Sequencing arrangement for reclining chair of the multiple movement type

• US 3,394,965 A
• Filed: 11/06/1963
• Issued: 07/30/1968
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/1960
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Peter S. Fletcher
• Original Assignee: Peter S. Fletcher
• Inventors: Fletcher, Peter S.
• Application Number:
  US04/322,568
• Time in Patent Office: 1,728 Days
• US Class Current: 297/321
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 1/0355 actuated by linkages, e.g. lazy-tongs mechanisms

Claims

1. IN A RECLINING CHAIR OF THE MULTIPLE MOVEMENT TYPE COMPRISING A SUPPORT, BODY-SUPPORTING MEANS INCLUDING A SEAT AND BACK-REST, AND MOUNTING MEANS FOR SAID BODYSUPPORTING MEANS INCLUDING FIRST AND SECOND MOVEMENT LINKAGES OPERATED IN THE ORDER NAMED TO MOVE SAID BODYSUPPORTING MEANS FROM AN UPRIGHT SITTING POSITION THROUGH A FIRST MOVEMENT PHASE TO AN INTERMEDIATE, TILTED THROUGH POSITION AND THROUGH A SECOND MOVEMENT PHASE TO A FULLY RECLINED POSITION THE IMPROVEMENT COMPRISING BLOCKING MEANS FOR BLOCKING SAID SECOND MOVEMENT LINKAGE AGAINST MOVEMENT AT THE START OF SAID FIRST MOVEMENT PHASE, AND ACTUATING MEANS OPERABLE DURING SAID FIRST MOVEMENT PHASE FOR DISENGAGING SAID BLOCKING MEANS, SAID ACTUATING MEANS MOVING SAID BLOCKING MEANS TO A DISENGAGED POSITION PRIOR TO SAID BODY-SUPPORTING MEANS REACHING SAID INTERMEDIATE TILTED SITTING POSITION, SAID BLOCKING MEANS BEING IN A DISENGAGED POSITION IN SAID INTERMEDIATE, TILTED SITTING POSITION AND DURING SAID SECOND MOVEMENT PHASE.