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US 4,799,735 AGranted
Chair or armchair
AssigneeKembo B.V.
InventorJust B. Meyer
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Abstract
The invention relates to a chair or armchair with legs, and a seat and a backrest made in one piece with the seat. So that a chair or armchair of this type can be made stable and rigid, while preserving the essential advantages of production from plastic, at the same time making it possible for the chair or armchair to have a pleasing appearance, the legs are designed as plastic hollow parts, in which metal tubes have been received as stiffening elements.
Claims16
A chair or armchair including:
- a seat (3) and a backrest (4) integral with said seat to constitute a cask, a plurality of hollow plastic legs (9, 10) extending below said seat to maintain the latter in a raised generally horizontal position, and metal tubes (17, 18) disposed within said legs to stiffen same;
- each of said legs comprising first and second plastic halves (14, 15, 11, 12) which have a joining face (16, 13) extending generally parallel to a side of said chair;
- said plastic halves including inward projecting portions (22, 24) having snap-in edge formations (23, 25) which interact with snap-in orifices (21) in the metal tubes (17, 18) for holding the latter and said plastic halves (14, 15, 11, 12) together as a unit.
A seating assembly including:
- a seat (3), a plurality of hollow plastic legs (9, 10) extending below said seat to maintain the latter in a raised generally horizontal position, and metal tubes (17, 18) disposed within said legs to stiffen same;
- each of said legs comprising first and second plastic halves (14, 15, 11, 12);
- said plastic halves including inward projecting portions (22, 24) having snap-in edge formations (23, 25) which interact with snap-in orifices (21) in the metal tubes (17, 18) for holding the latter and said plastic halves (14, 15, 11, 12) together as a unit.
A seating assembly including:
- a seat (3), a plurality of hollow plastic legs (9, 10) extending below said seat to maintain the latter in a raised generally horizontal position, and metal tubes (17, 18) disposed within said legs to stiffen same;
- each of said legs comprising first and second plastic halves (14, 15, 11, 12);
- each of said tubes (17, 18) including bifurcated portions formed by a longitudinal slit (31) which extends from a tube end partway along the length of said tube;
- said plastic halves including inward formations (26, 30, 26) which define eyes, each of which receives an individual one of said bifurcated portions for holding the metal tubes (17, 18) and said plastic halves (14, 15, 11, 12) together as a unit.
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