GB1033730A - Collapsible furniture - Google Patents

Abstract

1,033,730. Furniture joints; seats. F. C. S. ENGLISH. March 23, 1965 [March 24, 1964], No. 12355/64. Headings A4H and A4J. An article of furniture, e.g. a table or seat, comprises a plurality of flat parts which are detachably interengaged by means of co-operating projections and slots and which are locked together to form a stable article by means of a wedge (or wedges) which is inserted between and to bear on a surface of one of the flat parts and a thrust member which is either fixed to or interlocked with one of the other flat parts. In one embodiment (Figs. 1-4, not shown) a chair comprising seat 11 and back 10 parts and two side parts 17, 18 is made stable by wedges 21, 22 bearing on the underside of the seat part 11 and on thrust members 19, 20 secured to the sides 17, 18. In another embodiment (Figs. 7, 8, not shown) a bench seat is formed with slatted seat and back portions 61 locked to support 65, 68 and side members 60 by the wedge 71 action. A further seat (Fig. 10, not shown) includes a separate thrust member 103 which is notched 104 to engage leg portions 98, the ledge 105 serving to lock together the interengaged legs 98, seat 90 and back 93. A table (Figs. 5, 6, not shown) carries thrust members 54, 55 on the underside of its top 30 and includes wedges 56, 57 which bear on legs 36, 37 formed of sheet material, the legs 36, 37 being interengaged with attachments 31, 32 on the underside of the top 30 and being centrally braced by a transverse support 50. The wedge has a surface which is inclined in two planes.