Chairs and seats – Having detachably interfitting parts or components; i.e.,... – Interfitted back and back frame
Patent
1985-12-30
1987-10-06
Downey, Kenneth
Chairs and seats
Having detachably interfitting parts or components; i.e.,...
Interfitted back and back frame
297 42, 297445, A47C 700
Patent
active
046978470
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
This invention relates generally to furniture and, more particularly to portable furniture which may be easily stocked, transported, moved, or stored and which yet provides the comfort and appearance of conventional upholstered furniture.
BACKGROUND ART
Furniture, particularly furniture for sitting, such as chairs, loveseats, sofa, and sectionals, have heretofore been generally designed for either permanent use at a given location or for temporary use to be moved about easily. Such furniture for permanent use has generally been constructed with a rigid frame to which the upholstery is permanently attached so as to not generally be movable relative thereto (except, of course for removable cushions and the like). Such permanent type upholstered furniture is also generally heavy and bulky, being difficult to store and transport, generally requiring special facilities and handling by skilled movers or furniture handlers.
Portable furniture, on the other hand has been previously suggested, which may be easily stored and transported. Such furniture is generally designed to be as light in weight as practical and to either fold or stack for storage. Upholstery is generally minimal on such furniture, being limited to a simple seat cushion, perhaps a small back cushion, and rarely, small arm cushioning. Overall upholstery, however, is rarely provided, or clearly denotes the folding or temporary nature of the furniture.
Chairs, and the like, have also been heretofore suggested wherein bands of cloth or the like have been combined with frameworks, either folding or rigid, to provide slings for supporting people more or less comfortably. In some instances such bands or slings also provide some structural interaction with the frame members, as providing limits beyond which the frame members cannot extend. Hence, slings and frames have been combined into such furniture as director's chairs and butterfly chairs.
Further, slip covers have been heretofore suggested to be form fitted over chairs, settees, sofas, and the like, generally to enable the color or pattern of the upholstery to be easily changed, or to provide protection for the permanent upholstery of the piece. Such slipcovers, however, seldon if ever have any active cooperation with the framework and therefore do not provide any structural part of the furniture. Furniture wherein a removable fabric covering and a frame structurally interact heretofore required complex fastening systems therebetween. Ease of portability is therefore adversely effected, as are cost and weight of the assembly padded in the manner of conventional upholstered furniture and the overall design is limited substantially to the design shown in the patent drawings; little freedom of design is offered with only a straight line contour or parallelipiped being permissible between the side frame uprights. Hence, the design freedoms and appearance of conventional upholstered furniture can not be achieved.
DISCLOSURE OF INVENTION
In accordance with the present invention, portable upholstered furniture is defined by a laterally folding frame having a pair of laterally collapsible side arm frames and a pair of medially foldable parallelogram cross assemblies extending therebetween defining, in their unfolded configurations a horizontally extending seating support surface above and an auxilliary surface below; at least one generally transversely flexible band of fabric or the like encircling the side arm frames; and a cushioned bonnet like upper assembly settable downwardly onto the frame and band, cushioning the seating support surface and the arm portions of the side arm frame, and at least partially overlapping the encircling band. The encircling band may be permanently attached to the side arm frames or removably affixed thereto, if desired, for easy interchange. The encircling band may extend all the way to the floor for a full skirted apearance or the lower portion of the side arm frames may remain exposed as open leg portions. While in one embodiment or modification the
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