Patent ID: 6163900
Filing Date: 2000-12-26
Classification: A47C

Abstract:
Folding furniture for use with recreational vehicles having vertical walls and a floor surface, the folding furniture comprising:a seating portion having a framework with a front edge, left and right side edges, and a rear edge, the seating portion having an upper surface and a lower surface;a back portion having a framework with a front edge, left and right side edges, and a rear edge, the back portion having an upper surface and a lower surface;a right side set and a left side set of foldover arms, each of the right side and left side sets of foldover arms comprising two non-straight arm portions, each with a seating portion connecting end and a back portion connecting end, the seating portion connecting ends of the right and left side sets of foldover arms being pivotally connected to the right and left side edges of the framework of the seating portion, respectively, and the back portion connecting ends of the right and left side sets of foldover arms being pivotally connected to the right and left side edges of the framework of the back portion, respectively, to form a pivotally attached together seating and back portion, wherein the right side set and the left side set of foldover arms are adapted to permit the back portion to be pivoted backwardly in a generally upright or slanted back manner adjacent to the rear edge of the seating portion, which seating portion remains in a horizontal orientation, to conform to a seating mode of the folding furniture, and permit the back portion to be pivoted frontwardly in a generally horizontal manner such that the rear edge of the framework of the back portion is adjacent to the front edge of the seating portion to conform to a horizontal bed mode of the folding furniture; andhinging brackets that are hingeably attached to the framework of the seating portion, wherein the hinging brackets permit the pivotally attached together seating and back portions to swing up to a vertical storage position and to swing down to the horizontal bed mode of the folding furniture, and wherein when the seating and back portions are swung up to the vertical storage position, no portion of the folding furniture remains on a floor surface.