| US 7,552,486 B2 | ||
| Stowable mezzanine bed | ||
| Nicolas Kaempfen, 9, Rue Des Noirettes, Carouge CH-1227 (Switzerland) | ||
| Appl. No. 10/572,392 PCT Filed Jul. 20, 2004, PCT No. PCT/IB2004/002459 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Dec. 18, 2006, PCT Pub. No. WO2005/025380, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 24, 2005. |
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| Claims priority of application No. 03021084 (EP), filed on Sep. 18, 2003. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0074342 A1, Apr. 05, 2007 | ||
| Int. Cl. A47C 19/04 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 5—9.1 [5/10.2] | 10 Claims |
| 1. A device serving as a mezzanine fold-away bed, comprising:
a support structure (10) having a pivot (33) and equipped with at least one frame (20), and
a fold-away mechanism (30) configured to fold the frame (20) from a first use position (20b) to a second stow-away position (20a),
the fold-away mechanism (30) comprising two shafts (31) mounted on the frame (20), each of these shafts (31) being linked by a tie-rod (32) to the pivot (33) on the support structure (10) to link the frame (20) to the support structure (10),
the fold-away mechanism (30) also comprising a synchronizing mechanism configured to synchronize a movement connecting the two shafts (31) and to impose a synchronized rotation on the two shafts (31),
wherein the synchronizing mechanism comprises a first element (34) connected to each shaft (31) and second elements (35) kinematically connecting external ends of the first elements (34) to stabilize the synchronized movement of the shafts (31), and
wherein each of the first elements comprise a small tie-rod (34) provided on each shaft (31), the second elements comprise arms (35) configured to articulate the tie-rods (34), and the arms (35) and the tie-rods (34) define a deformable parallelogram configured to impose a synchronized rotation upon the two shafts (31).
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