Modular furniture and method

摘要

Modular furniture includes several members connected together without fasteners or other hardware. While some of the members slide together, some members are locked in place by other members. The modular furniture includes one or more members that engage other members in a twist and lock fashion that helps hold the modular furniture together during everyday use. The twist and lock may be achieved using a substantially L-shaped slot in one member and a corresponding slot in a mating member, which allows the mating member to rotate (twist) within the L-shaped slot. The modular furniture is locked together at several different members and stages of assembly, and includes a final stop member that assures the furniture cannot come apart inadvertently during normal use.

主权项

1. An article of manufacture comprising:
a plurality of first members that each includes a plurality of substantially rectangular first slots; a plurality of second members that comprise a plurality of legs, wherein each of the plurality of second members includes a substantially L-shaped second slot comprising:
an opening to an edge of the second member defined by a gap between first and second boundaries of the opening;a first substantially flat portion extending from the first boundary;a second substantially flat portion extending substantially perpendicular to the first substantially flat portion;a third substantially flat portion extending substantially perpendicular to the second substantially flat portion and substantially parallel to the first substantially flat portion;a rounded portion connecting the third substantially flat portion to the second boundary of the opening; and wherein one of the plurality of the first members is connected to one of the plurality of second members without use of fasteners or other hardware by placing the opening in the substantially L-shaped second slot in the one second member in proximity to one of the plurality of substantially rectangular first slots in the one first member so the one second member has a first orientation with respect to the one first member, and twisting the one second member to a second orientation approximately 90 degrees rotated with respect to the first orientation to move a portion of the one second member into place within the one first slot in the one first member and to move a first portion of the one first member in proximity to the one first slot of the one first member into the substantially L-shaped second slot of the one second member.