Furniture with removable cushions

• US 4,395,071 A
• Filed: 02/23/1981
• Issued: 07/26/1983
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/1981
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: The Drovers & Mechanics Bank (Fulton Bank, NA (Lancaster, Pennsylvania))
• Original Assignee: William B. Laird
• Inventors: Laird, William B.
• Primary Examiner(s): McCall, James T.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Talbott, David L.
• Application Number:
  US06/237,338
• Time in Patent Office: 883 Days
• Field of Search: 297/440, 297/455, 297/68, 297/442, 297/443, 296/57 R, D 6/62
• US Class Current: 297/440.21
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 27/00 Spring, stuffed or fluid mattresses or cushions specially adapted for chairs, beds or sofas
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 31/02 Upholstery attaching means quilting, quilting means, fastening, fixing or finishing upholstery B68G7/00

Abstract

Furnitrue in the form or a chair, love seat or couch is provided with a frame having at least one removable cushion. The cushion has oppositely disposed grooves. Each groove is adapted to receive a tongue on a frame. A latch mechanism is provided within the cushion for cooperating with mating structure on an associated tongue whereby the cushion may be removed and replaced by another similar cushion or may merely be flipped over and replaced.

Claims

1. Furniture of the chair, love seat and couch type comprising a frame having at least one removable cushion, said cushion having oppositely disposed grooves, a pair of tongues on said frame, each tongue projecting into one of said grooves, latch means within said removable cushion, said latch means including a latch member projecting into at least one of the grooves on the cushion for latching cooperation with mating structure on the associated tongue, and an actuator on the cushion and connected to the latch member for releasing the latch member so that the cushion may be removed.

2. Furniture in accordance with claim 1 wherein said groove is shorter than the cushion and arranged so as to be visible only at the sides and one end of the cushion.

3. Furniture in accordance with claim 2 wherein said latch means includes a pair of latch members, each latch member extending into a separate one of said grooves, said actuator being connected to each latch member for simultaneously actuating the latch members.

4. Furniture in accordance with claim 1 wherein said frame has a pair of removable cushions, one of the removable cushions being a seat cushion and the other being a back cushion, each cushion being provided with a latch means therewithin, each cushion having a pair of oppositely disposed grooves for receiving a discrete tongue on the frame.

5. Furniture in accordance with claim 1 wherein said mating structure on said tongue is a notch into which said latch member projects.

6. Furniture in accordance with claim 1 wherein said cushion has a padded framework surrounded by an outer covering, said grooves being exposed on opposite sides of the framework, the padded framework having padding on opposite faces thereof with said latch means being disposed between the paddings.

7. Furniture comprising a frame having at least two removable cushions which are generally horizontally disposed and two removable back cushions which are generally vertically disposed, each seat cushion abutting one of the back cushions, each cushion having oppositely disposed grooves which are exposed and extend for a length shorter than the length of the cushions, a pair of tongues on said frame for each cushion, each tongue projecting into one of said grooves, latch means within each cushion, each latch means including a pair of latch members, each latch member projecting into a separate one of the grooves on its associated cushion for latching cooperation with mating structure on the associated tongue, and an actuator on each cushion remote from its associated latch members for releasing the associated latch members so that the cushions may be removed from the frame.

8. Furniture in accordance with claim 7 wherein each cushion has a rectangular framework therewithin, said grooves being disposed in said framework, each cushion including padding on opposite faces of the framework, each latch means being disposed between the paddig of its associated cushion so as to be generally in the same elevation as its framework generally equidistant from the major faces of the cushion.

9. An article of manufacture comprising a furniture cushion, said cushion having a framework with padding on opposite faces thereof and within an outer covering, said cushion having exposed grooves on opposite sides of the framework adjacent one end, a latch means supported within the cushion, said latch means including a discrete movable latch member partially exposed in each groove for latching the cushion to a frame.

10. An article in accordance with claim 9 wherein each latch member is reciprocably supported within its cushion and spring biased outwardly into its associated groove, and a common actuator coupled to each of the latch members for simultaneously releasing the latch members, said actuator being accessible along an end of the cushion which is generally perpendicular to said opposite sides containing said grooves.