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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2014

Filed:

Oct. 07, 2011
Applicants:

Jay R. Machael, Muscatine, IA (US);

Jesse Hahn, Cedar Rapids, IA (US);

John Robert Koch, Muscatine, IA (US);

Todd Ireland, Coopersville, MI (US);

Brett Kooistra, Grand Haven, MI (US);

Inventors:

Jay R. Machael, Muscatine, IA (US);

Jesse Hahn, Cedar Rapids, IA (US);

John Robert Koch, Muscatine, IA (US);

Todd Ireland, Coopersville, MI (US);

Brett Kooistra, Grand Haven, MI (US);

Assignee:

HNI Technologies Inc., Muscatine, IA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47C 7/54 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A chair arm adjustment device according to embodiments of the present invention includes an arm pad base slidably coupled to the arm support, the arm pad base sliding substantially horizontally in two degrees of freedom with respect to the arm support within a range of motion of the arm pad base with respect to the arm support, and an arm brake assembly coupled with the arm pad base, the arm brake assembly moveable between a locked position in which the arm brake assembly substantially inhibits movement of the arm pad base relative to the arm support and an unlocked position in which the arm brake assembly does not substantially inhibit movement of the arm pad base relative to the arm support, wherein the arm brake assembly moves from the unlocked position to the locked position at any position of the arm pad base within the range of motion.


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