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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2004
Tom Edwards, Spring Lake, MI (US);
Errol Pearsons, Grand Haven, MI (US);
Tom Edwards, Spring Lake, MI (US);
Errol Pearsons, Grand Haven, MI (US);
HNI Technologies Inc., Muscatine, IA (US);
Abstract
A chair or other seating unit comprises a seat, a backrest, and an adjustable lumbar support, the adjustable lumbar support comprising a lumbar pad and a position adjustment means. The position adjustment means comprises a vertical adjustment means for mounting the lumbar support pad to the back rest, a substantially stationary support means that receives the vertical adjustment means, and a tension adjustment means, that releases the tension between the vertical adjustment means and the substantially stationary support means to allow the lumbar support to be positioned, and that increases the tension to hold the lumbar support means in a preferred selected position. The stationary support means is fixedly secured to the backrest.