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US 4,072,342 AGranted
Recliner chair
AssigneePontiac Furniture Industries, Inc.
InventorsCarl B. Johnson, Henry James
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AssigneePontiac Furniture Industries, Inc.
InventorsCarl B. Johnson, Henry James
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A reclining chair is provided with a shiftable chair chassis which travels from a rearward, upright sitting position along a supporting base to a forward position from which the chair may be reclined without striking the wall behind the chair. The chair chassis is normally locked against recline from its rearward, upright sitting position but may be released by the extension of the footrest, which also unlocks the chair chassis for forward travel. Preferably, the chair chassis is mounted upon a downwardly and forwardly inclined track on the chair base so that the weight of the seated occupant is sufficient to shift the chair chassis forwardly on the base upon release of the lock, while counterbalancing means actuated by the forward movement of the chair chassis returns the chair to its rearward position when the occupant rises from the chair.
In a wall-clearing reclining chair comprising a base, a chair chassis movably supported by said base, a chair back on said chassis, a chair seat on said chassis, an extendible footrest on said chassis, and means on said chassis for shifting said chair back and chair seat between a sitting position and a reclined position and for extending said footrest, the improvement comprising means supporting said chassis for forward and downward travel along said base by the weight of the occupant from a rearward sitting position with the footrest retracted to a forward position at which the chair back may be reclined with the footrest extended without rearward projection of the back farther rearwardly than in said sitting position
In a wall-clearing recliner chair, the combination comprising a base, a chair seat, a chair back, and a footrest movable from a stowed position to an extended position for supporting the feet of an occupant in a chair, carriage means carrying said chair back, chair seat and footrest on an inclined track on said base for movement under the weight of the occupant from a rearward sitting position in which the upper end of the chair back is disposed at a predetermined position relative to said base and a forward position in which said upper end of said chair back has shifted substantially forward relative to the base, linkage means interconnecting said chair back and chair seat with said carriage for reclining movement of the back and seat thereon, and locking means normally preventing recline of the chair from said rearward sitting position, said locking means being disabled coincident with the extension of the footrest.
In a wall-clearing reclining chair, the combination comprising a base, a chair seat, a chair back and a foot rest movable from a stowed position to an extended position for supporting the feet of an occupant in the chair, carriage means supported upon a downwardly and forwardly inclined track means on said base and carrying said chair back, chair seat and foot rest on said base from a rearward sitting position in which the upper end of the chair back is disposed at a predetermined position relative to said base to a forward position in which said upper end of said chair back has shifted substantially forward relative to the base, means for latching said carriage in said rearward sitting position, a manually operable means to release said carriage latch for forward shifting movement of said carriage along said inclined track means said chair back and said chair seat having a first angular relationship to said carriage in said sitting position, and linkage means supporting said chair back, chair seat, and foot rest upon said carriage and operable upon movement to said forward position for shifting said foot rest to the extended position and for shifting said chair back and seat into a second angular relationship with said carriage and for conditioning said chair back for further recline relative to said carriage at the will of the occupant, and spring means biasing said carriage to shift rearwardly from the forward position to the rearward position when the occupant leaves the chair.
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