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Stephan Meyer

Peter Wagner

A piece of seating furniture has a seat plate () with a lower seat framework () arranged on the underside of said seat plate (). Also provided is a tilting device (), by means of which the person sitting on the piece of furniture can execute a tilting movement about a point of rotation located in the seat region. The tilting device () is formed by a structural unit which is separate from the seat plate () and is arranged on the seat plate () of the piece of furniture.

Piece of seating furniture

A seat arrangement for sitting furniture such as chairs has a seat member and a support arranged underneath the seat member, wherein the support has an elastic body allowing a tilting movement of the seat member about a pivot point arranged at the central seat member area. The elastic body is arranged at the center of the seat member and has an upper side and an underside. The support has a rigid top plate fixedly connected to the upper side of the elastic body and a rigid bottom plate fixedly connected to the underside of the elastic body. The top plate is correlated with the seat member and the bottom plate is correlated with an underframe of the sitting furniture. The same type of tilting support can also be arranged on a back rest of a chair.

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Freiburg, Germany

Stephan Meyer