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AssigneeAshley Furniture Industries, Inc.
InventorsJames Allen Lewis, Philip Lee Stokes, James Anthony Sudduth, Jimmy Dale Holley
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A upholstered sofa covered by a form fitting upholstery sack where the upholstery sack incorporates a supportive material panel that has integrated support webbing into the material panel. The support webbing comprising a plurality of webbing straps. With the upholstery sack properly positioned on the back rest portion, the supportive material panel is positioned on the front of the back rest portion frame. The material panel with webbing is incorporated as a component of the upholstery sack where the upholstery sack is pre-formed to snugly fit over the back rest portion of a furniture frame. The back rest portion or the frame is inserted into the sack and the material panel with integrated webbing is attached to the frame. Once the material panel is positioned and fastened, the remaining components, for example, the back panels and side panels, of the upholstery sack are attached to the frame at the back rest portion. Due to the construction of the material panel with webbing, installation time is decreased when compared to the time required for conventional webbing and upholstery installations.
A method of assembling an upholstered sofa comprising:
A sofa comprising:
An upholstery sack comprising exposed upholstery material, a back rest material, and a plurality of back rest straps arranged to be spaced and parallel when installed, the back rest straps sewn at a connection of the back rest material and the plurality of straps, whereby when attaching the upholstery sack to a sofa frame the back rest material and back rest straps are simultaneously attached.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.