Conformable support system for furniture
OwnerMilton Lutchanskyinventor
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Abstract
An article of furniture, such as a bed or a chair, provides improved comfort by supporting a human body resting thereon and adaptively conforming to the body contours in contact with the support surface while providing a distribution of support forces that does not vary significantly as the contour changes. A segmented frame pivotally supported on pairs of balance levers which in turn are pivotally attached to a firm base provides a floating action. When ratios of distances of lever ends from their pivot points are selected in inverse ratio to the weights of the human body sections to be supported by attached frame segments, the resulting distribution of support forces matches the distribution of weight in the body and tends to relieve muscle tension.
Claims9
An article of furniture for supporting the human body in sitting and reclining positions with a preselected support force distribution which adapts itself to body contours comprising, in combination:
- a rigid base;
- a frame for supporting a mattress or the like divided longitudinally into a plurality of segments, at least one of which is independent of other segments;
- cross bracing members for intermediate segments of said frame;
- a membrane resiliently stretched transversely of each of said segments;
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- at least one balance lever intermediately pivoted to said base and endwise attached to adjacent segments of said frame on each long side thereof to support said segments.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.