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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2001
Jonathan William Prince, Wellington, NZ;
Paul Michael Wilkinson, Wellington, NZ;
Formway Furniture Limited, Wellington, NZ;
Abstract
An arm assembly ( ) is provided for a chair ( ). The chair ( ) has a forward direction and a rearward direction. The arm assembly ( ) includes an armrest ( ) and a support structure ( ). A mounting device movably mounts the armrest to the support structure. The mounting device constrains the movement of the armrest ( ) relative to the support structure to movement in a substantially horizontal plane having two degrees of freedom defined by first and second transversely arranged axes lying within the substantially horizontal plane. The armrest ( ) thus move in a substantially planar fashion without changing the orientation of the armrest ( ).