Bunk bed frame locking system

摘要

A bunk bed system including a head board and a foot board assembled with corner posts and interconnecting slats including a modified mortise and tenon joint which includes a dado on a lateral face of the tenon in alignment with a vertical post channel and longitudinal pin channel which lock and fixedly holding the joint together. The vertical channel member cooperatively engages the dado to both fixedly hold the tenon within the mortise and to also hold the tenon perpendicular to the mortise.

主权项

1. A bunk bed headboard/footboard comprising:
a first post and a second post, said first post and said second post having at least two vertical sockets formed therein; at least two horizontal slats, each of said slats having a tenon formed at each end; said vertical sockets within first post and said second post capable of tightly receiving said tenons of said at least two horizontal slats; said first post and said second post having vertical channels formed therein, said vertical channels aligned to face in a direction parallel to one another and in a direction perpendicular to said slats when said tenons of said slats are inserted into said first post and said second post; said sockets partially overlapping a rear portion of the volume of said channels and extending into said posts past said channels; said tenons having a vertical dado formed therein, said dado being perfectly aligned with said channel when said tenons are fully inserted into said sockets; and two U-shaped vertical channel members capable of being inserted into said vertical channels of said first post and said second post and cooperatively engaging said dados within said tenons when said tenons are fully inserted into said sockets with said dados facing outwards into said vertical channels, said vertical channel members having spaced apart horizontal pins capable of cooperatively engaging vertical hooks on flanges of a bunk bed mattress supporting frame.