Sound transmitting system

• US 4,124,249 A
• Filed: 10/25/1977
• Issued: 11/07/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Charles J. Abbeloos
• Original Assignee: Charles J. Abbeloos
• Inventors: Abbeloos, Charles J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nunberg, Casmir A.
• Application Number:
  US05/845,257
• Time in Patent Office: 378 Days
• Field of Search: 5/317 R, 5/341, 297/186, 297/217, 297/391, 297/457, 312/8
• US Class Current: 297/217.4
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 21/003 Lighting, radio, telephone or the like connected to the bedstead
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 5/904 with sound emitting means

Abstract

A sound transmitting system has a large speaker mounted in a chamber formed in an article of furniture under the thorax area of a person resting on the article of furniture. A pair of arcuate members are mounted on the article of furniture at the person'"'"'s head and have four distinct loudspeaker chambers enclosed therein for directing multichannel or single channel sound into the ears of the person. Each semicircular arcuate portion has a pair of speakers separated by an internal bulkhead mounted in the chambers thereof.

Claims

1. A sound transmitting system for entertaining and relaxing a person resting on an article of furniture from an outside audio source, said person having a body with a thorax, a head and ears on the head and said article of furniture having a surface supporting the person and a chamber formed therein under the area of the thorax of the person, said sound transmitting system comprising

a thorax speaker mounted in the chamber formed in the article of furniture and positioned to broadcast sound toward the thorax of the person on the surface of said article of furniture;

a pair of arcuate members substantially coplanarly mounted on said article of furniture at the head of the person but spaced therefrom, said arcuate members being of essentially semicylindrical configuration each extending at a corresponding side of the person'"'"'s head, said arcuate members having free ends spaced from each other above the head of the person and spaced therefrom, each of said arcuate members having chambers formed therein; and

a plurality of speakers mounted in the arcuate members and positioned to broadcast sound toward the ears of the person, the plurality of speakers and the thorax speaker being electrically connected to the outside audio source whereby the person hears stereophonic sound including high and low frequencies from said plurality of speakers and feels low frequency sound via the thoracic region of the body.

2. A sound transmitting system as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of said arcuate members has a pair of independent airtight chambers therein and a speaker is mounted in each of said airtight chambers.

3. A sound transmitting system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the article of furniture comprises a couch, sofa, reclining chair, and the like.

4. A sound transmitting system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the article of furniture comprises a seat in a public place.

5. A sound transmitting system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the article of furniture is a seat in a vehicle, craft, vessel, and the like.

6. A sound transmitting system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said arcuate members are removably affixed to said article of furniture.

7. A sound transmitting system as claimed in claim 2, wherein one of the chambers of each of said arcuate members is in a first portion of said arcuate member close to said article of furniture and the other of said chambers is in a second portion of said arcuate member in the area of the free end thereof, and further comprising a pair of bulkheads each separating the chambers in a corresponding one of said arcuate members.

8. A sound transmitting system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the speaker in the chamber of the first portion of each of said arcuate members is angled upward to an ear of the person and the speaker in the chamber of the second portion of each of said arcuate members is angled downward to an ear of said person.