System and method for flat packed furniture to enable reuse of packaging materials
OwnerDavid Oliver Booneinventor
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Abstract
A flat packed furniture system includes a plurality of boxes, each comprising a packaging piece and a set of furniture parts, such that the set of furniture parts is flat packed inside the packaging piece, such that a plurality of parts in the plurality of boxes is configured to be assemblable as a furniture item, which can be a cabinet, such that a plurality of packaging pieces in the plurality of boxes is configured to be reused as packaging for the furniture item. Also disclosed is a method for flat packing furniture, including flat packing, shipping, unpacking, assembling, repacking, and reshipping.
Claims22
A flat packed furniture system, comprising:
- a plurality of boxes;
- wherein each box in the plurality of boxes comprises a packaging piece and a set of furniture parts, such that the set of furniture parts is flat packed inside the packaging piece;
- such that a plurality of parts in the plurality of boxes is configured to be assemblable as a furniture item;
- such that a plurality of packaging pieces in the plurality of boxes is configured to be reused as packaging for the furniture item.
A method for flat packing furniture, comprising:
- a) flat packing a furniture item, wherein a plurality of parts for a furniture item are flat packaged inside a plurality of packaging pieces, producing a plurality of boxes;
- b) shipping the flat packed furniture item, wherein the plurality of boxes is shipped from a manufacturing location to a reseller location;
- c) unpacking the flat packed furniture item, wherein the plurality of parts, comprising a plurality of sets of furniture parts, is unpackaged from the plurality of boxes;
- d) assembling the furniture item, wherein the furniture item is assembled from the plurality of parts;
- and
- e) re-packing the furniture item, wherein the assembled furniture item is re-packaged with the plurality of packaging pieces.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.