Abstract: The present bed rail includes a rail portion and base portion. The rail portion swings down from an operating position and then slides into the base frame between a mattress and a mattress support to come to rest in the base frame in a stored position. The rail portion includes outer and inner frames. The outer frame is swingably and slideably engaged to the base frame. The inner frame is slideable on straight end portions of the outer frame and engages the base frame to prevent swinging and sliding of the rail portion.

Abstract: A unitary headboard comprises a single piece of laminated plywood that has two posts and at least one cross piece cut out of it. A bed frame comprising side rails and cross supports has each side rail formed of a single piece of material. Each side rail has a support ledge and a lip where the foundation extending between the side rails can be selected from springs or boards at the user's option.

Abstract: A plastic cap is securable to a tubular fence picket or like construction component by a strong frictional fit when a tubular attachment portion of the cap is pressed into an open end of the construction component. An attachment portion of the cap is tapered to facilitate insertion of the cap, and lines of flexure permit a pair of walls forming the attachment portion to partially collapse without loss of structural integrity in order to allow the attachment portion of the cap to fit tightly inside the corresponding construction component. The lines of flexure include grooves formed in walls of the attachment portion and thinned and rounded corner regions of the attachment portion. Slit-like gaps separate the deformable walls from a decorative top portion of the cap, in order to allow walls of the attachment portion to partially collapse independently of the top portion.

Abstract: A bunk bed system in which separate beds are positionable as free standing beds, as regular bunk beds, or as a perpendicular bunk bed system comprises a headboard extender that attaches to a side of a lower bed and a footboard extender incorporated into a bookcase. The headboard and footboard extenders each comprise two extender posts that engage the upper bed support posts and support the upper bed perpendicularly over the lower bed. One extender post of the headboard extender is attached to a headboard support post of the lower bed by means of rectangular end caps that fit over the upper and lower ends of both legs and hold them together. Locking pins extend between the extender posts and the lower ends of the legs of the upper bed to hold the stacked legs in alignment. Another extender post of the headboard extension is attached to the lower bed frame by means of a hook that is tightened over the bed frame.

Abstract: An ornamental ceramic fitting is mounted between two spaced, confronting, axially aligned, tubular members. The distance between the confronting ends of the tubular members is less than the corresponding axial length of the ceramic fitting. The ceramic fitting includes a threaded rod extending therethrough along the axis thereof and a well in each end of the fitting surrounding the threaded rod. The depth of the well in one end exceeds the difference between the axial length of the fitting and the corresponding axial distance between the confronting ends of the tubular members. The fitting is first placed on the end of one of the spaced tubular members and twisted to a position past the normal seated position. This allows proper alignment of the end of the other tubular member, whereupon the fitting is twisted in the opposite direction to properly complete the mounting operation.