Convertible cushion furniture

Claim 1

A convertible cushion furniture assembly, said assembly including four generally rectangular cavity defining flexible housings each including six interconnected panel portions, said housings each being filled with a loose lightweight filler material to form a generally rectangular parallelopiped cushion which is shape retentive, but somewhat deformable and capable of conforming, at least to some degree, to a body part engaged therewith, said cushions being disposed in end-to-end relation and positionable on a plane surface with either first or second corresponding face surfaces of said cushions opposing said plane surface, each pair of adjacent cushion ends being connected together for relative angular displacement about a transverse axis with the axes of relative angular displacement of adjacent cushions extending along corresponding end transverse marginal portions of said first corresponding face surfaces of said cushions, said cushions being generally the same transverse width and height, three adjacent cushions of said four cushions being generally the same length with the fourth cushion comprising one end cushion being generally one half the length of each of the other three cushions, the longitudinal edges of the first face surface of said one end cushion including first anchor flaps extending therealong and secured thereto for angular displacement relative to said one end cushion about axes extending along said longitudinal edges, the longitudinal edges of the first face surface of a second cushion immediately adjacent the other end cushion including second anchor flaps extending therealong and secured thereto for angular displacement relative to the second cushion about axes extending along the last-mentioned longitudinal edges, and adjustable length flexible elongated tension member means releasably connected between pairs of corresponding first and second flaps.