Patent ID: 6413349
Filing Date: 2002-07-02
Classification: A47B,A47C,Y10T

Abstract:
A method of manufacturing furniture, comprising:cutting two or more beam shaped plies from at least one sheet of at least one material, forming a plurality of beam elements by laminating two or more of said beam shaped plies, removing portions of said beam elements thereby forming slots, tabs, grooves, cut-outs, tabulated apertures, or tapered edges within said beam elements, cutting a plurality of bars of substantially equal thickness to have substantially equal lengths, combining a plurality of said beam elements by interconnecting at least one of said slots, tabs, grooves, cut-outs, tabulated apertures or tapered edges of one beam element with at least one of said slots, tabs, grooves, cut-outs, tabulated apertures or tapered edges in at least one other beam element, inserting a plurality of said bars into at least one of said slots, grooves, cut-outs or tabulated apertures in said beam elements, orienting at least a portion of said plurality of said beam elements or at least a portion of said plurality of bars to be in collinear alignment to a load acting upon said furniture, and orienting one or more of said beam elements in a configuration where edges of said beam elements are designed to come into contact with a load placed on said furniture.