Reclining seat
AssigneeGevan S.P.A.
InventorAlberto Veneruso
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Abstract
A reclining seat comprises a fixed supporting frame, a reclining backrest, and a damping device providing, at lower ends of frame elements forming the seat frame, a lever which is revolvingly hinged on a respective pin integral to the supporting frame and which forms a rocker arm which rotates by a prefixed angle from a first position, corresponding to the reclining backrest in erected position, to a second position, corresponding to the reclining backrest in reclined position, a hydraulic cylinder being provided, with respective fastening ends revolvingly connected respectively to said second lever and to the fixed supporting frame in a prefixed position.
Claims10
A reclining seat comprising:
- a fixed supporting frame;
- a sitting portion;
- a reclining backrest having a backrest frame with two vertical frame elements, arranged each one at a respective side edge of the reclining backrest, and each one thereof being provided with a joint, revolvingly connecting the reclining backrest to the fixed supporting frame, and a respective lower end movable between positions depending upon an erected or reclined state of the reclining backrest;
- a damping device comprising, at least at one lower end, a respective lever joined thereto, which is revolvingly hinged, with respect to the fixed supporting frame, around a pin forming a respective hinge integral with the fixed supporting frame, said respective lever implementing a rocker arm, projecting from said hinge, the lever and the rocker arm being stiffly integral with each other, the rocker arm rotating by a pre-fixed angle from a first position, corresponding to the reclining backrest in erected position, to a second position, corresponding to the reclining backrest in reclined position, a hydraulic cylinder being provided, with respective fastening ends revolvingly connected respectively to the rocker arm and to the fixed supporting frame in a prefixed position;
- wherein said hydraulic cylinder is fastened to said rocker arm at a respective additional end pin acting as hinge, the additional pin having a fastening cross hole in which a first fastening end of the hydraulic cylinder is inserted, with a tract of threaded rod inserted in a respective cross hole, and an adjusting nut allowing an adjustment with respect to a counterpart.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.