Abstract: A vehicle seat that can reduce manufacturing costs while increasing assembling rigidity of an elastic spring for supporting an occupant is described. A vehicle seat includes an elastic spring bridged between a front frame and a rear frame to support an occupant. A hook member is attached to a rear end portion of the elastic spring to be hooked to the rear frame. The hook member includes a hook body extending along an outer periphery of the rear frame and a projection projecting from a front edge of the hook body toward the rear frame and formed to have a width smaller than a width of the hook body. A through-hole is formed in a portion of the hook body, which is opposed to the projection. The through-hole has a width larger than a width of the projection and a length larger than a projecting length of the projection.

Abstract: Spring sets each include a pair of coil springs joined together by a connecting wire and are encased in individual fabric pockets such that the connecting wire joining the coil springs spans an otherwise empty fabric pocket. A spring unit, mattress or the like includes a number of such pocketed spring sets with the connecting wire being alternately positioned near a top face or a bottom face of the spring unit. The pocketed coil spring unit can be used to form a mattress or other spring assembly of pocketed coil springs wherein every third pocket is left empty. The connecting wire spreads the load across the empty pocket and distributes the load to the adjacent springs. The absence of one-third of the springs that are normally in a mattress drastically reduces material costs without diminishing performance.

Abstract: The method of installing a handle in a mattress border comprising the step of bending a back strap and a material into a U shape so that inside surface is convex outward and so that first apertures are aligned, inserting a pulling tool through the aligned apertures, coupling a second coupling means to a first coupling means, and using the tool to pull the handle so that one of anchors passes through the first aligned apertures.

Abstract: A handle for a mattress border is anchored with spaced grommets in the border against which anchors on the handle ends may bear. The anchors are designed to allow a leading end of the handle to be drawn through grommet opening. A back strap between the grommet openings is shaped to allow clamping to move the grommet opening to aligned position. To allow the drawing of the anchors through the grommet opening, at least one of the anchors is provided with first couplings. A puller rod is designed to be inserted through at least one of the grommet openings. The puller rod is provided with second couplings, designed to cooperate with the first couplings to achieve the pulling function.

Abstract: A chair control mechanism is provided for use on a chair having a separate seat 14 and backrest 16 that move with respect to a base 12 of the chair. The mechanism 22 includes a housing 26 supported on the base, and brackets 28, 30 secured to the seat and backrest. The seat bracket 28 is supported on the housing for pivotal movement about a horizontally extending front pivot axis 68 between an upright position and a reclining position, and the front pivot axis is located adjacent the front end of the housing. The backrest bracket 30 is supported on the housing for pivotal movement about a horizontally extending rear pivot axis 80 that is located rearward of the front pivot axis.

Abstract: A chair tilt mechanism incorporating a tilt stop and height adjustment mechanism on a single lever is disclosed. In addition, the component parts of the chair tilt mechanism can be formed by conventional stamping operations which allows for the standard components to be used for a wide variety of chair tilt applications. The chair tilt mechanism includes a housing mounted to the support spindle and rails mounted to the underside of a chair. The rails are pivotally mounted to the housing and a load bracket member is fixedly mounted to the rails. A tilt adjustment spring extends between the load bracket and the housing. A lever is received within the housing and is laterally movable within the housing to selectively engage a tilt lock and adjust the height of the chair.

Abstract: An adaptor housing assembly for mounting an adjustable height work surface to a wall panel of an open office furniture system. The wall panel has a pair of vertical slotted standards which are adapted to receive the hooks of a mounting bracket. The adaptor housing assembly mounts a height adjustable work surface to the vertical slotted standards of the wall panel by clamping a mounting bracket to an adaptor housing in which is mounted a height adjustment mechanism having a frame which is connected to the work surface. The adaptor housing is fixed with respect to the wall panel and the frame of the height adjustment mechanism moves vertically with respect to the wall panel to raise and lower the work surface. The channel guides the moving members of the mechanism to which the work surface is mounted. The adaptor housing has a pair of elongated flanges extending outwardly from one end of the adaptor housing to form a slot which receives an elongated plate having tapped holes.

Abstract: A bent wire spring unit having a spaced pair of foot portions and a spring member extending upwardly from each foot portion. Each spring member is formed of a series of torsion bars and connector bars interconnected by bends in the spring wire. The spring members are connected at their upper ends by a locking member or portion having first and second pairs of bends in the spring wire and two locking bars extending from the second pair of bends. The locking bars are linear segments of wire angled downwardly such that they converge into a connecting bend. The locking bars and the connecting bend lie in a single plane and the distal ends of the locking bars and the connecting bend extend significantly below an uppermost torsion member of each spring member. A spring assembly is disclosed which includes the bent wire spring unit attached to a wire grid at its upper end and a base frame at its lower end.

Abstract: A nestably stackable bedding foundation assembly which replaces the traditional border wire and disposed coil spring foundation assembly in a so-called box spring. The nestably stackable foundation assembly may be nestably stacked with numerous other such assemblies for transportation, thereby avoiding the need to compress and tie the assembly for shipping. A bedding foundation comprises a rectangular base, a nestably stackable bedding foundation assembly fixedly attached atop the base, and spring means disposed between and connected to the base and the nestably stackable assembly.

Abstract: A modular bedding system which comprises a rigid non-resilient platform having depressions formed in the top surface thereof for the reception of resilient cushions, and a relatively thin mattress supported atop that platform and the cushions. In one preferred embodiment, there is a depression and one cushion located beneath the shoulders of a person reclining atop the mattress of the bedding system and a second cushion located beneath the hips of a person reclining atop the system. In another preferred embodiment, there is a single cushion located in a single depression of the bed but the cushion extends beneath the shoulders to beneath the hips of a person reclining atop the mattress and has a zone of increased firmness located beneath the waist of that person.

Abstract: The invention is a crank which is flush-mounted into a work surface and provides for raising or lowering a vertically adjustable work surface. The crank can be raised from its stored position to a fixed position above the work surface and unfolded providing for rotating the crank to raise or lower the work surface by causing an adjustment screw to thread in or out of an adjustment nut. The crank is returned to its stored position or flush-mounted by folding the crank and pressing downward.

Abstract: A gondola display rack for merchandising product comprises a base having a top surface, at least one upright extending vertically from the rear of the base, and at least one shelf removably secured to the upright. Shelf supporting bracket means attach the shelf to the upright and include means for adjustment wherein the shelf may be positioned substantially horizontally or angled downwardly and forwardly, yet without any gap between the rear edge of the shelf and the upright as is typically experienced. The base includes adjustment means which allow the base top surface to be positioned substantially horizontally or angled downwardly and forwardly and which allows the depth of the base to be varied. The base further includes second adjustment means which allow the upright to be adjusted angularly with respect to the base.

Abstract: An intermittent drive mechanism is provided for intermittently driving an output shaft with an input shaft that has an axis that intersects the axis of the output shaft at an angle. A driving element on the input shaft couples with a driven element on the output shaft through pairs of corresponding accelerating and decelerating pin and slot combinations which engage each other intermittently at the surface of an imaginary sphere which is centered at the intersection point of the shafts. Embodiments are provided both with and without intermittent driving gears on the elements to maintain the output shaft rotation at constant maximum velocity through a predetermined arc. The slots are curved, preferably in circular arcs, so as to optimize acceleration and the rate of change of acceleration (jerk), particularly as the output shaft approaches and leaves the point of maximum angular velocity.

Abstract: A high density pack out gondola display rack comprises a fixed base, an upright extending vertically from the rear of the fixed base, which upright has at least one shelf supported in cantilever fashion over the fixed base. Both the base and the shelf have downwardly and forwardly sloping top surfaces such that product supported on the top surfaces slide forwardly against abutments at the front edge of the base and shelf. A fixed display rack having multiple columns and rows of forwardly and downwardly sloping shelves is mounted on the base. There are also spring-up shelves adjustably supported from the upright by novel shelf supporting bracket assemblies. The shelves are preferably made from a plurality of longitudinally extending rods and a plurality of transverse rods, which rods are welded at their intersections.

Abstract: An adjusting tension adjustment linkage mechanism which enables a standard three-position recliner chair to be converted to a recliner lounger wherein a continuous upholstered cushion extending between the chair seat and the footrest may be maintained in a taut state in all positions of the footrest.

Abstract: A warehouse-style merchandising shelving system for displaying consumer products on gravity-feed shelves for retail sale which comprises a plurality of vertical corner posts arranged in pairs, side support bars extending front to rear between each of the pairs of corner posts, a plurality of pairs of crossbars each of which comprises a front crossbar and a rear crossbar, with each front crossbar extending between two of the front corner posts and each rear crossbar extending between two of the rear corner posts, a plurality of channel shaped sheet metal racks extending between and supported from each of the pairs of crossbars, with each of the channels having a downwardly and forwardly sloping bottom wall and a pair of side walls extending vertically from the bottom walls, and a low-friction slip-surface track located within each of the tracks.

Abstract: An automatic thread trimming method and apparatus are provided for tack and jump sewing of fabrics. In a preferred embodiment, a quilting apparatus having a plurality of sets of, preferably, double lock chain stitch forming elements, is disposed on a mechanically linked mechanism in a reconfigurable array corresponding to an array of discrete patterns to be sewn. Each set of the array is equipped with a thread trimming element. In a preferred embodiment, a thread trimming cutting edge is formed on one surface of a thread stitch forming element, preferably on a revolving retainer element that is mechanically linked to the mechanism. When operated in a forward direction, a chain stitched pattern is sewn with the stitches formed in cooperation with the retainer revolving in a forward direction.