A support for a piece of seating furniture provides an additional degree of freedom of movement. The support has a connecting unit fitted on a main body that connects to a supporting element of an underframe. The connecting unit has a mounting device for the supporting element, in particular a mount for the upper end of the supporting element. The connecting unit is fitted on the main body such that it is possible to alter the inclination of the main body relative to the supporting element. For that purpose the main body has a preferably convex contact base, which in the fitted state is contacted by a contact head of the connecting unit, with the abutment forming a non-planar contact rather than a contact over a surface area, in particular a punctiform contact.

A support for a piece of seating furniture provides an additional degree of freedom of movement. The support has a connecting unit fitted on a main body that connects to a supporting element of an underframe. The connecting unit has a mounting device for the supporting element, in particular a mount for the upper end of the supporting element. The connecting unit is fitted on the main body such that it is possible to alter the inclination of the main body relative to the supporting element. For that purpose the main body has a preferably convex contact base, which in the fitted state is contacted by a contact head of the connecting unit, with the abutment forming a non-planar contact rather than a contact over a surface area, in particular a punctiform contact.

A chair provided with a plate, to which a seat is freely articulated above, by way of at least one first linkage and a second pair of linkages in the rear and front regions, a backrest being articulated laterally and freely to said seat. The first end of a pair of cams is pivoted to the plate at the rear, and the second end is pivoted to the backrest.

A chair is described herein. The chair includes a first back support coupled to a base of the chair using one or more first support arms. The chair also includes a second back support coupled to the base of the chair using one or more second support arms. The first and second back supports are independently rotatable about a common axis.

A chair with a transom, a seat support, a back portion, and a combined rock and recline mechanism. The combined rock and recline mechanism has front and rear rocking arrangements configured to enable the seat support and back portion to together rock generally forward and rearward from a neutral position relative to the transom, and a recline arrangement that is configured such that the seat support is in a first at-rest position relative to the back portion when the back portion is in an upright position, and such that reclining the back portion rearwardly from the upright position toward a reclined position moves the seat support upward and rearward from the first at-rest position.

A tilt locking device for a chair, comprising a housing configured for connection to one of a seat and a frame; a first rotatable locking member, rotatable about a first axis and biased in a first direction about the first axis, the first rotatable locking member is configured for interlocking with a notch member; a rotatable activation member, rotatable about a second axis, the rotatable activation member is configured to abut and rotate the first rotatable locking member in a second direction opposite the first direction into interlocking with the notch member.

The present invention relates to a tiltable chair including: a fixing base having a tiltable housing disposed on an upward protruding dome-shaped center thereof in such a manner as to be movable in an arbitrary direction; a gas cylinder disposed inside the tiltable housing in such a manner as to be linearly reciprocated in upward and downward directions; a seat plate disposed on top of the gas cylinder; and an elastic tiltable member disposed inside the fixing base in such a manner as to accommodate a longitudinal lower part of the gas cylinder therein to allow the gas cylinder to move tiltably about vertical axis to the bottom of the fixing base, wherein the elastic tiltable member includes a fixed frame located on the bottom of the fixing base, a coupling frame located inside the center portion of the fixed frame to accommodate the gas cylinder therein, and a rubber packing located between the fixed frame and the coupling frame and deformed elastically in every direction, wherein the rubber packing has tilt concave grooves formed inward to a given depth from top and underside respectively in such a manner that the tilt concave grooves are reduced in width toward the insides thereof to thus form inclined surfaces.

Accordingly, the tiltable chair is configured to have the elastic tiltable member for accommodating the gas cylinder therein, instead of a large number of coil springs complicated in structure in the conventional practice, so that the tiltable chair can be made simple in structure, thereby preventing the generation of noise when tilted.

The present invention relates to a tiltable chair including: a fixing base having a tiltable housing disposed on an upward protruding dome-shaped center thereof in such a manner as to be movable in an arbitrary direction; a gas cylinder disposed inside the tiltable housing in such a manner as to be linearly reciprocated in upward and downward directions; a seat plate disposed on top of the gas cylinder; and an elastic tiltable member disposed inside the fixing base in such a manner as to accommodate a longitudinal lower part of the gas cylinder therein to allow the gas cylinder to move tiltably about vertical axis to the bottom of the fixing base, wherein the elastic tiltable member includes a fixed frame located on the bottom of the fixing base, a coupling frame located inside the center portion of the fixed frame to accommodate the gas cylinder therein, and a rubber packing located between the fixed frame and the coupling frame and deformed elastically in every direction, wherein the rubber packing has tilt concave grooves formed inward to a given depth from top and underside respectively in such a manner that the tilt concave grooves are reduced in width toward the insides thereof to thus form inclined surfaces.

Accordingly, the tiltable chair is configured to have the elastic tiltable member for accommodating the gas cylinder therein, instead of a large number of coil springs complicated in structure in the conventional practice, so that the tiltable chair can be made simple in structure, thereby preventing the generation of noise when tilted.

A seating arrangement includes a base, a seat assembly operably coupled to the base, and a back assembly that includes a substantially rigid back frame including a pair of side portions spaced from one another and extending upward from the base, and a substantially flexible back shell including a front surface and a rear surface opposite the front surface, a plurality of laterally-extending slots that extend between the front surface and the rear surface and that cooperate to define a plurality of laterally-extending ribs therebetween, where a pair of laterally-extending ribs of the plurality of laterally-extending ribs are connected to one another via a vertically-extending rib located at a substantial midpoint across a width of the back shell, and wherein the back shell is coupled to each of the side portions of the back frame at locations above the plurality of laterally-extending slots.

A chair that provides movement side-to-side about a first pivot axis positioned above the seat plane allows the user a wide range of dynamic movement, but does not require constant or excessive action on the part of the user to maintain a desired position. In addition and concurrently thereto, the structure may include a second pivot that is also positioned above the seat plane and that provides forward-and-back movement of the seat. The first and second pivot axes can be engaged synchronously or independently by the user as desired delivering infinite degrees of angles of movement. Said pivot axes are more closely adjacent to the human body pivot joints and axes. The seat and seat back may be joined together to a central spine frame that moves about the second pivot, thereby maintaining the seatback position and seat position relative to each other during forward-and-back movement of the spine along the second pivot. One or more biasing structures may be provided to urge the seat into forward-and-back and side-to-side neutral positions. If desired, the location of this forward-and-back neutral position can be statically adjusted by a user, and at least one of the biasing structures can hold this forward-and-back neutral position at a desired tension level thereby allowing a user to select the amount of force required to move the seat out of this defined forward-and-back neutral position. Moreover, an adjustment structure may be provided that allows for static adjustment of the seatback's position on the spine.