Patent ID: 6738998
Filing Date: 2004-05-25
Classification: A47C

Abstract:
An article of furniture capable of being configured as a seat or as an article of furniture on which a person or animal could lie down and capable of being assembled and disassembled easily at the discretion of a user without any use of small fastening devices such as nuts and bolts or the like comprising a seat, a backrest, one or more armrests and one or more legs as parts which, themselves cannot be further disassembled:(a) said legs being secured to said seat by means of sockets permanently attached to said seat and into which are inserted aspects of said legs, (b) said armrests being secured to said seat by means of sockets permanently attached to said seat and into which are inserted aspects of said armrests, and (c) said backrest being secured to said seat by means of sockets permanently attached to said seat and into which are inserted aspects of said backrest or sockets permanently attached to said backrest and into which are inserted aspects of said seat, said backrest capable of articulating with respect to said seat in the manner of two halves of a book and capable of being easily disconnected from and connected to said seat through said means of sockets and having means for supporting said backrest in a position coplanar with said seat comprising one or more legs which, when employed extend outward from said backrest in a manner which forms a support for the backrest.