Upholstered furniture including molded furniture components
AssigneeAshley Furniture Industries, Inc.
InventorsTimothy A. Brandtner, Nicholas J. Robinson
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Abstract
An upholstered chair, recliner, or sofa with a frame including a pair blowmolded hollow arm rest forms, wherein frame members extend between the forms. Further components may be blowmolded such as a backrest. The arm rest forms and backrest may be reinforced with metal plates and assembled into a recliner. The connections to the arm rest forms providing a geometrically rigid and robust frame that is weighs less, is quicker to assemble, and is more robust. Upholstery sacks are easily attached to the frame.
Claims20
An upholstered chair having two blowmolded arm rest forms, a backrest and a seat connecting to and extending between each of the two blowmolded arm rest forms, each of the two blowmolded arm rest forms being hollow and having a continuous polymeric wall extending around a top, two lateral sides, a forward side, a rearward side, and a bottom side, the two blowmolded arm rest forms separated by a separation distance, wherein a rearward rail having a length greater than the separation distance extends between and is attached to the rearward sides of each of the two blowmolded arm rest forms into recesses defined on the respective rearward sides of the two blowmolded arm rest forms, wherein the chair is covered with upholstery including two arm rest sock portions.
An upholstered sofa comprising:
- a pair of blow molded or rotationally molded polymer arm rest forms, each of the arm rest forms being hollow and having a continuous wall extending around a top, two lateral sides, a forward side, a rearward side, and a bottom side, the pair of polymer arm rest forms separated by a separation distance;
- a wood breast rail, a wood rear spring rail, a lower forward wood rail, and a lower back rail extending between and connecting to each of the pair of blow molded polymer arm rest forms, each of the wood breast rail, the wood rear spring rail, the lower forward wood rail, and the lower back rail having respective lengths that are greater than the separation distance;
- each of the polymer arm rest forms having an inset wall portion defining a breast rail slot and an inset wall portion defining a rear spring rail slot, the two respective breast rail slots having an interference fit with two respective ends of the breast rail, the two respective rear spring rail slots having an interference fit with two respective ends of the rear spring rail.
An upholstered sofa comprising a plurality of spanning wood frame members extending between and attached to a pair of spaced hollow polymer arm rest forms, each polymer arm rest form having a continuous single exterior wall, each end of the plurality of spanning wood frame members received in a form fit recess on an exterior surface of the respective exterior wall, wherein the respective continuous single exterior wall defining each recess does not extend completely around a circumference of the respective ends of the respective spanning wood frame members.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.