The present application claims priorities from Chinese Application No. CN 202222239331.3, filed on Aug. 24, 2022, and Chinese Application No. CN 202222804776.1, filed on Oct. 24, 2022, all of which are hereby incorporated herein by reference.
The present invention relates to the field of household supplies, and more particularly, relates to a comfortable inflatable sofa.
With the development of economy, people's living standards increasingly improve, resulting in high requirements for household supplies, among other things, sofas are essential for mostly all families. However, most of the sofas on the market are formed by a wooden material frame with springs and rope nets mounted therein, with stuffing filled therein, and finally with wrapper, such as leather or cloth, packaged thereon, which is usually large in volume and weight, needing a large space to store, and thus is not easy to move or carry, and not easy to package or transport, and not suitable for outdoor places, exhibitions and other environments, causing restricted scenes of use.
Contrary, inflatable sofas have advantages of light weight and carrying easy, overcoming some of the defects of traditional sofas.
CN201468613U discloses an inflatable sofa including an outer side piece, a reinforced side piece, an inner side piece, an upper piece, a lower piece, cushion columnar pulling straps, corner pulling straps, and a back pulling strap piece. In such configuration, the outer side piece, the reinforced side piece, and the inner side piece are L-shaped, the inflatable cavity of the sofa body is formed by thermal combination of the inner side piece with the upper piece and the lower piece, and the arms of sofa formed by thermal combination of the outer side piece, the reinforced side piece and the inner side piece.
CN206809008U discloses an inflatable sofa having a sofa body, including a base and a back, an air chamber being formed in the base and the back. A first pulling strap is provided at the joint of the upper end surface of the base and the front end surface of the back, a second pulling strap is transversely provided at the front end surface of the backrest is provided with, and a protrusion for waist supporting is formed on the front end surface of the back between the first pulling strap and the second pulling strap. Further, the upper end surface of the back extends obliquely and downwardly from the middle to both sides. The rear end surface of the back is provided with an air valve, and an oval third pulling strap is provided at the upper end surface of the base, a region defined by the third pulling strap forms a recessed portion.
However, the existing inflatable sofas still have disadvantages of less durability and less comfortability. In addition, the inflatable sofas with unreasonable design are prone to deformation and dislocation, as such sofas maintain in shape with gas filled.
In order to overcome at least one of the above defects in the prior art, the present invention thus provides a comfortable inflatable sofa, which has advantages of high durability, high comfortability, and not prone to deformation.
The comfortable inflatable sofa according to the present invention includes a sofa backrest and a sofa cushion, which are connected to each other to form an inflatable cavity. The sofa backrest and the sofa cushion are made of PVC or TPU, or the sofa backrest and the sofa cushion are made of a base material of PVC or TPU with pile or cloth coated, and several pulling straps are provided in the inflatable cavity.
The sofa backrest and the sofa cushion are used for supporting the back and legs of a user respectively. Upon the inflatable cavity being filled with gas, the comfortable inflatable sofa forms a basic and specific shape. While the comfortable inflatable sofa will be smaller in size without gas filled in the inflatable cavity, thereby making the sofa easy to store and carry, thus achieving high practicability. On the other hand, PVC has the advantages of light weight, high strength, strong tensile strength, high durability and relative softness, and TPU has the advantages of strong tensile strength, good toughness, ageing resistance, environmental protection, etc. The surface of PVC and TPU is flocked or pasted with cloth, making the sofa backrest and the sofa cushion soft in touch, slip and wear resistant, and more breathable, greatly enhancing the comfort level. Moreover, the pulling straps have function of fastening and fixing, making the external shape and internal structure of the sofa remain relatively stable to be not prone to greater deformation when bearing weight.
Specifically, the sofa backrest and the sofa cushion may include a sofa front piece, a sofa back piece, and a sofa bottom piece, the sofa bottom piece being connecting the lower end of the sofa front piece and the sofa back piece. The sofa front piece may be an integrated sofa front piece or a split sofa front piece.
The integrated sofa front piece may include a backrest part, a cushion part, and a footrest part. The integrated sofa front piece is of a single-piece structure formed integrally, reducing seams and reducing the risk of air leakage and tears that may be caused by poorly connected seams. The split sofa front piece may include a backrest piece, a cushion surface piece and cushion side pieces, the backrest piece, the cushion surface piece and the cushion side piece being smoothly connected in sequence. The split sofa front piece is of a multi-piece structure, and assembled and formed by fusing or bonding, facilitating producing and processing. The backrest piece, the cushion surface piece, and the cushion side piece are smoothly connected in sequence, giving the comfortable inflatable sofa a more regular shape and thus increasing comfort level.
One or more separate piece may be provided in the inflatable cavity according to at least one embodiment, which connects the sofa front piece, the sofa back piece, and the sofa bottom piece, and has a shape matching the outer contour of the comfortable inflatable sofa.
A plurality of shaping pieces may be further provided in the soft cushion in the longitudinal direction, each shaping piece has the same shape with the longitudinal section of the sofa cushion.
Preferably, adjacent shaping pieces are partially attached to each other or connected by several sheet-like pulling straps and/or columnar pulling straps.
The sofa cushion is provided with sofa armrests on both sides thereof, each sofa armrest is higher than the sofa cushion, and each sofa armrest is a split armrest or an integrated armrest.
A first pulling strap combination may be further provided in the sofa armrest, which includes a sheet-like pulling strap and/or a columnar pulling strap.
When the sofa front piece is an integrated sofa front piece which includes a backrest part, a cushion part, and a footrest part. A second pulling strap combination may be connected between the backrest part and the sofa back piece according to at least one embodiment of the present invention, which includes several sheet-like pulling straps and/or columnar pulling straps.
The width of the pulling straps of the second pulling strap combination preferably gradually increases from top to bottom. The width of the pulling strap refers to the dimension of the pulling strap in the direction of the tensile force. In general, the width of such pulling strap is equal to the distance between objects connected to both ends of the pulling strap in the direction of the pulling straps.
A third pulling strap combination may be connected between the cushion part and the sofa bottom piece, which includes several sheet-like pulling straps and/or columnar pulling straps.
The height of the pulling straps of the third pulling strap combination gradually increases in the direction opposite to the sofa back piece.
A fourth pulling strap combination may be further connected between the footrest part and the third pulling strap combination, which includes several sheet-like pulling straps and/or columnar pulling straps.
When the sofa front piece is a split sofa front piece which includes a backrest piece, a cushion surface piece and cushion side pieces, which smoothly connected in sequence. A backrest additive may be provided between the backrest piece and the cushion surface piece to improve the strength of the structure, making the connection stronger and less prone to breakage and air leakage.
In such embodiment including the split sofa front piece, a fifth pulling strap combination may be connected between the backrest piece and the sofa back piece, which includes several sheet-like pulling straps and/or columnar pulling straps.
In order to make the thickness of the sofa backrest uniform, the height of the pulling straps of the fifth pulling strap combination is equal.
A sixth pulling strap combination may be further connected between the cushion surface piece and the sofa bottom piece, which includes several piece-shaped pulling straps and/or columnar pulling straps.
The lower end of the sofa back piece may be provided with a long strip-shaped backrest support piece or backrest bottom piece, which is configured to be fitted to the floor when in use.
The sofa back piece is provided with an inflating/deflating device for inflating or deflating the comfortable inflatable sofa.
In addition, the upper end of the sofa backrest is provided with a head support region to support the user's head, thus improving comfort.
The accompanying drawings are for exemplary illustration only, and should not be construed as limitations on the present invention. in order to better illustrate the following embodiment, some parts in the accompanying drawings may be omitted, enlarged or reduced, and they do not represent the size of the actual product; for those skilled in the art, it is understandable that certain well-known structures and descriptions thereof in the drawings may be omitted.
The sofa backrest 100 and the sofa cushion 200 are used for supporting the back and legs of a user respectively. Upon the inflatable cavity 400 being filled with gas, the comfortable inflatable sofa forms a basic and specific shape. While the comfortable inflatable sofa will be smaller in size without gas filled in the inflatable cavity 400, thereby making the comfortable inflatable sofa easy to store or carry, thus achieving high practicability. On the other hand, PVC has the advantages of light weight, high strength, strong tensile strength, high durability and relative softness, and TPU has the advantages of strong tensile strength, good toughness, ageing resistance, environmental protection, etc. The surface of PVC and TPU is flocked or pasted with cloth, making the sofa backrest 100 and the sofa cushion 200 soft in touch, slip and wear resistant, and more breathable, greatly enhancing the comfort level. Moreover, the pulling straps have function of fastening and fixing, making the external shape and internal structure of the comfortable inflatable sofa remain relatively stable to be not prone to greater deformation when bearing weight.
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The second pulling strap combination 420 connects the backrest part 511 to the sofa back piece 600 and the third pulling strap combination 430 connects the cushion part 512 to the sofa bottom piece 700, which defines the basic contour of the comfortable inflatable sofa. The backrest part 511 and the cushion part 512 are directly squeezed when in use, however, such structure can make the comfortable inflatable sofa less prone to greater deformation. According to the present embodiment, the lowermost pulling strap of the second pulling strap combination 420 is in reinforcement connection with the sofa bottom piece 700 by one sheet-like pulling strap.
In the present embodiment, the sofa back piece 600 is provided with an inflating/deflating device (not shown in the figure) for inflating or deflating the sofa. The rear inflating/deflating device arranged on the sofa back piece 600 can avoid a position in frequent contact with the user and thus reduce the risk of air leakage caused by accidentally touching the inflating/deflating device during use.
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The sofa backrest 100 and the sofa cushion 200 include a sofa front piece 500, a sofa back piece 600, and a sofa bottom piece 700, the sofa bottom piece 700 being connecting the lower end of the sofa front piece 500 and the sofa back piece 600. The sofa front piece is a split sofa front piece 520 in this embodiment. The sofa backrest 100 and the sofa cushion 200 are connected in an “L” shape, and so do the sofa back piece 600 and the sofa bottom piece 700, which is in line with the sitting posture habit of a human body. The sofa bottom piece 700 is in contact with the floor when in use so that the comfortable inflatable sofa can be stably placed on the floor as a whole. The sofa front piece 500 is tightly attached the user for supporting the user's body in use. The sofa front piece 500, the sofa back piece 600, and the sofa bottom piece 700 may be fused or bonded to define the external contour of the sofa backrest 100 and the sofa cushion 200 in any known way, making the structure of the sofa simple and facilitating producing and processing thereof.
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In the present embodiment, the sofa back piece 600 is provided with an inflating/deflating device (not shown in the figure), which is configured for inflating or deflating the sofa. The rear inflating/deflating device arranged on the sofa back piece 600 can avoid a position in frequent contact with the user and to reduce the risk of air leakage caused by accidentally touching the inflating/deflating device during use.
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Obviously, the above-mentioned embodiments of the present invention are only examples for clearly illustrating the technical solution of the present invention, rather than limiting the embodiments of the present invention. Any modifications, equivalent replacements and improvements made within the spirit and principles of the claims of the present invention shall be included within the protection scope of the claims of the present invention.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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202222239331.3 | Aug 2022 | CN | national |
202222804776.1 | Oct 2022 | CN | national |