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Process for making an office chair

US6125521A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 7, 1995
Grant dateOct 3, 2000
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Expiry dateJun 7, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T442/3024
  • WIPO fieldFurniture, games
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

A method of making an office chair by stretching a membrane in a stretching machine and retaining the stretched membrane on a loom. The loom, with the retained stretched membrane, is removed from the stretching machine and positioned between molds of a molding machine, wherein the molding machine is used to form a carrier member to hold a portion of the stretched member by injecting a material into a cavity formed between the molds to form a part of the chair.

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