US3333841A - Upholstery supports - Google Patents
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
- A47C—CHAIRS; SOFAS; BEDS
- A47C7/00—Parts, details, or accessories of chairs or stools
- A47C7/02—Seat parts
- A47C7/28—Seat parts with tensioned springs, e.g. of flat type
- A47C7/282—Seat parts with tensioned springs, e.g. of flat type with mesh-like supports, e.g. elastomeric membranes
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
- A47C—CHAIRS; SOFAS; BEDS
- A47C23/00—Spring mattresses with rigid frame or forming part of the bedstead, e.g. box springs; Divan bases; Slatted bed bases
- A47C23/12—Spring mattresses with rigid frame or forming part of the bedstead, e.g. box springs; Divan bases; Slatted bed bases using tensioned springs, e.g. flat type
- A47C23/26—Frames therefor; Connecting the springs to the frame
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
- A47C—CHAIRS; SOFAS; BEDS
- A47C31/00—Details or accessories for chairs, beds, or the like, not provided for in other groups of this subclass, e.g. upholstery fasteners, mattress protectors, stretching devices for mattress nets
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
- A47C—CHAIRS; SOFAS; BEDS
- A47C31/00—Details or accessories for chairs, beds, or the like, not provided for in other groups of this subclass, e.g. upholstery fasteners, mattress protectors, stretching devices for mattress nets
- A47C31/02—Upholstery attaching means
- A47C31/04—Clamps for attaching flat elastic strips or flat meandering springs to frames
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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- Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
- Y10S297/00—Chairs and seats
- Y10S297/03—Pneumatic
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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- Y10T29/00—Metal working
- Y10T29/49—Method of mechanical manufacture
- Y10T29/49826—Assembling or joining
- Y10T29/49863—Assembling or joining with prestressing of part
- Y10T29/49867—Assembling or joining with prestressing of part of skin on frame member
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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- Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
- Y10T29/00—Metal working
- Y10T29/49—Method of mechanical manufacture
- Y10T29/49826—Assembling or joining
- Y10T29/49904—Assembling a subassembly, then assembling with a second subassembly
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
- Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
- Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
- Y10T29/00—Metal working
- Y10T29/49—Method of mechanical manufacture
- Y10T29/49826—Assembling or joining
- Y10T29/49947—Assembling or joining by applying separate fastener
- Y10T29/49948—Multipart cooperating fastener [e.g., bolt and nut]
- Y10T29/4995—Nonthreaded
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- This invention is for improvements in or relating to articles of furniture which include upholstery supports and to a method of mounting such supports upon said articles so as to be readily removable.
- upholstery supports which are manufactured in the form of sheets or platforms have become well known articles of commerce and the uses of them are becoming more widespread.
- the upholstery support In the furniture industry (and this is used in its more colloquial sense to indicate the industry which makes chairs, tables, beds and the like as well as in the wider sense which embraces the industry which makes furniture for use in land, sea and air vehicles) there is a requirement for the upholstery support to have four points at which said support can be removably attached to the seat frame for example.
- any means of attachment must be cheap, easy to incorporate in a seat frame or in a frame of any other article of furniture and/or in an upholstery support and must also be such as will make-the upholstery support simple for those to handle who have to assemble furniture, for example seats.
- the object of the present invention is to provide an upholstery support which is adapted to be removably attached to the frame of an article of furniture at a number of points which may 'be four in number or more or less than four in number and which support will be an eflicie'nt and economic alternative to those upholstery supports which already exist.
- the present invention consists in an article of furniture which includes two frame elements in each of which there is formed a passageway, said passageways being in axial alignment with one another and being adapted to accommodate end portions of a length of rod or wire of which a central or intermediate portion is exposed for the purpose of providing an anchorage for an upholstery support.
- said frame elements are separately made (from wood for example) and are securely joined to one another (for example with a glue).
- said frame elements are integral with and are not readily separable one from another (for example two portions of a length of metal tubing as used for seat frames in the motor vehicle industry).
- the present invention consists in a method of mounting an upholstery support upon an article of furniture, which method includes the following steps, namely, forming passageways in frame elements of an article of furniture; inserting a length of rod or wire in two axially aligned passageways in such a manner as to accommodate one end portion of said rod or wire in each passageway and as to leave a central or intermediate portion exposed for the purpose of providing an anchorage for an upholstery support.
- passageways are formed in frame elements which are integral with and are not readily separable from one another.
- said passageways are formed in frame elements which are separate from one another, said frame elements being thereafter brought together to form a frame or a part of a frame.
- passageways 3,333,841 Patented Aug. 1, 1967 are formed in frame elements which are made separately and are joined securely to one another before the passageways are formed therein.
- FIGURE 1 illustrates in plan one corner of a seat frame upon which an upholstery support has been mounted, in accordance with the present invention
- FIGURE 2 illustrates a section on the line HII in FIGURE 1;
- FIGURE 3 illustrates in plan one corner of a seat frame upon which an upholstery support has been mounted, in accordance with an alternative embodiment of the present invention
- FIGURE 4 illustrates a section on the line IVIV in FIGURE 3;
- FIGURE 5 illustrates in plan one corner of a seat frame upon which an upholstery support has been mounted, in accordance with another alternative embodiment of the present invention
- FIGURE 6 illustrates a section on the line VI-VI in FIGURE 5;
- FIGURE 7 illustrates in plan one corner of .a seat frame upon which an upholstery support has been mounted, in accordance with a further alternative embodiment of the present invention.
- FIGURE 8 illustrates one advantage obtainable from the employment of at least the embodiments of FIGURES 3 to 6.
- FIGURES 1 and 2 there are illustrated two frame elements A of a seat frame of an article of furniture.
- said frame elements are drilled at an angle of 45 in such a manner as to provide a passageway G in each frame element A, the passageways G being axially aligned with each other.
- a length B of rod or wire, which is a drive fit in the passageways, is driven in and the end F of one of the passageways is then filled up, for example with plastic wood. Said end F need not, of course, be filled up if the article of furniture is to be fully upholstered.
- end portions of the length B of rod or wire are accommodated within the two axially aligned passageways G and a central or intermediate portion of said length B is left exposed for the purpose of providing an anchorage for a platform or upholstery support E.
- the platform or support E is preferably provided at each of four corners with a corner clip D incorporated in said support E during moulding and vulcanisation or cure of the elastorneric material from which said support E is formed.
- a loose hook C is provided for the attachment of each corner clip D to the central or intermediate portion of the respective length B of rod or wire, each clip D being formed with an arcuate locating portion K for the purpose referred to hereinafter. It will be seen from FIGURE 2 that a single plane contains the centres of all sections of the clip D and of the length B of rod or wire.
- the angle of drilling may be varied but it is thought that 45 is the best angle since the stresses are equally spread when the platform is under load.
- the drilling could be done before the frame members A are put together and, moreover, all passageways could extend right through the respective frame members thereby necessitating plugging (as indicated at F in the drawing) at each end of each length B of rod or wire.
- plugging will serve not only an aesthetic purpose but also the practical purpose of acting as a detent preventing disengagement by one end of the rod or wire of the relevant passageway.
- the frame elements A form parts of a one-piece tubular metal frame
- the upholstery support E is provided at each of the four corners thereof with a corner clip L which, in plan, is approximately triangular.
- the base M of the triangle makes an angle of about 43 with each of the sides N and each side N terminates in a portion P which extends in a direction which is normal or substantially normal to the base M and which is also formed at its free end in a hook Q.
- the two portions P and hooks Q lie adjacent one another, possibly being in contact with one another.
- a single plane contains the centres of all sections of the base M, of the two sides N and of the length B of rod or wire, a second plane containing the centres of all sections of the portions P being inclined with respect to said single plane.
- the upholstery support E is provided at each of the four corners thereof with a corner clip R which (as with the corner clip L of FIG- URES' 3 and 4) is approximately triangular in plan configuration and has a base S, sides T, portions V and hooks W.
- the base S makes an angle of about 43 with each side T and other similarities will be apparent from a comparison of FIGURES 5 and 6 with FIGURES 3 and 4.
- the upholstery support E could be provided with a much simplified corner clip X, the hooks of which are formed at the ends of arms Y and Z which are approximately parallel to one another.
- all of the embodiments are such that, in use, there is not any relative move ment between that part of the corner clip which is embedded in or bonded to the elastomeric material of which the support E is made on the one hand and the said elastomeric material which surrounds said part on the other hand.
- All of the corner clips illustrated function satisfactorily from this standpoint, deflection of the central part of the upholstery support E downwardly under load cause ing the corner clips to rotate bodily about the longitudinal axis of the length B of rod or wire. Thus, friction will not develop between the corner clips Shown in FIGURES 1 to 7 and the elastomer in which the clips are embedded or to which the clips are bonded.
- Friction is developed only between metal parts, namely, between the various lengths B of rod or wire and the hooks in FIGURES 3 to 7 or, in FIGURES 1 and 2, between the various lengths B of rod or wire and the various corner clips D on the one hand and the interconnecting hooks C on the other hand.
- the employment of the various lengths B of rod or wire will strengthen a wooden frame for which the present invention has primarily been made, although it can also be employed on frames of tubular metal.
- the provision of the lengths B of rod or wire could well make it unnecessary to have a wooden gusset at each corner and also the parts of the frame would be pulled together not only when the upholstery support E is supporting a load but even when said support is unloaded because it must be remembered that the support is mounted under tension on the frame.
- Another advantage stemming from the present invention is that only a simple jig drilling operation is required to provide the hole for each length B of rod or wire.
- FIGURE 8 A further advantage obtainable from the employment of the embodiment of FIGURES 3 to 6 is diagrammatically illustrated in FIGURE "8 in which the chain lines AA depict the upholstery outline.
- the upholstery could be provided with so-called flips extending horizontally inwardly towards the centre of the upholstery support E, said lips being such as will ride over the edges of the support E and corner clips and thereafter either engage the under-surfaces thereof or be such as to engage the under-surfaces thereof as a result of movement of the upholstery.
- the chain line triangle BB is intended to depict a preformed boss on the upholstery which can either serve merely as a locating device or (if suitable made with so-called 'lips) as a combined 10- cating and anchoring device.
- FIGURES 3 to 6 are such as to make use of this advantage with ease, but the other embodiments can also make use of the advantage to a greater or less tions connected to one another by an intermediate portion, the end portions of each of said lengths being located within two axially aligned passageways and the intermediate portion of each of said lengths being exposed; an upholstery support consisting of an elastomeric member and a plurality of spaced clip elements, said clip elements being incorporated in said elastomeric member during cure of the elastomer; and hooks connecting said intermediate portions of said lengths to said clip elements.
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GB15073/65A GB1126734A (en) | 1965-04-09 | 1965-04-09 | Articles of furniture upholstery supports and a method of mounting said supports |
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US3389742A (en) * | 1965-04-21 | 1968-06-25 | Pirelli Ltd | Upholstery supports |
US3879774A (en) * | 1973-10-31 | 1975-04-29 | Gahm Distributor Inc | Adjustable corner brace assembly |
US6994401B1 (en) * | 2000-09-14 | 2006-02-07 | Lear Corporation | Seat backrest cover module |
US7115221B1 (en) | 1999-11-26 | 2006-10-03 | Timcal Ag | Method for producing graphite powder with an increased bulk density |
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US3389742A (en) * | 1965-04-21 | 1968-06-25 | Pirelli Ltd | Upholstery supports |
US3879774A (en) * | 1973-10-31 | 1975-04-29 | Gahm Distributor Inc | Adjustable corner brace assembly |
US7115221B1 (en) | 1999-11-26 | 2006-10-03 | Timcal Ag | Method for producing graphite powder with an increased bulk density |
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US8801100B2 (en) * | 2010-05-28 | 2014-08-12 | Drive Medical Design & Mfg. | Wheelchair having an adjustable seat |
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US10980354B2 (en) | 2016-10-26 | 2021-04-20 | Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc. | Textile deck assembly for furniture items |
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US11844431B2 (en) | 2016-10-26 | 2023-12-19 | Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc | Textile deck assembly for furniture items |
US11122907B2 (en) | 2018-07-27 | 2021-09-21 | Ashley Furniture Industries, Llc | Upholstered furniture including molded furniture components |
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US11696644B2 (en) | 2018-07-27 | 2023-07-11 | Ashley Furniture Industries, Llc | Upholstered furniture including molded furniture components |
US11607044B2 (en) | 2020-03-16 | 2023-03-21 | Ashley Furniture Industries, Llc | Upholstered furniture including molded furniture components |
USD957173S1 (en) | 2020-06-15 | 2022-07-12 | Ashley Furniture Industries, Llc | Pair of seat arm rest forms |
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