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US 5,147,120 AGranted
Stackable bureau and rack furniture
OwnerFrank J. Rayinventor
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Abstract
Modular units (1, 11, 21, 24, 37 and 45) are stackable to form various types of multiple-unit bureaus, dressing tables, office desks and other types of drawer, shelf and rack furniture for rooms or closets. The modular units are single or multiple drawer, shelf or rack sections of furniture. Brace-legs (1) at corners (3-6) can be positioned sequentially, end-to-end vertically to position the bureau units firmly in a stack and to bear the load-weight of the drawers, shelves and cabinets together with contents on each with-out transmitting the load-weight to walls (7-9) of the bureau units.
Claims32
A stackable bureau having:
- two side walls, a rear wall and a front wall with top and bottom edges;
- a drawer orifice in the front wall for a stackable drawer bureau;
- a drawer slidable in and out of the bureau through the drawer orifice in the front wall;
- a stack-positioning leg positioned at the front-corner juncture of the bottom edge of the inside surface of the front wall and each side wall as front legs and positioned at a rear-corner juncture of the bottom edge of the inside surface of the rear wall and each side wall as back legs;
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- a portion of each leg extendable from below the bottom edge of each wall at each corner to a position selectively above each bottom edge and below the top edge of each wall at each corner as corner braces in rigid contact with an inside wall at each corner, such that the legs are bureau-bottom legs and also bureau-positioning legs positionable within the top corners of a bottom bureau so formed from the bottom corners of a top bureau so formed.
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A stackable bureau having:
- two side walls, a rear wall and a front wall with top and bottom edges;
- a door orifice in the front wall for a stackable door bureau;
- a door in openable and closable relationship to the door orifice;
- a shelf positioned internally from the walls at the bottom of the door orifice;
- a stack-positioning leg positioned at a front corner juncture of the bottom edge of the inside surface of the front wall and each side wall as front legs and positioned at a rear-corner juncture of the bottom edge of the inside surface of the rear wall and each side wall as back legs;
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- a portion of each leg extendable from below the bottom edge of each wall at each corner to a position selectively above each bottom edge and below the top edge of each wall at each corner braces in rigid contact with an inside wall at each corner, such that the legs are bureau-bottom legs and also bureau-positioning legs positionable within top corners of a bottom bureau so formed from the bottom corners of a top bureau so formed.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.