Patent ID: 6824221
Filing Date: 2004-11-30
Classification: A47C

Abstract:
A furniture piece, which comprises:a plurality of rib units, each rib unit having at least one functional surface having at most one supported end, and at most one supporting member, the supporting member having a first end and a second end, the first end of the supporting member being contiguously attached to the functional surface at the supported end, and the second end of the supporting member extending downwardly from the supported end; and interconnecting means for securing each of the rib units to at least one other of the rib units, wherein a composite of the functional surfaces of the rib units defines one or more surfaces of the furniture piece, the first end of the supporting member of each rib unit is immediately adjacent to the first end of the supporting member of at least one other of the rib units, and the second end of the supporting member of each rib unit is closer to the second end of the supporting member of an adjacent one of the rib units than to the second end of the supporting member of any non-adjacent one of the rib units.