Chair and components
AssigneeFormway Furniture Limited
InventorsKent Wallace Parker, Martyn Walter Goodwin Collings, Wayne Douglas O'Hara, Aaron Michael Young, Paul James Stevenson, Gavin James Bateman, Kai Xi Lin
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Abstract
A chair support shell has an integral back portion, seat portion, and joining portion between the back portion and the seat portion. At least a major portion of the support shell comprises a compliant structure, the compliant structure having a plurality of cells interconnected by a plurality of resilient members. The compliant structure provides compliance in the seat portion, compliance in the back portion, and compliance in the joining portion. The compliant structure enables recline of the back portion relative to the seat portion.
Claims20
A chair comprising a support shell having a seat portion and a back portion, a transom, and a recline mechanism, the recline mechanism comprising:
- a resilient front support member having a first end operatively attached to the transom and a second end operatively attached to a front part of the seat portion;
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- a back support arm having a lower end operatively rigidly attached to the transom, an upper end operatively rigidly attached to the back portion, and a flex region having a rearward flexibility that is greater than the rearward flexibility of the rest of the back support arm;
- wherein the back portion is reclinable relative to the seat portion and a rear part of the seat portion is configured to lift as the shell back portion reclines.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.