US 12,245,703 B2Granted

Knock-down furniture

AssigneeSofaweb.Com Inc.

InventorsJordan Milberg, Matthew Milberg

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Abstract

A kit of parts, shippable to an end user in boxes for assembly of the parts by the end user into seating furniture, includes seat bases and seat backs removably attachable to the seat bases; a first armrest with a channel connector having a first channel for slidably receiving a first slide member of a first seat base for securing the first armrest and the first seat base together; and a second armrest with at least a second slide member for slidable insertion into a second channel of another channel connector of a second seat base for securing the second armrest and the second seat base together. Each channel connector secured to the first seat base has a third channel for receiving a third slide member of a slide connector of any other seat base for securing together said other seat base and the first seat base.

Claims17

Dependent claims

A kit of parts shippable to an end user in a plurality of boxes for assembly of the parts by the end user into seating furniture, the kit pf parts including:

a) a plurality of seat bases, each seat base having a seat base first side and a seat base second side spaced laterally apart from the seat base first side, each seat base first side having two slide connectors of a plurality of slide connectors secured thereto, each seat base second side having two channel connectors of a plurality of channel connectors secured thereto, and each seat base including a plurality of rear connectors adjacent a rear of the seat base;
b) a plurality of seat backs equal in quantity to the plurality of seat bases, each of the seat backs having a top, a bottom vertically opposite the top, and a plurality of bottom connectors adjacent the bottom and alignable with the plurality of rear connectors of any one of the plurality of seat bases for removably attaching the seat backs to the seat bases;
c) a first armrest with two further channel connectors of the plurality of channel connectors secured thereto, each channel connector of the first armrest comprising a first channel for slidably receiving a first slide member of a respective slide connector of any first seat base of the plurality of seat bases for securing the first armrest and the first seat base together;
d) a second armrest with two further slide connectors of the plurality of slide connectors secured thereto, each slide connector of the second armrest comprising a second slide member for slidable insertion into a second channel of a respective channel connector of any second seat base of the plurality of seat bases for securing the second armrest and the second seat base together;
and
e) wherein each channel connector secured to the first seat base comprises a third channel for slidably receiving a third slide member of a respective slide connector of any other seat base of the plurality of seat bases for securing together said other seat base and the first seat base;
and
f) wherein the channel of each of the plurality of channel connectors is oriented generally vertically when the assembled seating furniture is upright for use, each channel extending along a channel axis from an upper end to a lower end disposed vertically below the upper end, and wherein the slide members are insertable into respective channels via the upper end, and the slide members are non-insertable into the channels via the lower end to facilitate error-free assembly of the seating furniture.

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A knock-down furniture assembly comprising:

a) a seating assembly having a first end and a second end laterally opposite the first end, the first end including a plurality of first end connectors and the second end including a plurality of second end connectors, the seating assembly including at least one seat section, each seat section including:
(i) a seat base having a front, a rear opposite the front, a plurality of rear connectors adjacent the rear, and first and second opposed sides each extending between the front and rear;
and (ii) a seat back having a top, a bottom vertically opposite the top, and a plurality of bottom connectors adjacent the bottom and alignable with the rear connectors of the seat base for removably attaching the seat back to the seat base to form said at least one seat section;
b) a first arm having a first outboard side and a first inboard side laterally opposite the first outboard side, the first inboard side including a plurality of first arm connectors, each first arm connector and a corresponding first end connector defining a first pair of interlockable connectors for removably attaching the first arm to the first end of the seating assembly;
and
c) a second arm having a second outboard side and a second inboard side laterally opposite the second outboard side, the second inboard side including a plurality of second arm connectors, each second arm connector and a corresponding second end connector defining a second pair of interlockable connectors for removably attaching the second arm to the second end of the seating assembly,
wherein each first and second pair of interlockable connectors comprises (i) a female bracket defining a channel extending along a channel axis between a first channel end and a second channel end opposite the first channel end, the channel axis oriented generally vertically when the furniture assembly is upright, and the first channel end defining a channel opening for insertion of a slide member;
and
(ii) a male bracket comprising the slide member slidable into the channel generally along an insertion direction from the first channel end to the second channel end along the channel axis for interlocking thereof,
wherein said plurality of first arm connectors comprises two said female brackets, said plurality of second arm connectors comprises two said male brackets, said plurality of first end connectors comprises two said male brackets, and said plurality of second end connectors comprises two said female brackets, and
wherein the insertion direction of the slide member of any one of the male brackets into a respective channel of any one of the female brackets is a common direction for all of the male and female brackets.

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A knock-down furniture assembly comprising:

a) a seating assembly including a plurality of seat sections releasably securable to one another in a laterally side-by-side arrangement, each seat section including:
(i) a seat base having a front, a rear opposite the front, a plurality of rear connectors adjacent the rear, and first and second opposed sides each extending between the front and the rear, the first side of each seat base having a pair of male connectors attached thereto and the second side of each seat base having a pair of female connectors attached thereto, wherein the male connectors of the first side of any one seat base are releasably interlockable with the female connectors of the second side of any other seat base for releasably securing together the respective first and second sides of two adjacent seat bases;
and (ii) a seat back having a top, a bottom vertically opposite the top, and a plurality of bottom connectors adjacent the bottom and alignable with the rear connectors of the seat base for removably attaching the seat back to the seat base to form the seat section;
b) a first arm having a first inboard side including a further pair of the female connectors interlockable with the pair of male connectors of the first side of any first one of the seat bases for removably attaching the first arm to the first seat base;
and
c) a second arm having a second inboard side including a further pair of the male connectors interlockable with the pair of female connectors of the second side of any second one of the seat bases for removably attaching the second arm to the second seat base;
wherein the seat bases are devoid of connectors enabling assembly of the first side of one seat base with the first side of another seat base, and are devoid of connectors enabling assembly of the second side of one seat base with the second side of another seat base, and the seat bases are identical to one another, thereby facilitating error-free assembly of the first arm, the plurality of seat bases, and the second arm, and
wherein each female connector includes a base plate and a pair of retaining flanges spaced apart from the base plate and defining a channel between the base plate and the flanges, the channel extending along a channel axis that is oriented generally vertically when the furniture assembly is upright;
and (ii) each male connector comprises a slide member slidable into the channel along the channel axis for interlocking thereof.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/376,172Filed 3 Oct 2023 · continuation
Priority: 14 Feb 2020
Published: US 2024/0122349 A118 Apr 2024
Granted: 11 Mar 2025
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

A47C 4/021
Dismountable chairs: connected by slotted joints
A47C 4/028
Dismountable chairs: upholstered chairs, e.g. metal, plastic or wooden chairs
A47C 13/005
Convertible chairs, stools or benches: modular seating
A47C
Chairs

Family

Application62/976,970Us provisional application · filed 14 Feb 2020
Application17/248,899Parent of this continuation · filed 12 Feb 2021
Application17/961,737Parent of this continuation · filed 7 Oct 2022
US 11,464,339 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 11 Oct 2022
US 2024/0122349 A1Pre-grant publication · published 18 Apr 2024
US 11,805,911 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2021/0251387 A1Published application
US 2023/0108550 A1Published application
US 12,245,703 B2This patent

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