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Galloping Bunk Beds

pantograph-like four poster
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No more struggling to make the upper bunk bed. No more climbing into bed up a steep ladder. No more negotiating if big brother or little brother sleeps on top. With galloping bunk beds they can change places every night, or sleep beside each other.

The beds with two post supports on each end build a spring-loaded "pantograph", making it a cinch to pull down one bed to change the sheets or (un)load Junior. Lock the spring to keep both beds on the floor, or free it to swing the top bed back up. By sliding the supports while in the down position, the former lower bed can then be raised, and the bunk beds will stand in a new place in the bedroom.

The deluxe version has a motor and enables also vertical shift of the supports while the beds are above each other for further sideways steps. This allows the kids’ bunk beds to gallop through the night, easy as a walk in the park.

FarmerJohn, Jun 06 2004

(?) drawing http://www.geocitie...nnie/bunkbeds.html?
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Fun-kbeds http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Fun-kbeds
I acknowledge some similarities [FarmerJohn, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]

Fun-kbeds http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Fun-kbeds
I acknowledge some similarities [FarmerJohn, Oct 05 2004]

This shows both pantographs and a simple four bar linkage. http://www.du.edu/~...machines/centro.htm
[ldischler, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]

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       Well, I’m sure glad you put a drawing in there! (By the way, this is the simplest form of what's called a "four-bar linkage." It’s not a "pantograph"--which also can be a four-bar, but not this one.)
ldischler, Jun 06 2004
  

       I employed a looser, non-engineer definition than a writing pantograph: "A similarly jointed framework, such as a power-collecting trolley on an electric locomotive or an extensible telephone arm".
FarmerJohn, Jun 06 2004
  

       I always thought a pantograph was something which told you when it was time to change your pants.
hippo, Jun 06 2004
  

       Brilliant.
waugsqueke, Jun 06 2004
  

       Motorize it, give it AI, and it can run away from you.
DesertFox, Jun 06 2004
  

       Cute. +
sartep, Jun 06 2004
  

       Too much galloping and someone's going to have to muck out the stable in the morning.
Salted Nuts, Jun 07 2004
  

       Until the kids go crazy in the night and crash through the bedroom window. +
Face, Jun 07 2004
  

       Yeah, I can see Junior trying to squish his little brother...
phoenix, Jun 07 2004
  

       Junior was always into his modding, but he met an untimely end when his overclocked bunk bed flung him out the window...
david_scothern, Jun 07 2004
  

       dunno why this looks like a household circus-like appliance... (+) !
sweet, Jun 07 2004
  

       Uh, suction cups?
FarmerJohn, Jun 07 2004
  


 

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