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Steel wire foundation
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Inventors: Schulz, Jr., Martin; Bane, James E.;
Assignee: Steadley Company (Carthage, MO)
Primary Examiner: Halvosa; George E. A.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Lee, Smith & Jager
A foundation unit which, when assembled, can be collapsed for compact storage and shipping and later can be elevated to a fully expanded state. The foundation unit includes a rectangular, grid wire top bearing structure, a rigid bottom substructure such as a wooden frame, and a series of spaced, parallel rows of substantially flat support members extending between the top bearing structure and the bottom substructure. The support members are hingedly secured to the top bearing structure and bottom substructure to permit reduction of the foundation unit to the collapsed state with the rows of support members lying essentially prone. In the elevated state, the foundation unit includes stabilizers which are oppositely reactive and which prevent relative longitudinal translation between the top and bottom of the foundation unit. Depending on the firmness characteristics required of the foundation unit, the flat support members can assume one of a number of different configurations, offering total stiffness or varying degrees of recoilable compression of the foundation unit. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION These disadvantages of the prior art, and others, are overcome by the present invention which provides a foundation unit which is readily amenable to storage and shipment in a collapsed condition, and which can be later reassembled with very little effort and consequently extremely low cost.
In addition, since the foundation unit can be maintained in a collapsed state until its use is required, several foundation units can occupy the same space as one fully assembled unit, thereby substantially reducing storage and shipping costs.
The foundation unit is composed of a rigid bottom substructure, such as a wooden frame, and a flat top bearing structure.
The top bearing structure and bottom substructure have approximately the same rectangular dimensions, as is typical for foundation units.
A plurality of spaced, parallel rows of substantially flat support members extend between the top bearing structure and bottom substructure.
The support members are hingedly secured to the top and bottom structures to permit reduction of the foundation unit to the collapsed state with the support members always attached.
The foundation unit includes stabilizing means positionable in two orientations, one orientation for maintaining the foundation unit in the fully expanded state with the rows of support members generally upright, and a second orientation for permitting reduction of the foundation unit to the collapsed state with the rows of support members essentially prone.
Since the support members remain attached in the collapsed state, the top of the foundation unit will overlap one end of the bottom for a slight distance approximately equal to the depth of the support members.
The support members can be of one of two general types.
A first type is substantially inflexible and therefore resists spring action of the foundation unit.
A second type is flexible in order to permit recoilable compression of the foundation unit.
Varying degrees of compression from very firm to soft can be obtained by varying the design of the flexible support members
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