Laminate materials for furniture and furniture pieces incorporating the same
AssigneeKevin Randall Walz
InventorsKevin Randall Walz, Barry Richard Walz
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Abstract
Several laminate materials are provided that are particularly useful for making furniture pieces. The laminate materials may include several interleaved wood veneer and carbon fiber layers. The thickness and characteristics of these layers are chosen so that the resultant material can be used either as a support member, such as a leg, that must withstand large tensile and/or compressive forces, or is thin and flexible, for example for making chair seats or backrest. Another laminate material includes a thick stiff core. This laminate material is used for furniture members that must resist warping, such as table tops.
Claims14
A furniture piece comprising:
- a first member formed of a support laminate material;
- and
- a second member formed of a thin laminate material;
- wherein laminate materials include two outer wood veneer layers, two artificial fiber layers having high structural support properties and an inner wood layer, said support laminate material being composed of fiber and wood layers having properties selected to provide said support laminate material with high structural strength for supporting loads and said thin laminate material being composed of fiber of wood layers properties selected to provide said laminate material with flexibility for forming curved surfaces for said furniture piece;
- wherein in said first laminate the inner wood layer is substantially thicker then said two outer veneer layers;
- and
- wherein in said second laminate the inner wood layer has about the same thickness as said outer veneer layers.
A furniture piece comprising:
- a plurality of first members formed of a support laminate material, said plurality of first members including a plurality of legs for said furniture piece;
- and
- a second member formed of a platform laminate material, said second member forming a flat surface for said furniture piece;
- wherein said support laminate material includes two outer wood veneer layers, two artificial fiber layers having high structural support properties and an inner wood layer, said layers having thicknesses selected to provide high structural strength for said first members for supporting loads, said artificial fiver layers and said inner wood layer being substantially thicker then said outer veneer layers;
- and wherein said platform laminate material includes two outer wood veneer layer and an inner layer made of material resistive to warping.
A furniture piece comprising:
- a first set of elements formed of a thin laminate material and a second set of elements formed of a support laminate material;
- wherein said laminate materials are formed of at least five alternating layers of wood and layers of artificial fibers having a high structural strength, wherein artificial fibers in said support laminate material is substantially thicker than the artificial fibers in said thin laminate material;
- wherein the thin laminate material includes three layers having substantially equal thicknesses and consisting of a wood veneer and two layers of artificial fibers, the layers of artificial fiber being substantially thicker then the layers of wood veneer;
- wherein the support laminate material includes two outer layers of wood veneer, an inner layer of wood core, said inner layer of wood core being substantially thicker then said veneer wood layers, and two intermediate artificial fiber layers having about the same thickness as the inner layer of wood and being disposed between one of said outer wood veneer layers and the core wood layers respectively;
- wherein said first elements are flexible to form curved surfaces for said furniture piece and said second set of elements include legs for supporting said furniture piece.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.