Multiple configuration seating device
OwnerRobert K. Gillsoninventor
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Abstract
A seating device which is shown embodied in a hobby horse is easily changeable between a normal rocker configuration and a normal vehicular configuration. The device has a seat, a base with runners, a lock pedestal and a swivel pedestal connecting the seat to the base, and a lock mechanism to lock the seat to the pedestals in either of the configurations. The runners have wheels on one side and rocker surfaces on a second side. A method of changing the configuration is also provided.
Claims20
A multiple configuration seating device, comprising
- (a) a seat having a width and a length:
- (b) a base having a pair of elongate runners which are transversely spaced apart from each other;
- (c) a pair of opposed sides on each runner, a first of said sides having ground contact means for supporting said seat in a fixed attitude, a second of said sides having a convex rocker surface for rocking support of said seat;
- (d) pivot means pivotally connecting and securing said seat to said base for enabling said seat to be pivoted in between said runners and past one end of said base while said seat is secured to said base;
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- (e) lock means for locking said seat in a first position facing said first runner sides for configuration of said device as a rocker, and in a second position facing said second runner sides for configuration of said device as a fixed attitude seat.
A hobby horse type device comprising
- (a) a seat having a width, a length, and a handle head;
- (b) a base having a pair of elongate runners which are transversely spaced apart from each other;
- (c) a pair of opposed sides on each runner, a first of said sides having wheels, a second of said sides having convex rocker surfaces;
- (d) first and second seat pedestals positioned in between said runners, said pedestals being pivotally connected to said runners by transverse pivot pins, said pedestals and said seat being pivotal in between said runners and between two normal positions the first of which extends upward from first runner sides and the second of which extends upward from the second runner sides;
- (e) a seat swivel in one of said pedestals, said swivel securing said seat to said runners;
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- (f) lock means for locking said pedestals and said seat in either of said normal positions.
A method of fixing a seat device in either of two configurations comprising the steps of
- (a) providing a base having runners with a rocker surface on one side and wheels on the other side;
- (b) unlocking a permanently secured seat from a first one of a pair of pedestals pivotally attached to said base;
- (c) pivoting the pedestals and the seat in between the runners from one side of the runners to the other side of the runners while the seat remains secured to a second one of the pedestals;
- (d) swiveling the secured seat above second said pedestal;
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- (e) re-locking the seat to the pedestals.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.