Functional fine-art furniture

• US 20070186825A1
• Filed: 02/15/2006
• Published: 08/16/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Thomas Sean Duane
• Original Assignee: Thomas Sean Duane
• Inventors: Duane, Thomas Sean
• Application Number:
  US11/354,419
• Publication Number:
  US 20070186825A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 108/50.110
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 13/00 Details of tables or desks drawers A47B88/00; feet for furniture in general A47B91/00

Abstract

Functional fine-art furniture includes a plurality of table legs and a table top. The table top includes an art work on the top side of the table top; one or more table-formation features configured to be connected with the plurality of table legs to form a table configuration, such that the plurality of table legs connected with the table-formation features can extend downward below the table top to allow the table legs to support the table top; and one or more display-formation features configured to hold the table legs when the table legs are detached from the table-formation features and to allow the table top and the table legs to form a fine-art display configuration.

Claims

1. Functional fine-art furniture, comprising:

a plurality of table legs; and

a table top comprising;

an art work on the top side of the table top;

one or more table-formation features configured to be connected with the plurality of table legs to form a table configuration, such that the plurality of table legs connected with the table-formation features can extend downward below the table top to allow the table legs to support the table top; and

one or more display-formation features configured to hold the table legs when the table legs are detached from the table-formation features and to allow the table top and the table legs to form a fine-art display configuration.

2. The functional fine-art furniture of claim 1, wherein the one or more table-formation features are formed on the under side of the table top.

3. The functional fine-art furniture of claim 2, wherein the table-formation features are located near the corners or the center on the under side of the table top.

4. The functional fine-art furniture of claim 1, wherein the one or more display-formation features are located on the underside or the sides of the table top.

5. The functional fine-art furniture of claim 4, wherein the one or more display-formation features include strings that can hold the table legs behind the table top in the fine-art display configuration.

6. The functional fine-art furniture of claim 1, wherein the art work on the top side of the table top can include at least part of design for a flower, a cow, a face, a flag, or a panda.

7. The functional fine-art furniture of claim 1, wherein the one or more display-formation features allow the table legs to extend at least partially out of the table top so that at least part of the table legs are visible when the functional fine-art furniture is in the fine-art display configuration.

8. The functional fine-art furniture of claim 7, wherein the table legs resemble the legs of a cow, the legs of a panda, the stripes of a flag, mustache, hair, or teeth.

9. The functional fine-art furniture of claim 1, wherein the top ends of the table legs are affixed with screws, and wherein the table-formation features in the table top include threaded screw holes configured to receive the screws.

10. The functional fine-art furniture of claim 9, wherein the one or more display-formation features include threaded screw holes configured to receive the screws.

11. The functional fine-art furniture of claim 1, further comprising an object that can be folded under the table top in the table configuration and can be unfolded to be part of the fine-art display in the fine-art display configuration.

12. The functional fine-art furniture of claim 1, wherein the foldable object resembles an animal'"'"'s head.

13. The functional fine-art furniture of claim 1, wherein the table top comprises one ore more hanging features that allow the table top to be displayed vertically by hanging off an object.

14. The functional fine-art furniture of claim 13, wherein the one or more hanging features are located on the lower side of the table top.

15. Functional fine-art furniture, comprising:

a plurality of table legs; and

a table top comprising;

an art work on the top side of the table top;

one or more table-formation features formed on the under side of the table top and configured to be connected with the plurality of table legs to form a table configuration, such that the plurality of table legs connected with the table-formation features can extend downward below the table top to allow the table legs to support the table top; and

one or more display-formation features located on the underside or the sides of the table top and configured to hold the table legs when the table legs are detached from the table-formation features and to allow the table top and the table legs to form a fine-art display configuration.

16. The functional fine-art furniture of claim 15, wherein the one or more display-formation features allow the table legs to extend at least partially out of the table top so that at least part of the table legs are visible when the functional fine-art furniture is in the fine-art display configuration.

17. The functional fine-art furniture of claim 15, wherein the top ends of the table legs are affixed with screws, and wherein the table-formation features in the table top include threaded screw holes configured to receive the screws.

18. The functional fine-art furniture of claim 17, wherein the one or more display-formation features include threaded screw holes configured to receive the screws.

19. The functional fine-art furniture of claim 15, further comprising an object that can be folded under the table top in the table configuration and can be unfolded to be part of the fine-art display in the fine-art display configuration.

20. Functional fine-art furniture, comprising:

a plurality of table legs affixed with screws at the top ends of the table legs; and

a table top comprising;

an art work on the top side of the table top;

one or more threaded screw holes formed on the under side of the table top and configured to receive the plurality of table legs to form a table configuration, such that the plurality of table legs screwed into threaded screw holes can extend downward below the table top to allow the table legs to support the table top; and

one or more display-formation features located on the underside or the sides of the table top and configured to hold the table legs when the table legs are detached from the table-formation features and to allow the table top and the table legs to form a fine-art display configuration.