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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2006
Daniel Grabowski, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
John Henry Heyder, Orleans, IN (US);
Jeremy Franklin Foreman, Bedford, IN (US);
Michael A. Johnson, Burlington, IA (US);
Aaron Jon Schradin, Holland, MI (US);
Daniel Grabowski, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
John Henry Heyder, Orleans, IN (US);
Jeremy Franklin Foreman, Bedford, IN (US);
Michael A. Johnson, Burlington, IA (US);
Aaron Jon Schradin, Holland, MI (US);
HNI Technologies Inc., Mascatine, IA (US);
Abstract
A recliner has a chair frame that provides support to a seat and back rest. The frame includes a recliner assembly that includes a bracket that is connected to the backrest enabling reclining movement of the backrest as the bracket moves through a correspondingly shaped bracket slot in a recliner base plate, and where the bracket rotates about an axis that approximates the position of the rotational axis of the hip of a seated user. The reclining chair can also be part of a modular system of components that enable one or more seating units to be in a spanned or ganged configuration.