Temporary furniture
AssigneeKEiKA CORPORATION
InventorKeika YAMAMOTO
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Abstract
To provide a preferable piece of temporary furniture which is less burdensome with respect to preparation, assembly and the like, and which is not subject to the problem of size mismatch between a piece of furniture and a partition. A partition-equipped bed 1, which is a piece of temporary furniture suitable for emergency use, comprises a partition and a piece of furniture which are both made of corrugated boards and are connected together. The entire partition-equipped bed 1 can be folded into a flat shape, and can be opened up from the folded state into a three-dimensional shape in the manner of a pop-up book, thus forming a partition-equipped piece of furniture that stands on the floor.
Claims10
A temporary furniture article suitable for emergency use, comprising:
- a partition and a furniture article each made of a corrugated board, the partition and the furniture article forming a one-piece configuration, wherein
- the entirety of the temporary furniture article is foldable into a flat shape, and the temporary furniture article is configured to form, when unfolded from the folded state into a three-dimensional shape, a partition-equipped self-supporting furniture article configured to stand on a floor, and
- the temporary furniture article comprises a plurality of partition forming boards each made of a corrugated board, the plurality of partition forming boards being joined together by intervening bend portions for forming the partition,
- a support leg forming board made of a corrugated board for forming a support leg of the furniture article is foldably joined to one of the plurality of partition forming boards by a bend portion intervening therebetween, and
- the support leg forming board includes a parallel board parallel to the partition forming board to which the support leg forming board is joined, and a plurality of connecting boards parallel to each other and connecting the partition forming board and the parallel board, and the parallel board and the plurality of connecting boards form a parallel motion mechanism.
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