US 11,805,911 B2
Knock-down furniture
Jordan Milberg, Concord (CA); and Matthew Milberg, Concord (CA)
Assigned to SOFAWEB.COM INC., Concord (CA)
Filed by SOFAWEB.COM INC., Concord (CA)
Filed on Oct. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/961,737.
Application 17/961,737 is a continuation of application No. 17/248,899, filed on Feb. 12, 2021, granted, now 11,464,339.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/976,970, filed on Feb. 14, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0108550 A1, Apr. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. A47C 13/00 (2006.01); A47C 4/02 (2006.01)
CPC A47C 4/021 (2013.01) [A47C 4/028 (2013.01); A47C 13/005 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A kit of parts shippable to an end user in a plurality of boxes for assembly of the parts by the end user into seating furniture, the kit pf parts including:
a) a plurality of seat bases, each seat base having a seat base first side and a seat base second side spaced laterally apart from the seat base first side, each seat base first side having at least one slide connector of a plurality of slide connectors secured thereto, each seat base second side having at least one channel connector of a plurality of channel connectors secured thereto, and each seat base having an upwardly protruding portion at a rear of the seat base defining a raised upper surface, the raised upper surface of each seat base including a plurality of rear connectors;
b) a plurality of seat backs equal in quantity to the plurality of seat bases, each of the seat backs having a top, a bottom vertically opposite the top, and a plurality of bottom connectors adjacent the bottom and alignable with the plurality of rear connectors of any one of the plurality of seat bases for removably attaching the seat backs to the seat bases;
c) a first armrest with at least another channel connector of the plurality of channel connectors secured thereto, each channel connector of the first armrest comprising a first channel for slidably receiving a first slide member of a respective slide connector of any first seat base of the plurality of seat bases for securing the first armrest and the first seat base together;
d) a second armrest with at least another slide connector of the plurality of slide connectors secured thereto, each slide connector of the second armrest comprising a second slide member for slidable insertion into a second channel of a respective channel connector of any second seat base of the plurality of seat bases for securing the second armrest and the second seat base together;
e) wherein each channel connector secured to the first seat base comprises a third channel for slidably receiving a third slide member of a respective slide connector of any other seat base of the plurality of seat bases for securing together said other seat base and the first seat base; and the kit of parts further comprising:
f) a plurality of latch mechanisms each movable between unlatched and latched positions, the plurality of latch mechanisms including a plurality of first latch mechanisms for laterally urging together the first armrest and the first seat base when in the latched position, and a plurality of second latch mechanisms for laterally urging together the second armrest and the second seat base when in the latched position, and
wherein each first latch mechanism includes a keeper fixed to the first armrest and a clasp fixed to the first side of the first seat base, and wherein each second latch mechanism includes another keeper fixed to the second side of the second seat base and another clasp fixed to the second armrest, each clasp movable relative to the respective keeper of each latch mechanism between unlatched and latched positions, each latch mechanism exerting a lateral clamping force urging the respective seat section and respective armrest together when the clasp is in the latched position.