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US 7,111,906 B2Granted
Flexible seat mount for chair seat bottom
AssigneeCosco Management, Inc.
InventorsNathan W. Heisey, Larry Voris
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Abstract
A chair includes a frame and a seat bottom associated with the frame. Flexible seat mounts are used to retain the seat bottom on the frame.
Claims33
A chair comprising
- a frame,
- a seat bottom associated with the frame,
- mount means for yieldably retaining the seat bottom in a horizontally extending tethered position on the frame to allow limited vertical movement of the seat bottom relative to the frame during loading and unloading of the seat bottom so that the seat bottom is free to move relative to the frame, the mount means including at least one flexible seat mount including first and second strips arranged to lie in side-by-side relation to one another and a loop arranged to interconnect the first and second strips and formed to include a channel arranged to receive a portion of the frame therein and a fastener arranged to couple the first and second strips into the seat bottom;
- and
- wherein the seat bottom includes a downwardly facing curved concave surface mating with an upwardly facing curved surface included in the loop of the first of the flexible seat mounts.
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A chair comprising
- a frame including first and second horizontally extending side rails,
- a seat bottom associated with the frame,
- first and second fasteners,
- a first flexible seat mount wrapped around a portion of the first horizontally extending side rail and configured to include a distal end anchored to the seat bottom by the first fastener,
- a second flexible seat mount wrapped around a portion of the second horizontally extending side rail and configured to include a distal end anchored to the seat bottom by the second fastener;
- and
- wherein the seat bottom is formed to include a support plate and a channel extending across a width of the seat bottom and the distal ends of the first and second flexible seat mounts lie in the channel below the support plate.
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A chair comprising
- a frame including first and second horizontally extending side rails,
- a seat bottom associated with the frame,
- first and second fasteners,
- a first flexible seat mount wrapped around a portion of the first horizontally extending side rail and configured to include a distal end anchored to the seat bottom by the first fastener,
- a second flexible seat mount wrapped around a portion of the second horizontally extending side rail and configured to include a distal end anchored to the seat bottom by the second fastener, and
- wherein the seat bottom includes an anchor plate including a plate mount, a first fastener anchor configured to mate with the first fastener, and a second fastener anchor configured to mate with the second fastener, the seat bottom further includes a support plate arranged to lie between the anchor plate and the first and second flexible seat mounts and to mate with the first and second flexible mounts, the support plate is formed to include first and second anchor apertures, the first fastener anchor extends through the first anchor aperture and mates with the first fastener to anchor the distal end of the first flexible seat mount to the seat bottom, and the second fastener anchor extends through the second fastener aperture and mates with the second fastener to anchor the distal end of the second flexible seat mount to the seat bottom.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.