Mobile structure for working with computer equipment couplable to slanting chairs

• US 10,441,072 B2
• Filed: 07/28/2017
• Issued: 10/15/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Aparicio Gomez Nebot
• Original Assignee: Aparicio Gomez Nebot
• Inventors: Gomez Nebot, Aparicio
• Primary Examiner(s): Le, Tan
• Application Number:
  US15/663,020
• Publication Number:
  US 20180049544A1
• Time in Patent Office: 809 Days
• Field of Search: 248917, 248918, 248919, 2484471, 24829212, 248118, 2481252, 297115, 297173, 297188, 297423
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 21/03 with substantially horizontally extensible or adjustable parts other than drawers, e.g. leaves
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 21/04 characterised by means for holding or fastening typewriters or computer equipment
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2200/0072 Computer work stations with integrated seat or chair
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 23/02 releasably mounted on the bedstead or another item of furniture
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 41/02 Adjustable, inclinable, sliding or foldable desks tops
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 83/02 Tables combined with seats folding or stowable tables with separable parts combined with seats A47B3/063; foldable table and seat units A47B3/14
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 7/68 Arm-rest tables ; or back-rest tables
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 7/70 of foldable type
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 7/72 Adaptations for incorporating lamps, radio sets, bars, telephones, ventilation, heating or cooling arrangements or the like
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 11/10 around a horizontal axis F16M11/12 takes precedence

Abstract

The mobile structure for working with computer equipment or electronic devices, couplable to slanting chairs or armchairs that the invention proposes is therefore configured as a novelty within its field of application, because, when it is implemented, the said objectives are satisfactorily achieved, the characterizing details making it possible are suitably appearing in the final claims attached to this specification.

Concretely, what the invention proposes, as it has been stated before, is a structure which aim is to allow the incorporation of computer equipment or electronic devices so that it is possible to work with them, or use them for leisure purpose, in a slanting chair or armchair and to be able to angularly move it, according to the tilt of the chair, at least in an upright position and a slanted position, being formed for it, by a mobile arm with a moving mechanism that is coupled to any slanting chair or armchair and that is provided with supporting means as a kind of desk to incorporate the computer equipment.

Claims

1. A mobile structure for working or using computer equipment or other electronic devices couplable to slanting chairs or armchairs, the mobile structure comprising:

a mobile arm (2) having a distal end (21) and a proximal end (22), the proximal end (22) being coupled to a slanting chair or armchair (4);

a support (3) attached to the distal end (21) of said mobile arm (2), said support (3) configured to incorporate different elements of a computer or electronic equipment; and

a moving mechanism (5) attached to the proximal end (22) of the mobile arm (2), wherein said moving mechanism (5) is a pawl mechanism comprising a gearwheel (50) and a locking finger (53), the pawl mechanism operated by hand by a crank (52), a spring (54) associated with said locking finger (53) to keep said locking finger (53) interlocking with said gearwheel (50) and wherein operation of said moving mechanism (5) rotatably moves said mobile arm (2) jointly with said support (3) to change the position of said mobile arm (2) with respect to a seat of the chair (4) between at least two positions of use in accordance with an upright position of the chair (4) and a slanted position of the chair (4).

2. The mobile structure for working or using computer equipment or other electronic devices couplable to slanting chairs or armchairs according to claim 1, wherein the gearwheel (50) is linked to the proximal end (21) of said mobile arm (2) and with a first rotation shaft (51) to which, in turn, the crank (52) is also jointly linked, and said locking finger (53) locks the position of said mobile arm (2) when it is interlocked in the gearwheel (50).

3. The mobile structure for working or using computer equipment or other electronic devices couplable to slanting chairs or armchairs, according to claim 2, wherein said locking finger (53) has a protrusion (55) to be able to release it from its interlocking.

4. The mobile structure for working or using computer equipment or other electronic devices couplable to slanting chairs or armchairs, according to claim 2, wherein said locking finger (53) is associated to a second rotation shaft (56) both shafts (51, 56) being provided with bearings (58) inserted in them so that the bearings are in the structure of the frame (41) of the seat of the chair or armchair (4) to which the structure (1) is coupled.

5. The mobile structure for working or using computer equipment or other electronic devices couplable to slanting chairs or armchairs, according to claim 4, wherein both rotation shafts (51, 56) with bearings (58) show final stops (59) to prevent them from coming out of their position.

6. The mobile structure for working or using computer equipment or other electronic devices couplable to slanting chairs or armchairs, according to claim 1, wherein said support (3) further comprises a column (30) with a grip (31) preferably flat for coupling screens, viewfinders or imaging devices, and a main base (32), perpendicular to the said grip for screens (31), having a likewise flat surface for keyboards and other similar input peripherals.

7. The mobile structure for working or using computer equipment or other electronic devices couplable to slanting chairs or armchairs, according to claim 6, wherein the column (30) and the main base (32) are joined to parallel respective bars (33) that are provided with end holes (34) in which worms (35) are screwed that are inserted in them crossing a straight length of the distal end (21) of said mobile arm (2), to achieve the anchorage of said mobile arm (2).

8. The mobile structure for working or using computer equipment or other electronic devices couplable to slanting chairs or armchairs, according to claim 6, wherein adjacent to the main base (32) there is an additional base (321) as surface for a mouse, such base (321) can be fixed with a variable tilt, by means of a worm (36), arranged on the end of one of the parallel bars (33).