EP4422926A1

EP4422926A1 - Bed and tent for vehicle with rear-facing door

Info

Publication number: EP4422926A1
Application number: EP22886191.0A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Robert Gellin
Original assignee: Rosani Aps
Current assignee: Rosani Aps
Priority date: 2021-10-25
Filing date: 2022-10-24
Publication date: 2024-09-04
Also published as: DK181257B1; WO2023072352A1; DK202101013A1

Abstract

The invention concerns a bed device, which encompasses a bed with fastening brackets (4, 5 and 6), that supports an inner tent (16), where the bed can be fitted in a vehicle with a rear-facing door (35) in a manner such that a part of the bed is inside the vehicle and another part is outside the vehicle when set up for use. The invention can be set up for use without the use of tools, fittings, or separate contrivances for fastening the invention to the vehicle in a manner such that the invention is secured to the vehicle to the requisite extent during use and cannot be separated from it externally without the use of destructive violence. This is achieved by one of the fastening brackets (4), when the invention is set up for use, being situated against the interior side of the vehicle's rearmost end and through the inner tent (16) being connected with another fastening bracket (5), which when set up for use has been fastened to the vehicle's rear hatch (35).

Description

Bed and tent for vehicle with rear-facing door

DESCRIPTION

The invention concerns a bed device that encompasses a bed of the type where the bed can be mounted in a vehicle with a rear-facing door, and where the first part of the bed (1) when set up for use is located inside the vehicle, and the second part (2) is located essentially outside the vehicle and has a support structure arrangement to support the second part (2), and where fastened to the bed for support of the inner tent's canvas (16) there are a number of fastening brackets (4, 5 and 6), which in essence extend perpendicular to the bed's longitudinal direction, and an inner tent (16), which in essence is mechanically fastened to the second part (2) of the bed, which is located outside the vehicle when set up for use, and to the fastening brackets (4, 5 and 6), and where one of the fastening brackets (4) is configured to be situated against the internal side of the vehicle's rearmost part when set up for use, and where this fastening bracket through the inner tent's canvas is connected with another of the fastening brackets (5), which when set up for use is secured to the vehicle's open, rear-facing door (35). What is meant by a door here is either a top-hinged rear hatch like a vehicle with a hatchback or a double wing door with two side-mounted doors. In the following, possible doors will be summarily referred to as a ’’rear hatch”.

The invention also encompasses a flysheet (19), which can be fastened to the rearmost part of the vehicle and to the bed's second part (2), such that the flysheet when set up for use essentially does not touch the vehicle's substrate.

Known devices for lying down partially or fully inside or on a motor vehicle encompass for example the patent applications EP 3345788 (Al), US2815762 (A), US 2246813 (A), US 2009179455 (Al), EP 0187430 (Al), WO 9723365 (Al), US 2006/0113813 and KR20150081063 (A), where all encompass tents for establishing a lying position partially inside a vehicle. What these devices have in common is that they either must be fastened to the vehicle using a destructively mounted fitting on the vehicle's chassis, or that there is no description for the invention of a stabilising function in instructions for securing the tent's supporting fastening brackets to the vehicle's rear hatch. Finally, there is no description of the possibility for using both an inner tent and a flysheet.

With the invention, a device is furnished of the initially mentioned type, which can be set up for use without the use of tools, fittings, or separate contrivances for fastening the invention to the vehicle in a manner such that the invention is secured during use to the vehicle to the requisite extent and essentially cannot be separated from such from the outside without the use of destructive violence.

This is achieved as per the invention by one of the fastening brackets (4), when the invention has been set up for use, being situated against the internal side of the vehicle's rearmost part (fig. 1 and 4) and through the inner tent's canvas and possibly one or more special length-adjustable means of connection (21) being connected with another fastening bracket (5), which when set up for use is fastened to the vehicle's rear hatch with a fastening contrivance(38). By an adjusted length of the inner tent and the possible other means of connection between the two fastening brackets, the frontmost (4) of the fastening brackets, when another fastening bracket (5) is fastened to the door, viewed in the vehicle's longitudinal direction, will be pulled to the rear by the tent canvas and in towards the car's interior rear edge, whereupon the tent canvas becomes tensioned around the vehicle's ceiling and rear door, such that the invention is secured, and the described effect thereby attained. In addition, the tent canvas will in essence be firmly mounted on the bed and the fastening brackets, such that the tent canvas need not be mounted separately on the invention in connection with readying it for use.

The fastening brackets (4, 5 and 6) for support of the inner tent can be adjusted in height and by use of a turning joint fastened to the bed can be swivelled, such that the invention can be adapted to different vehicles with each having their own geometry.

In a version of the invention, a contrivance can be secured to the fastening bracket (5), which when set up for use is fastened to the vehicle's door, for example a hoop, ring or the like or a separate locking device (38) that is configured to engage with the locking device or alternatively the locking ring (39) on the vehicle's open rear hatch.

In another version, one or more detachable fittings (15), which are configured to fasten an edge on the vehicle's open rear hatch, can be secured to this fastening bracket (see fig. 1).

It is anticipated that reinforcing material can be woven into the tent canvas, for example threads of metal or composite materials, in order to prevent the possibility of cutting the canvas with a sharp object. In its form where it is ready for use, the invention's only contact with the vehicle's substrate occurs through the support legs on that part of the carrying frame which is located outside the vehicle. There thus is no need for bracing wires or the like, hence the invention can be used on a paved substrate. The bed/berth can be executed in different materials and shapes. There can for example be a carrying frame, in which a substrate is mounted that can encompass for example transverse springs, slats or straps (33) or a contiguous surface of a suitable material, which forms a bed base to support a mattress lying above (34). In another version, the bed can consist of one or more fixed plates as a substrate for a resilient material and/or a mattress. In a third version, the bed can be executed as an inflatable mattress. In connection with this, it may be beneficial for one or more of the fastening brackets to also be inflatable.

It can be advantageous for the bed/berth to be divided up into a number of contiguous sections that are mutually connected with turning joints of a known type, such that the frame can be assembled together in the longitudinal direction, for example as a 1 in connection with the placement of the invention in the vehicle before transport or, respectively, as a Z when setting up or packing up of the bed and tent in connection with on-going use of the invention.

In another version of the invention, the bed can also be divided up into multiple sections, of which some may be separated out in connection placement and transport in the vehicle, whereas others are possibly mutually connected with turning joints of a known type, such that these parts of the bed can be folded together in connection with placement in the vehicle, when setting up the invention for use the sections will be folded out and/or be connected with each other in order to comprise an assembled bed.

The bed in one version may be furnished with one or more length-adjustable and possibly swivelling and/or detachable legs (3 and 10), which support the part of the bed that when set up for use in essence is outside the vehicle, such that the carrying frame when set up for use in its full extent is able to be configured to an approximately horizontal position (see fig. 1).

In another version, those legs that when set up for use support the exterior, second part (2) of the bed, can be assembled in a structure that is configured to be fastened to and supported by a possible trailer coupling on the vehicle (see fig. 6).

Normally, the interior width of the vehicle in the area between the rear side of the front seat and the frontmost edge of the rearmost wheel housing, which must contain the frontmost part of the invention's bed when set up for use, will be larger than the width of the rearfacing door's interior opening (clearance). One or more of the bed's frontmost sections (for example SI) may for a particular version thus be executed with a greater width than the rearmost sections (S3 and S4), whose width is determined by the interior width of the rear hatch's opening/clearance, such that the possibility is allowed that two persons may lie fully extended next to each other on the mattress/substrate (see fig. 3 and 7). In connection with any possible separating apart of the invention or assembling together as an S (fig. 5 (£)) it thus is possible regardless to place the invention inside the vehicle through the side doors or the rearfacing door opening even if one or more of the sections might be wider than the rear-facing door clearance's maximum, horizontal width.

On the bed/berth and on the rearmost support structure (6)transverse brackets/holders (9) may be placed for support/storage of baggage or other items under the exterior part (2) of the bed when it is in the position where it is set up for use (see fig. 1 and 3). It can be advantageous for the frontmost baggage holder (11) on (2) to be detachable, such that it can be detached if the distance the distance LI between the frontmost part of the vehicle's wheel housings and its rearmost, exterior delineation of the vehicle is greater than the distance L2 between the rear edge of the invention's widest section and said baggage holder (see fig. 7), since the holder would otherwise impede the invention from being placed in its correct state for use.

The rearmost fastening bracket (6) can both at the top and bottom be furnished with detachable, adjustable spacers (29), shaped as brackets, which are placed in the fastening bracket in essence in parallel with its vertical part, such that a possible flysheet (19) will not touch the inner tent when set up for use (see fig. 1 and 7).

A tent canvas (the inner tent (16)) of known material can be placed around the exterior part (2) of the bed and the fastening brackets, such that the space, which is bounded by the brackets and the bed, are shielded in essence on all surfaces outside the vehicle, but are open towards the interior of the vehicle. The inner tent may, underneath the bed for example, be held together by length-adjustable contrivances (17) that ensure that it in essence forms a tube around the fastening brackets and frame. In another version of the invention, the inner tent may be secured in place to a rail on the outer edge of the bed with an assembly method of a known type, for example a so-called Keder. The length of the inner tent between the fastening brackets (4, 5 and 6) can be adjusted using the contrivances (20) permanently fastened to the tent canvas of a known type, for example Velcro, which is placed along the front edge of the canvas, and which is fastened around the fastening bracket (4) viewed in the vehicle's longitudinal direction.

The tent canvas may be furnished along its frontmost edge with one or more mouldable pillows (18) of an arbitrary shape, filled with air or a known, mouldable material, such as for example foam rubber granulate, feathers or the like, so that the pillows when the frontmost fastening bracket and the tent canvas are placed in the use position any possible cavity between the fastening bracket (4) and the inner side of the vehicle's rearmost door opening will in essence be filled (see fig. 8 and 9).

When mounting the rearmost fastening bracket (6) in the position for use (see fig. 1) this is swung up into an essentially vertical position, where it may possibly be firmly locked in its turning joint (7) of a known type (see fig. 1 and 3).

The invention also encompasses a flysheet (19), which may be fastened with straps (36) of a known type to the invention's rearmost support structure (3). The flysheet may be pulled up from here over the invention, so it covers the inner tent and the rearmost part of the vehicle (see fig. 1). It can subsequently be fastened to the vehicle with known fastening contrivances. In one version, two contrivances are used, each consisting of two wheel wedges (27), which are mutually connected with a crossbar (28) that is set up for the distance between the two wedges to be able to be varied, and where a set of wheel wedges is placed around each rear wheel of the vehicle for use in securing the frontmost part of the flysheet via a raceway (24) with a length-adjustable strap (25) and a hook (26) in each end of the strap. The hooks are placed around the crossbars (28), such that the flysheet is fastened to the vehicle's roof and sides. The hooks can also be placed on the bottom edge of the vehicle's shields or somewhere else on the vehicle without the use of contrivances with wheel wedges. Straps, hooks and wheel wedges with crossbars may in a special version of the flysheet be replaced with a magnetic strap fastened along the front edge of the flysheet.

The invention can be adapted for use in different models of vehicles with the following adjustable elements:

- Adjustment of length of the support structure/legs (3 and 10)

- Adjustment of height of fastening brackets (4, 5 and 6)

- Adjustment of frontmost circumference and length of inner tent

The invention is explained in the preceding with reference to the figures below.

Fig. 1 shows a lengthwise cross section in a vehicle and the invention when set up for use, in this version encompassing a carrying frame (1 and 2) with cross braces (12), bed base with mattress, length- adjustable legs/supports of the carrying frame inside (10) and outside (3) the vehicle, height-adjustable fastening brackets (4, 5 and 6) for support of an inner tent (16) as well as for securing of the invention in the vehicle and. respectively, securing of the vehicle's open rear hatch (35). It can be seen how a frontmost fastening bracket (4) is situated against the interior rear edge of the vehicle when the invention is placed into position for use, and by use of the inner tent (16), the possible supplemental means of connection (21) and another fastening bracket (5), which through the locking contrivance (38) is fastened in the rear hatch's locking contrivance (39), is secured in this position.

In addition, exterior holders (9 and 29) are seen for baggage and the like, spacers for a flysheet (19) as well as wheel wedges (27) mutually connected with an adjustable crossbar (28) for securing of the frontmost part of the flysheet via a raceway (24) with a length-adjustable strap (25) and hook (26). Finally, the contrivances (36) are seen for fastening of the flysheet's rearmost part to the legs (3).

Fig. 2 shows a plan view of a vehicle and invention in a form ready for use, where the position of the sub-tent (16) and flysheet (19), respectively, in relation to the vehicle's rear hatch and rearmost part are shown. In addition, the placement of the raceway (24) in the frontmost part and the mounting contrivances (36) and, respectively, for the rearmost part of the flysheet.

Fig. 3 shows an isometric drawing of the carrying frame (1 and 2) with cross braces (12), height- adjustable fastening brackets (4, 5 and 5) and supports/legs with length-adjustment contrivances (3, 10 and 14) as well as fastening contrivances (9 and 11 as well as 15, alternatively 38) for baggage, etc., and, respectively, for the vehicle's rear hatch. Also indicated is what is designated in the text as the interior part (1) and the exterior part (2) of the bed. Bed base, mattress and tent canvas are not shown.

Fig. 4 shows a longitudinal cross section during the setting up or folding together, respectively, before or after use. In addition, the contrivance (38) is seen for securing a fastening bracket (5) to the lock on the vehicle's open rear hatch (35). It is also seen how the frontmost fastening bracket (4) can swing up against the interior rear edge of the vehicle when setting up for use. Tent canvas is not shown.

Fig. 5 shows the invention in partially folded up form (Z) in the vehicle, ready for transport, where the three rearmost sections (S2, S3 and S4) are folded together as a Z, and in fully folded up form (S), where all sections are folded together as a S before being placed in or removed from the vehicle. Tent canvas is not shown.

Fig. 6 shows the invention in a version where the part of the bed which when set up for use in essence is located outside the vehicle is supported by a structure (41) that is configured for being fastened to or supported on a possible trailer coupling (40) on the vehicle.

Fig. 7 shows a plan view of the carrying frame with the placement of the frontmost sections (SI) in relation to the vehicle's wheel housings as well as the spacers LI and L2, which govern a possible need for dismounting of the frontmost baggage holder (9). In addition, three fastening brackets (4, 5 and 6) for support of the inner tent are seen, including the placement of the fastening bracket (5) with the locking contrivance (38) in relation to the vehicle's rear hatch (35) when set up for use. Finally, one of the spacer brackets (29) on the rearmost fastening bracket (6) is shown as well as the baggage holders (9 and 11).

Fig. 8 shows an isometric drawing of the inner tent (16) fastened to the carrying frame and brackets as well as the placement of the space-filling pillows (18) on the tent canvas (16). The placement can also be seen of the contrivances (17 and 20) for the joining and securing of the inner tent, any possible supplemental means of connection (for example a length-adjustable line) (21) for clamping together of the two fastening brackets (4 and 5) as well as the contrivances (15) for securing the fastening bracket (5) to the edge of the vehicle's rear hatch and the spacers (29) between the inner tent and flysheet. Finally, the reinforcements (22) at the lead-throughs of the holders (15) are seen.

Fig. 9 shows the vehicle and the invention viewed from behind, with the inner tent (16) fastened to the carrying frame and the brackets, including the placement of the space-filling pillows (18) on the tent canvas and the rear door holders (15) on the fastening bracket (5). In addition, the placement can be seen of the wheel wedges (27) with a connecting rod (28) and raceway (24) with a strap (25) and hooks (26). Finally, the legs (3) can be seen as well as the rearmost baggage holder (9).

Detail numbering

51 Frontmost section of interior part of the carrying frame

52 Adjustable section of interior carrying frame

53 Frontmost section of exterior carrying frame

54 Rearmost section of external carrying frame

1. Interior part of carrying frame, corresponding to the part of the invention that is located inside the vehicle during use

2. Exterior part of carrying frame, corresponding to the part of the invention that is located outside the vehicle during use

3. Legs on exterior part of carrying frame

4. Fastening bracket, which is configured to be situated against the interior side of the vehicle's rearmost part when set up for use

5. Fastening bracket, which is configured to be secured to the vehicle's rear hatch when set up for use

6. Rearmost fastening bracket

7. Turning joint with possible locking contrivance for rearmost fastening bracket

8. Lockable holder for legs (3) when set up for use

9. Rearmost baggage holder

10. Support/legs on interior part of carrying frame

11. Frontmost baggage holder

12. Transverse brace on carrying frame

13. Turning joint in carrying frame for use in folding up

14. Tensioning contrivance for length-adjustment of supports/legs and fastening brackets

15. Contrivance for securing of the vehicle's rear hatch when set up for use

16. Tent canvas/inner tent

17. Length-adjustable contrivances for securing of inner tent

18. Mouldable pillows for inner tent for filling up of space between frontmost fastening bracket and vehicle

19. Flysheet

20. Contrivance for securing of inner tent on fastening bracket (4)

21. Length-adjustable means of connection for clamping together of the fastening brackets (4 and 5) when set up for use 22. Reinforcement of inner tent for placement of holes for holders (15)

23. Interior wheel housing of vehicle

24. Raceway for strap in frontmost edge of flysheet or magnetic strap

25. Strap in raceway on frontmost edge of flysheet

26. Hook on strap (25) for securing of flysheet

27. Wheel wedges for securing of vehicle against movements

28. Connecting rod between wheel wedges (27) as fastening point for hook (26) when set up for use

29. Spacers between inner tent (16) and flysheet (19)

30. Deleted

31. Deleted

32 Deleted

33. Carrying strap, laminated spring or contiguous mattress substrate

34. Divided up into sections or whole mattress

35. The vehicle's rear hatch

36. Contrivances for fastening of flysheet (19) for the swivelling legs(3)

37. Deleted

38. Contrivance on fastening bracket (5) for fastening in lock or lock bracket on the vehicle's rear hatch

(35)

39. Lock or lock bracket on rear hatch

40. Possible trailer coupling on vehicle

41. Structure (41), for support of the bed's rearmost part and configured to be fastened to or supported on a possible trailer coupling (40) on the vehicle.

Claims

CLAIMS The bed device, which encompasses a collapsible bed of the type where the bed (1, 2) can be mounted in a vehicle with a rearfacing door, and where a first part (1) of the bed when set up for use is located inside the vehicle and the second part (2) when set up for use is essentially located outside the vehicle, and where fastened to the bed for support of an inner tent's canvas (16) there are some number of swivelling fastening brackets (4, 5, 6), which essentially extend out perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the bed, and an inner tent (16), which essentially is mechanically fastened to the second part (2) of the bed, which is located outside the vehicle when set up for use, and to the fastening brackets (4, 5, 6) where when set up for use the frontmost of the fastening brackets (4) in the vehicle's driving direction is connected through the inner tent (16) with any (5) of the other fastening brackets, CHARACTERISED by the second part (2) having a support structure (3) configured to support this second part (2) and that when set up for use the frontmost of the fastening brackets (4) in the vehicle's driving direction possibly through one or more specially length- adjustable means of connection (21) is connected with any (5) of the other fastening brackets, on which one or more fastening contrivances (15, 38), intended to secure this fastening bracket (5) when set up for use to the vehicle's open, rearfacing door(35), where the inner tent (16) and possibly one or more of the means of connection (21) when set up for use have such an extent that when the arbitrarily selected fastening bracket (5) is mounted to be ready for use, the frontmost fastening bracket (4) will due to the connection between it and the arbitrarily selected fastening bracket (5) through the inner tent (16) and possibly the stated length-adjustable means of connection (21) be swung around its fastening points on the bed. The bed device pursuant to claim 1, is CHARACTERISED by at least a portion of the first part (1) of the bed, which when set up for use is located inside the vehicle, having a greater width than the second part (2) of the bed, which is located outside the vehicle. The bed device pursuant to claim 1 or 2, is CHARACTERISED by contrivances (9, 11) being fastened to and under the second part (2) of the bed in the form of at least one essentially U-shaped bracket (11), which in essence extends perpendicular to the bed's longitudinal direction, plus a minimum of one cross brace (9) in parallel with such, fastened to the support structure (3), and which is configured when set up for use so as to support and store baggage or other items being transported by the vehicle. The bed device pursuant to one of the preceding claims is CHARACTERISED by there being fastened to the inner tent (16) one or more mouldable pillows (18). The bed device pursuant to one of the preceding claims is CHARACTERISED by the bed device encompassing a flysheet (19), which when set up for use is mounted outside the inner tent (16), and where it rests on spacers (29) fastened to one of the fastening brackets (6) and to the rearmost part (2) of the bed, and which when set up for use with contrivances (36) on it in relation to the vehicle's rearmost part of the flysheet can be fastened to the rearmost part of the bed (2) or its support structure (3), and with other fastening contrivances (24, 25, 26) in essence on the front edge of the flysheet (19) when set up for use is able to be fastened to fixed parts of the vehicle or to independent means of fastening (27), which when set up for use are connected to or supported by parts of the vehicle.