Abstract: A narrow, elongated box to mount in the space between the side of a mattress and bed rail and formed with open top and front sides and a stand pivotally mounted on its lower end in the box.

Abstract: A retractable bed includes a self-standing enclosure frame having tracks with curved segments at opposite ends of the enclosure. A mattress support frame formed of interconnected hinged sections has rollers which engage the tracks such that the mattress frame slides between a retracted position within the enclosure and a sleeping position extending from the enclosure. The mattress frame is oriented to move sideways into and out of the enclosure. A motor bracket is pivotally connected to the enclosure frame, has a motor mounted thereon, and has an elongated threaded shaft engaged with the motor. A nut arm is pivotally connected to the mattress frame, and a nut on a free end of the arm is threaded onto the shaft. Rotation of the shaft moves the mattress frame along the tracks for extension and retraction. Pivoting of the drive assembly accommodates movement of the mattress frame around the curved segments of the tracks.

Abstract: A retractable cabinet-mounted bathroom-scale including a cabinet or housing mounted to or recessed into a wall and a conventional spring-type bathroom-scale having its rear end pivotally mounted to the housing, with its pivots extending into elongated vertical pivot-guiding recesses in the side-walls of the housing, in which the pivots can move up and down, and the bathroom scale being so arranged in relation to the housing that when it is retracted it is vertically disposed and its operative top-side faces outwardly and its front end is in the bottom of the housing and its rear end in the top of the housing, and when the bathroom-scale is swung outwardly into its horizontal operative position its front end is spaced outwardly from the housing and is supported on the floor on a pair of gliders mounted to or rollers on pivots mounted to the front end thereof and its rear end is pivotally mounted in the housing with its rear pivots in the bottoms of the pivot-guiding recesses.