Patent ID: 7600275

Claim:
A furniture element convertible between a bed configuration and a stowed configuration comprising: a shell having a bottom, two opposed sidewalls affixed to opposed side edges at of the bottom at their bottom edges, an open top, an open front, and a back wall affixed at opposite side edges to respective side edges of the sidewalls and at a bottom edge to a back edge of the bottom, and further having a top flap flexibly affixed at a back edge to a top edge of the back wall, and removably affixable at opposed side edges to corresponding top edges of the sidewalls to cover at least a portion of the open top; and a flexible base affixed to the shell bottom, the base having a pair of side wings each, flexibly affixed at a bottom edge to respective side edges of the base and removably affixable at rear edge to a respective sidewall for maintaining upward extension thereof, the base extendable forward of the shell and having an extended length at least as great as a sum of a height of the shell sidewalls and a width of the shell sidewalls; wherein in the bed configuration the base extends forward of the shell, the side wings extend upwardly, each of the side wings rear edges affixed to the respective shell sidewalls, and the top flap side edges are affixed to the corresponding top edges of the sidewalls; and wherein in the stowed configuration the top flap is released from the sidewalls and is folded into an interior of the shell in opposition with the back wall, the side wings are released form the shell sidewalls and are folded onto the base, and the base is folded upward to cover the open top and front of the shell, at least a portion of the side edges of the base removably affixable to front and top edges of the shell sidewalls.