Seat mounting mechanism
AssigneeTeknion Furniture Systems
InventorsZooey Chu, Harald Wurl, Hermann Bock
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Abstract
A chair comprises a seat; a support for the seat; and, a plurality of biasing members mounted between the support and the seat, the biasing members, in combination, have a compressive strength sufficiently high to essentially resist static movement of a person while seated in the chair and sufficiently low to cushion dynamic loads applied to the seat when a person sits down quickly in the chair. Alternately the chair comprises a plurality of connecting members extending between the seat and the support, each connecting member having at least one first detent member to lockingly connecting the seat to the support.
Claims17
A chair comprising:
- (a) a seat having a lower surface;
- (b) a support for the seat;
- and,
- (c) a plurality of connecting members extending between the seat and the support, each connecting member having at least one first detent member to lockingly connect the seat to the support;
- and,
- (d) a plurality of second detent members having an engagement surface to abut a surface of the first detent members, the first detent member comprising spaced apart end members which are resiliently biased to a spaced apart position and which are compressible towards each other to permit slidable insertion into the second detent member and slidable removal from the second detent member.
A chair comprising:
- (a) a seat;
- (b) a support for the seat;
- (c) a plurality of individual biasing members positioned between the support and the seat and located adjacent the perimeter of the seat;
- (d) a plurality of connecting members extending between the seat and the support, each connecting member having at least one first detent member and one of the support and the seat having a plurality of second detent members, the first detent member comprising spaced apart end members which are resiliently biased to a spaced apart position and which are compressible towards each other to permit slidable insertion into the second detent member;
- (e) the biasing members, in combination, having a compressive strength sufficiently high to cushion dynamic loads applied to the seat when a person sits down quickly in the chair.
A chair comprising:
- (a) a seat in the form of a single continuous member;
- (b) a support for the seat;
- (c) a plurality of individual biasing means positioned between the support and the seat and located adjacent the perimeter of the seat;
- and,
- (d) snap connecting means for removably connecting the seat to the support comprising first detent means and second detent means, the first detent means comprising spaced apart end members which are resiliently biased to a spaced apart position and which are compressible towards each other to permit insertion into the second detent means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.