Modular furniture
OwnerNorman Spetnerinventor
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Abstract
This modular furniture is formed from components of varying size and configuration which can be connected together to form different furniture combinations. Each component includes two pairs of opposed panels, which are provided with chamfered side edges and adjacent grooves. The panels are interconnected by corner-forming rails having angularly related legs terminating in elongate lips which are received within associated panel grooves to hold the chamfered edges of the panels together in a box-like formation. The legs of the rails provide cooperating outstanding bearing faces spaced from the panels, and adjacent panels of corresponding components are connected by fasteners tending to draw the panels toward each other. The components can be modified to be fitted with individual covers.
Claims3
A modular furniture combination comprising:
- a. a plurality of stacked components each including:
- 1. a plurality of stacked components each including:
- I. a substantially flat outer face having a pair of parallel side margins and associated parallel grooves disposed adjacent said margins said face being planar on each side of said grooves, and
- Ii. a substantially flat inner face having a pair of parallel chamfered side edges and a perpendicular groove extending therebetween said chamfered edges being engageable with the chamfered side edges of an adjacent panel,
- 2. a plurality of identical elongate rails interconnecting adjacent panels, each rail including:
- I. angularly related outstanding legs having transversely related, lengthwise extending lips receivable within associated outer face grooves of adjacent panels to form a corner between said panels, and
- Ii. each of said legs having an inner face engageable with an associated panel planar outer face and an outer face disposed in a plane spaced from the plane of said panel outer face to provide an outstanding bearing seat engageable by the corresponding outstanding rail bearing seat of a like component for stacking purposes to space corresponding panel outer faces between said rails apart.
- 3. stiffener means receivable within said inner face grooves of the panels,
- b. at least one panel of one stacked component including at least one fastener opening disposed in the panel area between the rails substantially alignable with a corresponding fastener opening of a spaced panel of an adjacent stacked component, and
- c. fastener means receivable within said fastener openings and extending between the spaced apart outer surfaces of said corresponding panels of like stacked components tending to urge said spaced panels toward each other and connect said stacked components.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.