Supports: cabinet structure – Knockdown or setup type – Skeletal frame
Patent
1998-09-18
2000-07-04
Cuomo, Peter M.
Supports: cabinet structure
Knockdown or setup type
Skeletal frame
3122651, 312109, A47B 4700
Patent
active
060828439
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The invention concerns to kit furniture, especially house furniture. The subject of the invention is a framework and a set of elements including the components of the framework, which enable the creation of different and varied designs of house furniture. The invention allows for the batch factory production of a wide assortment of furniture and furniture sets, through the use of pre-fabricated and stored (off-the-shelf) furniture elements, at low expenses--requiring at the most, the cutting of various pre-fab kit elements to length and the installation activities to be carried out on site. The framework of the kit furniture embodying the invention, especially house furniture, consists of load-bearing vertical supports and horizontal adjustable panels inserted between these supports, taking the shape of a rectangular grid structure. In most of the embodiments, the assembled furniture also comprises at least partly movable door and/or window elements from the front. The furniture mostly consist of panel units, and the back of the units is generally being closed by a rear panel which covers the entire area and, as well as providing greater protection from dust, also increases rigidity at the corners of the furniture.
BACKGROUND ART
Furniture and furniture sets--partly called as kit furniture and having the characteristics described in the introduction--have been known and available from trade for a long time.
It is generally characteristic of the known approaches that for the load bearing and appropriately rigid connection of supports and panel elements, various hardware is always used, flushed into different single-purpose recesses, which are covered with additional plastic elements--frequently of the snap-on type after assembly--so that the recesses would not deteriorate the aesthetic appearance of the furniture. In order to increase the position and spacing options of panel elements and so as to modify the spacing between panels, the mostly vertical supports of various well known kit furniture approaches are designed with a pre-fabricated line of bores, and for the positioning and load-bearing support of panel elements, metal or plastic pins fitted into the appropriate bores of the line of bores at the required positions are applied. Related to the design of rectangular grid structure furniture and furniture sets assembled with joining panel elements located next to and above each other, numerous solutions have already become known. As examples, among others DE-OS 36 16 732 A1 and HU PS 182 592 can be mentioned.
It is a joint characteristic and a resulting joint disadvantage of the approaches described and mentioned above that the so assembled furniture and furniture sets characteristically retain their "kit furniture" nature. For example the pre-fabricated lines of bores remain visible on a prolonged basis, along with the supporting pins and the connection hardware or their covering. Such a furniture is less and less attractive nowadays to an increasing number of highly demanding customers. In the meantime, however, due to the high prices, very few customers may afford to buy tailor-made or small batch, so-called solid wood and period" furniture produced by the small-scale industry. Accordingly, a so far uncovered market gap is involved, represented by the fact that the supply of the furniture market is unable to fully satisfy the requirements of a highly demanding clientele, as a result of lacking technical solutions.
The purpose of the invention is the development of such a pre-fabricated framework and set of modules, which is identical with the well known assembled kit furniture solutions in that it is designed and set up using the modules and units of a pre-fabricated set of elements, and also in that primarily the final assembly takes place at the site identified by the customer, but regarding external appearance, quality and life cycle, this type of furniture is a proper match for tailor-made or small batch so-called solid wooden and/or period furniture produced by the small sca
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Sal Maria Oryne
Somogyi Tibor
Szatura Istvan
Allred David E.
Cuomo Peter M.
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