Most of us have experienced a sofa bed at least once in our lives and the experience is usually quite memorable. Not that it’s necessarily a good thing to remember. Traditional sofa beds have often been found to be too hard, uncomfortable and fall short of providing a pleasant night’s sleep experience. Most of the complaints we give about our sleeping experience tend to be, “I can feel that bar in my back” or “the springs are poking me in the side.” Fortunately, sleeper designs have come a long way in recent years and this article will look at a mechanism developed by Robert and Barbara Tiffany for an American manufacturer of Comfort Sleepers. Their goal is to address and fix the problems within the sleeper industry and build a better sleeper.
Robert and Barbara Tiffany’s furniture design collaboration began in 1976. It was in this year that they introduced polyurethane foam convertible seats to the American public. The design was very successful and was marketed through the Sherwood Corporation. Over the years that have followed, this design team has been recognized with various awards and honors for excellence in furniture design within the furniture industry. It was in 2001 that Tiffany’s received the Daphne Award for upholstered furniture for a convertible sofa. It was this innovative new patented design introduced in bed construction that moved away from traditional bed construction and ushered in a new trend of more comfortable sofa beds that could now be considered comfortable.
The Tiffany 24/7 mechanism is quite streamlined in its approach and moves away from traditional bars and springs. The mechanism incorporates a newer design in that it uses space more efficiently. The 24/7 mechanism allows the surface of the sofa bed to be very close to the arms and back panel of the sofa bed, while older designs require more wasted space between the arms and back of the sofa to contain the bulkier mechanisms . This means that the Tiffany 24/7 sofa bed takes up less space than other models, allowing for better use of space both lengthwise and widthwise.
Another feature of the Tiffany 24/7 mechanism is how it works. The system is made up of three sections of flat panels without bars. Heavy-duty straps at the top of the seat section of the front panel allow for quick removal of the bed. The panel at the head of the bed actually folds into the back of the sofa with the other two panels resting below where the seat cushions sit. Due to the way these panels fold into the unit, there is less weight transfer from the unit, making it easier to move from sofa to bed and back again.
The mattresses used in the Tiffany 24/7 Comfort Sleeper are a far cry from the old-fashioned innerspring systems used in traditional beds. This more modern design incorporates new memory foam and memory foam mattresses introduced as premium mattresses within the bedding industry, while offering a more sophisticated alternative to old, uncomfortable box spring units. These mattresses work perfectly with this sleep system, and by eliminating the springs and bars, they are believed to offer better pressure relief to the back and neck regions during sleep.
For a long time, sofa beds have been considered a viable option for spaces that needed to be doubled for sitting and sleeping. Unfortunately, many traditional sleepers, while comfortable as a couch, were anything but a sleeper. In recent years, however, innovators like Robert and Barbara Tiffany have rewritten how sofa beds are perceived and used by introducing the Tiffany 24/7 Comfort Sleeper mechanism, which helped eliminate the bars and springs that many disliked. on conventional sofa beds and featured a better engineered mechanism and sleeping surface that allows the use of modern memory foam and memory foam mattresses.