Patent ID: 6866238
Filing Date: 2005-03-15
Classification: A47C,B60G,F16F

Abstract:
1. A furniture pillar comprising: an upright tube having a free end, an inner wall, an outer circumferential surface, and a color coating on said outer circumferential surface; and a guide bushing having an annular insertion region having a free end which forms an end of said guide bushing and having an outer circumferential surface which is received against said inner wall of said upright tube, a guide tube extending through said annular insertion region and having an inner circumferential surface which serves as a guide for a supporting tube of the furniture pillar, and a plurality of circumferentially spaced ribs which adjoin said annular insertion region axially and extend radially outwards from the guide tube to radial end surfaces which bear against the inner wall of the upright tube, said ribs forming therebetween open chambers extending axially away from said annular insertion region, said guide tube having a plurality of grooves in said inner circumferential surface and extending axially from the end of the bushing through the annular insertion region, said guide bushing further comprising openings which communicate between said grooves and respective said chambers, the annular insertion region being form-fitted in the free end of the upright tube.