PORTLAND, OR - Non-profit housing agency Central City Concern has patented a bed bug resistant bed frame, and sells it with companion tables, chairs, desks, wardrobes and dressers.

The furniture items, such as tables and chairs, are built of wood with metal frames, which are contoured to be easy to clean if a bed bug infestation is detected. Big-city bed bug infestations have been rising in recent years.

Central City Bed, a business developed to produce and sell the furniture,  is the assignee holding the patent for the "Bedbug Infestation-Resistant Bed" frame (twin, full and queen sizes). Patent US 8,739,333 was filed on April 5, 2010 and granted on June 3, 2014.

"If you can't afford to throw away infested furniture, you really need pieces that help you spot bed bugs early and that can be successfully treated and re-used," says Jon Bailey, who eradicates infestations for the non-profit housing agency.

  Central City first go into the busines in 2010, as it raced to furnish a 176-unit affordable housing building in Portland, OR. The organization says that as word spread about how its bed could be easily cleaned and put back into use after an infestation, it sold 2,700 bed frames across the country. Go to www.centralcitybed.org. Now it has expanded its ufrniture offerings to include:

two ladder back chairs
stacking chair
standard round table
simple desk
four-drawer chest (2 sizes)
four storage wardrobes (2 sizes)

"We sell a lot of bed frames," said Sarah Porter, Program Manager, "but our customers are often furnishing an entire room and they need more. They have frequently asked us to provide additional furniture items and we are pleased to respond to their needs with these new pieces of quality furniture."