The patent records are full of Murphy beds or "wardrobe beds" like this one by Frederick Payne and Alfred Reid for Patent 23,604, which "shall possess the combined advantage of a secretary, wardrobe and toilet accommodations."
Credit: US Patent Office, found by Siegfried Gideon in Mechanization Takes Command
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