Recliner chair which moves forwardly relative to a wall as the body

Abstract

This chair comprises a chair base having chair side arms on which a body supporting means is tiltably mounted. The chair is constructed to allow the body supporting means to tilt on said base from upright position to said T.V. and fully reclined positions, while the upper end of the backrest portion of said body supporting means, retains its spacing relative to a wall of the room in which the chair is located, while the chair side arms move bodily forwardly away from said wall. The chair arms are swingably mounted on floor engaging base plates, in such manner that the body supporting means can tilt from upright position to fully reclined position, while the chair side arms move forwardly substantially horizontally, being guided by the base plates without side to side movement, first from a rear position of the chair side arms to a forward position projecting forwardly of the base plates, as the body supporting means tilts from upright position to T.V. position, and then moves further forwardly, and projecting further forwardly of the base plates as the body supporting means tilts from T.V. position to fully reclined position. With such construction, sufficient weight of the occupant of the chair is located rearwardly enough to prevent tilting of the front end of the chair side arms downwardly, to maintain the chair side arms in balance, and against tilting or tipping down at its front end.