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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2016
Steelcase Inc., Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Bruce M. Smith, East Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Carl V. Forslund, III, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Christopher J. Norman, Middleville, MI (US);
Gordon J. Peterson, Rockford, MI (US);
Fredric Biddle, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Nickolaus William Charles Deevers, Holland, MI (US);
James Nolan Ludwig, East Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Steelcase Inc., Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Abstract
A seating support arrangement includes a seating frame arrangement, a flexible cover member supported by the frame arrangement and configured to support a seated user, a surface layer covering at least a portion of the cover member and including a first surface facing the cover member and a second surface opposite the first surface, wherein the first surface of the surface layer includes first portions attached to the cover member interspaced with second portions that are not attached to the cover member, and an elastically resilient control arrangement supported by the frame arrangement and positioned between the cover member and one of the second portions such that the control arrangement is free to move with respect to the cover member and the surface layer, wherein elastic deformation of the control arrangement changes the geometrical configuration of the cover member.