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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 17, 1999
Thomas J. Newhouse, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Marc A. Gierz, Hudsonville, MI (US);
Richard C. Weise, Coopersville, MI (US);
Herman Miller, Inc., Zeeland, MI (US);
Abstract
An operational guide mounted to an adjustable chair as well as a chair including an operational guide. The operational guide includes a card having a pictorial guide for operating the adjustable chair located on the top side of the card. The operational guide also includes a device for mounting the card to the bottom of the seat of the chair. The mounting device is adapted to allow the card to move between an extended position wherein the pictorial guide is visible to an occupant of the chair and a retracted position wherein the pictorial guide is not visible to the occupant of the chair. Also, the mounting device holds the card so that the orientation of the pictorial guide corresponds to the orientation of the controls for adjusting the chair when the card is in the extended position.