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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 1995
Filed:
Oct. 12, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ned W Mizelle, High Point, NC (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
297 61 ; 297403 ; 297408 ;
Abstract
The headrest of an upholstered seating unit is hingedly supported by a spring which biases the headrest to a substantially vertical raised position. The spring prevents the headrest from moving from its raised position when an occupant's head rests against it, but greater forces will bend the spring and move the headrest to a generally horizontal lowered position. The illustrated spring is a pretensioned vertical helical spring which has its lower end mounted forwardly of an upper portion of the furniture frame. The headrest can be moved to its lowered position by a cable/conduit associated with a pair of relatively movable parts of the furniture unit.