Furniture extremity

A furniture foot for mounting on a furniture leg having a bottom face with a hole comprising a molded, unitary item including a body shaped for floor engagement, a tapered stem, and ribs extending along said stem, said ribs having a hardness of at least about the hardness of 8 melt polyethylene.

A furniture foot connection comprising an item of furniture having a lower portion with a given thickness and a hole in said lower portion having a given diameter, a furniture foot including a body and a hollow stem, said stem having a length greater than the thickness of said lower portion of said item of furniture and a diameter slightly larger than the diameter of the hole, said stem diameter being substantially uniform along the entire stem length except perhaps for an enlarging taper towards the body, and extending through said hole so that the body of the foot is adjacent said lower portion and a length of said stem extends above said lower portion whereby said lower portion of the furniture compresses said hollow stem within said hole and the length of said hollow stem extending above said lower portion is uncompressed to open to a diameter greater than the diameter of the hole, to secure the foot in place on the lower portion.

A furniture foot for mounting on an item of furniture which has a bottom face with a hole comprising:

• a body portion for floor engagement and a stem for secure, press-fix engagement in the hole in the bottom face of the item of furniture,
• said body portion including a vertical radial web having an upper edge which is juxtaposed the bottom face when the furniture foot is mounted on the furniture, and
• said body portion having a gap aligned with said web into which a prying means may be inserted to pry the furniture foot off of the item of furniture.