A47B 13/003
Connecting table tops to underframes
Official title: {Connecting table tops to underframes (connecting furniture tubing to non-tubular parts F16B12/42)}
A47B13/003 (Connecting table tops to underframes) appears on 371 US grants and 403 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A47B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 403
- Assignees
- 197
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- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 11 | 19 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Furniture connector186US 5,658,086 A1997
- Work environment system143US 4,914,873 AHerman Miller, Inc. · 1990
- Interlock system for ready to assemble furniture, and furniture incorporating such system122US 4,886,326 ATetrad Marketing/Sales Ltd. · 1989
- High-strength, lightweight blow-molded plastic structures106US 7,171,910 B2Lifetime Products, Inc. · 2007
- Beam furniture system105US 4,382,642 A1983