Patents by Inventor Orrin C. Farnsworth

Orrin C. Farnsworth has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11839302
    Abstract: A banquet table comprises a laminate tabletop with a high-pressure solid composite laminate of paper impregnated with resin. A hoop carries a perimeter of the tabletop and has a perimeter with a size and a shape substantially matching a size and a shape of a perimeter of the tabletop. Elongated runners carry an interior of the tabletop. Legs are coupled to the runners and extend to elevate the tabletop thereon. A polymer trim surrounds the perimeter of the hoop. The trim has a vertical height substantially the same as a vertical thickness of the hoop, with the tabletop extending above a height of the trim so that the tabletop has an exposed perimeter edge. The trim has a horizontal thickness extending laterally beyond the tabletop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Mity-Lite, Inc.
    Inventors: Orrin C Farnsworth, Austin T. Farnsworth, Matthew S. Pectol, Jordan D. Lundell, Aaron Barker, Mitchell V. Heath
  • Publication number: 20230148752
    Abstract: A banquet table comprises a laminate tabletop with a high-pressure solid composite laminate of paper impregnated with resin. A hoop carries a perimeter of the tabletop and has a perimeter with a size and a shape substantially matching a size and a shape of a perimeter of the tabletop. Elongated runners carry an interior of the tabletop. Legs are coupled to the runners and extend to elevate the tabletop thereon. A polymer trim surrounds the perimeter of the hoop. The trim has a vertical height substantially the same as a vertical thickness of the hoop, with the tabletop extending above a height of the trim so that the tabletop has an exposed perimeter edge. The trim has a horizontal thickness extending laterally beyond the tabletop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Orrin C. Farnsworth, Austin T. Farnsworth, Matthew S. Pectol, Jordan D. Lundell, Aaron Barker, Mitchell V. Heath
  • Patent number: 9492014
    Abstract: A folding mesh chair includes a seat and a backrest carried between opposite frame sides. The chair has an unfolded seating position in which the seat pivots to extend from the frame sides and bottoms of front and rear legs move apart, and a folded position in which the seat pivots toward the frame sides and the front and rear legs move together. One or both of the seat and the backrest have a continuous sheet of flexible and elastic mesh or patterned open texture plastic held across and substantially covering an opening in an all-plastic hoop fixed between the frame sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Mity-Lite, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard D. Smith, Orrin C. Farnsworth
  • Patent number: 8038221
    Abstract: A folding mesh chair includes a seat and a backrest carried between opposite frame sides. The chair has an unfolded seating position in which the seat pivots to extend from the frame sides and bottoms of front and rear legs move apart, and a folded position in which the seat pivots toward the frame sides and the front and rear legs move together. One or both of the seat and the backrest have a continuous sheet of flexible and elastic mesh or patterned open texture plastic held across and substantially covering an opening in an all-plastic hoop fixed between the frame sides. The hoop includes inner and outer plastic mating hoops with the mesh extending over an outer perimeter of the inner hoop and into an interface between the inner and outer hoops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Mity-Lite, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard D. Smith, Orrin C. Farnsworth
  • Patent number: 8033612
    Abstract: A folding mesh chair includes a seat and a backrest carried between opposite frame sides. The chair has an unfolded seating position in which the seat pivots to extend from the frame sides and bottoms of front and rear legs move apart, and a folded position in which the seat pivots toward the frame sides and the front and rear legs move together. One or both of the seat and the backrest have a continuous sheet of flexible and elastic mesh or patterned open texture plastic held across and substantially covering an opening in an all-plastic hoop fixed between the frame sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Mity-Lite, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard D. Smith, Orrin C. Farnsworth, Spencer Posey
  • Patent number: 8033598
    Abstract: A folding mesh chair includes a seat and a backrest carried between opposite frame sides. The chair has an unfolded seating position in which the seat pivots to extend from the frame sides and bottoms of front and rear legs move apart, and a folded position in which the seat pivots toward the frame sides and the front and rear legs move together. One or both of the seat and the backrest have a continuous sheet of flexible and elastic mesh or patterned open texture plastic held across and substantially covering an opening in an all-plastic hoop fixed between the frame sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Mity-Lite, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard D. Smith, Orrin C. Farnsworth
  • Patent number: 8029059
    Abstract: A folding and stacking chair system includes a plurality of folding and stacking chairs having an unfolded seating position in which the chairs are configured for sitting upon, and a folded and stacked position in which the chairs are folded and stacked together. Each chair has a seat and a backrest carried between opposite frame sides each with a backrest support, a front leg and a rear leg. The seat and the backrest each have a continuous sheet of flexible and elastic mesh or patterned open texture plastic held between the backrest supports of the frame sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Mity-Lite, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard D. Smith, Orrin C. Farnsworth
  • Publication number: 20100156151
    Abstract: A folding mesh chair includes a seat and a backrest carried between opposite frame sides. The chair has an unfolded seating position in which the seat pivots to extend from the frame sides and bottoms of front and rear legs move apart, and a folded position in which the seat pivots toward the frame sides and the front and rear legs move together. One or both of the seat and the backrest have a continuous sheet of flexible and elastic mesh or patterned open texture plastic held across and substantially covering an opening in an all-plastic hoop fixed between the frame sides. The hoop includes inner and outer plastic mating hoops with the mesh extending over an outer perimeter of the inner hoop and into an interface between the inner and outer hoops.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Inventors: Richard D. Smith, Orrin C. Farnsworth
  • Publication number: 20100156149
    Abstract: A folding mesh chair includes a seat and a backrest carried between opposite frame sides. The chair has an unfolded seating position in which the seat pivots to extend from the frame sides and bottoms of front and rear legs move apart, and a folded position in which the seat pivots toward the frame sides and the front and rear legs move together. One or both of the seat and the backrest have a continuous sheet of flexible and elastic mesh or patterned open texture plastic held across and substantially covering an opening in an all-plastic hoop fixed between the frame sides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Inventors: Richard D. Smith, Orrin C. Farnsworth, Spencer Posey
  • Publication number: 20100156150
    Abstract: A folding and stacking chair system includes a plurality of folding and stacking chairs having an unfolded seating position in which the chairs are configured for sitting upon, and a folded and stacked position in which the chairs are folded and stacked together. Each chair has a seat and a backrest carried between opposite frame sides each with a backrest support, a front leg and a rear leg. The seat and the backrest each have a continuous sheet of flexible and elastic mesh or patterned open texture plastic held between the backrest supports of the frame sides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Inventors: Richard D. Smith, Orrin C. Farnsworth
  • Publication number: 20100156148
    Abstract: A folding mesh chair includes a seat and a backrest carried between opposite frame sides. The chair has an unfolded seating position in which the seat pivots to extend from the frame sides and bottoms of front and rear legs move apart, and a folded position in which the seat pivots toward the frame sides and the front and rear legs move together. One or both of the seat and the backrest have a continuous sheet of flexible and elastic mesh or patterned open texture plastic held across and substantially covering an opening in an all-plastic hoop fixed between the frame sides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Inventors: Richard D. Smith, Orrin C. Farnsworth
  • Patent number: 7654617
    Abstract: A chair seat for flexibly supporting the buttocks of a user seated thereon. The chair seat includes a seat surface having a pair of adjacent or side-by-side concentric corrugated regions formed therein, and which are configured for flexibly supporting the buttocks of the user by being deflectable with respect to the seat surface. The seat surface further includes a third corrugated region surrounding and concentric with the pair of side-by-side corrugated regions, and which third region is configured for flexibly supporting the hips and thighs of the user while also being deflectable with respect to the seat surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Mity-Lite, Inc.
    Inventor: Orrin C. Farnsworth
  • Publication number: 20090302651
    Abstract: A chair seat for flexibly supporting the buttocks of a user seated thereon. The chair seat includes a seat surface having a pair of adjacent or side-by-side concentric corrugated regions formed therein, and which are configured for flexibly supporting the buttocks of the user by being deflectable with respect to the seat surface. The seat surface further includes a third corrugated region surrounding and concentric with the pair of side-by-side corrugated regions, and which third region is configured for flexibly supporting the hips and thighs of the user while also being deflectable with respect to the seat surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2008
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Inventor: Orrin C. Farnsworth