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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2015
Applicant:
Herman Miller, Inc., Zeeland, MI (US);
Inventors:
Brock Walker, Okemos, MI (US);
Mark Goetz, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Assignee:
Herman Miller, Inc., Zeeland, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47C 7/00 (2006.01); A47C 9/00 (2006.01); A47C 9/02 (2006.01); A47C 7/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A47C 7/563 (2013.01); A47C 7/004 (2013.01); A47C 7/006 (2013.01); A47C 9/002 (2013.01); A47C 9/005 (2013.01); A47C 9/025 (2013.01);
Abstract
Novel sit-stand seating devices, more particularly, to sit-stand seats or stools that can tilt forward to provide balanced support for seated to near-standing postures and methods of their use are disclosed. The sit-stand devices are useful, inter alia, to provide stabilized worker positioning to carry out a task for a range of sitting through standing postures in an environment associated with a task for a worker in need thereof.