US 6,805,060 B2Granted

Structure for pieces of furniture with variable configuration

AssigneeWork Co., Ltd.

InventorBruno Nicoletti

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Abstract

A structure for pieces of furniture of variable configuration includes a plurality of different types of assembling elements, which are coupled with one another, in a stable and removable way, to support a desktop at a predetermined distance from the ground. The types of assembling elements include a sleeve, hollow inside and equipped, in its lateral wall, with male quick connection joint means, formed by a pair of pins. Another element is a bar for coupling with a pair of the sleeves, and being equipped, at both extremities, with female quick connectors, which include a pair of blocks featuring a longitudinal hole, which receives the pins, and a through hole containing a dowel for locking the pins. The desktop is supported by desktop bearing brackets. Moreover, legs are fastened to the sleeves to support the bar and the sleeves at a predetermined distance from the ground. Other elements of the structure include extension uprights, fixing into the sleeves, in a position orthogonal with respect to the desktop, to support other shelves, which form a bookcase over the desk.

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Dependent claims

A structure for obtaining pieces of furniture of variable configuration, including a plurality of different types of assembling elements, which are coupled with one another, in a stable and removable way, to support at least a desktop, said structure including, among different assembling elements:

a sleeve featuring a lateral wall equipped with male quick connection joint means, extending from said lateral wall and including at least one pair of pins, aligned axially on the lateral wall of said sleeve and having an extremity for coupling;
a bar connected with a pair of said sleeves, in direction substantially perpendicular to the sleeves, to form a bearing structure for said pieces of furniture, said bar having extremities equipped with female quick connection joint means and including:
at least one pair of blocks, fastened to the inner wall of said bar, having respective longitudinal holes for engagement with the corresponding male quick connection joint means, and with respective threaded through holes, passing through said bar and opening into said longitudinal holes;
for each of said through holes, a threaded dowel inserted into the respective through hole and screwed into engagement with a corresponding longitudinal hole, so as to fix said male quick connection joint means inside said longitudinal hole;
a leg for supporting said bars and sleeves in co-operation with other legs.

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