Chair adjustment structure

• US 8,414,075 B2
• Filed: 09/07/2010
• Issued: 04/09/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Wen-Shan Ko
• Original Assignee: Wen-Shan Ko
• Inventors: Ko, Wen-Shan
• Primary Examiner(s): Dunn, David
• Assistant Examiner(s): GABLER, PHILIP F
• Application Number:
  US12/876,693
• Publication Number:
  US 20110291452A1
• Time in Patent Office: 945 Days
• Field of Search: 297/285, 297/301.4, 297/301.5, 297/301.6, 297/302.4, 297/302.5, 297/302.6, 297/303.4, 297/339, 297/340
• US Class Current: 297/340
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 1/03238 by means of peg-and-notch or pawl-and-ratchet mechanism
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 1/03255 with a central column, e.g. rocking office chairs
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 1/03266 with adjustable elasticity
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 1/03272 with coil springs
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 1/03274 of torsion type

Abstract

A chair adjustment structure includes a base member, a top cover pivotally connected to the base member, a spring member connected between the base member and the top cover, and a back bracket pivotally connected to the base member and the top cover. Therefore, when the user sits on the seat pad of the chair, the back bracket is forced to pivot the top cover to provide the user with sitting comfort.

Claims

1. A chair adjustment structure comprising:

a base member;

a top cover disposed at a top side relative to said base member and having a middle part thereof pivotally connected to said base member;

a spring member mounted to said base member and having a top end stopped against said top cover;

a back bracket having two sidewalls, each of which has a first extension portion disposed at one lateral side of said base member, a second extension portion obliquely upwardly extending from said first extension portion, a first pivot portion located on one end of said first extension portion and pivotally connected to said base member, and a second pivot portion located on said first extension portion adjacent to said second extension portion and pivotally connected to said top cover;

a seat frame assembly, wherein said seat frame assembly comprises;

two axles respectively pivotally connected to said top cover;

four links each having a bottom end pivotally connected to one of two ends of one of said axles;

four torsion springs respectively mounted to one of two ends of each of two axles, each said torsion spring having two ends respectively stopped against said top cover and said links; and

a seat frame pivotally connected to top ends of said links.

2. The chair adjustment structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein said top cover comprises two barrels for the axles to pass through respectively, each of said barrels having a notch located at least one of two ends thereof, each of said axles having a pin for contact with a sidewall of one of the notches while the axle pivots.

3. The chair adjustment structure as claimed in claim 1 further comprising an actuating member and a cord member, wherein said actuating member is pivotally connected to said base member and has an end projecting into a top end of a pneumatic lifter mounting hole formed at said base member, and the cord member has an end connected with said actuating member for pivoting said actuating member.

4. The chair adjustment structure as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a spring force adjustment device set, wherein said spring force adjustment device set has a knob and a screw nut, said knob being rotatably mounted in said base member and having a screw rod inserted through said spring member, said screw nut being threaded onto said screw rod of said knob and stopped against a bottom end of said spring member.

5. The chair adjustment structure as claimed in claim 1 further comprising an angle adjustment device set, wherein said angle adjustment device set comprises a control bar pivotally connected to said base member, a locating plate movably forwards and backwards mounted to said base member in a manner allowing forward and backward movement, and a linking member having two ends connected with said control bar and said locating plate respectively, said top cover having a plurality of locating grooves for inserting said locating plate selectively.

6. The chair adjustment structure as claimed in claim 5, wherein said linking member is a torsion spring having an end inserted into an elongated slot formed at said control bar and an opposite end thereof connected with said locating plate.

7. The chair adjustment structure as claimed in claim 5, wherein said locating plate comprises an elongated slot, and said base member comprises a pin inserted into the elongated slot of said locating plate.