Chairs and seats – Having detachably interfitting parts or components; i.e.,... – Slotted components normal to each other
Patent
1997-04-14
2000-10-03
Cuomo, Peter M.
Chairs and seats
Having detachably interfitting parts or components; i.e.,...
Slotted components normal to each other
29744012, 1602312, A47C 700
Patent
active
061262390
ABSTRACT:
A ready to assemble furniture construction, such as a chair, includes frameless, self-supporting panel members which easily collapse into a flat configuration and expand into a self-supporting volumetric structure. In a preferred chair construction, a seat panel, back panel, and a skirt panel are supported between two, spaced panel members each of which are defined by two like-shaped flexible sheets which are secured together in a predetermined configuration which allows the sheets to expand from the flat configuration to their self-supporting volumetric form. Each of the sheets forming the panel member is generally square and has four generally linear peripheral edges which are secured together to form a closed panel structure. The sheets further include arcuate, inwardly curved, living hinges extending along the length of each peripheral edge of the sheet. In use, the panel structure is movable between a flat collapsed condition, and an expanded, self-supporting volumetric condition wherein the central body portions of the sheets are flexed into a convex shape and maintained in spaced apart relation by the adjacent hinged edge portions which are flexed inwardly into a generally concave shape and extend generally perpendicular to the body portions. Expanding the panel structure from the collapsed condition to the volumetric form is accomplished by simply pressing inwardly on the peripheral edges of the panel structure. Inward pressure forces the peripheral edges of the sheet inwardly while also flexing the main body portions apart and outwardly into their convex shape. The curved living hinges extending between the body portion and edge portions lock the structure in complementary self-supporting tension and compression to automatically maintain the shape of the structure.
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Chameleon Studio, Inc.
Cuomo Peter M.
White Rodney B.
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