Hi Tiredoldwhiteman,
I too thought the Little Gem a great TTT and its Murphy style Bed a
surprise and ingenious. It is actually quite straightforward how they did it.
They basically stopped the seat base/box/cabinet short of the back wall
the correct distance and attached the bed/mattress fold-down base to the
rear side of the seat base/box/cabinet top with a couple of ordinary leaf
style hinges on each seat base/box/cabinet top. And also, the dinette table
is also hinged to the bed base so that it folds underneath when the bed is
folded down for use.
Here are a couple links I found when I first saw beverlyt's original post.
The first is her blog that documents the restoration. On the very last
page of 'older posts' [the first day's posting to it] it shows what I described
above:
http://littlegemrenovate.blogspot.com/
The second link has some Little Gem brochures. It looks like they used
their murphy style bed on at least one other model of theirs [this is also
beverlyt's]:
http://kc8jwa.webs.com/littlegem.htm
'Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Norm/mezmo
P.S. I looked at the link with the brochures again and noticed there is a
specific link for a PDF on the bed. Here it is:
http://kc8jwa.webs.com/GemFold-awaybed.pdf
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