Interfitting furniture

Details Interfitting furniture Interfitting furniture

1990-08-09

1992-03-17

Cranmer, Laurie K.

Chairs and seats

Plural related seats

Combinable to form single seat

297257, 108 65, A47C 1500

Patent

active

050962582

DESCRIPTION:

BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The invention relates to interfitting furniture, formed by the coupling together of at least two elementary pieces of furniture, each of which comprises a supporting portion and support means for the supporting portion on the floor.
There is an increasing trend to reduce the size of dwellings owing to the increasing cost of building. This reduction is immediately reflected in the size of the rooms, whereby there is the need to make the most advantage of the available space.
Part of this space is occupied by furniture, whereby the interest that the design of new furniture should respond to the above need to make the most of the space is appreciated. Several embodiments are already known in this direction: some relate to the convertibility between different types of furniture, such as the so-called bed settee; the prototype of others is to be found in the so-called pull-out bed, in which an upper bed is superimposed on a lower bed of a much lower height., and others are based on nested piled furniture, although it should be noted that the latter may not be used when they are piled.


SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

It is an object of the invention to provide a piece of furniture which may be subdivided into two or more pieces, all in such a way that the piece of furniture may be used for its specific function both when subdivided and before being subdivided.
This is achieved with a piece of furniture of the type first mentioned above which is characterized in that the supporting portions of all the elementary pieces are at the same height above floor level and each of said supporting portions is formed by a plurality of elongated members, each of which defines with the adjacent ones a space which is substantially occupied by the corresponding elongated members of the supporting portion of other elementary pieces of furniture.
Preferably, the floor support means for each elementary piece of furniture may be generally juxtaposed to the floor support means of the immediately adjacent elementary piece of furniture.


BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Further advantages and features of the invention will be appreciated from the following description in which there are given preferred embodiments of the invention without any limiting nature, with reference to the acompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an interfitted piece of furniture of the invention.
FIGS. 2 and 3 are respective perspective views of two elementary pieces of furniture forming the interfitted piece of furniture of FIG. 1.
FIG. 4 is a perspective view of another embodiment of the interfitted piece of furniture of FIG. 1.
FIGS. 5 and 6 are respective perspective views of two elementary pieces of furniture forming the interfitted piece of furniture of FIG. 4.
FIG. 7 is a schematic plan view from above of a further embodiment of a piece of interfitted furniture.
FIG. 8 is a schematic plan view from above of the elementary pieces of furniture forming the interfitted piece of furniture of FIG. 7; in both figures the elongated arcuate members of each elementary piece of furniture have been shaded differently.
FIG. 9 is a perspective schematic view of the frame of the elementary pieces of furniture of FIG. 8.
FIG. 10 is a schematic perspective view of yet another embodiment of two elementary pieces of furniture.
FIG. 11 is a side elevation view showing how the elementary pieces of furniture of FIG. 10 are interfitted.


DETAILED DESCRIPTION

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a particularly simple embodiment of an interfitted piece of furniture having the appearance of a stool 2. There is to be seen a supporting portion 4, which term is used herein to mean the part of the piece of furniture serving as to support the user of the piece of furniture, such as the seat portion of a piece of furniture for sitting (stool, chair, armchair, etc.) or the space on which the user of a bed, divan, table, etc., lies, lays or uses.
The supporting portion 4 is associated with the floor by floor support means 6. The interfitted

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