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AssigneeFormway Furniture Limited
InventorsChristopher Warren Bisman, James Clifford Prier, Fabian David Haarbeck, Paul Michael Wilkinson, Damon Gregory Burwell, Hugh Thomas Mccoshim, Leon Harley Craze, Rachael Jessica Hall
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A chair with a transom, a seat support, a back portion, and a combined rock and recline mechanism. The combined rock and recline mechanism has front and rear rocking arrangements configured to enable the seat support and back portion to together rock generally forward and rearward from a neutral position relative to the transom, and a recline arrangement that is configured such that the seat support is in a first at-rest position relative to the back portion when the back portion is in an upright position, and such that reclining the back portion rearwardly from the upright position toward a reclined position moves the seat support upward and rearward from the first at-rest position.
A chair comprising:
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The chair of claim 221, wherein the front and rear rocking arrangements are configured to define a virtual rocking path of the seat support and back portion relative to the transom, wherein the virtual rocking path comprises a curved path and wherein a lowermost point of the curved path corresponds to the seat support and the back portion being at the neutral position, a rear portion of the virtual rocking path being located rear of the lowermost point and a front portion of the virtual rocking path being located in front of the lowermost point.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.