Patent ID: 8176858

Claim:
An easily assemblable desk comprising: a plurality of panel members, and a plurality of releasable connection members respectively secured to said panel members; wherein said plurality of panel members includes: two vertically extending upright support panel members, and a horizontally extending desk top panel member that is supported on top of said upright support panel members and that is releasably secured to said upright support panel members by releasable engagement of respective engageable pairs of said releasable connection members; wherein at least one of said panel members is a plastic composite panel member comprising: a lightweight core selected from the group consisting of honeycomb cores and foam cores, a frame element arranged adjoining said core at a peripheral edge of said core, wherein said frame element is an elongate hollow sectional member extending longitudinally along said peripheral edge of said core, and first and second cover sheets arranged on opposite first and second major planar surfaces of said core and on said frame element to cover said core and said frame element, wherein said first cover sheet includes a first sheet portion that extends along an outer peripheral edge of said frame element, wherein said second cover sheet includes a second sheet portion that overlaps on said first sheet portion on said outer peripheral edge of said frame element, and wherein said second sheet portion overlapped on said first sheet portion on said outer peripheral edge of said frame element forms an outwardly-facing outermost peripheral edge of said plastic composite panel member.