Interior treatments and furniture of fibrous felt construction
AssigneeThe Felters Group
InventorsJerry W. Owens, Jr., Joseph C. Moon, Susan K. Crow
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Abstract
Interior design structures and lightweight furniture formed from a felted fibrous material such as needle punched felt as the material of construction in replacement for wood. The felted fibrous material is adapted to provide adequate strength to permit construction of three dimensional structures by use of standard joining techniques such as screws, nails, glue and the like. At the same time, the nature of the felted fibrous material affords the opportunity to bend and shape the material thereby allowing additional freedom in construction and use.
Claims18
A bed headboard comprising a structural body panel defining the interior and perimeter profile of the headboard, wherein said structural body panel consists essentially of a panel of stiff fibrous board stock material, of substantially constant thickness and wherein said stiff fibrous board stock material consists essentially of one or more layers of fibrous felted material of needlepunched construction, said fibrous felted material comprising a plurality of entangled polymeric fibers and wherein at least a portion of said entangled polymeric fibers are melt fused together such that a plurality of fiber to fiber fusion bonding points are distributed within said fibrous felted material.
A bed headboard comprising a structural body panel defining the interior and perimeter profile of the headboard, the structural body panel consisting essentially of a panel of stiff fibrous board stock material, of substantially constant thickness wherein said stiff fibrous board stock material consists essentially of a single layer of fibrous felted material of needlepunched construction, said fibrous felted material comprising a plurality of entangled polymeric fibers, wherein at least a portion of said entangled polymeric fibers are melt fused together such that a plurality of fiber to fiber fusion bonding points are distributed within said fibrous felted material.
A bed headboard comprising a structural body panel defining the interior and perimeter profile of the headboard, the structural body panel consisting essentially of stiff fibrous board stock material, of substantially constant thickness wherein said stiff fibrous board stock material consists essentially of a plurality of layers of fibrous felted material of needlepunched construction disposed in adjacent stacked relation with adhesive disposed between at least a portion of said layers of fibrous felted material of needlepunched construction such that adhesive extends in contacting adjoining relation between adjacent layers of said fibrous felted material of needlepunched construction, said fibrous felted material of needlepunched construction comprising a plurality of entangled polymeric fibers and wherein at least a portion of said entangled polymeric fibers are melt fused together such that a plurality of fiber to fiber fusion bonding points are distributed within said fibrous felted material of needlepunched construction.
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