| US 7,540,259 B2 | ||
| Elevated sleeping bed for pets | ||
| Paulette Pape, East Windsor, N.J. (US); and Juliann Krauss, Boonton Township, N.J. (US) | ||
| Assigned to The Coleman Company, Inc., Wichita, Kans. (US) | ||
| Filed on Mar. 13, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/373,906. | ||
| Claims priority of provisional application 60/666012, filed on Mar. 29, 2005. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0219181 A1, Oct. 05, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. A01K 29/00 (2006.01); A47C 4/40 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 119—28.5 [297/16.1] | 20 Claims |
| 1. A pet bed, comprising:
a plurality of scissor bar sets, each of the scissor bar sets including two crossed bars pivotally connected where the two
bars cross,
wherein upper ends of bars in adjacent scissor bar sets are pivotally connected and lower ends of bars in adjacent scissor
bar sets are pivotally connected so that the plurality of scissor bar sets form a closed loop that defines a frame, the frame
being foldable from a storage position in which the upper ends of the bars in the plurality of scissor bar sets are positioned
adjacent to each other to an extended position in which the upper ends are spread apart and the upper ends are closer to the
lower ends of the bars in the plurality of scissor bar sets than when the frame is in the storage position and the angle formed
between the upper ends in each of the plurality of scissor bar sets is greater than 90 degrees when the frame is in the extended
position;
at least one unitary structure on the frame configured and arranged in a vertical orientation relative to a surface upon which
the pet bed may rest to prevent the upper ends from moving to adjacent to the lower ends when the frame is in the extended
state; and
a cover suspended from the upper ends.
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