Furniture elevating device
OwnerEmeron P. Christenseninventor
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Abstract
There is provided an elevating device for elevating furniture equipped with legs (such as a chair) by placing the device beneath the legs of the furniture. The device includes, such in the case of a four legged chair, four adjustable radial arms respectively terminated by a pedestal section for supportively elevating legs of the chair. Each pedestal section is placed beneath a leg and the radial arms are then immobilized by tightly sandwiching the radial arm between a top plate and a bottom plate.
Claims17
An elevating device for elevating furniture equipped with legs by placing the device beneath the legs of legged furniture to elevate the furniture thereby, said device comprising:
- A) adjustable radial arms with said arms being individually equipped with an elongated arm terminated by a pedestal section having a socket for separately engaging onto and supporting a leg of the legged furniture;
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- B) a radial arm restraining assembly for restraining the radial arms in an immobilized position with said radial arm restraining assembly including a top plate member for engaging onto an upper surface region of said arms, a bottom plate member for engaging onto a lower surface region of said arms and means for firmly clamping said arms between said bottom plate member and said top plate member and thereby firmly restraining said radial arms in the immobilized position therebetween.
An elevating device for elevating a chair equipped with four legs by placing the device beneath the legs so as to elevate the chair thereby, said elevating device comprising:
- A) four adjustable radial arms respectively equipped with an elongated arm terminated by a pedestal section for separately and supportively engaging onto an individual leg of the chair;
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- B) a radial arms restraining assembly equipped with a top plate, a bottom plate having four guides for separately guiding the radial arms about a fixed point and means for firmly biasing and wedging the radial arms between said top plate and said bottom plate and thereby firmly restraining the radial arms in an immobilized position therebetween, with said four guides of said bottom plate being comprised of four upwardly projecting pins radially positioned about said bottom plate and each elongated arm of said radial arms includes a grooved portion sized to slideably engage onto one of said pins.
A method for elevating a legged furniture equipped with a number of furniture legs, said method comprising:
- A) providing an elevating device equipped with adjustable radial arms equal to the number of furniture legs of the legged furniture, the radial arms are respectively terminated by a pedestal section for individually supporting a leg of the legged furniture, and a radial restraining assembly comprised of a top plate and bottom plate for restraining the radial arms at a fixed position therebetween;
- B) emplacing the radial arms between said top plate and said bottom plate so that a lower surface region of said arms engages onto said bottom plate and an upper surface region of said arms engages onto said top plate;
- C) adjusting said radial arms to that each pedestal section thereby individually supports one leg of the legged furniture at the fixed position;
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- D) immobilizing the adjusted radial arms at the fixed position with said restraining assembly by securely drawing the top plate and the bottom plate together so as to firmly wedge the radial arms between said top plate and said bottom plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.