Patent ID: 6802144
Filing Date: 2004-10-12
Classification: A47B,B44C,B44F,F21S,F21V,F21W

Abstract:
A furniture ornament having a unique visual effect, comprising:a plurality of spaced-apart and parallel planar sheets of transparent material having a topmost sheet and a bottommost sheet, the sheets containing thereon two-dimensional designs, said two-dimensional designs being capable of forming a composite design when the sheets are observed in a line of sight, said composite design being different from any of the two-dimensional designs on the sheets, said composite design appearing to be three-dimensional, the two-dimensional designs on all the sheets being visually superimposed on one another when viewing the furniture ornament perpendicular to the sheets, when viewing the bottommost sheet from an angle from below or the topmost sheet from angle from above the furniture ornament, only a portion of a full design of each sheet being visually superimposed on the two-dimensional designs of the other sheets, said portion representing a decreasing proportion of the full design the further the full design is from the observer, a plurality of linear connectors running from the bottommost sheet to the topmost sheet and including structure for attaching to the sheets and maintaining the sheets in spaced-apart parallel relation to one another and including structure for attaching the connectors to a support.