FURNITURE WITH CHANGEABLE COVERS

• US 3,589,770 A
• Filed: 04/17/1969
• Issued: 06/29/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/1969
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Charlotte S. Kelley
• Original Assignee: Charlotte S. Kelley
• Inventors: Kelley, Charlotte S.
• Application Number:
  US04/817,131
• Time in Patent Office: 803 Days
• US Class Current: 297/218.5
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 31/11 for chairs for headrests only A47C7/386; removable protective covers for car seats B60N2/60

Abstract

A self-contained couch wherein a leg-supported upholstered frame provides a sturdy seat, arms at the respective ends thereof and an upstanding tufted backrest. The frame is enclosed within the snug-fitting confines of unfinished but coverable wear-resisting material such as, for example, ticking, burlap, denim, canvas or the like. The seat, arms and backrest are expressly constructed to provide foundation for a unique slipcover having distributively arranged built-in eyelets and attached holddown hooks which are detachably connectable with an oriented elastic anchoring cord stitched on the rear of the seat portion of the couch. The readily applicable and removable slipcover-fabricated from selectively colorful upholstering materials-permits one to selectively vary the outward appearance easily, quickly and at will and in keeping with the tradition of a special occasion, if so desired.

Claims

1. In combination, an unfinished but self-contained couch characterized by a rigid leg-supported frame embodying a horizontal seat provided at its respective ends with companion arms and bordered along a rearward marginal edge by a vertical upstanding complemental backrest, said seat, arms and also said backrest being upholstered and embodying compressibly resilient appropriately fitted frame-supported padding wholly enclosed within tight-fitted securely attached covering material made of durable wear-resisting ticking, burlap or the like, said backrest being tufted, each tuft embodying an open-ended tubular tuftforming sleeve, said sleeve being embedded in and passing through the coacting padding and having flanged terminal ends fitting through front and rear openings provided therefore in oriented portions of said covering material, and a readily applicable and removable made-to-order slipcover made of ornate upholstery and conformingly fitted over and concealing the component portions of said couch, said slipcover having seat, arms and backrest portions, said backrest portion having distributively arranged eyelets, at least one of said eyelets being aligned with a cooperable flanged terminal of said sleeve, and means separably fastening said eyelet to said flanged sleeve in a manner to assist in anchoring the slip cover in its given snug-fitting stay-put position.

2. The combination defined in and according to claim 1, and wherein said sleeve is of a length shorter than the cross-sectional thickness of said coacting penetrated padding whereby each outstanding flange serves to compress and indent the associated encompassing padding and adjacent covering material in a manner to form the depressed dimplelike portion of the companion tuft.

3. The combination defined in and according to claim 2, and wherein said fastening means embodies at least one decorative constantly visible button which is oriented with the companion eyelet and also wherein said button serves to seat the eyelet-equipped portion of the slipcover in the said dimplelike portion.

4. The combination defined in and according to claim 2, and wherein said fastening means comprises an insertable and removable rod, said rod passing through said sleeve with its ends projecting beyond the flanged terminaL ends of said sleeve, said rod being provided at its respective ends with ornamental buttonlike heads.

5. The combination defined in and according to claim 2, and wherein said fastening means comprises an insertable and removable rod, said rod passing through said sleeve with its ends projecting beyond the flanged terminal ends of said sleeve, said rod being provided at its respective ends with ornamental buttonlike heads, said rod having forward and rearward heads, the forward head being rigid and the rearward head being readily attachable and detachable.

6. The combination defined in and according to claim 1, and wherein said couch is provided at the juncture of the seat and backrest with an elongated elastic holddown cord having its ends anchored in place in a manner to tauten and retain the cord under tension, and attaching and retaining hooks carried by the backrest portion of the slipcover and releasably engaged with portions of said cord to assist in maintaining the slipcover in a set rumple-resisting position.

7. In combination, an unfinished but self-contained couch embodying a frame embodying a horizontal seat provided at its respective ends with companion arms and bordered along a rearward marginal edge by a vertical upstanding complemental backrest, said seat, arms and also said backrest being upholstered and embodying compressibly resilient appropriately fitted padding wholly enclosed within skintight securely attached covering material made of durable wear-resisting material, said backrest being tufted, and a readily applicable and removable custom-made slipcover made of ornate upholstery and conformably fitted over and concealing the component covered portions of said couch, and built-in means for detachably fastening the slipcover in its ready-to-use position, and wherein said means is characterized by

8. The combination defined in and according to claim 7, and wherein said couch is provided at the juncture of the seat and backrest with an elongated elastic holddown cord having its ends securely anchored in place in a manner to tauten and retain the cord under constant tension, and attaching and retaining hooks carried by the backrest portion of the slipcover and releasably engaged with portions of said cord to assist in maintaining the slipcover in a set rumple-resisting position.

9. In combination, an unfinished but self-contained couch embodying a frame having a horizontal seat provided at its respective ends with companion arms and bordered along a rearward marginal edge by a vertical upstanding complemental backrest, said seat, arms and also said backrest being upholstered and embodying compressibly resilient appropriately fitted padding wholly enclosed within skintight securely attached unfinished covering material made of durable wear-resisting material, canvas or denim for example, said backrest being tufted, and a readily applicable and removable readymade slipcover precisely fitted over and conformably concealing the component covered portions of said couch, and built-in means for detachably fastening the slipcover in its ready-to-use position on said couch, and wherein said means is characterized by 1. a tubular open-ended sleeve having assembling and retaining flanges at its respective ends and 2. by an insertable and removable pin, said pin having buttonlike heads at its ends.