Child's furniture and method of making
OwnerRodger A. McCulloughinventor
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Abstract
A unit of child's furniture such as a chair or sofa is constructed of intersecting panels provided with a unique interlocking joint which provides strength, rigidity and long life to such furniture. In one form, each panel is made of a pair of triple wall corrugated cardboard sheets which are individually slotted and channeled to provide different portions of its joint, and which thereafter have their sides cemented together to form a double thickness corrugated panel. The furniture is preferably made so it can be transported and stored in flat, knockdown condition and assembled when needed.
Claims5
A unit of child's furniture having a pair of mirror-image, parallel, generally rectangular planar side panels each having front, top, back and bottom edges, each of said side panels having a first slot extending generally horizontally inwardly from its front edge toward its back edge and a second slot extending generally vertically downwardly from its top edge toward its bottom edge;
- a generally horizontal seat panel extending perpendicularly between and intersecting both of said side panels, said seat panel having a front edge and a rear edge and a pair of parallel third slots extending perpendicularly from the rear edge forwardly toward the front edge of said seat panel;
- a generally vertical back panel extending perpendicularly between and intersecting both of said side panels, said back panel having a top edge and a bottom edge and a pair of fourth parallel slots extending perpendicularly upwardly from the bottom edge toward the top edge of said back panel;
- all of said slots, when the side, seat and back panels are assembled to form said unit of child's furniture, having inner ends of each of said first and third slots abutting each other and inner ends of said second and fourth slots abutting each other;
- the improvement comprising:
- means restraining portions of said side panels adjacent their front edges against lateral horizontally outward movement from said seat panel, said restraining means comprising a parallel-sided channel generally aligned with said first slots on each of said side panels and interfitting with said third slots of said seat panel and a parallel-sided channel extending from and being aligned with each of said third slots toward the front edge of the seat panel, and a bottomed slot portion laterally adjacent said first slot on each of said side panels and being receivable in the channel portions of said seat panel, to provide, together with said first and third slots, a pair of first interlocking joints extending along the intersection of the seat panel with each side panel, said first interlocking joint resisting forces directed perpendicularly to the planes of said side panels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.