ES2211591T3 - CHAIR WITH PROTECTION BACKUP INCLUDING A PROFILE THAT STOPS WATER SLIDE. - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention concerns outdoor seats, chairs, armchairs (1) or benches with a back portion (2) serving as protective cover when it is set in a substantially horizontal position. In said configuration, water trickling from the outer surface of the back portion (2) and from its edges is stopped by a profile (4) preventing the drops from trickling inwards. The inventive chairs are particularly designed for outdoor use where they are subjected to bad weather conditions.

Description

Chair with protective backrest comprising a profile that stops the water sliding.

The invention applies in particular to seats, chairs, armchairs, outdoor benches.

Outdoor chairs do not traditionally have Appropriate protection for rain and dirt.

The state of the art allows to know:

- European patent EP-A-0 731 657 (FANTINO): "Seat whose articulated backing provides protection coverage for the seat when folded. "

This backrest, although it protects the seat of the rain covering it when it is tilted on it, it doesn't have a interior profile

May present possible "lateral sides substantially vertical "that constitute, in this case particular, a specific form of support.

In rainy weather, the coming water flow of the outer face of the backrest, which is in position relatively horizontal, it reaches the edges of it and it transmits partially sliding on its inner face.

The problem is similar in classic chairs whose non-articulated backrest was solid and had a width greater than the seat, these chairs can be tilted forward with respect to its legs leaning for example with The backrest on a table.

Except for the fact that this solution provides lower seat protection with protective backrest articulated due to a greater vulnerability of the seat in the weathering and it is harder to get a relatively position horizontal of the backrest, this arrangement does not allow to avoid sliding of the water on the inner face of it.

In the case of an armchair, the presence of armrest adds the supplementary problem of the sliding of the water on the face where the arms are put, when said armrests are in protective position, that is to say sensibly vertical

The chair according to the invention allows avoiding these problems. In fact, being the seat, chair, armchair or bench of the type with solid backrest, articulated or not, which covers protection for the seat, for its dimensions and when in relatively horizontal position, it is characterized because said Backrest comprises all or part of the contour of your face interior a flow break profile constituted by an edge attached to a groove, a groove, or a raised edge that it allows to stop the sliding of the drops of water that come from the outer face and the flanges. As profile prevents the passage of the drops due to the discontinuity of the face on which they slide, they are forced to fall and you get a total rain protection.

According to particular embodiments:

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The profile can integrate into the edges of the armrests of an armchair.

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Same profile It can vary from one form to another according to the types: edge coupled to a groove, groove or edge in projection.

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The attached drawings They are given as indicative examples. They represent a way of preferred embodiment. They will allow you to easily understand the invention.

Figure 1 represents an armchair according to the invention.

Figure 2 represents a section of the backrest according to A.

Figure 3 represents a section of the backrest according to B.

Figure 4 is a sectional view of one of the two armrests according to C.

Figure 5 represents a seat with a backrest protection joint according to the invention.

Figure 6 is a sectional view of the backrest D.

Figure 7 is a sectional view of the backrest according to E.

Referring to these drawings and according to a particular mode represented in figure 1, the chair (1) presents a solid backrest (2) wider than the seat (3). The backup (2) presents in its inner contour a profile (4) composed of an edge (5) coupled in a groove (6). The views in section according to A represented in figure 2, or in section according to B represented in figure 3, show the forms profile characteristics (4).

The profile (4) extends from the backrest (2) to the armrests (7) transforming into a simple groove (8) that You can find again on each side of the armrests (7).

In another embodiment, represented in the Figure 5, the seat (9) with articulated protective backrest (10) presents in its inner contour, a profile (4) that is constituted in the lateral edges and in the lower part of said backrest (10) by a slight edge in projection (11). In the part upper backrest (10) the profile is transformed into a groove (8). The sectional views according to D represented in Figure 6 or in section according to E represented in figure 7 highlights the characteristic forms of the profile (4).

The invention relates more particularly to garden furniture for outdoor use, that is, subject to outdoor.

Claims (3)

1. Seat (9), chair, armchair (1) or bench comprising a solid backrest, articulated (10) or not (2) to a seat (3), making the backrest of protective cover for the seat (3) when it is in a substantially horizontal position, said backrest (10 or 2) comprising, in all or part of the contour of its inner face in front of the seat, a profile (4) characterized in that the profile is constituted by an edge coupled in a groove, an edge in projection, or a groove, thus stopping the sliding of water droplets that come from the outer face and from the flanges. 2. Armchair (1) according to claim 1, characterized in that the profile (4) can be integrated into the edges of its armrests (7). 3. Seat (9), chair, armchair (1) or bench according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the same profile (4) can vary from one form to another according to the types: edge coupled in a groove, groove or edge in highlight.