US 11,910,925 B2
Furniture objects including hidden containers
Joel Grossman, Petaling Jaya (MY); and Howard Porter, Kuala Lumpur (MY)
Assigned to Night and Day Furniture LLC, Vancouver, WA (US)
Filed by Night and Day Furniture LLC, Vancouver, WA (US)
Filed on Sep. 13, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/473,262.
Application 17/473,262 is a division of application No. 16/374,947, filed on Apr. 4, 2019, granted, now 11,178,966.
Prior Publication US 2021/0401173 A1, Dec. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. A47B 96/20 (2006.01); A47B 88/90 (2017.01)
CPC A47B 88/90 (2017.01) [A47B 96/20 (2013.01); A47B 2210/08 (2013.01); A47B 2210/16 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A furniture apparatus comprising:
a frame including a plurality of openings;
a plurality of unhidden containers each forming an enclosure, the plurality of unhidden containers configured to be received by corresponding ones of the plurality of openings in the frame;
a hidden container configured to rest on a set of support ledges attached to the frame; and
a movable facade configured to transition, without removing any of the plurality of unhidden containers, from a closed state to an open state, the closed state being a state in which the movable facade conceals the hidden container from view when the hidden container is installed within the furniture apparatus and the transition from the closed state to the open state exposing the hidden container installed within the furniture apparatus, the movable facade being a frame rail such that, during the transition of the movable facade from the closed state to the open state, the movable facade is configured to perform a non-linear movement different from a linear movement associated with an opening of any of the plurality of unhidden containers, wherein
the frame rail that is the movable facade is one or more of (i) between a top surface of the furniture apparatus and an uppermost one of the plurality of unhidden containers such that the movable facade is adjacent to the top surface, (ii) between two adjacent ones of the plurality of unhidden containers and (iii) below a lowermost one of the plurality of unhidden containers.