Pivotally Movable Seat Patents (Class 297/141)
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Patent number: 10982467Abstract: A T-link hinge for hingeably connecting first and second members comprises a link portion having a T-shaped cross-section including a top region and a bottom region, wherein the top region has a width greater than a width of the bottom region. The link portion comprises first and second thru holes formed in the bottom region of the link portion adjacent each the respective first and second ends of the link portion. Each of the first and second members to which the link portion is to be mounted includes thru holes. In an assembled configuration of the link portion and the first and second members, the thru holes formed on the first and second members axially align with the pair of thru holes in the link portion and are connected by first and second pins.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2019Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Nemo Equipment Inc.Inventors: Camon Brensinger, Patrick McCluskey, Zackary Kamen
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Patent number: 10821872Abstract: A portable multiple grill assembly includes a trailer that is towed behind a vehicle. A fire pit is coupled to the trailer for containing an open flame. A plurality of cooking grills is each coupled to the trailer. A table is coupled to and extends outwardly from the plurality of cooking grills. A plurality of chair units is each slidably coupled to the trailer. Each of the chair units is slidable into a deployed position to have a user sit thereon. A venting unit is coupled to the trailer to vent smoke from cooking grills thereby inhibiting the user from being exposed to the smoke. A display is coupled to the trailer and the display is elevated above the fire pit and the cooking grills to be visible to the user when the user is seated on the one of the chair units.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2018Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Inventors: Steven Bates, Alisa Ware
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Patent number: 10111523Abstract: A workplace system has at least two workplace pieces of furniture that make a work surface available. The workpieces of the furniture are connected to one another by a rotary movable connection. The rotary movable connection runs along a floor. Each workpiece of the furniture has a V-shaped foot with two foot sections oriented at an angle ? relative to one another. The feet are arranged adjacent to a lower end of a standing leg.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2017Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: aeris GmbHInventors: Tobias Caratiola, Dietlind Walger-Hutter
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Patent number: 9839287Abstract: A portable trailer having a frame connected to a plurality of table supports and a lower support member. The table supports are connected to a table assembly and the lower support members are connected to sea assemblies.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2016Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Inventor: Adam R. Hansen
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Patent number: 9066584Abstract: A portable workstation can be folded so as to be readily portable as a cane, and has a seat portion and a table/tray portion for holding a book, electronic device, or lunch box, among other things. The workstation has a main leg pivotably connected to a pair of legs. An umbrella can be connected to the workstation in the folded condition of the workstation, and can be opened and adjustably positioned in the unfolded condition of the workstation. While outside, a user may need protection from the elements, such as from the sun, rain, sleet, or even snow, and can deploy the umbrella. Additionally, the umbrella can serve to prevent glare from electronic devices by shielding them from direct sunlight. A flashlight assembly can be plugged into the cane handle in a fixed orientation to provide light to the workstation table/tray when turned on.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2012Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Inventor: Nelson Anshy Li
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Patent number: 8911010Abstract: A swingable and pivotable seating system includes a base portion, a swing arm, a seat and a control system. The swing arm is pivotable about a generally vertical first pivot axis and has a first end pivotally mounted at the base portion and a second end opposite the first end. The seat is pivotally supported at or near the second end of the swing arm and pivotable about a generally vertical second pivot axis. The control system controls pivotal movement of the seat about the second pivot axis responsive to a degree of pivoting of the swing arm about the first pivot axis. The seating system may include a desk portion, and the control system may limit pivotal movement of the seat when the seat is near the desk portion and may allow greater pivotal movement of the seat when the seat is swung away from the desk portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2012Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Irwin Seating CompanyInventor: John P. Conner
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Patent number: 8408640Abstract: A portable table and seating combination is disclosed. The combination includes at least a first portion of a hinge attached to a tabletop portion. The tabletop portion includes at least a top surface, and a plurality of edge portions extending from the top surface. The top surface in combination with the plurality of edge portions forms a seating confinement compartment. The combination further includes at least a retractable leg support attached to the tabletop portion. The retractable leg support resides adjacent the seating confinement compartment, and in an extended position the retractable leg support, supports the tabletop portion at a predetermined distance above a surface. The combination also includes at least a seating portion configured for confinement within the seating confinement compartment. In a first embodiment, the seating portion is an integrated seating portion. In an alternate embodiment, the seating portion is a freestanding seating portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2011Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Inventor: Ravi K. Sawhney
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Patent number: 8371646Abstract: A portable table and seating combination is disclosed. The combination includes at least a first portion of a hinge attached to a tabletop portion. The tabletop portion includes at least a top surface, and a plurality of edge portions extending from the top surface. The top surface in combination with the plurality of edge portions forms a seating confinement compartment. The combination further includes at least a retractable leg support attached to the tabletop portion. The retractable leg support resides adjacent the seating confinement compartment, and in an extended position the retractable leg support, supports the tabletop portion at a predetermined distance above a surface. The combination also includes at least a seating portion configured for confinement within the seating confinement compartment. In a first embodiment, the seating portion is an integrated seating portion. In an alternate embodiment, the seating portion is a freestanding seating portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2011Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Inventor: Ravi K. Sawhney
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Patent number: 8091958Abstract: A chair includes a seat body, a front leg, a rear leg, and a leg receiver. The seat body has a seating face for a person to sit on, and a backrest for a person to lean against. One end of the front leg is attached to an underside region which is underside of the seating face of the seat body, in such a manner that the one end of the front leg is capable of being rotated in relation to the seat body. One end of the rear leg is rotatably attached to the seat body at a position closer to a backrest side than a position at which the one end of the front leg is attached. The leg receiver is arranged on a floor surface. The respective other ends of the front leg and the rear leg are rotatably attached to the leg receiver.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2009Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: Aichi Co., Ltd.Inventor: Taku Kumazawa
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Patent number: 7703844Abstract: A protective shroud for a swing arm includes a housing made of two shroud sections that are snapped together around the base of a fixed seating arrangement. The assembled shroud includes two rectangular openings on its sides configured to allow the swing arms of the fixed seating arrangement to pivot on their axes within the shroud. The rectangular openings also include grooves on their upper and lower edges configured to receive a slidable rectangular shield member with a circular opening in its center. The rectangular shields fit over the opposed swing arms and slide within the grooves in the shroud halves as the swing arms pivot, thereby restricting access to the pinch points of the swing arms.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2008Date of Patent: April 27, 2010Assignee: Krueger International, Inc.Inventor: Steven C. Gevaert
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Publication number: 20100001557Abstract: A folding table assembly comprising a base including a wall surrounding a hollow interior for containing a folding table, the folding table moveable between a folded and an unfolded position and a jack moving the folding table between the folded position inside the hollow interior of said base and an unfolded preferably substantially horizontal position removed from the hollow interior, wherein operation of the jack permits the folding and unfolding of the table.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2009Publication date: January 7, 2010Inventor: Kaveh Valaei Khiabani
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Patent number: 7611193Abstract: A table and seating arrangement includes a tabletop defining a longitudinal direction and having an edge. A frame mounts to an underside of the tabletop and includes risers and laterally extending portions. Casters or wheels mount to the frame and provide for easy rolling transport of the table and seating arrangement. Seating assemblies having two stools mount to the framework on linkages that provide for moving the seats from a use position with the seats extended beyond the edge of the tabletops and engaging the ground to a storage position wherein the seats are raised and retracted to be inward from the edges of the tabletop.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2007Date of Patent: November 3, 2009Assignee: Sico IncorporatedInventors: Richard C. Bue, John M. Elliott, Kendall A. Kragenbring
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Patent number: 7591506Abstract: A seat for a child that is engageable to an edge portion of a table and that is tuckable to an out-of-the-way position under the edge of the table. The seat includes jaws for engaging a base of the seat to the table. The seat includes a child seat frame on which the fabric of a child seat is engaged. Between the base and the child seat frame is provided a slide and a pivot. The slide permits the child seat frame to be drawn to and away from the table. The pivot permits the child seat frame to drop down in a swinging fashion and then, beyond the ninety degree bottommost point of the swing, continue its swinging so as to swing upwardly to a position underneath the table where the child seat frame is engaged in an out-of-the-way position underneath the table.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2007Date of Patent: September 22, 2009Assignee: Regale International, LLCInventor: Mark A Flannery
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Patent number: 7370909Abstract: A protective shroud for a swing arm includes a housing made of two shroud sections that are snapped together around the base of a fixed seating arrangement. The assembled shroud includes two rectangular openings on its sides configured to allow the swing arms of the fixed seating arrangement to pivot on their axes within the shroud. The rectangular openings also include grooves on their upper and lower edges configured to receive a slidable rectangular shield member with a circular opening in its center. The rectangular shields fit over the opposed swing arms and slide within the grooves in the shroud halves as the swing arms pivot, thereby restricting access to the pinch points of the swing arms.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2004Date of Patent: May 13, 2008Assignee: Krueger International, Inc.Inventor: Steven C. Gevaert
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Patent number: 6641213Abstract: A seat attachment for attachment to the side of a desk has a retractable support arm with a seat at one end that is movable between a stored position closely adjacent to the side of the desk and an outwardly extended deployed position to provide an auxiliary seating surface. In a first embodiment, the support arm is slidably received in a generally rectangular outer housing secured horizontally to the side of the desk, and is movable relative thereto between a stored position within the outer housing and an outwardly extended position disposed horizontally a distance above the surface of a floor. In a second embodiment, a support arm is pivotally connected to a generally rectangular outer housing secured vertically to the side of the desk, and is movable relative thereto between a stored position within the outer housing and an outwardly pivoted extended position disposed horizontally a distance above the surface of a floor.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2002Date of Patent: November 4, 2003Inventor: Lloyd Kuhn
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Patent number: 5988738Abstract: A seat group element is used primarily in the hotel trade and restaurant trade, e.g., in beer gardens, bistros and the like establishments. The seat group element in question is designed in such a way that a seat and a table are provided simultaneously on a frame which can be set up on a floor or the like surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 1998Date of Patent: November 23, 1999Inventors: Veit Blessing, Martin Roder
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Patent number: 5758860Abstract: A radiator support includes a rigid inner tube member, a rigid outer tube member, and a rubber elastic member. The rigid inner tube member has a radial through concavity formed through the inner peripheral portion in the radial direction, or the rigid outer tube member has a radial through concavity formed through the outer peripheral portion in the radial direction. The rubber-elastic member has a convexity formed at least on one of the inner peripheral portion and the outer peripheral portion. The convexity extends inward or outward, and fits into the radial through concavity of the rigid inner tube member to inwardly project from the inner peripheral portion thereof, or into the radial through concavity of the rigid outer tube member to outwardly project from the outer peripheral portion thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 1996Date of Patent: June 2, 1998Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Masahiko Hanazaki, Kohei Hori, Masayuki Shikuya
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Patent number: 4569555Abstract: An improved table structure includes a seating assembly having pivotably mounted elongated extension arms movable between a folded position and a extended position, table support structure providing flat upper surface area upon which to support table top means, the support structure including leg members which are supported to extend upwardly in a converging pattern to provide a wider base area as compared to the upper area enclosed by the leg members, the support structure having upper pairs of brace members which enclose and support the upper portions of the leg members against movement, and the extension arms of the seating assembly enclose and support the lower portions of the leg members against movement.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 1984Date of Patent: February 11, 1986Inventor: James F. Lehman
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Patent number: 4067606Abstract: A trolley table has a chassis mounted on casters and adapted to support generally horizontally a table-top or tray which may be detachable, and a seat articulated to the chassis to pivot between folded and unfolded positions, the trolley table being so constructed and arranged that with the seat folded it can be nested together with other trolley tables.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 1976Date of Patent: January 10, 1978Inventors: Pierrette Desmoulins nee Fouchereau, Guy Desmoulins
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Patent number: 4052100Abstract: A collapsible combined table and seat assembly, wherein the seats are supported by a leg and the table is supported by members extending between the legs and the ends of the table. The latter members are pivoted on the table and on the legs to permit collapse of the assembly. A sleeve in close fitting sliding relation is mounted on each member to overlie the pivot between the leg and the member to prevent movement at said pivot during use.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1976Date of Patent: October 4, 1977Assignee: Franklyn M. MarkusInventors: Edwin Nikitits, Jean Guy Demers