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US 5,489,140 AGranted
Portable beautician's chair
OwnerJoan Van Horn-Platoinventor
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Abstract
A portable, lightweight, swivelable, elevatable and tiltable beautician's application chair is equipped with a pair of pneumatic tire transport wheels and a retractable pull tongue. The invention is equipped with an elevatable neck rest, a faucet-attachable water hose and a rearward tilt retainer to serve hair washing and coloring applications. It also incorporates a retractable back shelf for placement of hair drying equipment and supplies and a retractable lap shelf to serve fingernail grooming applications. A second embodiment of the invention eliminates the pneumatic tire transport wheels and pull tongue.
Claims4
A portable beautician's chair, comprising:
- a frame having a plurality of spaced apart legs supporting the chair for movement over a floor in a stable, upright configuration;
- means, attached to the legs, for providing rolling movement across the floor;
- means for sitting, the sitting means being rotatably supported from the frame;
- means, operatively attached to the frame, for selectively positioning the sitting means at a desired sitting position, the selective positioning means providing both height and pivot adjustment;
- means, disposed at a rearward portion of the frame, for supporting a person's back area;
- means, attached to the frame, for supporting a person's arms;
- means, attached to the frame, for supporting a person's neck;
- means, attached to the arm support means, for supporting the person's forearms and hands in a position spacedly opposed to and parallel to the person's lap, the forearm support means for aiding in the provision of manicure services, wherein the forearm support means comprises a shelf, hingedly and pivotably attached to, and extendable laterally between the arm support means;
- means for supporting a person's feet, wherein the feet support means comprises an ottoman;
- means, attached to the frame, for releasably securing a desired pivot position, wherein the releasable pivot securing means comprises:
- two rods, each having floor contacting ends, interconnected by a cross bar, the cross bar pivotally connected underneath the sitting means;
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- a slip-resistant polymeric cover attached to the floor contacting ends of each of the rods;
- means, attached to the frame, for easing in long distance transport of the chair, wherein the transport easing means comprises:
- pneumatic tire wheels;
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- a bracket assembly for attaching the tire wheels to two of the frame legs;
- means, attached to a rear surface of the back support means, for holding beautician utensils;
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- means, operatively attached to the neck support means, for draining water from a person's head into a sink.
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A portable beautician's chair, comprising:
- a plurality of spaced legs mounted to a central hub;
- a swivel/tilt mechanism rotatably assembled upon said hub and supporting a chair frame having a front portion, the chair frame equipped with a seat and seat back and pair of armrests;
- a spacer block interposed between said mechanism and said frame to substantially elevate said frame in a high-chair arrangement;
- a U-shaped frame having a cross member and legs extending therefrom, said cross member mounted to the front portion of said chair frame and having its legs pivotal from forward positions to a substantially vertical, floor contacting position effecting substantial rearward tilt of said chair frame;
- a shelf having opposed first and second ends, the first end of said shelf being assembled to one of said armrests, said shelf being selectively pivotal from a substantially vertical, hanging position to a substantially horizontal position at which its second end rests upon the other of said armrests;
- a pivotal support rod-equipped shelf assembled to said seat back and selectively pivotal from a substantially vertical, hanging position to a substantially horizontal position maintained by said rod which releasably assembles in a nest mounted to said seat back;
- a U-shaped member having substantially vertically oriented legs slidably assembled to said seat back and an upper, contoured and cushioned, occupant neck-supporting cross member extending between said vertically oriented legs;
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- a resilient water drainage sheet having opposed first and second ends, the drainage sheet assembled at its first end to said neck-supporting cross member and insertable at its second end into a sink.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.