A PIECE OF FURNITURE MADE OF GLASS AND THE LIKE HAVING A RESTING PROFILE MEMBER OF RUBBER

Abstract: In a piece of furniture (1) made of glass, the floor resting edge (4) is provided with a resting profile member (5) comprising a rubber strip (6) wherein a metal foil (7) is embedded which is affixed to the edge (4) by means of double tack adhesive tape; thus, the resting edge is protected against chipping or cracking.

Description: This invention relates to a piece of furniture made of glass and the like. Glass (or lead glass) has long been used to make pieces of furniture. In recent years, improvements in glass working techniques enabled pieces of furniture, and tables especially, to be formed integrally from glass, usually bent sheet glass; in this way, the merit of glass is enhanced by the very absence of any foreign material to check its flowing glint. Unfortunately, such tables have shown to be rather fragile when laid on hard floor surfaces (such as marble, ceramic tiles, and the like); in fact, direct contact with the floor results in the slightest movements causing the glass to chip or even break altogether. US-A-3 311 338 relates to a self-adhering resilient pad useful in inhibiting movement of pictures or other articles relative to the wall or other surface upon which they are hung, rested, or in other manner supported. CH-A-140 963 discloses a support for a leg constituted by a soft basis and a metal disc larger than the leg. It is an object of this invention to provide a piece of furniture made of glass and the like, which has such constructional and functional characteristics as to overcome the drawbacks noted above. This object is achieved by a piece of furniture made of glass and the like according to the invention as defined in independent Claim 1, a particular embodiment of the invention being further defined in Claim 2. The features and advantages of a piece of furniture according to the invention will be apparent from the following detailed description of a preferred embodiment thereof, to be taken by way of illustration and not of limitation in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. In the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of a piece of furniture according to this invention ; and Figure 2 is a sectional detail view of the piece of furniture shown in Figure 1. With reference to the drawing views, the numeral 1 generally designates a piece of furniture, specifically a coffee table, of a type which comprises a table top 2 and two legs 3 to be obtained by bending from a single glass (or lead glass) sheet. Defined downwardly on each leg 3 is a flat resting edge 4, which has a respective resting profile member 5 interposed to the edge 4 and the floor. The profile member 5 is composed of a rubber strip 6 whose dimensions substantially correspond to those of the resting edge 4 and wherein a metal foil 7, preferably of aluminum or the like non-ferrous metals, is partly embedded and made unitary as by vulcanizing. Also provided is an adhesive means 8 consisting, in the example being considered, of a length of double tack adhesive tape intervening between the metal foil 7 and the resting edge 4 of glass, thereby the resting profile member 5 is firmly affixed to the leg 3. As may be appreciated, a coffee table according to the invention overcomes the prior art drawbacks; in fact, the resting profile member of rubber protects the glass edges against chipping or cracking, and this while bringing about no aesthetic disturbance and no alteration of the glass flowing glint. Further, the resting profile members described above are sensible, simple to manufacture, and easily assembled to the glass resting edges.

Claims: A piece of furniture made of glass and the like, having at least one glass leg (3) with a flat resting edge (4), a rubber strip (6), a metal foil (7) partly embedded in said strip (6) and an adhesive means (8) between the metal foil (7) and the resting edge (4) for making the strip (6) unitary with the leg (3). A piece of furniture according to Claim 1, characterized in that said adhesive means comprises a lenght of double tack adhesive tape (8).

Inventors: LIVI VITTORIO
Applicants: FIAM S.R.L.
Application year: 1988
Main classification: A47B91
IPC codes: A47B91