Patents by Inventor Manfred Schlegel

Manfred Schlegel 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: 7147288
    Abstract: The backrest of a chair comprises a frame, a backrest support and a neck support. A membrane is clipped into the frame, and the backrest support is articulated on a tilting mechanism. The frame comprises two side parts and two cross-pieces, the lower cross-piece lying at the height of the user's lumbar vertebra. The frame and the backrest support are interconnected in one piece. The component created as a result is advantageously a plastic injection molding produced by the gas injection technique (GIT) and the plastic is a glass-fiber-reinforced polyarylamide. This overall structure of the backrest provides a high level of sitting comfort by elastic support of the back in all major regions and directions of movement, but at the same time also considerably reduces production, transport and assembly complexity and has an aesthetically impressive, distinctive form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Sedus Stoll AG
    Inventors: Klaus-Peter Grasse, Manfred Schlegel, Mathias Seiler
  • Publication number: 20040195899
    Abstract: The backrest of a chair comprises a frame (1), a backrest support (6) and a neck support (15). A membrane is clipped into the frame (1), and the backrest support (6) is articulated on a tilting mechanism. The frame comprises two side parts (2, 3) and two cross-pieces (4, 5), the lower cross-piece (4) lying at the height of the user's lumbar vertebra. The frame (1) and the backrest support (6) are interconnected in one piece. The component created as a result, is advantageoulsly a plastic injection moulding produced by the gas injection technique (GIT), and the plastic is a glass-fibre-reinforced polyarylamide. This overall structure of the backrest provides a high level of sitting comfort by elastic support of the back in all major regions and directions of movement, but at the same time also considerably reduces production, transport and assembly complexity and has an aesthetically impressive, distinctive form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2004
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Applicant: SEDUS STOLL AG
    Inventors: Klaus-Peter Grasse, Manfred Schlegel, Mathias Seiler
  • Patent number: 6575530
    Abstract: A device for lumbar support for an office chair having a seatback including a seatback frame and a membrane stretched over the seatback frame. The device can be arranged behind the membrane and can be housed in the seatback frame to provide vertical and horizontal adjustment independent of the membrane. Preferably, the device includes a central part having two comparably rigid carrier elements connected to each other via an elastic element arranged therebetween, the rigid carrier elements each including a guide track that can be arranged in the seatback frame to provide the vertical adjustment. A front part includes a cushion attached to an upholstery plate, the upholstery plate facing the membrane. A rear part includes a plastic plate. The cushion and the plastic plate are connected via a clip connection, and the clip connection is guided in slots of the carrier elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2003
    Assignee: Sedus Stoll AG
    Inventors: Harry Fischer, Klaus-Peter Grasse, Manfred Schlegel, Mathias Seiler
  • Patent number: 5294178
    Abstract: In a tilt device for seat furniture, the base, which is fastened to the chair bottom part and which carries a rotatable backrest carrier for the backrest and a seat plate for the seat, is designed as a closed carrier box composed of a plurality of sheet-metal parts and is arranged between backrest cheeks of the backrest carrier. A simple compact construction of the mechanism, which can be used without appreciable changes for a permanent-contact backrest and for a simultaneous mechanism, is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1994
    Assignee: Christof Stoll GmbH + CO KG
    Inventors: Dagobert Bogle, Manfred Schlegel, Horst Ziegler