Method of making pieces of furniture from sheets of felt treated with hardening substances

Abstract

The invention relates to a method of making pieces of furniture, more particularly arm-chairs and the like, starting from flat sheets of felt or the like, and comprising the following phases: preparation of a flat sheet formed by a felt or similar compressed material including or adapted to be associated with a hardening substance; punching of the flat sheet in a pattern corresponding to the flat lay-out of the piece of furniture to be produced, arranging all the incisions and holes required for the successive foldings and applications of its parts; possible softening of the hardening substance included in the felt or the impregnation of the felt with a hardening substance; shaping of the flat sheet to the final form of the piece of furniture to be obtained; hardening of the hardening substance in the zones which must be given the required rigidity, leaving the other zones in the natural state; assembly of any further parts of the piece of furniture for its completion; finishing treatments of the piece of furniture.

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