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US 5,957,532 AGranted
Seating arrangement
AssigneeConvaid Products, Inc.
InventorMervyn M. Watkins
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Abstract
An improved seating arrangement having a pair of rigid sides which include a back portion and a seat portion. Flexible webbing members extend between the rigid sides in the back and seat portions. Various arrangements are provided for increasing and decreasing the length and tension of the flexible webbing to provide a three dimensional variation in the contour of the flexible webbing in the back and/or seat portion.
Claims30
An improved adjustable seating arrangement comprising, in combination:
- a frame member having a back portion and a seat portion;
- said back portion comprising a first and a second rigid support element, in spaced apart, substantially parallel relationship, each of said first and second rigid support element comprising a first and a second rigid brace member in spaced apart relationship and said first and said second rigid brace members of each of said first and said second rigid support element defining a plane, said first and said second rigid support elements defining a seating back support;
- said seat portion comprising a third and a fourth rigid support element in spaced apart relationship and each of said third and fourth rigid support elements comprising a third and a fourth rigid brace member in spaced apart relationship and said third and said fourth rigid brace members of each of said third and said fourth rigid support elements defining a plane, said third and said fourth rigid support elements defining a seating seat support;
- at least one rigid transverse member connected to said second rigid support elements for maintaining said first and said second rigid support elements in said spaced apart relationship;
- at least one rigid transverse member connected to said third rigid brace member of each of said third and said fourth rigid support elements for maintaining said third and said fourth rigid support elements in said spaced apart relationship;
- a first plurality of flexible webbing members in spaced apart relationship extending between said first and said second rigid support elements, each of said first plurality of webbing members comprising a first and a second flexible webbing portion, each of said first webbing portion of each of said first plurality of webbing members having a first end section adjustably connected to said first brace member of said first support element and a second end section adjustably connected to said first brace member of said second support element, and said second webbing portions of each of said first plurality of webbing members having a first end section adjustably connected to said second brace member of said first support element and a second end section adjustably connected to said second brace member of said second support element;
- at least one flexible back joining means coupled to at least some of said first plurality of webbing members intermediate said first and said second rigid support elements for coupling together at least some of said first and said second webbing sections of said first plurality of said webbing means;
- adjustment means for providing said adjustable connection of said first plurality of flexible webbing members, and at least some of said adjustment means in at least some of said first and said second end sections of said first and said second webbing portions of said first plurality of webbing members for varying the length of said first plurality of flexible webbing members between adjustment means.
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