A Murphy Bed or Wallbed is a bed that flips up at the head end for storage inside a closet. To achieve this, the mattress is attached to the bed frame, often with a bolt at each corner. Murphy beds are used for space-saving purposes, much like a trundle bed is. Due to space limitations, most Murphy beds do not have box springs. Instead, the mattress usually lies on wire mesh. Most Murphy beds are also not equipped with headboards, footboards or bed rails. A double bed A bed is a piece of furniture or location primarily used or intended for sleeping upon, but also commonly used for sexual activities, relaxing, sitting, and reading. ... Wall closet in a residential house in the U.S. It is common for a mirror to be placed on the inside of a closet door. ... A pillow top queen-size mattress. ... A bed frame or bedstead is the part of a bed used to position a mattress or box spring set off from the ground. ... This article is about screws and bolts. ... Trundle beds are usually considered a pair of beds, one slightly smaller than a twin bed that is on rollers or casters so that it may be put beneath the upper twin bed for storage. ... A headboard is an item of furniture. ...

On the most well-known style of Murphy bed, the head end is permanently mounted inside a large closet located in the wall of a bedroom or living room. This type of Murphy bed (and its closet) is usually concealed behind a pair of closet doors. In some cases where construction budgets were tight, there are no doors. Instead, the bottom of the bed is a solid panel. When folded up, this solid panel appears to be part of the wall. A brick wall A wall is a usually solid structure that defines and sometimes protects an area. ... A bedroom is a room where people sleep. ... A sitting room in the UK. A living room, also known as sitting room (especially in the UK), lounge room or lounge (in the United Kingdom and Australia), is a room for entertaining guests, reading, watching TV or other activities. ... This article is about the architectural feature. ...

Less typical variations of Murphy beds included one type that was mounted on a swing arm. This arm pivoted the bed between room and closet. On another type, the head end was on casters. This allowed the bed to be stored in any large closet and rolled into any room for use. In many cases, the closet where the Murphy bed was stored doubled as a standard clothes closet. See also: Caster (Fate Stay Night), an anime character Casters on a desk chair. ...

A similar type of bed is the hideaway bed, first patented in 1885 by Sarah E. Goode. A hideaway bed also folds up when not in use, but is not concealed behind a wall or closet, instead serving double use as a shelf or desk. Sarah E. Goode (b. ...

William L. Murphy applied for a patent for the Murphy bed on April 1, 1916 and was granted Design Patent D49,273 on June 27, 1916. Murphy started the Murphy Wall Bed Company and began production in San Francisco. In January 1990, the company changed its name to the "Murphy Bed Co. Inc." is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... is the 178th day of the year (179th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ...

These beds make appearances in movies as they lend themselves to slapstick humor in which people are trapped when the bed folds into the upright position, carrying the person on the bed inside. For example, in Stanley Kramer's famous comedy It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, the smarmy Otto Meyer (Phil Silvers) gets thrown from the fire truck ladder, through a window and onto a Murphy bed, which prompty retracts into the wall. In Mel Brooks' Silent Movie, a hotel's neon sign advertises "Murphy Beds — Charming to the Unsophisticated". For other uses, see Slapstick (disambiguation). ... Stanley Kramer (September 29, 1913 – February 19, 2001) was a Jewish-American film director and producer. ... Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is an American motion picture directed by Stanley Kramer about the madcap pursuit of $350,000 of stolen cash by a diverse and colourful group of strangers. ... Phil Silvers (May 11, 1911 – November 1, 1985) was an American entertainer and comedy actor. ... Mel Brooks (born June 28, 1926) is an Academy Award-winning American director, writer, comedian, actor and producer best known as a creator of broad film farces and comedy parodies. ... This article is about the comedy film. ... For other uses, see Hotel (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Neon (disambiguation). ...

In 1989 an appellate court held that the term "Murphy bed" is no longer entitled to trademark protection because a substantial majority of the public perceive the term as a generic term for a bed that folds into a wall rather than the specific model made by the Murphy Bed Co.

Murphy beds are now commonly in use in hotels as a second bed for families that have more than four people and cannot fit into one hotel room otherwise. They are no longer commonly used in homes with limited square footage, such as mobile homes and apartments. Since the late 1900s, Murphy Beds have been incorporated into modular cabinetry with glass, mirrors, lighting, or additional units for entertainment storage or computer centers. These whole room designs has now made murphy beds into a luxury item — perfect for daily use or for guest rooms. A modern double-wide mobile home Mobile homes are housing units built in factories, rather than on site, and then taken to the place where they will be occupied, usually by being carried by tractor-trailers over public highways. ... An apartment (or flat) is a self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building. ... A module is a self-contained component of a system, which has a well-defined interface to the other components; something is modular if it is constructed so as to facilitate easy assembly, flexible arrangement, and/or repair of the components. ...

External links

• "Create More Space" (Specializes in current innovations in Murphy Beds)
• "Murphy Bed Frame" (Purchase Do-It-Yourself Kits)
• The History of Murphy Bed
• "Aladdinettes Are Equipped With Murphy Wall Beds" (from 1922 Aladdin Homes Catalog) — Sales brochure article that describes swing-arm Murphy Beds.
• "Create-A-Bed® murphy bed mechanism" (Do-It-Yourself murphy bed hardware and complete step-by-step instructions and DVD)
• "Create More Space" (Specializes in current innovations in Murphy Beds)
• "Murphy Bed Frame" (Purchase Do-It-Yourself Kits)
• "Wilding Wallbeds" Murphy Bed and Wall Bed Manufacturer
• Old Creek Wall Beds - Wall Bed Manufacturer and Retailer

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