Sectional unit furniture assembly

Claim 1

A sectional unit furniture assembly comprising: at least two juxtaposed sectional units each consisting of at least a pair of opposingly spaced side wall sections, a rear wall section and a shelf section; and at least one connecting board for interconnecting the juxtaposed units; each one of said side wall sections consisting of a rectangular board having a vertical interlocking groove notched into the upper edge close to and parallel with the rear edge, a joint groove notched into the lower edge in vertical alignment with said interlocking groove in the upper edge and a number of horizontal grooves notched into the front edge in a predetermined parallel spaced relationship; said rear wall section consisting of a rectangular board with laterally extending wing portions at the opposite sides, said wing portions having a pair of parallel grooves for interlocking engagement with said vertical grooves in the respective side wall section, and a number of horizontal slots provided along the vertical axis in the same parallel spaced relationship as said horizontal grooves at the front edges of said side wall sections; said shelf section consisting of a rectangular board with laterally extending wing portions at the opposite sides, a pair of parallel notched grooves formed in the wing portions and spaced from each other by the same distance as said parallel grooves of said rear wall section and a rearwardly extending tab at an intermediate point of the rear edge, said shelf section being joined with said side and rear wall sections by interlocking the notched grooves in the wing portions thereof with the opposing horizontal grooves at the front edges of said side wall sections and inserting the rearwardly extending tab into one of said horizontal slots in said rear wall section; said connecting board having at least one shelf portion similar to said shelf section located at each end of the board, each said shelf portion including a pair of parallel grooves spaced from each other the same distance as the parallel grooves of the shelf section for interlocking each shelf portion with the opposing horizontal grooves at front edges of the side wall sections of each respective juxtaposed unit and further including a rearwardly extending tab between said parallel grooves which is inserted into one of the horizontal slots in the rear wall section of each respective juxtaposed unit, said connecting board further having a connecting portion integrally interconnecting the shelf portions and extending between the inner parallel grooves of each respective shelf portion, the length of said connecting portion being determined according to the desired width of the furniture assembly and serving as at least one additional shelf portion between the juxtaposed sectional units.