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US 6,470,811 B1Granted
Piece of furniture
OwnerBernd Isingerinventor
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Abstract
The piece of furniture is constructed from the following elements: base panel (1), top panel (2) and flexible wall (3), it being possible for the flexible wall to be fitted into grooves (10) of the base and top panels and fastened by touch-and-close strips (20). It is possible to construct counters and other pieces of furniture in many different forms. Assembly can be carried out quickly without the use of tools, and the same applies to the dismantling operation. The elements can be stacked as flat components.
Claims19
A piece of furniture comprising:
- a base panel having a top side, an underside and a groove in the top side;
- a top panel having a top side, an underside and a groove in the underside;
- a flexible wall comprising a plurality of parallel lamellae and sheet material for connecting said plurality of lamella to form said wall,
- said lamellae each having generally vertical sides with profiled portions for interengaging complementary profiled portions of an adjacent lamella, and generally horizontal upper and lower sides, said upper horizontal sides of said plurality of lamella forming an upper border of said flexible wall and said lower horizontal sides of said plurality of lamellae forming a lower border of said wall, said lower border fitting into said groove of said base panel and said upper border fitting into said groove of said top panel, and
- connecting and disconnecting means for connecting, and disconnecting, said flexible wall to and from said base panel, and connecting and disconnecting said top panel to and from said flexible wall so as to hold said base panel, said flexible wall and said top panel together when the piece of furniture is assembled, said connecting means being such as to allow disconnecting said base panel, top panel and flexible wall from one another and taking up just a small storage volume.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.