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Simply a couch with some kind of wheel (I was thinking of
something like a shopping cart, but of course strong enough
to hold a couch and/or people on a couch.
In case you happen to have shithead demon children, there
would presumably be some kind of lock on the wheels that
prevent a child
from moving your couch around and messing
everything up, the locks could maybe be some kind of spokes
that come out of the wheel to make it harder to move, or
the circular wheel could make their sides flat like a square
to also make it harder to move (added some kind of code to
un-lock them)
This would make it way easier to move a couch to a different
room/ across a room if you desire to do such a thing
https://www.colsonc...cessory/total-lock/
[pocmloc, Dec 06 2021]
Sofa castors
https://www.keyston...EAAYAyAAEgK_ifD_BwE
widely known to exist and in common usage with or without brakes [xenzag, Dec 07 2021]
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Hmmm very clever, many sofas have tiny casters that don't really do very much, big industrial castors with locking mechanisms are readily available (check out "total locking casters" which lock both the wheel and the swivel). But there definitely seems to be a lack of large industrial locking casters applied to the undersides of sofas. The quick retort is to buy as many such casters as your sofa has legs, and screw them on, which would bake this idea in 10 minutes, but you still get a [+] for coming up with the idea. |
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Baked and widely known to exist as a search for
lockable castors, or braked castors will show. |
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The design of the lock would be the interesting part of this; it
would depend on an understanding of the capability- gap
between the implementer and the shortbread {Thank you,
autocorrect} demon children. |
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halfbakery on a crap cycle at moment. I'm going to
take a break. |
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//some kind of lock on the wheels that prevent a child from
moving your couch around and messing everything up, the
locks could maybe be some kind of spokes that come out of
the wheel to make it harder to move//
"Lifting castors" are a Thing; instead of locking the wheel from
rotating/swiveling, the wheel is lifted off the ground. |
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Oh yes I have seen grand pianos on lifting castor bases in venues where they have to be wheeled out and back away a lot. |
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I rather like this. I've also never seen a couch on castors. |
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//shithead demon children// |
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Some days this seems like a tautology. |
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Lifting casters probably make the most sense, simply because
it allows you to use a hard material for the wheel, keeping the
size down, while the pad doesn't risk marring the floor as
much. |
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I'm assuming these wheels are powered, so that if I need
the sofa to be closer to the glass of whatever I'm drinking
which is on the table I can make that happen with a
couple of clicks of the remote control? - or should the
wheels on the table be powered? |
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Both, then the table can scoot away out of reach. |
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Down the motorway on my sofa? I'll bun that! |
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