FOOTBALL HELMET STOOL

• US 3,843,197 A
• Filed: 03/19/1973
• Issued: 10/22/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Thomas E. Wright
• Original Assignee: Thomas E. Wright
• Inventors: Wright, Thomas E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nunberg, Casmir A.
• Application Number:
  US05/342,619
• Time in Patent Office: 582 Days
• Field of Search: 248/415,416,425 297/181,423,429,431,437,461 272/32 273/54X,55 60/74X
• US Class Current: 297/423.38
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 3/18 Chairs or stools with rotatable seat adjustable in height by rotation A47C3/24
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 3/34 with pins coacting with holes or bolt-and-nut adjustment
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 7/50 Supports for the feet or the legs coupled to fixed parts of the chair coupled to other adjustable parts of the reclining or easy chair A47C1/034, A47C1/037; stand-alone rests or supports for the feet or the legs, e.g. footstools A47C16/02
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 9/007 High stools, e.g. bar stools children's high chairs A47D1/00

Abstract

This invention relates to the provision of a stool adapted for multi-use such as for seating persons under a wide range of uses. It is particularly made to provide a seat shell of a shape resembling a football helmet which is mounted on the top end of a vertical column structure to swivel thereon to accommodate the comfort and convenience of a person seated on the shell. It also provides a foot rest which is mounted on said column structure independently of, but coacting with, the seat shell. The foot rest carries the foot weight and body thrust of the person seated on the seat shell in a manner not to distort the shape of the seat shell. The invention provides novel coaction between the seat shell and the foot rest whereby the foot rest weight of the person seated on the shell is independent of the weight of such person on the shell whereby to avoid any distortion of the shell due to varying weight pressures on the foot rest. The seat shell is mounted for adjustment to different vertical positions on the column and the foot rest coacts with the seat shell in such different positions and swivels therewith.

Claims

1. A football helmet stool comprising a base, a vertical tubular column fixed to the base and open at its top end, a football helmet shaped shell having a seat portion at its top and an open bottom at the face of its lower front a second tubular column open at its top end and slidable vertically in the first mentioned column through the open top thereof, means fixed to the underside of the seat portion of the shell and extending into the open top of the second mentioned column and serving to support the football helmet shell on said column with the shell adapted to swivel about the axis of said column, an abutment on the first mentioned column, a foot rest unit extending through said bottom open face in the shell and mounted on the first mentioned column to swivel thereon while resting on said abutment and having engagement with the shell whereby the shell and the foot rest swivel together.

2. A stool as set forth in claim 1, in which the seat supporting means includes a shaft telescoping into the open top of the second mentioned column part, and a bearing sleeve interposed between the shaft and the second mentioned column part.

3. A stool as set forth in claim 1, in which the shell is supported entirely on the column structure and the foot rest unit is supported entirely on said column structure independently of the shell whereby the foot weight carried on the foot rest is independent of the direct body weight of the person seated on the shell.

4. A stool of the character described comprising a hollow seat shell body, a foot rest unit, the seat shell body having a top portion adapted to support a seat and depending side portions shaped to define a lower front opening for reception of the foot rest unit, a base, a vertical column structure having tElescoping parts, one such part being a hollow sleeve fixed to the base and a second part telescoping at its lower end into the first mentioned column part, means at the upper end of the second mentioned column part fixed to the seat portion of the shell body for supporting the shell body on the column structure with the shell body adapted to swivel about the axis of the column strucure, an abutment pin extending diametrically through said column parts adjacent to the lower end of said depending side portions of the shell body, and a sleeve on the periphery of the first mentioned column part adapted for movement rotatably and lengthwise thereon and resting at its lower end on said abutment, the foot rest unit being fixedly mounted on said sleeve and supported thereby in a position extending through said lower front opening of the shell body, the foot rest unit adapted to swivel on the column structure and having engagement with each depending side portion of the shell body whereby swivel movement of shell body is imparted to the foot rest unit and whereby foot weight pressure on the foot rest unit is carried by the foot rest unit independently of the weight of a person seated on the shell body.

5. A stool as set forth in claim 4, in which the abutment pin is adapted to be repositioned at different height levels spaced lengthwise of the column structure for supporting the shell body and the foot rest unit at different levels.

6. A stool comprising a hollow shell body, a foot rest unit, the shell body having a top seat portion and depending side portions shaped to define a lower front opening for reception of the foot rest unit, a base, a vertical column structure having telescoping parts, one such part being a hollow sleeve fixed to the base and a second part telescoping at its lower end into the first mentioned column part, the seat shell body being mounted on the second mentioned column part with the shell body adapted to swivel about the axis of the column structure, a sleeve on the periphery of the first mentioned column part adapted for movement rotatably and lengthwise thereon, the foot rest unit being fixedly mounted on said sleeve and supported thereby in a position extending through said lower front opening in the shell body, the foot rest unit adapted to swivel on the column structure by rotary movement of its supporting sleeve on the colmun structure and having engagement with each side portion of the shell body whereby swivel movement of the shell body is imparted to the foot rest unit and whereby foot weight pressure of a person seated on the shell body is carried by the foot rest unit independently of the weight of said person carried by the column structure, and means for setting the second mentioned column part and the sleeve with its foot rest unit at any of different height levels on the first mentioned column part to adapt the stool to different levels for adult uses and juvenile uses.

7. A stool comprising a hollow shell body, a foot rest unit, the shell body having a top seat portion and depending side portions shaped to define a lower front opening for reception of the foot rest unit, a base, a vertical column structure having telescoping parts, one such part being a hollow sleeve fixed to the base and a second part telescoping at its lower end into the first mentioned column part, the seat shell body being mounted on the second mentioned column part with the shell body adapted to swivel about the axis of the column structure, and a sleeve on the periphery of the first mentioned column part adapted for movement rotatably and lengthwise thereon, the foot rest unit being fixedly mounted on said sleeve and supported thereby in a position extending through said lower front opening in the shell body, the foot rest unit adapted to swivel on the column structure by rotary movement of its supporting sleeve on the column structure and having engagement with each side portion of the shell body whereby swivel movement of the shell body is imparted to the foot rest unit and whereby foot weight pressure of a person seated on the shell body is carried by the foot rest unit independently of the weight of said person carried by the column structure.

8. A stool comprising a seat shell having a top portion forming the seat proper on which a person sits and side portions depending from peripheral portions of the top portion and adapted to give lateral support to the legs of the person sealed on the shell, the side portions defining an opening at the front of the stool, a vertical column centrally within the seat shell, the seat shell mounted on the column to swivel by motion of the person seated on the shell, a base on which the column is mounted and which serves to support the column in vertical position, and a foot rest unit having an inner end mounted to swivel on the column, the foot rest unit extending through said opening and having a foot rest proper at its outer end beyond the seat shell and having side portions interposed between the depending side portions of the shell and having engagement therewith, whereby the foot weight pressure of the person seated on the shell is cattied by the foot rest unit independently of the weight of the person seated on the shell and whereby swivel movement of the shell is imparted to the foot rest unit by said engagement of the side portions of the foot rest unit with the depending side portions of the shell.