Secret of a Sun-Parlor Bedroom 



IN modern apartment buildings a 

 great demand has sprung up for 

 apartments pro\ided with sun-parlors 

 readily "convertible, by folding-beds and 

 other con\'crtibIc furniture, into sleep- 

 ing porches without such liouble use 



against the wall, brinj^'ing into position 

 the writing desk. The bed is then folded 

 in its upright position and the room is 

 complete. When the room is to be con- 

 verted from a sun-parlor into a bedroom 

 the door is swung outward, bringing into 



The Heavy Door Has a Chifi'onicr on One Side and a Desk on the Other. The Bed Can Be Folded 

 Up to Form a Seat. Thus a Comfortable Eedroom Can Be Transformed into a Cozy Sun-Parlor 



being obvious to the ordinary visitor. 

 A Chicago inventor has taken out 

 patents on a device he hopes will solve 

 the problem. 



The object of the invention is to so 

 combine the walls of an\- room, used as 

 a sun-parlor, with its own furniture and 

 with an adjacent or supplemental room, 

 that the desired result is achieved. .A 

 swinging door or partition pro\ided with 

 furniture for different purposes or of 

 various characters attached to the 

 opposite sides is used to transform the 

 appearance of the room at any time. 



In the accompanying illustration a 

 bedroom is shown on the left and a sun- 

 parlor on the right, being interchange- 

 able by the simple means of a folding 

 bed, and a swinging door equipped with 

 a desk on one side and a dresser on the 

 other. Regardless of the load of fur- 

 niture the door carries, it cannot sag, 

 due to its no\el mounting. When the 

 room is to be changed from a bedroom 

 to a sun-parlor, the swinging door with 

 the dresser attached is swung back 



position the dresser; and the folding 

 bed is lowered. 



The room adjoining the sun-parlor or 

 Ijedroom may or may not be partitioned 

 off when the swinging door is opened. 



The Preeminence of American 

 Inventive Ingenuity 



OF the epoch making inventions of 

 the world during the past fifty 

 years, 48 in number, Americans are 

 credited with 35, which include the tele- 

 phone, typewriter, cash register, incan- 

 descent lani]), talking machine, electric 

 furnace reduction, electrolytic alkali pro- 

 duction, transparent photographic film, 

 motion-picture machine, buttonhole sew- 

 ing machine, carborundum, chain stitch 

 shoe sewing machine, single-type com- 

 posing machine, continuous process 

 match machine, chrome tanning, disk 

 plow (modern type), welt machine, 

 electric lamp, recording adding machines, 

 celluloid, automatic knot-t\ing machine, 

 machine for making barbed wire, etc. 



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