Task chair

• US 20050046258A1
• Filed: 07/09/2004
• Published: 03/03/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 07/09/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Gary L. Sanchez
• Original Assignee: Gary L. Sanchez
• Inventors: Sanchez, Gary L.
• Application Number:
  US10/888,318
• Publication Number:
  US 20050046258A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 297/353
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 1/0244 by fluid means
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 7/405 with double backrests
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 7/46 with special, e.g. adjustable , lumbar region support profile; "Ackerblom" profile chairs

Abstract

The present invention relates to task chairs that support the body of the user in healthy positions while the user performs various tasks over extended sitting periods and that provide independent and independently adjustable support to the lower and the upper back.

Claims

1. An adjustable task chair comprising:

at least two adjustable back support members;

each said adjustable back support member independently supported by a vertically adjustable brace support member; and

each brace support member supported by a frame.

2. The chair of claim 1 further comprising:

at least one holding component mounted on the posterior section of said frame and holding each said vertically adjustable brace support member toward a vertical position;

an adjusting component for overcoming the holding of said holding component to adjust said vertical brace support member toward a horizontal position, each of said vertical brace support members being independent; and

one of said back support members supporting the lower back of a seated person and another of said back support members supporting the upper back of said seated person.

3. The chair of claim 2, said at least one holding component comprising a spring to bias each said vertically adjustable brace support member toward a vertical position.

4. The chair of claim 2, at least one of said adjusting components comprising an actuator system.

5. The chair of claim 2, at least one of said adjusting components connected to a pneumatic gas cylinder.

6. The chair of claim 1, said vertically adjustable brace support members comprising a first vertically adjustable brace support member oriented toward the front of said chair and a second vertically adjustable brace support member oriented behind said first back support member.

7. The chair of claim 1 further comprising at least one adjusting component to independently adjust each adjustable brace support member in a vertical direction and at least one adjusting component to independently adjust each adjustable brace support member in a horizontal direction.

8. The chair of claim 7, said adjusting components further controlling angle, tilt lock, and tilt tension.

9. The chair of claim 1, at least one of said back support members comprising vertical indentations along the center of said back support members, said indentations of dimensions sufficient to relieve the spine of a seated person of pressure caused when said seated person reclines against said back support members.

10. The chair of claim 1, at least one of said back support members comprising two pads oriented horizontally adjacent to each other and sufficiently spaced apart to relieve the spine of a seated person of pressure caused when said seated person reclines against said back support members.

11. The chair of claim 1, further comprising a seat member comprising a depression to relieve the coccyx of a seated person of pressure caused when said person sits on said seat member.

12. The chair of claim 1, further comprising tiltable arm rests.