Title: Chair

Abstract: The specification discloses a chair having a seat seated on spaced side rails above an auxiliary seat supporting surface which is spaced slightly below the seat and which shares the load imposed on the seat by a person sitting in it with the side rails and their supporting stretcher, yet allows the seat to give slightly so that the seat feels comfortably yielding.

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Inventors: Baker, Richard H. (Grand Rapids, MI, US)

Application Number: 463131
Filing Date: 1974-04-22
Publication_date: 1976-03-09
Assignee: Steelcase Inc. (Grand Rapids, MI)
Primary Class(es): 297/451.1 297/452.18
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

946225	Jan, 1910	Irwin	297/457.
1641330	Sep, 1927	Headley	297/452.
1836353	Dec, 1931	Withrow	297/308.
3111344	Nov, 1963	Hoven et al.	297/452.
3120407	Feb, 1964	Propst	297/457.
3471200	Oct, 1969	Morrison	297/457.
3601176	Aug, 1971	Savickas	297/445.
3675970	Jul, 1972	Bereday	297/452.

Other Refs: 661,9931,190,445

Apr, 1963	CA
Oct, 1959	FR

Primary Examiner: McCall, James T.
Assistant Examiner: Aschenbrenner, Peter A.
Attorney: Price, Heneveld, Huizenga & Cooper