Patent ID: 7438360

Claim:
An armrest comprising: a longitudinal core body made of a lower-quality wood material, and having a substantially planar bottom surface, a non-planar top surface, and two opposite lateral surfaces interconnecting said bottom and top surfaces and extending longitudinally, said non-planar top surface rising upwardly from said lateral surfaces to a middle of said top surface, wherein said lower-quality wood material is selected from the group consisting of rubber wood, pinewood, cedar wood, defective high quality wood, and high density fiber material; a top veneer layer made of a higher-quality wood material, and having a top surface, and a bottom connecting surface adhered to said top surface of said longitudinal core body, each of said top surface of said top veneer layer and said bottom connecting surface having substantially the same outline as that of said top surface of said core body, wherein said higher-quality wood material is selected from the group consisting of oakwood, maple wood, poplar wood, cherry wood, beech wood, alder wood, and hemlock wood; and two lateral veneer layers, each of which is made of a material similar to that of said top veneer layer, and has a top end face connected to said bottom connecting surface of said top veneer layer, a bottom end face opposite to said top end face, an inner lateral surface adhered to a respective one of said opposite lateral surfaces of said longitudinal core body, and an outer lateral surface opposite to said inner lateral surface; wherein said top veneer layer is formed with a plurality of longitudinal grooves that extend upwardly from said bottom connecting surface to a level lower than said top surface of said top veneer layer and that are spaced apart from each other transversely of said longitudinal core body.