Re: Bus bed mechanism/plan

[Muderick]

Hi guys, I am reposting this as I do not know if anyone saw this?

I think that I might just have the problem to this rock n roll bed mechanism story...

I gave it some thought in between deciding to do some work and actually sitting down at my desk and actually starting, only to say what the heck!... the boss was gone and TGIF!!!

The idea I came up with was so simple in retrospect that I felt that I got it wrong and it would not work. After looking at some bus bed mechanisms and the principle behind it, I found that it was identical to futon sofa bed/couch mechanisms we all spent an uncomfortable night or two on, sometime in our lives...

I looked at the history of the futon and in 1982 when the western world started adapting eastern futons to western applications, the mechanism evolved from the crude to the ones we have today. The principle for both is exactly the same.

During the day to sit on, and at night, folded down flat for and sleeping on
So if we simply use the mechanism off an old futon or buy a new or newer one from either a bed manufacturer or directly from the mechanism manufacturer, our worries are a thing of the past. To make it simpler, just throw the whole damn futon in the back of your bus....

Seriously now, building the box for the seat and the rest of the bed is the easy part, at least for me, now that I have the plan and idea in place. I have added a few mechanism illustrations that could also be employed.

Let me know what you guys think and if you find a supplier/maker of a good futon couch/bed mechanism before I do, please let me know.

Muds

[Dutch_Diver]

Thanks Muds....I'm thinking of ripping out the interior in Mo and redoing as the wife wants a bed for me, her and the kids......so I need to think of a way of making the whole rear end into a flat surface for the matresses.....