Patents Assigned to Hussey Seating Company
  • Patent number: 11659929
    Abstract: A double action seating unit to be mounted to a nose of a platform is described. The double action seating unit includes a seat assembly, a back assembly and at least two stanchion. Each stanchion has a front bracket, a rear bracket, a stanchion tube and two pivot straps. The front bracket attaches the seat portion to the stanchion, the rear bracket attaches the stanchion to the nose of the platform and the stanchion tube attaches the back assembly to the stanchion. Each pivot strap connects an associated stanchion tube, the rear bracket and the front bracket. The double action seating unit can move between a use configuration and a storage configuration. The two pivot straps cause the seat assembly and the back assembly to simultaneously rotate when the double action seating unit moves between the use configuration and the storage configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Hussey Seating Company
    Inventors: James Paradis, John Fisher, Paul-Jacob Michael Richmond
  • Patent number: 11571069
    Abstract: A seating unit system is provided to mount seats to a nose of a balcony. The seating unit system includes a balcony mount beam secured to the nose of the balcony. The balcony mount beam includes a front plate and a return. The front plate has an upwards extension. The seating unit includes one or more seats. Each seat has a balcony mount stanchion and a front rail socket connected to the balcony mount stanchion. The balcony mount stanchion includes a hook feature and a balcony mount beam bracket. The hook feature attaches to the upwards extension of the front plate and the balcony mount beam bracket attaches to the return. The front rail socket is configured to receive a front rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Hussey Seating Company
    Inventors: Paul-Jacob Michael Richmond, Christian Harvie
  • Patent number: 11035138
    Abstract: Apparatus for securing adjacent tiers of a retractable bleacher to prevent relative vertical movement between the adjacent tiers when the retractable bleacher is fully extended are described. The retractable bleacher includes a first engagement member that is secured to a first decking tier, a second engagement member secured to a second adjacent decking tier. The first engagement member and the second engagement member are configured and cooperative to prevent relative vertical movement of the second decking tier with respect to the first decking tier when the retractable bleacher is fully extended in the open configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Hussey Seating Company
    Inventors: Michael L. Leighton, Chi-lam Yau
  • Patent number: 10053881
    Abstract: Improved aisle rail systems and methods for use in conjunction with telescopic or retractable seating systems. A handle portion is at an upper end of a post. A short arm having a roller extends radially from a lower extent of the post. The post is rotationally mounted to a deck of a bleacher system by a support socket. Interaction of the roller with a step mounted on an underlying deck resulting from relative motion of the deck on which the aisle rail system is mounted and the underlying deck results in rotation of the post and associated handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: HUSSEY SEATING COMPANY
    Inventors: Kerry D. Briggs, Jonathan Yau
  • Patent number: 9963893
    Abstract: A front-aisle step that is integral with a deck of a bleacher and disposed in a bleacher access-aisle is disclosed. The first deck includes a deck surface having a deck surface height above a support surface and the front-aisle step has a front-aisle step surface having a height above the support surface that is less than the deck surface height. The front-aisle step has a front edge that is co-extensive with or recessed from a forward edge of the bleacher. In one embodiment a reversible platform is disposed in the access-aisle and in a first mounting orientation provides a front-aisle step surface at a height below the first deck surface and in a second mounting orientation in which the reversible platform is inverted from the first mounting orientation, the reversible platform provides a front-aisle step surface at a height generally co-planar with the first deck surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: HUSSEY SEATING COMPANY
    Inventor: Kerry D. Briggs
  • Patent number: 9326611
    Abstract: A portable bleacher seating structure includes an active descent and lift mechanism that includes a placement assembly having an arm and an arm wheel at a distal end thereof. A bracket connects the arm to a gas spring. The pressure within the gas spring opposes the arm as the bleacher is positioned in order to control the descent of the bleacher as it is tipped into position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Hussey Seating Company
    Inventors: Kerry D. Briggs, Chi-Lam Yau, Robert G. Valliere, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8528971
    Abstract: A seating spacer configured to fit between two seating units in a seating system bench-type seating. In one embodiment, at least one seating spacer is placed between two seating units arranged in a side-by-side manner to form a row of seating in a seating system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Hussey Seating Company
    Inventors: Ron G. Bilodeau, Carl J. Sukeforth, Kerry Briggs, Erik Cloutier
  • Publication number: 20090224579
    Abstract: A seating spacer configured to fit between two seating units in a seating system bench-type seating. In one embodiment, at least one seating spacer is placed between two seating units arranged in a side-by-side manner to form a row of seating in a seating system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: Hussey Seating Company
    Inventors: Ron G. Bilodeau, Carl J. Sukeforth, Kerry Briggs, Erik Cloutier
  • Publication number: 20040056522
    Abstract: A seating system includes one or more seating units. Each seating unit includes a seat portion, and left and right stanchions attached to the seat portion on left and right sides of the seat portion. Each stanchion includes a bottom member having a first end adapted to be secured to a surface and a second end, and a second member having a first end adapted to be secured to the second end of the bottom member at any one of a plurality of different angular relationships.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2003
    Publication date: March 25, 2004
    Applicant: Hussey Seating Company
    Inventor: Edward J. Bailey
  • Patent number: 5288128
    Abstract: A reclining chair suitable for use in theaters or the like is provided wherein the backrest and seat are mounted upon spaced-apart wings having a substantially inverted, truncated, right triangular shape. The wings are respectively pivotally mounted to the inner sides of a pair of spaced-apart stanchions such that in the upright position of the chair the axis upon which the seat is mounted to the wings is located close to and substantially directly vertically above the axis upon which the wings are pivotally mounted to the respective stanchions. Stops are provided on the stanchions which interact with stop engaging surfaces on the wings to limit the forward and the downward and rearward travel of the backrest and seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 22, 1994
    Assignee: Hussey Seating Company
    Inventors: Kenneth E. Smith, David L. Sutter
  • Patent number: 5277001
    Abstract: A telescopic grandstand is provided including a central support structure and two sets of interconnected telescopic grandstand seating tiers. One set of tiers is located adjacent one side of the support for telescopic movement between a closed position adjacent the vertical upright portion of the support and an open use position wherein the tiers of the set form a stepped configuration which extends outwardly from the adjacent side of the support and downwardly from the top of the vertical portion of the support. The second set of telescoping seating tiers is similarly located adjacent the other side of the vertical portion of the support. The entire unit is movable in directions normal to the sides of the vertical portion of the support, and means are provided for rotating the unit about a vertical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1994
    Assignee: Hussey Seating Company
    Inventor: James F. Bryant
  • Patent number: D513897
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Assignee: Hussey Seating Company
    Inventors: Russell Plant, Kevin Paquet
  • Patent number: D482884
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignee: Hussey Seating Company
    Inventors: Russell Plant, Ronald G. Bilodeau
  • Patent number: D483194
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: Hussey Seating Company
    Inventors: Russell Plant, Ronald G. Bilodeau