US 12,144,427 B2
Converter to make stationary furniture slidable or reciprocating
David Palmer, Houston, TX (US)
Filed by David Palmer, Houston, TX (US)
Filed on May 21, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/327,212.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/027,997, filed on May 21, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0361074 A1, Nov. 25, 2021
Int. Cl. A47C 21/00 (2006.01); A47B 91/04 (2006.01)
CPC A47C 21/006 (2013.01) [A47B 91/04 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for attachment to furniture legs to make the furniture slidably reciprocate, comprising: a leg holder on a first support positioned above a second support having a surface, wherein the first support slides in a first direction on the surface of the second support and an elastic member affixed to the first support and the second support opposes movement of the first support in the first direction and draws the first support to a position where first support and second support most closely approach each other when no opposing force is applied to the device.
 
9. A method of reciprocating furniture, comprising:
providing devices for attachment to legs of said furniture, said devices each including a leg holder on a first support positioned above a second support having a surface, wherein the first support slides in a first direction on the surface of the second support and an elastic member affixed to the first support and the second support opposes movement of the first support in the first direction and draws the first support to a position where first support and second support most closely approach each other when no opposing force is applied to the device;
applying, by a furniture user, a force in said first direction to move the furniture legs and the first supports in said first direction, and then removing the force whereby the elastic members draw the first supports and the furniture legs in a direction opposite to said first direction.