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US 5,507,549 AGranted
Convertible furniture
OwnerMarvin E. Copeinventor
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Abstract
A furniture item of the type selectively positionable for use as a chair, ironing board or step ladder includes a telephone stand and/or a removably mounted child seat. Cooperatively positioned portions of the child seat and the furniture item prevent forward or rearward movement of the child seat. The telephone stand includes a support surface laterally adjacent and coplanar with the seat of the furniture item when positioned for use as a chair. A lower compartment for a telephone book, or the like, is supported between the legs of the item. A cover of the compartment includes a fixed rear section which forms the lower step when the item is positioned for use as a step ladder.
Claims18
A convertible furniture item comprising:
- a) a first rigid structure including:
- i) a pair of front legs and a pair of rear legs, each of said legs having upper and lower terminal ends, said lower terminal ends lying in a common plane for resting upon a horizontal surface;
- ii) frame means rigidly interconnecting said legs with respect to one another;
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- iii) a first seat portion rigidly affixed with respect to said upper terminal ends and having an upper surface substantially parallel to said common plane;
- b) a second rigid structure including:
- i) first, second and third structural members, each having first and second, substantially parallel, opposite surfaces, each of said second and third structural members having respective, front and rear edge portions, and respective, left and right side edge portions;
- ii) means rigidly connecting said rear edge portions of each of said second and third structural members to said first surface of said first structural member with said second and third structural members in spaced relation and said opposite surfaces of said second and third structural members substantially parallel to one another and perpendicular to said opposite surfaces of said first member;
- iii) left and right support members, each extending between and rigidly connected to each of said second and third structural members respectively adjacent said left and right side edge portions thereof;
- c) hinge means connecting said seat portion to said third structural member for 180.degree. pivotal movement of said second rigid structure with respect to said first rigid structure between a first position, wherein said upper surface of said first seat portion and said first surface of said third structural member are substantially parallel and contiguous, and a second position, wherein said first surface of said third structural member opposes and rests upon said upper surface of said first seat portion;
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- d) a child seat removably mountable upon said second rigid structure in said first position thereof, said child seat including:
- i) a second seat portion having a planar, lower surface resting upon said first surface of said third structural member;
- ii) a back portion having a planar, rear surface adjacent said first surface of said first structural member;
- iii) a pair of arm rests extending forwardly from said back portion and above said second seat portion;
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- iv) tab means extending downwardly from said back portion to a position contacting a retaining portion of said third structural member when said child seat is mounted upon said second rigid structure, thereby preventing forward movement of said child seat.
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A furniture item comprising:
- a) first and second, hingedly connected, rigid structures for selective movement relative to one another between first, second and third positions wherein said item is adapted for use as a chair having a seat portion, an ironing board and a step ladder having a plurality of vertically spaced steps, respectively;
- b) said first rigid structure including four legs having lower ends in a common plane and upper ends fixedly connected to said seat portion, the latter having an upper surface parallel to said common plane;
- c) a telephone stand including a support surface;
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- d) means rigidly connecting said telephone stand to said first rigid structure with said support surface substantially parallel to said common plane and laterally adjacent said seat portion upper surface in all of said first, second and third positions.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.