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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 07, 1995
William E Stumpf, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Rodney C Schoenfelder, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Donald Chadwick, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Carolyn Keller, Holland, MI (US);
Timothy P Coffield, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Randy J Sayers, Belding, MI (US);
Jeffrey W Bruner, Greensboro, NC (US);
Eric Cammenga, Holland, MI (US);
Herman Miller, Inc., Zeeland, MI (US);
Abstract
A method of making an office chair by stretching a membrane in a stretching machine and retaining the stretched membrane on a loom. The loom, with the retained stretched membrane, is removed from the stretching machine and positioned between molds of a molding machine, wherein the molding machine is used to form a carrier member to hold a portion of the stretched member by injecting a material into a cavity formed between the molds to form a part of the chair.