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CLASS 5, | BEDS |
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SECTION I - CLASS DEFINITION
This class relates to devices intended to receive the human body in a prone, supine, or sitting position for the purpose of repose, examination, or treatment. This class includes, devices ordinarily known as beds, examining tables, operating tables, hammocks, cradles, cribs, cots, camp beds, groundmats, sleeping bags, and bed accessories, such as mattresses, pillows, surgical supports, and bed clothing.
SECTION II - NOTES TO THE CLASS DEFINITION
| (1) Note. Excluded from this class are mosquito nets and canopies attached to or attachable to a bed or bedstead structure via a clamp, screws, bolts, or other separate, discreet fastening devices designed to be used on an existing bed (i.e., no modification of the bed or bedstead). |
| (2) Note. Surgical supports for all parts of the human body, and surgical supports that are adapted to support animals or parts of animals, are included in this class. |
| (3) Note. Art in this class has historically required that the device receive the body for the purpose of repose. Exceptions to this requirement are subclasses which include field stretchers, and subclasses which include invalid beds and surgical supports. |
| (4) Note. Art in this class requires some structural modification to materials to adapt them for body support. The mere recitation of a support, wherein the novelty resides in a chemical composition for the support, would not suffice for inclusion in this class; it would place the application in the appropriate composition art area. |
SECTION III - REFERENCES TO OTHER CLASSES
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| 4, | Baths, Closets, Sinks, and Spittoons, appropriate subclasses for body supports associated with washing or bathing a user, or associated with a user while using a toilet. |
| 29, | Metal Working, subclasses 91+ for methods of making upholstered articles. |
| 105, | Railway Rolling Stock, appropriate subclasses for modification of car structure to form berths and bunks. |
| 108, | Horizontally Supported Planar Surfaces, subclasses 1+ for a horizontal planar supporting surface which provides a tiltable supporting surface. |
| 114, | Ships, subclasses 192+ for self-leveling berths and bed structure specific to use on ships. |
| 128, | Surgery, subclasses 869+ for restraining and immobilizing devices. |
| 135, | Tent, Canopy, Umbrella, or Cane, subclasses 121+ and Cross-Reference Art Collection 913 for canopy frames and mosquito net covers. |
| 182, | Fire Escape, Ladder, or Scaffold, subclass 34 for a ladder convertible bed structure. |
| 190, | Trunks and Hand-Carried Luggage, subclass 2 for trunks and baggage convertible to beds. |
| 248, | Supports, subclasses 118+ for arm rests and headrests not associated with devices under the class definition. |
| 267, | Spring Devices, subclasses 80+ for spring panels and subclasses 142+ for cushion for human comfort. |
| 296, | Land Vehicles: Bodies and Tops, subclasses 19+ for ambulances, subclasses 156+ for camping vehicles, and appropriate subclasses, for vehicle structure (except seats) involving parts thereof convertible into beds. |
| 297, | Chairs and Seats, appropriate subclasses, for devices for supporting a seated occupant. |
| 378, | X-Ray or Gamma Ray Systems or Devices, subclass 209 for tables for supporting a person in combination with X-ray apparatus which often have manipulation of supports for parts of the body similar to adjustments of invalid beds. |
| 428, | Stock Material or Miscellaneous Articles, subclass 12 for a collapsible article; subclass 16 for treated fauna; subclasses 17+ for treated flora; subclass 71 for sheet including cover encasing foam; subclass 74 for sheet including cover encasing, noninterengaged, fibered material (e.g., batt); subclass 101 for superposed movable attached layers; subclasses 102+ for web or sheet including stitching and discrete fastener, coating, or bond; subclass 116 for a honeycomb-like web or sheet; subclass 178 for nonplanar uniform thickness material with cells; subclasses 304.4+ for composite material having voids in a component; subclasses 357+ for coated or structurally defined flake, particle, cell, strand, strand portion, rod, filament, macroscopic fiber, or mass thereof; subclasses 402+ for particulate matter; subclasses 443+ for composite laminate including asbestos; subclass 903 for microfiber; and subclasses 920+ for fire or heat protection feature. |
| 441, | Buoys, Rafts, and Aquatic Devices, subclasses 125+ for a waterproof mattress or cushion having special features to convert it into a life raft or having a special shape or fastening means to enable it to conform to or secure a person"s body. |
| 482, | Exercise Devices, particularly subclasses 142+ for a support for the entire body of the user, e.g., a bench, slant board, etc., used for an exercise purpose. |
| 600, | Surgery, subclasses 9+ for magnetic devices used for therapy. |
| 601, | Surgery: Kinesitherapy, subclasses 49+ , 86, 90, 98, 115+, and 146 for body support vibrator; subclasses 154+ for lavative devices; and subclass 158 for lavative device with applicator having specific movement on a couch. |
| 607, | Surgery: Light, Thermal, and Electrical Application, subclasses 104+ , especially 107, for thermal applicators. |
| D6, | Furnishings, subclasses 331 , 382+, 505+, 596+, and other appropriate subclasses for designs for devices under the class definition. |
SUBCLASSES
1 | MISCELLANEOUS: |
| This subclass is indented under the class definition. Subject matter comprising constructions of beds and devices pertaining to beds not provided for in the following subclasses. | |
2.1 | COMBINATION FURNITURE: | ||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Subject matter comprising a unitary structure having features
of a bed as well as those of some additional article of furniture.
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3 | Table beds: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 2.1. Devices relating to tables which by inversion or manipulation of parts may be converted to beds, or tables which have beds stored within and withdrawable from them. | |
4 | Outfolding sides: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 3. Devices having vertical sides which turn out to horizontal position to form part of the bed bottom or to support such a bottom. | |
5 | Unfolding top: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 3. Devices in which the top or sections of it turn out through 180° to form part of the bed frame. | |
6 | Folding bed enclosed: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 3. Devices in which the sides and top of the table serve to inclose a folded bed frame but do not form a part of it. | |
7 | Sofa form: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 3. Devices of sofa form in which the back of the sofa by manipulation becomes a table top supported on the sofa frame. | |
8 | NESTED, TWIN AND STACKED: | ||||
| This subclass is indented under the class definition. Subject matter which without dismantling may be rested one
above another for compactness. Twin beds consist of two bed bottoms
mounted on the same frame to be on the same level with a slight
or adjustable interval between them. Stacked beds are beds having
socket modifications at the top and bottom, so that one may be stacked
upon the other.
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9.1 | BERTH OR BUNK: | ||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Subject matter closely associated in a vertical or horizontal
series having some part of their supports in common.
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10.1 | WINDOW, FLOOR, CEILING, OR ROOM TO ROOM: | ||||||
| This subclass is indented under the class definition. Subject matter modified to project partly through a window
or having some modification adapting it for use in connection with
or relation to a window; having means for concealment in a floor
or raising it therefrom; having means for raising it to or concealing
it within a ceiling; or having special means other than casters
for enabling it to be used in either of two adjoining rooms as desired.
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10.2 | Bed stored in ceiling: | ||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 10.1. Device comprising means for raising a bed to or concealing
it in a ceiling.
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11 | ADJUSTABLE HEIGHT: | ||||||
| This subclass is indented under the class definition. Subject matter having means by which the height of the bed
bottom from the floor may be adjusted or changed.
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12.1 | SOFA BED: | ||||||
This subclass is indented under the class definition. That subject matter which by relative movement of its parts
may be converted from a seat to a bed.
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12.2 | Knockdown sofa bed: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 12.1. Subject matter in which the sofa may be quickly and easily disassembled so as to be of smaller bulk for storage. | |
13 | Link supported unfolding: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 12.1. Devices including unfolding link-supported bed bottom not falling precisely under any of the following subclasses. | |
14 | Beds stowed under seat: | ||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 12.1. Devices in which the bed is stowed under a seat and withdrawn
or unfolded for use. The seat may be fixed and the bed withdrawn
and unfolded or the seat may be hinged or pivoted, and in the latter
case may, when lifted or moved, aid in unfolding or extending the
bed.
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15 | Suspended bottoms: | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 12.1. Devices in which the fabric is connected at the ends of
the jointed bottom, so as to hang without lateral support when extended
for use and baglike when folded.
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16 | Vertical unfolding sections: | ||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 12.1. Devices in which the bed sections stand compactly folded
substantially vertically at or in the sofa back and are drawn forward
or backward on a pivot and unfolded.
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17 | Extension: | ||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 12.1. Devices characterized by one or more bed sections which
move out forwardly or backwardly without overturning. Extension
sofa beds are mainly of a couch type without back or stuffed ends
and resemble a bedstead with very low head and foot boards.
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18.1 | Slidable section: | ||||||
This subclass is indented under subclass 17. Device wherein one of the sections is substantially parallel
to a seat means and is translatably extendable therefrom to form
a bed of which the seat means is a part.
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19 | Front and back extension: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 18.1. Devices in which the seat is provided with extensions sliding out both at front and rear. | |
20 | Slide with rotation: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 18.1. Devices in which a section is arranged to slide out and is afterwards turned upside down, usually to change the level. | |
21 | Change of level: | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 18.1. Devices in which a section parallel to the seat slides out,
and then the level of one or the other is substantially changed
without overturn to make the two sections practically coplanar.
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22 | Link walk-over: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 17. Devices in which a section, usually a seat section, is connected to the frame by radius links to be moved out of the frame by a walk-over motion and take a position coplanar with a section in the frame. | |
23 | Traversing seat with rotary follower section: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 17. Devices in which a seat section is arranged to traverse forward out of the frame and has connected with it a pivoted section which overturns during the motion and becomes coplanar with the traversing section. The extreme form of this is a three-section zigzag folding. | |
24 | Rotary seats: | ||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 12.1. Devices wherein the sofa seat to which the back may be attached
is arranged on pivotal connections to rotate substantially within
the sofa frame and carries a bed bottom on its lower surface.
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25 | Unfolding sections on seat bottom: | ||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 24. Devices, in which the lower surface of the seat carrying
sections are unfolded or extended to form a bed when the seat is
overturned.
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26.1 | Seat rotator: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 24. Device comprising means for controlling rotational movement
of the seat in the frame.
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27 | Pivoted seat over forward invertible section: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 12.1. Devices in which the sofa seat is pivotally connected at the rear and is lifted to permit the unfolding of a forwardly-pivoted section concealed below it. The seat is then lowered to former position, the seat and section forming the bed. | |
28 | Unfolding seat: | ||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 12.1. Devices possessing a section substantially in the position
of a seat and pivotally connected forwardly, so it may be overturned
outwardly and forwardly through about 180° to form part of
the bed bottom. The actual stuffed seat may be padding on one side
of this section or be attached shiftably to it (see subclass 59.1)
or free from it.
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29 | Leg supported: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 28. Devices in which the unfolded section is supported by a leg. | |
30 | Extension supported: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 28. Devices in which a slidable or swinging frame extension serves to support the section. | |
31 | With rising inner section: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 28. Devices in which there is a section below the seat section forming the inner part of the bed, which is raised to bed position by unfolding the seat section. | |
32.1 | Pivoted hinge plate: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 31. Devices in which the seat section and the inner section are each directly or indirectly rotatably mounted to a fixed element on the frame; an intermediate section, itself rotatably attached to said fixed element, is used in the indirect versions. | |
33 | Inner section seat post: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 32.1. Devices in which the shiftable seat bares a rigid post which is pivoted to the inner section or immediately at the hinge connecting the inner section to the next section. | |
34 | Intermediate section seat post: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 32.1. Devices in which the hinge plate or short connecting section is pivoted to the seat on the upper end (in open position) of a post rigid with the shiftable seat. | |
35 | Double unfolding (including zigzag): | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 28. Devices in which the seat section carries additional forward
unfolding bed sections.
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36 | Double unfolding with rising inner section: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 28. Devices in which the seat section carries additional forward unfolding bed sections, the combination having a rising inner section. | |
37.1 | Reverting back: | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 12.1. Device having a back connected to the frame in such a manner
that it may be turned backward and downward through approximately
90°, thus forming a part of the bed bottom or a support
for a part of the bed bottom.
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38 | Leg supported: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 37.1. Devices in which the back is supported by a leg, usually link connected. | |
39 | Extension supported: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 37.1. Devices, there being a slidable support for the back. | |
40 | Wing supported: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 37.1. Devices the supports for the back being wings normally parallel to the ends or some other part of the sofa frame and swinging out gatewise. | |
41 | Extension seat: | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 37.1. Devices combined with an extension seat.
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42 | Unfolding seat: | ||||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 37.1. Devices combined with some form of forward unfolding seat.
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42.1 | Unfolding back section: | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 37.1. Device wherein the back is itself unfoldable or has further
attached sections which are unfoldable.
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43 | Forward-turning back: | ||||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 12.1. Devices in which the back is pivotally connected below at
the rear of the sofa frame and is turned forward to form a part
or all of the bed bottom.
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44.1 | Advancing and unfolding seat: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 43. Device in which the forward-turning back is combined into
a bed bottom with an unfolding seat.
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45 | Traversing over seat: | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 43. Devices in which the back is so pivoted as to traverse clear
over the seat and form a forward continuation of it.
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46.1 | Carried by seat to alignment: | ||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 43. Device in which the back is pivoted to the rear of a forwardly-pivoted
seat section in such fashion that grasping the back and pulling
it forward causes the back, the seat, and a section under the seat
to become so ordered and arranged as to form a bed bottom.
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47 | Sliding and pivoting back: | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 12.1. Devices so mounted for conversion to beds that the lower
part moves forward as the upper part moves downward. The seat frequently advances
horizontally to form, together with the back, a bed bottom.
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48 | Increasing seat: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 47. Devices with a seat that increases by unfolding or extending to form a bed bottom in continuation of the back. | |
49 | Drop or standing leaf: | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 12.1. Devices which possess at one or both sides of the seat normally
pendent leaves which may be lifted and supported horizontally to
form part of the bed bottom and in which one may be further lifted
and sustained vertically to form a back, or both elevated to form
a crib, also sofas in which a back is reverted and a front leaf
elevated to form a bed.
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50 | Drop leaf only: | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 12.1. Devices with leaves supplied with devices to support them
no higher than the horizontal.
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51.1 | Bed element: | ||||||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 12.1. Device relating to a specific item of structure which forms
a portion of a sofa bed.
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52 | Sofa head and arm rest: | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 51.1. Devices relating to modifications in the sofa heads and
arm rests consequent upon the unfolding of the sofa.
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53.1 | Headboard or footboard: | ||||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 51.1. Device comprising a substantially vertical retaining device
for the head or foot of a bed which serves as a stop or as a protector
for bedclothes, pillows, or a person"s head or feet.
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53.2 | Pivoted headboard: | ||||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 53.1. Device comprising an element that is rotatable with respect
to the sofa"s case and forms a substantially vertical retaining
device for the head of a bed and which serves as a stop or as a
protector for bedclothes, pillows, or a person"s head.
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53.3 | Pivoted footboard: | |||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 53.1. Device comprising an element that is rotatable with respect
to the sofa"s case and forms a substantially vertical retaining
device for the foot of a bed and which serves as a stop or as a
protector for bedclothes, pillows, or a person"s feet.
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