This mechanism is similar to those used in caravans to convert a sofa into a bed [28].
"We realized that if we could get the passenger to stand up and get the seat to convert into a bed, we could have new foams and fabrics for sleeping on," said Joe Ferry, Virgin Atlantic's head of design.
(Lie-flat seats recline to 180 degrees, while flat-bed seats often convert into a bed by joining the seat to a detached ottoman).
You may require the camper to sleep at least four, include a dinette table (and you should expect it to convert to a bed), an overhead bunk, and a queen-size bed over the cab.
Nearly every model came with seats that converted into a bed.
The van was my parents' red Volkswagen bus, with flowered curtains and the back converted into a bed.
For a few days after Ms. Livermore's death, Ms. Goode still slept in the living room on the couch she had converted to a bed to be closer to her mother.
Ms. Singer came from Reading, Pa., where she runs a travel agency, and Ms. Mulloy came from Orange, Va., where she and her husband, Richard Brown, run Willow Grove Inn, a 1790's plantation house converted to a bed and breakfast with a restaurant that is among the most outstanding in the stretch from Washington to Charlottesville.
According to their website, Frying Pan Tower is a Coast Guard Light Station located 34 miles off the North Carolina coast that has been converted into a bed and breakfast.
He says he sleeps on a "very old and uncomfortable" chair that converts to a bed, under artificial lights and an air conditioning unit that are never turned off.
