Furniture leg with anchoring means
First Claim
1. In combination,(a) a piece of furniture, said piece of furniture having a frame and said frame having an underside;
- (b) a furniture leg attached to the underside of said frame, said furniture leg having an upper surface and said furniture leg having a bore therethrough extending from said upper surface of said furniture leg and passing downwardly through said furniture leg;
said underside including a layer of upholstery thereon sandwiched between said underside of said frame and said upper surface of said furniture leg; and
(c) anchoring means for securely attaching said furniture leg to said underside of said frame with said upper surface of said furniture leg abutting the underside of said frame and with said furniture leg being secured from rotation about any axis with respect to said frame, said anchoring means comprising;
i. a single threaded bolt having a head, said threaded bolt being screwingly inserted through said bore and threadedly engaged with respect to said frame so that said furniture leg is entrapped between said frame and the head of said bolt; and
ii. at least one tooth extending upwardly from said upper surface of said furniture leg and spaced from said bore, said tooth having a distal end outwardly remote from said upper surface of said furniture leg in piercing engagement with said underside of said frame without engagement with any pre-formed hole into said frame, said tooth being fixedly secured to said furniture leg before, during, and after attachment of said leg to said piece of furniture.
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Abstract
A furniture leg attached to the underside of the frame of a piece of furniture. The furniture leg has a vertical bore through which a bolt is threadedly screwed into an internally-threaded insert on the frame, entrapping the furniture leg between the head of the bolt and the frame. In some embodiments, at least one, and preferably two, teeth extend upwardly from the upper surface of the furniture leg and pierce through the upholstery and into the frame, preventing the furniture leg from rotating about the axis of the bolt. In other embodiments, at least one, and preferably two, corrugated joiners extend upwardly from the upper surface of the furniture leg and pierce through the upholstery and into the frame, preventing the furniture leg from rotating about the axis of the bolt. One of the corrugated joiners may span a seam between bondedly and abuttingly joined pieces of the furniture leg, thereby also providing additional structural joining of the pieces of the furniture leg. In another embodiment, coacting hook-and-loop fasteners or joiners, spaced from the axis of the bolt on the upper surface of the furniture leg and the undersurface of the piece of furniture, prevent rotation of the furniture leg. All embodiments simultaneously secure the leg from rotation as the bolt draws the leg to the frame.
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13 Claims
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1. In combination,
(a) a piece of furniture, said piece of furniture having a frame and said frame having an underside; -
(b) a furniture leg attached to the underside of said frame, said furniture leg having an upper surface and said furniture leg having a bore therethrough extending from said upper surface of said furniture leg and passing downwardly through said furniture leg;
said underside including a layer of upholstery thereon sandwiched between said underside of said frame and said upper surface of said furniture leg; and(c) anchoring means for securely attaching said furniture leg to said underside of said frame with said upper surface of said furniture leg abutting the underside of said frame and with said furniture leg being secured from rotation about any axis with respect to said frame, said anchoring means comprising; i. a single threaded bolt having a head, said threaded bolt being screwingly inserted through said bore and threadedly engaged with respect to said frame so that said furniture leg is entrapped between said frame and the head of said bolt; and ii. at least one tooth extending upwardly from said upper surface of said furniture leg and spaced from said bore, said tooth having a distal end outwardly remote from said upper surface of said furniture leg in piercing engagement with said underside of said frame without engagement with any pre-formed hole into said frame, said tooth being fixedly secured to said furniture leg before, during, and after attachment of said leg to said piece of furniture.
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2. In combination,
(a) a piece of furniture, said piece of furniture having a frame and said frame having an underside; -
(b) a furniture leg attached to the underside of said frame, said furniture leg having an upper surface and said furniture leg having a bore therethrough extending from said upper surface of said furniture leg and passing downwardly through said furniture leg; and (c) anchoring means for securely attaching said furniture leg to said underside of said frame with said upper surface of said furniture leg abutting the underside of said frame and with said furniture leg being secured from rotation about any axis with respect to said frame, said anchoring means comprising; i. a single threaded bolt having a head, said threaded bolt being screwingly inserted through said bore and threadedly engaged with respect to said frame so that said furniture leg is entrapped between said frame and the head of said bolt; and ii. at least one tooth extending upwardly from said upper surface of said furniture leg and spaced from said bore, said tooth having a distal end outwardly remote from said upper surface of said furniture leg in piercing engagement with said underside of said frame without engagement with any pre-formed hole into said frame, said tooth being fixedly secured to said furniture leg before, during, and after attachment of said leg to said piece of furniture; said frame including an internally-threaded insert in threaded engagement with said threaded bolt.
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3. In combination,
(a) a piece of furniture, said piece of furniture having a frame and said frame having an underside, said underside having a layer of upholstery thereon and said frame including an internally-threaded insert; -
(b) a furniture leg attached to the underside of said frame, said furniture leg having an upper surface and said furniture leg having a bore therethrough in alignment with said internally-threaded insert, said bore extending from said upper surface of said furniture leg and passing downwardly through said furniture leg; and (c) anchoring means for securely attaching said furniture leg to said underside of said frame with said upper surface of said furniture leg abutting said layer of upholstery on said underside of said frame, and with said furniture leg being secured from rotation about any axis with respect to said frame, said anchoring means comprising; i. a single threaded bolt having a head, said threaded bolt being screwingly inserted through said bore and threadedly engaged with said internally-threaded insert so that said furniture leg is entrapped between said frame and the head of said bolt; and ii. at least one tooth extending upwardly from said upper surface of said furniture leg and spaced from said bore, said tooth having a sharp distal end outwardly remote from said upper surface of said furniture leg in piercing engagement with said underside of said frame without engagement with any pre-formed hole into said frame, said tooth being fixedly secured to said furniture leg before, during and after attachment of said leg to said piece of furniture.
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4. In combination,
(a) a furniture leg for attachment to a piece of furniture, said piece of furniture having a frame and said frame having an underside, said furniture leg having an upper surface and said furniture leg having a bore therethrough extending from said upper surface of said furniture leg and passing downwardly through said furniture leg; - and
(b) anchoring means for securely attaching said furniture leg to said underside of said frame so that said furniture leg is secured from rotation about any axis with respect to said frame, said anchoring means comprising; i. fastener means for fastening said furniture leg to the underside of said frame through said bore, said fastener means including a body having a first end and a threaded second end, said fastener means further including a head attached to said first end of said body, said threaded second end of said body being adapted for insertion through said bore and for threaded engagement with respect to said frame so that said furniture leg is entrapped between said frame and the head of said fastener means when said threaded second end of said body is threadedly engaged with respect to said frame; and ii. at least one corrugated joiner extending upwardly from said upper surface of said furniture leg and spaced from said bore and also penetrating downwardly through said upper surface into said furniture leg, said at least one corrugated joiner having a sharpened distal end outwardly remote from said upper surface of said furniture leg for piercing said underside of said frame. - View Dependent Claims (5)
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6. In combination,
(a) a piece of furniture, said piece of furniture having a frame and said frame having an underside; -
(b) a furniture leg attached to the underside of said frame, said furniture leg having an upper surface and said furniture leg having a bore therethrough extending from said upper surface of said furniture leg and passing downwardly through said furniture leg; and (c) anchoring means for securely attaching said furniture leg to said underside of said frame with said upper surface of said furniture leg abutting the underside of said frame and with said furniture leg being secured from rotation about any axis with respect to said frame, said anchoring means comprising; i. a single threaded bolt having a head, said threaded bolt being screwingly inserted through said bore and threadedly engaged with respect to said frame so that said furniture leg is entrapped between said frame and the head of said bolt; and ii. at least one corrugated joiner extending upwardly from said upper surface of said furniture leg and spaced from said bore and also penetrating downwardly through said upper surface into said furniture leg, said at least one corrugated joiner having a sharpened distal end outwardly remote from said upper surface of said furniture leg in piercing engagement with said underside of said frame. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8)
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9. In combination,
(a) a furniture leg for attachment to a piece of furniture, said piece of furniture having a frame and said frame having an underside, said furniture leg having an upper surface and said furniture leg having a bore therethrough extending from said upper surface of said furniture leg and passing downwardly through said furniture leg; - and
(b) anchoring means for securely attaching said furniture leg to said underside of said frame so that said furniture leg is secured from rotation about any axis with respect to said frame, said anchoring means comprising; i. fastener means for fastening said furniture leg to the underside of said frame through said bore, said fastener means including a body having a first end and a threaded second end, said fastener means further including a head attached to said first end of said body, said threaded second end of said body being adapted for insertion through said bore and for threaded engagement with respect to said frame so that said furniture leg is entrapped between said frame and the head of said fastener means when said threaded second end of said body is threadedly engaged with respect to said frame; and ii. at least one joining means for securing said upper surface of said furniture leg to said underside of said frame and for preventing substantial rotation of said furniture leg about said body of said fastener means, said joining means including a first locking portion and a coacting second locking portion, one of said locking portions being fixedly attached to said upper surface of said furniture leg remote from said bore, said locking portions being adapted for interlocking engagement with each other such that said joining means prevents said leg from rotating about said body of said fastener means as said threaded second end of said body is threadedly engaged with respect to said frame. - View Dependent Claims (10)
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11. In combination,
(a) a piece of furniture, said piece of furniture having a frame and said frame having an underside; -
(b) a furniture leg attached to the underside of said frame, said furniture leg having an upper surface and said furniture leg having a bore therethrough extending from said upper surface of said furniture leg and passing downwardly through said furniture leg; and (c) anchoring means for securely attaching said furniture leg to said underside of said frame with said upper surface of said furniture leg abutting the underside of said frame and with said furniture leg being secured from rotation about any axis with respect to said frame, said anchoring means comprising; i. a single threaded bolt having a head, said threaded bolt being screwingly inserted through said bore and threadedly engaged with respect to said frame so that said furniture leg is entrapped between said frame and the head of said bolt; and ii. at least one joining means for securing said upper surface of said furniture leg to said underside of said frame and for preventing substantial rotation of said furniture leg about said body of said fastener means, said joining means including a first locking portion and a coacting second locking portion, one of said locking portions being fixedly attached to said upper surface of said furniture leg remote from said bore, the other of said locking portions being fixedly attached to said underside of said frame in alignment with said one of said locking portions fixedly attached to said upper surface of said furniture leg, said first and said second locking portions being in interlocking engagement with each other such that said joining means prevents said leg from rotating about said body of said fastener means as said threaded second end of said body is threadedly engaged with respect to said frame. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13)
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