Furniture member and power lift mechanism

A method for assembling a lift chair, the lift chair including a frame assembly having a chair portion, a base portion, a mechanism, a lift tube, a tube assembly;

• a support shaft with first and second extending portions, and first and second base frame members, the method comprising:
• connecting the first and second extending portions of the support shaft to the chair portion having each of the extending portions oppositely extending outward of the chair portion;
• orienting the first and second base frame members parallel to each other and providing each with one of a first and a second U-shaped journal;
• and
• individually pressing each of the first and second extending portions into individual ones of the first and second U-shaped journals in an installation direction by a frictional snap fit such that the chair portion is thereafter rotatably supported by the support shaft with respect to the base portion, the frictional snap fit resisting removal of the first and second extending portions.

A lift chair comprising:

• a frame assembly including a chair portion rotatable with respect to a base portion, the base portion defining a four-sided wood structure, including:
• first and second base frame members oriented parallel to each other;
• a rectangular shaped base platform supported on a floor oriented perpendicular to the first and second base frame members, the base platform including first and second opposing parallel surfaces, the first and second surfaces having larger surface areas than any other surface of the base platform, the first surface facing the floor;
• and
• a third base frame member defining a rear facing wall of the base portion, the first, second and third base frame members extending vertically upward from the second surface of the base platform;
• and
• a mechanism having a lift mechanism portion positioned in a cavity of the base portion, the lift mechanism portion entirely fixedly connected to the base platform and the third base frame member and rotatably connected to the chair portion, the lift mechanism acting to rotate the chair portion between a nominal position and a raised full lift position.