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Multiple position reclining chair assembly

US4307912A · kind A · utility

24Cited by
11References
9Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateMay 12, 1980
Grant dateDec 29, 1981
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Expiry dateMay 12, 2000

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA47C1/0355
  • WIPO fieldFurniture, games
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

A multi-position, wall avoiding reclining chair assembly having a unitized metal frame construction and featuring an improved linkage for supporting a chair seat for forwardly directed movement relative to a chair supporting base, as the chair assumes an intermediate reclined or TV position. The chair assembly also features an improved mechanism permitting the application of pressure to a back rest to initiate movement of the chair seat and a foot rest relative to the chair supporting base between their upright and reclined positions without producing substantial coincident rearwardly directed reclining movements of the back rest relative to the chair seat. After the chair seat and foot rest are disposed in their reclined positions to define the intermediate reclined or TV position of the chair, the application of pressure to the back rest will effect movement thereof into its reclined position to thereby define the fully reclined position of the chair.

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