Corrugated fiberboard constructions
Among other things, a piece of furniture is formed from three separate precut pieces of flat triple wall cardboard. A first one of the pieces has a bottom edge to rest on a floor with the first piece rising vertically from the bottom edge and has at least one slot at an upper edge of the first piece. A second one of the pieces has a bottom edge to rest on the floor with the second piece rising from the bottom edge and having at least one slot at an upper edge of the second piece. A third one of the pieces has a crease across the piece and at least two slots along at least one edge that is parallel to the fold. The piece of furniture is formed by mating the one slot in the first piece with one of the slots of the third piece, folding the third piece of cardboard at the crease, and mating the one slot in the second piece with another one of the slots of the third piece, with the third piece folded along the crease.
1. An apparatus comprising
three separate pieces of cut flat cardboard,
a first one of the pieces having a bottom edge to rest on a floor with the first piece rising vertically from the bottom edge and having at least one slot at an upper edge of the first piece,
a second one of the pieces having a bottom edge to rest on the floor with the second piece rising from the bottom edge and having at least one slot at an upper edge of the second piece,
a third one of the pieces having outer edges that define a continuous closed boundary perimeter of the piece, a crease across the piece, at least two slots along at least one of the outer edges that is parallel to the crease, and a third slot along another one of the outer edges that is also parallel to the crease,
the one slot in the first piece to mate with one of the two slots along the one of the outer edges of the third piece, and the one slot in the second piece to mate with the other one of the two slots along the one of the outer edges of the third piece,
the third slot of the third piece mating with the one slot of the first piece or the one slot of the second piece,
to form, with the third piece folded along the crease, a piece of furniture in which the first and second pieces serve as legs and the third piece as a surface supported by the legs.
2. The apparatus of claim 1 in which the surface supported by the legs comprises a seating surface.
3. The apparatus of claim 1 in which the surface supported by the legs comprises a work surface.
4. The apparatus of claim 1 in which the cardboard for each of at least one of the pieces comprise triple wall fiberboard.
5. The apparatus of claim 1 in which the third piece of cardboard has two or more parallel creases.
6. The apparatus of claim 1 in which the first and second pieces of cardboard rise vertically from the floor.
7. The apparatus of claim 1 in which the surface of the third piece lies horizontally.
8. The apparatus of claim 1 in which the apparatus is self-supporting without any separate fasteners when the three pieces of cardboard are assembled at the slots.
9. A method comprising
forming a piece of furniture from at least three separate precut pieces of flat cardboard,
a first one of the pieces having a bottom edge to rest on a floor with the first piece rising vertically from the bottom edge and having at least one slot at an upper edge of the first piece,
a second one of the pieces having a bottom edge to rest on the floor with the second piece rising from the bottom edge and having at least one slot at an upper edge of the second piece,
a third one of the pieces having outer edges that define a continuous closed boundary perimeter of the piece, a crease across the piece and at least two slots along at least one of the other edges that is parallel to the crease,
the piece of furniture being formed by
folding the third piece of cardboard at the crease, and
mating both (a) one of the slots along the one of the outer edges of the third piece and (b) another slot along another one of the outer edges of the third piece with a single slot of the first piece or a single slot of the second piece,
the first and second pieces serving as legs and the third piece as a surface supported by the legs.
10. The method of claim 9 in which the third piece has additional creases and forming the piece of furniture includes folding the third piece at the other creases.
11. An apparatus comprising
four separate pieces of cut flat cardboard,
a first one of the pieces having a bottom edge to rest adjacent to a floor with the first piece rising vertically from the bottom edge and having at least one slot at an upper edge of the first piece,
a second one of the pieces having a bottom edge to rest adjacent to the floor with the second piece rising from the bottom edge and having at least one slot at an upper edge of the second piece,
a third one of the pieces having (a) a crease across the piece, (c) a first slot and a second slot along one edge of a first portion of the third piece, the one edge being parallel to the crease and the first portion extending from one side of the crease to the one edge, and (c) a second portion extending from the other side of the crease,
a fourth one of the pieces having (a) a crease across the piece, (b) a first slot and a second slot along one edge of a first portion of the fourth piece, the one edge being parallel to the crease and the first portion extending from one side of the crease to the one edge, and (c) a second portion extending from the other side of the crease,
the one slot in the first piece to mate with both the first slot of the third piece and the first slot of the fourth piece, and the one slot in the second piece to mate with both the second slot of the third piece and the second slot of the fourth piece,
the creases of the third piece and the fourth piece being adjacent to one another and adjacent to the slots in the first piece and the second piece when the third and fourth pieces are folded along the creases and the slots are mated,
to form a piece of furniture in which the first and second pieces serve as legs and the second portion of the third piece and the second portion of the fourth piece (a) serve as exterior supporting surfaces of the piece of furniture, (b) lie at an angle to one another formed at the adjacent creases of the third piece and the fourth piece, and (c) are supported by the legs.
12. The apparatus of claim 11 in which the second portion of the fourth piece provides a back-supporting surface.