.

Abstract: A bed frame having a novel leg structure. The bed frame includes a right angle side rail, and a cross rail pivotally connected to that side rail for swinging movement between a storage position in which the cross rail is oriented parallel to the side rail, and a bed support or use position in which the cross rail is oriented normal to the side rail. The novel leg structure includes, in preferred form, a leg member having a U-shaped cross section at the top end thereof, the leg member being fixed to the cross rail adjacent the cross rail's pivotal connection with the side rail. A latch tab is connected with the leg member's center web by a neck having a width less than the width of the latch tab, the latch tab being spaced above the leg member's top edge. The latch tab, neck and leg member's top edge cooperate to define two slots which open away from one another in generally mirror relation.

Abstract: A modular decorative waterbed frame including a pair of side walls and a pair of end walls of uniform cross-sectional configuration. The uniformity of cross-section of the walls enables the walls to be produced by high volume production methods, and thence cut into different lengths for later assembly into frames of various sizes. The cross-section of the walls is in the shape of an I-beam. The upper and lower cross pieces of the I have opposing lips which form a support channel for decorative panels. The decorative panels, which may be configured to be compatible with any style or period of furniture, are fixed to the vertical portion of the I beam by any readily releasable fastener means. The side walls and end walls are interconnected by uniform corner members which also have decorative panels fixed thereto.

Abstract: A bed carrying frame comprising a pair of generally parallel side rail members, of hollow rectangular shape, a pair of end rail units, each of which consists of two relatively telescoped end rail members which are also of hollow rectangular shape, and corner bracket members mounting each of the end rail members on one of the side rail members. The corner bracket members are substantially identical and function to pivotally mount the end rail members on the side rail members for movement between folded positions in which two end rail members are folded against each side rail member and assembled positions in which pairs of end rail members are relatively telescoped and cooperate with the side rail members to form a rectangular frame. A novel latch unit is provided for each pair of relatively telescoped end rail members to maintain the end rail members in predetermined relative positions.

Abstract: The cross rail and support includes a pair of telescopically engaged cross rail sections each having a ribbed top wall, and a pair of longitudinally ribbed side flanges, each terminating in an upwardly and inwardly directed reinforcing edge portion to provide a sturdy telescopically engaged cross rail member that has support legs attached to laterally outer portions of the support.

Abstract: A bed frame of the knockdown type having a pair of side rails and at least one connected end crossbar cooperable to provide a supporting frame structure for an associated box spring, in which brackets on the side rails are formed to provide sockets for respectively laterally receiving associated end portions of a crossbar therein into seated position where coacting parts respectively on the brackets and crossbar have interlocking engagement and function to retain the end portion of the crossbar against endwise withdrawal from the associated socket.The crossbar and side rail connection, as noted above, provides an extremely rigid box-like structure which permits frame-supporting leg assemblies to be mounted on the crossbar at a sufficiently inwardly spaced position from the side rail to avoid possible injurious striking of the bare foot or stubbing of toes thereon.

Abstract: A pair of improved adjustable cross-frame members are incorporated with a pair of side frame members to form a bed frame readily adjustable to a wide variety of widths. Each improved cross-frame member has a first and second elongated elements, each of which is pivotably connected to respective side members in a standard manner. The first element is provided with a pawl mounted near its free end and the second element is provided with a plurality of teeth. The teeth are shaped to allow for easy movement when the side frame members are moved toward each other and to allow for resistance when the side frame members are being pulled apart from each other.