Piece of furniture particularly for stowing goods away, and stow-away unit formed by such pieces of furniture
OwnerChristophe Geversinventor
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Abstract
There is described a piece of furniture, particularly for stowing goods away, which comprises at least two uprights, two such uprights being fixedly connected to one another, at least one bendable material sheet resiliently opposing such bending, each sheet being retained in the bent condition thereof by two said uprights, as well as at least one horizontal stowing shelf which is supported by bearing means provided on said uprights and/or on the bendable material sheet or sheets. Such pieces of furniture may be used to form a stow-away unit.
Claims18
An article of furniture comprising, a pair of uprights having upper and lower ends, cross members connecting said pair of uprights in laterally spaced apart relationship, said uprights and cross members providing a vertical unsupported frame for said article of furniture, resilient sheet material wall means having upper and lower edges and opposite side edge means between said upper and lower edges, said sheet material wall means being bent to an arcuate curvature between said side edge means and against the resilient bias of said sheet material, means interconnecting each of said opposite side edge means with a different one of said pair of uprights between said upper and lower ends of said uprights, whereby said uprights and cross members alone maintain said sheet material wall means bent against said resilient bias thereof and said sheet material wall means maintains said frame vertical, at least one horizontal shelf, and bearing means supporting said shelf relative to said uprights and said bent sheet material wall means.
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