MODULAR FURNITURE BASE

• US 3,568,967 A
• Filed: 04/09/1969
• Issued: 03/09/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 04/09/1969
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Robert W. Schier, Ronald T. Furtak
• Original Assignee: Robert W. Schier, Ronald T. Furtak
• Inventors: Furtak, Ronald T., Schier, Robert W.
• Application Number:
  US04/814,643
• Time in Patent Office: 699 Days
• US Class Current: 248/188.1
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 91/00 Feet for furniture in general castors B60B33/00
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 11/005 having multiple separate seats

Abstract

Furniture items are mounted on a support bar which is carried by a plurality of base assemblies each including feet and an upright leg and a bar supporting channel, the leg having fairing strips at opposite sides thereof merging with the feet and the bar supporting fitting and interlocked with the feet of the fitting to be retained in position without separate connection.

Claims

1. A furniture base made up of interlocking sections including a foot section with divergent feet, a top section, a leg tube telescopically engaged with dowel portions with which the foot section and top section are respectively provided, and channelshaped fairing elements engaged with opposite sides of the said tube and having terminal interlocking connection both with the foot section, together with means for holding foot and top sections in assembly with said leg tube and in engagement through said interlocking connection with said fairing elements for holding said elements in position.

3. A furniture base according to claim 2 in which the cross section of the respective fairing units merges with and matches the cross section of the foot section.

4. A furniture base comprising a foot casting having forwardly and rearwardly extending foot portions and provided between said portion with an upwardly extending dowel having a generally horizontal shoulder at each side thereof and an upstanding flange projecting from the shoulder and spaced from the dowel, a leg tube telescopically received upon the dowel, a top casting having dowel telescopically engaged within the leg tube and provided with outwardly projecting shoulders having flanges spaced from the dowel and the leg Tube, said top casting including bar supporting means, channel-shaped fairing members embracing the leg tube at opposite side thereof and registering at their lower ends with the shoulders of said foot casting, said fairing members having their sides provided with oppositely directed flanges interlockingly engaged with the flanges projecting from the respective shoulders with which the foot casting and the top casting are provided, and means for detachably connecting the top casting and the foot casting to said leg tube whereby interlocking connection of said flanges holds the fairing members in assembly.