Furniture base

Claim 1

A furniture support adapted to be placed on a floor, comprising: a. an axially vertical rigid hollow metal tube of square cross section open at its lower end; b. an axially vertical post of square cross section, shaped and dimensioned for insertion into said tube to fit tightly within said tube and fitted in the open lower end of said tube with a lower end portion of the post projecting below the tube, said lower end portion of said post having four plane vertical surfaces; and c. a pair of rigid elongated members, respectively rigidly secured to said lower end portion of said post on opposite sides thereof and extending substantially horizontally therefrom in opposite directions for engaging the floor, each of said elongated members being a downwardly opening channel member of depth decreasing outwardly from said post and including a transverse wall and two vertical sidewalls, said transverse walls of said channel members terminating adjacent said post in horizontal edges respectively squarely abutting two opposite plane vertical surfaces of said post, said vertical walls of said channel members including tab portions projecting beyond said first-mentioned two vertical surfaces across and in contiguous relation to the other two opposite plane vertical surfaces of said post and having vertiCal terminal edges, the facing terminal vertical edges of the two channel members on each side of said post being spaced apart to define a vertical trough between them, each said trough being weldedly filled with weld metal, each said channel member being further welded to the post at the lower extremities of two longitudinal edges of the post enclosed by the channel member, each said tab portion having a horizontal edge at its upper extremity coplanar with said horizontal edges of said transverse walls, and the lower end of said tube abutting said coplanar horizontal edges.