Composite modular furniture
OwnerPiero Pallaviciniinventor
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Abstract
A modular piece of furniture such as a room divider, with a compartmented skeletal structure forming shelves and cabinets, has its horizontal and vertical wall members interconnected by moldings extending along orthogonally adjoining edges thereof with ribs fitting into longitudinal grooves of these edges. Other profiles, of generally trapezoidal cross-section, have exposed longitudinal slots accommodating inserts which carry hinge elements for the connection of swing doors to certain of these wall members. Similar profiles along the free edges of door leaves are fitted with bumper or sealing strips.
Claims6
In a modular piece of furniture, in combination:
- a first and a second upright wall member with vertical edges angularly adjoining each other;
- a first and a second hollow upright profile respectively secured to said vertical edges of said first and second wall members, each of said profiles having a generally trapezoidal cross-section with outwardly converging flanks separated by a slot;
- a vertical bar alongside said first profile having a tenon received in the slot thereof;
- a first hinge element secured to said bar;
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- a second hinge element pivotally connected with said first hinge element, said second hinge element having a base received in the slot of said second profile whereby said wall members are relatively swingable about the pivotal axis of said hinge elements.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.