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US 3,948,379 AGranted
Vibrating chair
OwnerHarry J. Warnerinventor
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Abstract
A vibrating, reclining chair having a hair dryer mechanism mounted to the chair with the hood of the dryer adapted to support the head of the user when the chair is reclined in whole or in part. Any one of several head supports may be used within the hood of the dryer. The chair is coin operated and may be equipped with an audio alarm which is actuated when the user fails to timely insert a coin into the coin box. In one configuration, the dryer mechanism is optional and a plurality of said chairs are mounted to a common base.
Claims1
A chair assembly comprising:
- a reclining chair having a seat and an adjustable back;
- electrical means for vibrating at least part of the chair;
- an audio alarm carried by the chair;
- switch means connected to the audio alarm and located below the chair seat to be activated when the seat is occupied by a user;
- coin-operated timer means comprising means (a) disabling the audio alarm and enabling the vibrating means for a predetermined interval of time when a coin is properly inserted and (b) enabling the audio alarm and disabling the vibrating means when the coin is not properly inserted;
- a hair dryer mechanism adjustably carried by the back of the chair comprising blower means and hood means, the hair dryer mechanism also comprising head support means disposed within and cooperating with the hood means to hold the head of the user in a disposition accommodating air circulation about the head within the hood means independent of the angle at which the chair is reclined and the adjusted position of the hood means, said hair dryer mechanism further comprising means electrically connected to the timer means enabling the hair dryer mechanism for said predetermined interval of time when a coin is properly inserted and otherwise disabling the hair dryer mechanism.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.