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Engineering in Areas Relevant to Tenon-joints-attached Frames for Aluminum Furniture. Background of related art or science

In old inventions, aluminum furniture is fixed together by nuts and bolts or by riveting during a factory's assemblage. This takes up a lot of space during transportation and storage, or if parts are to be assembled on-site, many equipment, handyman tools, and adeptness in installment will be required. Referring to the Chinese patent request number CN102635614A: structural binding via directly ataching the frames of aluminum furniture cabinet’s body. Fully assembled aluminum furniture manufactured by directly attaching frames comprises of the following features: Frame I (1) which has vertical groove and Frame II which is horizontal in which Frame I and Frame II are attached via a connecting part. The directly attached structural frame of aluminum furniture cabinet’s body in full can be used for the direct attachment of frame of the vertical middle sheet, side sheets, upper sheets, botom sheet or laminate and can be used to manufacture full aluminum furniture which has the drawbacks of needing to use nuts and bolts to adhere the parts which wastes time and requires professional equipment.

Invention Characteristics and Objectives Tenon-joints-attached Frames for Aluminum Furniture have features including the male tenon and the female tenon which are fixed together then assembled to the groove in Aluminum Furniture Frame 1 and the groove in Aluminum Furniture Frame 2, in that order of assemblage. The male tenon and female tenon will be hiding within the grooves aforementioned. Wherein the male tenon, which has the feature of a wide area and a rectangular body, will slide and fit into Aluminum Furniture Frame 1. Next to the wide area is constructed a narrow area characterized by being a sheet perpendicular to the wide area. The wall of the narrow area will have at least two extrusions which will slide into the hollow of the female tenon. The female tenon which has a rectangular body works by being inserted into the Aluminum Furniture Frame 2 to connect them together. At one part of the rectangular body of the female tenon exists at least one intrusion to facilitate the joining of male and female tenons where the male and female tenons will move to meet each other in the vertical direction.

This invention has the purpose to create a tenon-joints-attached aluminum furniture that can be functioned by the user. The user can assemble the furniture by himself without the use of any other external equipment including nuts and bolts, screws, etc. And when the assemblage is done, the male and female tenons will be neatly hiding in the groove of the aluminum furniture.

Full Disclosure of Invention Figure 1 shows the components of tenon-joints-attached frame for aluminum furniture which comprise of:

Male Tenon (10) characterized by a wide surface (11) and characterized by a rectangular body which works by inserting itself into the Aluminum Furniture Frame 1(31) to be assembled together. Next to the wide area (11) is constructed a narrow area (12) which has the characteristic of being perpendicular to the wide area. (11) The wall of the narrow area (12) will have at least 2 places of extrusion which works by inserting themselves into the intrusion of the female tenon. (20) In which this invention has been designed to have extrusion 1 (41), extrusion 2 (42), extrusion 3 (43), and extrusion 4 (44), etc.

In which the extrusions root from the top ceiling of the male tenon (10) downward to the bottom floor of the male tenon. ( 10)

The female tenon (20), which is characterized by a rectangular body, works by inserting itself into Aluminum Furniture Frame 2 (32), to fix them together. At one position of the rectangular body is at least one intrusion to facilitate the fixing together of the male tenon to the female tenon. (10) In which this invention has been designed to have intrusion 1 (51), intrusion 2 (52), intrusion 3 (53), and intrusion 4(54), etc.

Wherein the male tenon (10) and the female tenon (20) will move to meet each other in the vertical plane.

Wherein the intrusion will root at the ceiling of the female tenon (20) and extend downwards to the bottom of the female tenon (20).

Wherein the male tenon (10) and the female tenon (20) will either be equal or not equal in heights.

Wherein the male tenon (10) and female tenon (20) will either be equal or not equal in lengths.

One position on the body of the male tenon (10) and one position on the body of the female tenon (20) will have holes for nuts and bolts (30). At least one position is meant for the insertion of nuts and bolts (40) to adhere Aluminum Furniture Frame 1 (31) and Aluminum Furniture Frame 2 (32) in that order. As for the body of the male tenon (10) and the body of the female tenon (20) will have geometric shapes or arbitrary shapes defined by the perimeter to aid the fixing together of the elements, Aluminum Furniture Frame 1 (31), and Aluminum Furniture Frame 2 (32) in that order. In the character of fixing together via vertical or horizontal insertion to become the structural mesh of aluminum furniture where the male tenon (10) and female tenon (20) will be in the same axis as Aluminum Furniture Frame 1 (31) and Aluminum Furniture Frame 2 (32) or otherwise, the male tenon (10) and female tenon (20) will not align on the same axis as Aluminum Furniture Frame 1 (31) and Aluminum Furniture Frame 2 (32).

The body of the male tenon (10) and the body of the female tenon (20) will be smaller than the grooves (50) of Aluminum Furniture Frame 1 (31) and Aluminum Furniture Frame 2 (32) in that order. When assembled together, the male tenon (10) and the female tenon (20) will hide under the groove (50) aforementioned.

Figure 2 shows the components of male tenon (10) and the female tenon (20) when fixed together.

Figure 3 (refer to Figure 1 for information) shows the components of the male tenon (10) and the female tenon (20) that are fixed together and assembled to Aluminum Furniture Frame 1 (31) and Aluminum Furniture Frame 2 (32) in that order so that when assembled together once assembled, the male tenon (10) and the female tenon (20) will hide within the groove (50) aforementioned. Brief Description of Drawings

Figure 1 shows the components of the tenon-joints-attached frames for aluminum furniture according to this invention.

Figure 2 shows the components of the male tenon (10) and the female tenon (20) which are fixed together according to this invention.

Figure 3 shows the component of the male tenon (10) and female tenon (20) which are fixed together and assembled to Aluminum Furniture Frame 1 (31) and Aluminum Furniture Frame 2 (32), in that order, according to this invention.

Best Invention Method

As mentioned in the section of the complete disclosure of the invention.