US 12,433,410 B2
Upholstered recliner including molded furniture components
Timothy A. Brandtner, Ettrick, WI (US); Nicholas J. Robinson, Ettrick, WI (US); and Philip Bramlett, Ripley, MS (US)
Assigned to Ashley Furniture Industries, LLC, Arcadia, WI (US)
Filed by Ashley Furniture Industries, LLC, Arcadia, WI (US)
Filed on Mar. 30, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/193,325.
Application 18/193,325 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/481,151, filed on Sep. 21, 2021, granted, now 11,696,644.
Application 17/481,151 is a continuation in part of application No. PCT/US2021/022645, filed on Mar. 16, 2021.
Application 17/481,151 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/525,539, filed on Jul. 29, 2019, granted, now 11,122,907, issued on Sep. 21, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/482,991, filed on Feb. 2, 2023.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/325,337, filed on Mar. 30, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/039,445, filed on Jun. 15, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/990,287, filed on Mar. 16, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/711,168, filed on Jul. 27, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0232987 A1, Jul. 27, 2023
Int. Cl. A47C 4/02 (2006.01); A47C 1/02 (2006.01); A47C 5/12 (2006.01); A47C 7/18 (2006.01); A47C 7/54 (2006.01); A47C 17/02 (2006.01)
CPC A47C 7/185 (2013.01) [A47C 1/02 (2013.01); A47C 5/12 (2013.01); A47C 7/54 (2013.01); A47C 17/02 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An upholstered recliner having two blow molded arm rest forms, a pair of upholstery socks conformingly sized and positioned on respective ones of the two blow molded arm rest forms, a blow molded backrest form, and a seat deck, each of the blow molded arm rest forms being hollow and having a continuous polymeric wall extending around a top, two lateral sides, a forward side, a rearward side, and a bottom side, each arm rest form attached to the seat deck, a recliner mechanism positioned under and attached to the seat deck, wherein the backrest form has a pair of downwardly extending legs, each leg having a coupling bracket on an inward wall of each leg, each coupling bracket attached at a tubular wall structure extending from the inward wall to an outward wall, with a barrel nut extending from one of the inward wall and outward wall and a screw cooperating with the barrel nut and extending from the other of the inward wall and outward wall, wherein the tubular wall structure is compressed with the engagement of the barrel nut and screw.