To Overlie Or Underlie Bottom Patents (Class 297/37)
  • Patent number: 10723462
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention relates to a system for receiving cargo or passengers in a vehicle. The system includes a bottom beam and several functional units, wherein each functional unit includes a floor segment and a seat row with several passenger seats being attached to the floor segment. Each functional unit is assigned to a pivoting device for pivoting the functional unit relatively to bottom beam. Another embodiment of the invention relates to a vehicle having such a system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Bernd Ehlers, Stefan Behrens
  • Patent number: 10253488
    Abstract: A combined toilet device comprises a platform for supporting a user in a squatting defecation position. The platform is mountable over a toilet bowl wherein the opening in the platform is aligned with the opening in the toilet bowl. The device includes a urinal pan to prevent dispersion of the urine. The frame of the urinal pan is formed by a pipe arc having long and short parts which are continued one into other and are in different planes with 90 grade between them. The urinal pan walls are comprised of flexible material framed with the pipe arc. Pipe arc serves for converting of the urinal pan into functional or nonfunctional position. The urinal pan is covered in a nonfunctional position by a cover which is formed from two leafs attached pivotally to the platform at either side of the pan. In a functional position the leafs of the cover fix the urinal pan at any desirable point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Inventor: Berko Sikirov
  • Patent number: 9498064
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a seat configured to swivel, recline, and raise to accommodate a child during feeding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Tomy Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: David Medeiros, Mike Y. Daikubara, Cynthia Fine, Jorge Tomas
  • Patent number: 8696052
    Abstract: A folding chair may include an upper frame, two armrests, two side frames, a front linking unit and a rear linking unit. When the user moves the armrests down to start chair folding process, the front linking unit and rear linking unit start to shrink and bring the side frames closer to each other. In the mean time, two side connecting rods are driven to bring the upper frame to moves down and further squeeze a seat fabric into a space between two side frames to form a compact structure of the folding chair. The size of the folding chair can be determined by extended length of the front linking unit and a rear linking unit. The folding chair proposed in the present invention is comfortable and stable for the user to sit, and all elements of the folding chair can be easily and closely folded into a compact size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: IP Power Holdings Limited
    Inventor: Shou Qiang Zhu
  • Patent number: 6637812
    Abstract: An upholstered foldable furniture system having a first assembled configuration for seating and a second unassembled configuration for storage and shipping. The furniture system has a horizontal seat support frame having front and rear support frame members, spaced left and right side support frame members, a back member having a bottom back member rotatably secured to the rear support frame member and left and right back side support members. The back member is rotatable between a position substantially parallel to the horizontal seat support frame and an angle of not less than 90° with respect to the horizontal seat support frame. Left and right arm members are provided, each having a rear arm frame and a lower arm frame. The left and right lower arm frames are secured to the left and right side support frame members respectively. The furniture system also provides left and right latch assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Inventors: Glenn M. Laughlin, Jeffrey A. Frank
  • Patent number: 5988737
    Abstract: A chair which can be converted from an upright-sitting condition into either a transport condition for hauling bulky items from one location to another or a compact storage condition. The convertible chair includes a pivotable back assembly, right and left arm assemblies, a seat assembly and a pivotable front leg assembly. In order to assist in transport, the chair can optionally employ wheels and/or associated sand skis designed to glide across a surface such as grass or beach sand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1999
    Inventor: Theodore Tomaiuolo
  • Patent number: 5609389
    Abstract: A collapsible booster seat has a seat member, a back member connected to the seat member, two side members connected to the seat member, and a tray. A backrest portion of the back member is movable from a normal use position which is perpendicular to the seat member to a collapsed position which is parallel to the seat member. The seat member has two rear extensions which are laterally spaced from each other, and the back member has an auxiliary panel which provides a seating area between the rear extensions when the booster seat is in its normal use configuration. The back is supported on the seat for pivotal movement about a transverse pivot axis which extends through the rear extensions and through a forward portion of the auxiliary panel of the back member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1997
    Assignee: Kids II, Inc.
    Inventors: Jose Longoria, Stephen P. Chininis
  • Patent number: 5564777
    Abstract: A foldable chair entirely in the form of a single piece of plastic, comprising a seat, a back hingedly connected to the seat, arm rests hingedly connected to the side edges of the seat, a rear leg assembly hingedly connected to the rear edge of the seat, and a front leg assembly hingedly connected to the front edge of the seat. The entire structure including the hinges is integral and comprised of the same piece of plastic material. The chair is erected by folding the front and rear leg assemblies in place, folding the arm rests over the seat, thereby retaining the leg assemblies in place, and affixing the arm rests to the back of the chair, thereby resulting in a strong rigid chair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1996
    Inventor: Franklin J. Wild
  • Patent number: 5503458
    Abstract: A portable infant chair includes upper and lower resilient wire frame members. The upper frame member is made up of a back and seat support portion and a lower leg support portion, and the lower frame member is made up of a ground-engaging portion with opposite sides terminating in upwardly and rearwardly inclined portions. Rotational connectors secure upper extremities of the inclined portions to the upper frame member such that the sides of the lower frame member are selectively movable between erect and collapsed orientations. The sides of the lower frame member fold inwardly in crossed overlying relation to one another against the upper frame member in the collapsed orientation. A cross member includes one end pivotally connected to a rearward end of a first of the sides and an opposite end provided with a clip for detachable engagement with either a latch bracket on a rearward end of a second of the sides in an erect orientation or alternatively with the first side in a collapsed orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1996
    Assignee: Item New Product Development, Inc.
    Inventor: Aidan J. Petrie
  • Patent number: 5069503
    Abstract: A chair which is usable as an ordinary seat, as a stadium seat, or as a beach seat comprises a generally quadralateral seat element having rigid side membes. A back support is pivotally secured to a rear end of the seat element to permit the back element to be moved from a collapsed position overlying the top of the seat to a support position extending upwardly in an inclined direction relative to the seat. A pair of arm elements are pivotally secured to the side frames of the seat and are pivotally movable between a position overlying the top of the seat and an upstanding position wherein the arm rests are disposed vertically above each side of the seat. Leg frames are provided having a generally inverted U-shaped configuration with the bight portion of the U-shape pivotally secured respectively to the side frames of the seat. The leg frames are pivotally movable from a position underlying the bottom portion of the seat to a position depending generally vertically downwardly from the seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1991
    Inventor: Juan J. Martinez
  • Patent number: 4108489
    Abstract: Collapsible child seats especially for use with conventional shopping carts and having side restraining flaps for preventing a child, and especially an infant, from falling laterally to either side. According to one preferred embodiment of the invention the fully collapsed seat may be carried in a woman's purse to the supermarket where it is easily unfolded and secured in the shopping cart. In other preferred embodiments, the invention is permanently attached to the shopping cart for use in transporting an infant and is collapsible in a unique manner to allow for the use of the seat without the side restraining flaps as, for example, in the case of the transporting of an older and larger child, and the seat may be further positioned to permit the shopping cart to be utilized without the child seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1978
    Inventor: Marilyn F. Salzman