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EP0521972B1
EP0521972B1 EP91906797A EP91906797A EP0521972B1 EP 0521972 B1 EP0521972 B1 EP 0521972B1 EP 91906797 A EP91906797 A EP 91906797A EP 91906797 A EP91906797 A EP 91906797A EP 0521972 B1 EP0521972 B1 EP 0521972B1
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Manfred Elzenbeck
Burkhard Vogtherr
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47C—CHAIRS; SOFAS; BEDS
    • A47C7/00—Parts, details, or accessories of chairs or stools
    • A47C7/36—Support for the head or the back
    • A47C7/40—Support for the head or the back for the back
    • A47C7/44—Support for the head or the back for the back with elastically-mounted back-rest or backrest-seat unit in the base frame
    • A47C7/445—Support for the head or the back for the back with elastically-mounted back-rest or backrest-seat unit in the base frame with bar or leaf springs
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47C—CHAIRS; SOFAS; BEDS
    • A47C3/00—Chairs characterised by structural features; Chairs or stools with rotatable or vertically-adjustable seats
    • A47C3/02—Rocking chairs
    • A47C3/025—Rocking chairs with seat, or seat and back-rest unit elastically or pivotally mounted in a rigid base frame
    • A47C3/026—Rocking chairs with seat, or seat and back-rest unit elastically or pivotally mounted in a rigid base frame with central column, e.g. rocking office chairs; Tilting chairs
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47C—CHAIRS; SOFAS; BEDS
    • A47C7/00—Parts, details, or accessories of chairs or stools
    • A47C7/36—Support for the head or the back
    • A47C7/40—Support for the head or the back for the back
    • A47C7/44—Support for the head or the back for the back with elastically-mounted back-rest or backrest-seat unit in the base frame
    • A47C7/441—Support for the head or the back for the back with elastically-mounted back-rest or backrest-seat unit in the base frame with adjustable elasticity

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  • the invention relates to a mechanism for attaching a seat of a swivel chair to a chair base according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • a mechanism is described in FR-A-2 267 068.
  • the movable fitting part In order to ensure that the movable fitting part can be freely pivoted, it has an obliquely positioned stop surface which, together with a counter surface fixed to the housing, forms a stop. In the rest position predetermined by the leaf spring arrangement, the two stop surfaces form a wedge-shaped gap, and a corresponding wedge-shaped locking slide can be moved into this.
  • DE-A-36 38 273 also discloses a latching adjustment for a rocking mechanism which comprises a toothed rack connected to a pivotable fitting part and a pivotable locking tooth which cooperates with the latter.
  • This locking mechanism is mechanically less resilient.
  • the present invention is therefore intended to further develop a seat mechanism according to the preamble of claim 1 be that it is compact and inexpensive to manufacture.
  • an optional lockability of the second fitting part in the rest position is obtained without any noteworthy additional costs, after locking lugs and the guide for the locking slide can be formed practically without additional costs when spraying the fitting parts (usually made of aluminum).
  • the hardness of the suspension can be adjusted by the user in a simple manner.
  • a bearing eye 14 sits on the upper end of the frame a total of 16 designated lower fitting part.
  • the bearing eye 14 is closed at the top by a plastic cap 18.
  • the lower fitting part 16 is an aluminum injection molded part and, when viewed from above, has the shape of a cut off isosceles triangle or trapezoid.
  • Two fitting arms 20, 22 run laterally outwards and upwards from the bearing eye 14.
  • Retaining sleeves 24, 26 are molded onto the free ends of the fitting arms 20, 22.
  • a hollow axis 28 is fixed in the holding sleeves 24, 26, on which joint sleeves 30, 32 are pivotably mounted.
  • the joint sleeves 30, 32 are molded onto the free ends of two fitting arms 34, 36, which belong to a pivotable upper fitting part, designated overall by 38.
  • the latter also has the shape of a cut-off isosceles triangle or trapezoid when viewed from above, the fitting arms 34, 36, viewed from above, running essentially parallel outside the fitting arms 20, 22.
  • the ends of the fitting arms 34, 36 lying away from the joint sleeves 30, 32 are connected to one another by a base section 40.
  • Four holes 42 in the upper fitting part 38 serve as fastening options for the seat of the swivel chair which is not shown in the drawing.
  • the axially outer end faces of the holding sleeves 24, 26 are in sliding contact with the axially inner end faces of the joint sleeves 30, 32, so that the fitting part 38 cannot be displaced relative to the fitting part 16 on the hollow axis 28.
  • a further joint sleeve 44 is arranged on the hollow axis 28 in the sliding play. This is integrally formed on a spring seat part designated overall by 46, which also comprises a tensioning wing 48 running tangentially from the lower end of the joint sleeve 44.
  • two recesses 50, 52 are provided symmetrically to the center plane of the seat mechanism, in which the first ends of a total of 54 and 56 designated leaf spring assemblies are accommodated.
  • the leaf spring assemblies 54, 56 each consist of a long leaf spring 58 lying at the top, which is guided to below the base section 40 of the upper fitting part 38 and engages on the base section 40 via a contact body 60 having a semicircular cross section.
  • the contact body 60 is a molded part made of a plastic material which is wear-resistant and has a low coefficient of friction with the material of the leaf spring 58. Collars 62 and 64 of the contact body serve to laterally position the ends of the leaf springs 58.
  • the leaf spring assemblies 54, 56 further comprise a central leaf spring 66, which extends approximately to the center of the upper fitting part 38, and a lower leaf spring 68, the length of which is approximately one third of the length of the leaf spring 58.
  • the leaf springs 58, 66, 68 all have the same width and thickness and are equally seated with their ends in the recess 50 and 52, where they are fixed by a screw 70 passing through them.
  • a support section 72 which connects the ends of the fitting arms 20, 22 and in which a nut 74 is fixed, is formed on the lower fitting part 16.
  • the thread of a threaded spindle 76 runs in this, the end of which is connected in a rotationally fixed manner to a handle 78.
  • the threaded spindle 76 passes through the tensioning wing 48 with play, and the top of the handle 78 engages via a ball bearing 80 on a cutting edge-like surface section 82 of the underside of the tensioning wing 48.
  • the leaf spring assemblies 54, 56 are accommodated in groove-shaped recesses 84 with play, which are formed in the underside of the support section 72.
  • the pitch of the screw drive formed by the threaded spindle 76 and the nut 74 is small (fine thread), so that one can easily change the angle at which the recesses 50, 52 are made against the force of the leaf spring assemblies 54, 56 by turning the handle 78 can. With this change in angle, the pretension of the leaf spring assemblies 54, 56 also changes.
  • FIG. 1 the course of the leaf spring assembly is shown by solid lines when the seat is unloaded and the medium pretensioning force. If you turn the handle 78 clockwise, you can increase the angle of the recesses 50, 52 to the horizontal, so that the leaf spring 58 then has the course indicated by dashed lines at 86. The pushing down of the upper fitting part 38 then requires a greater force.
  • the dash-dotted lines 88 indicate such a position of the upper fitting part 38 that is obtained by loading the seat.
  • Fitting rest position has the upper fitting part at the articulated ends of the fitting arms 34, 46 inwardly drawn stop sections 90 which cooperate with fixed stop sections 92 of the lower fitting part 16 which run away upward from the holding sleeves 24, 26.
  • the inner sides of the fitting arms 34, 36 carry locking sections 94 which, with play, can be moved away over locking sections 96 carried by the outer sides of the fitting arms 20, 22.
  • the lower boundary surface of the locking sections 94 lies a small distance D above the upper boundary surface of the adjacent locking sections.
  • a locking slide generally designated 100, can be moved. Its thickness is somewhat smaller than the distance D, so that arms 102 of the locking slide having the shape of a rectangular U can be inserted between the end faces of the locking sections 94, 96. In this position of the locking slide 100, the upper fitting part 38 can then no longer be pivoted downward
  • Moving the locking slide 100 can e.g. by means of a shaft 104 mounted in the interior of the hollow shaft 28, which carries radial actuating pins 106, which penetrate elongated holes (not shown) in the hollow shaft 28 and the holding sleeves 24, 26 in the circumferential direction and can be pivoted in driving openings (not shown) of the locking slide 100 intervention.

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PCT/EP1991/000597 WO1991014385A1 (de) 1990-03-28 1991-03-27 Sitzmechanik

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JP (1) JPH05508085A (xx)
AU (1) AU7570691A (xx)
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JPH05508085A (ja) 1993-11-18
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