Patent Application
20200149573
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The disclosure and prior art relates to headboard bracket devices and more particularly pertains to a new headboard bracket device for which may be flattened to facilitate transportation while having a structure adaptable to multiple bed frames and headboards.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a plate with four quadrants including a first quadrant, a second quadrant, a third quadrant and a fourth quadrant. The first and third quadrants are positioned opposite of each other. The first quadrant is pivotally coupled to the second and fourth quadrants, the second quadrant is pivotally coupled to the third quadrant, and the third and fourth quadrants are separated from each other. The plate is positionable in a stored condition wherein the four quadrants are co-planar with each other. The plate is positionable in a deployed condition wherein each quadrant of the four quadrants is orientated perpendicular to an adjacent one of the quadrants and the third and fourth quadrants overlap to define a bottom wall. The bottom wall is secured to a bed frame with a plurality of frame fasteners and the second quadrant is secured to a headboard with a plurality of headboard fasteners.
Wherein another embodiment of the disclosure includes a plate with four quadrants pivotally coupled together and including a first quadrant, a second quadrant, a third quadrant and a fourth quadrant wherein the first and third quadrants are positioned opposite of each other. The plate is positionable in a stored condition wherein the four quadrants are co-planar with each other. The plate is positionable in a deployed condition wherein each quadrant of the four quadrants is orientated perpendicular to an adjacent one of the quadrants and the third and fourth quadrants overlap to define a bottom wall. A bed frame has a corner. A plurality of frame fasteners extends into the bottom wall and into the bed frame adjacent to the corner. A headboard has a front side that is positioned adjacent to an end edge of the bed frame. A plurality of headboard fasteners extends through the second quadrant and into the front side of the headboard.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
As best illustrated in
The first 22 and second 24 dividing lines define a plurality of quadrants, or plate sections, of the plate 12 and include a first quadrant 26 including the first 14 and fourth 20 edges, a second quadrant 28 including the first 14 and second 16 edges, a third quadrant 30 including the second 16 and third 18 edges, and a fourth quadrant 32 including the third 18 and fourth 20 edges. The first 26 and third 30 quadrants are positioned opposite of each other. The first quadrant 26 is pivotally coupled to the second 28 and fourth 32 quadrants, the second quadrant 28 is pivotally coupled to the third quadrant 30, and the third 30 and fourth 32 quadrants are separated from each other. Where pivoting connections are present, such may be accomplished in any conventional manner such as conventional hinges 34 including knuckles positioned on the associated quadrants and hinge pins connecting knuckles of adjacent quadrants, swivel or ball joints, or with living hinges 36. The living hinges 36 may be formed out of thinned areas of the panel extending along the first 22 and second 24 dividing lines or made easier to bend by perforating the first 22 and second 24 dividing lines with a plurality of holes 38.
The first through the fourth 26-32 quadrants are positionable in a co-planar configuration to define a stored condition as shown in
The plate 12 is pivotable along the first dividing 22 line such that the first 26 and second 28 quadrants are orientated perpendicular to each other and the plate 12 is pivotable along the second dividing line 24 to thereafter overlap the third 30 and fourth 32 quadrants to define a deployed condition. The third 30 and fourth 32 quadrants define a bottom wall 40 when the plate 12 is in the deployed condition. As can be seen in the Figures, a receiving space 42 in the shape of a half cube is thus formed which is bounded by the bottom wall 40, first quadrant 26 and second quadrant 28.
The third 30 and fourth 32 quadrants each have a plurality of mounting apertures 44 extending therethrough. The mounting apertures 44 in the third quadrant 30 are aligned with the mounting apertures 44 in the fourth quadrant 32 when the plate 12 is in the deployed condition to define aligned apertures 46. Furthermore, the second quadrant 28 has a plurality of mounting openings 48 extending therethrough. The mounting apertures may be positioned in central areas of the third 30 and fourth 32 quadrants or they may be positioned along the edges of thereof. The multiple positions allow the plate 12 of the system 10 to accommodate a number of different types of bed frames.
A bed frame 50 is provided which is configured for supporting a mattress. The bed frame 50 shown in
A plurality of frame fasteners 62 is provided which comprise, for example, nuts and bolts or other securing members conventional to attaching brackets to a bed frame. Each frame fasteners 62 extends through one of the aligned apertures 46 and into the bed frame to releasably couple the third 30 and fourth 32 quadrants to the bed frame 50.
A headboard 64 includes a front side 66 and a back side 68. The front side 66 is positioned adjacent to and extends along the end edge 54 of the bed frame 50. It is noted that while a headboard 64 is used as an example, headboards and footboards are considered interchangeable and are therefore defined herein as analogous structures. Thus, the system 10 may require four plates 12 should both a headboard and a footboard be attached to the bed frame 50. A plurality of headboard fasteners 70 is provided and each of the headboard fasteners 70 extends through one of the mounting openings 48 and into the headboard 64 to releasably couple the headboard 64 to the second quadrant 28. As with the frame fasteners 62, the headboard fasteners 70 may include nuts and bolts or other securing members conventional to attaching brackets to headboards 64.
In use, the system 10 allows for a modular bed assembly that can be shipped in an efficient manner by using brackets that fold down to very a very thin profile which is typically going to be less than 0.5 inches. The plates 12 will be very inexpensive to manufacture and ship while at the same time being readily interchangeable with a plurality of bed frames 50 and headboards 64 simply by altering the pattern of aligned apertures or mounting openings.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
