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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:
Dec. 07, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 28, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
William S Stumpf, Waterloo, CA;
Assignee:
Northfield Metal Products Ltd., Waterloo, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47C / ; A47C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
297327 ; 2973027 ; 2973017 ;
Abstract
A chair seat tilt lock comprises a slider riding along a track on the seat and an abutment extending from chair seat post. The slider is spring biased into registration with the abutment to block the chair against tilting and may also be moved away from the abutment so that the chair is then free to tilt. The slider is mover by a lever arm connected to the slider by a co-axial cable with an enlargement at the end of the inner cable which allows the cable to be releasably press fit into a skeleton key-shaped passageway through the slider.