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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2016
Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc., Arcadia, WI (US);
Walter Wang, Kunshan, CN;
Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc., Arcadia, WI (US);
Abstract
A ready to assemble or knockdown sofa having a back rest that can be reconfigured between a use configuration in which the sofa is has a conventional L-shaped cross-section and a shipping or storage configuration in which the sofa is arranged in a more efficiently stacked rectangular cross-section. The rectangular cross-section allows the sofa to be more efficiently stacked with other sofas during shipping or storage. The back rest has an upper back rest portion and a lower back rest portion in which the upper back rest portion can be rotated forward toward the front of the sofa and downwardly into a nesting region against the top of the seat base to provide a more efficient shape.