Frame for headboard or footboard

Abstract

A headboard or footboard frame is mountable on an end of a mattress frame and adapted to carry a detachable headboard or footboard frame that, in an intended use position, forms a decorative support at a right angle to a support surface of the mattress frame and projecting from a head or foot end of the mattress frame. The headboard or footboard frame has two subframes pivotally connected to each other for movement between a transport position with the subframes folded on top of each other and a use position with the subframes are folded apart next to each other and lying in a common plane. Each subframe has an outer edge attached to first bars that are offset in the transport position to a central plane and that in the use position project at a right angle from the common plane of the frame parts.

1 . In a headboard or footboard mountable on an end of a mattress frame and adapted to carry a detachable headboard or footboard that, in an intended use position, forms a decorative support at a right angle to a support surface of the mattress frame and projecting from a head or foot end of the mattress frame, the improvement comprising:
 a headboard or footboard frame detachably attachable to the head or foot end of the mattress frame, wherein   the headboard or footboard frame has two subframes pivotally connected to each other for movement between a transport position with the subframes folded on top of each other and a use position in which the subframes are folded apart next to each other and lie in a common plane,   each subframe is comprised of a dimensionally stable frame to whose outer edge are attached first bars that are offset in the transport position to a frame part plane spanned by the respective frame part and that in the use position project at right angles from the common plane of the frame parts, and   first bars are connected in the use position by second strip parts and the first bars form with the second strip parts, a circumferential tensioning strip of the headboard or footboard frame.   
     
     
         2 . The improvement according to  claim 1 , wherein the second strip parts comprise corner connectors each connecting two first bars at a corner of the headboard or footboard frame. 
     
     
         3 . The improvement according to  claim 2 , wherein the second strip parts serving as corner connectors have rounded corners. 
     
     
         4 . The improvement according to  claim 1 , wherein the second strip parts comprise straight strip parts as connecting parts for two adjacent first bars. 
     
     
         5 . The improvement according to  claim 1 , wherein the second strip parts are detachably fastened to the first bars. 
     
     
         6 . The improvement according to  claim 1 , the second strip parts are made of plastic. 
     
     
         7 . The improvement according to  claim 1 , further comprising:
 a stiff grid reinforcing the headboard or footboard frame.   
     
     
         8 . The improvement according to  claim 1 , wherein the frame parts, the first bars and the grid are made of metal. 
     
     
         9 . The improvement according to  claim 1 , further comprising:
 a cover covering the headboard or footboard frame;   a surrounding tensioning strip surrounding the headboard or footboard underneath an edge of the cover; and   clamping elements detachably securing free edge regions of the headboard or footboard frame to the tensioning strip.   
     
     
         10 . The improvement according to  claim 9 , wherein each subframe has at least two transverse or longitudinal struts forming a clamping gap adapted to receive a retaining bar of the cover. 
     
     
         11 . The improvement according to  claim 1 , wherein the first bars have holes in which electrical parts can be fastened or through which electrical parts can passed or in which holders for decorative or design elements can be held. 
     
     
         12 . The improvement according to  claim 1 , wherein each headboard or footboard frame has at least two adapter plates with pins, with which the headboard or footboard frame is detachably fastened to a mattress frame, the adapter plates being fastened to parts of the subframes, preferably to second transverse or longitudinal struts of the subframes, the pins fitting into sleeves of a mattress frame and being detachably fixed therein. 
     
     
         13 . The improvement according to  claim 12 , wherein the adapter plates are detachably fastened to the second cross and/or longitudinal struts by fasteners, the second cross and/or longitudinal struts each having at least two holes for fastening and variable positioning of the adapter plates. 
     
     
         14 . The improvement according to  claim 10 , wherein the first bars have cutouts that in the transport position surround the first and/or second cross and/or longitudinal struts.