Free form furniture (US Patent 6209962)

Patent number: 6209962 Granted: 2001-04-03 Filed: 1999-03-19 Inventors: Allen Sobel (N. Bondi Beach, NSW 2026, AU); Melvin Sobel (Conshohocken, PA, US)

Abstract

An upholstery furniture item comprising a casing of flexible non-air permeable material filled with a spherical beads of expanded polystyrene that flow around the body of a person seated in the item to closely follow the contours of the body as described earlier. In the bottom of the casing is an airtight inflatable air chamber for compensating for volume changes that arise from the