WO2005102113A1 - Ameliorations apportees ou relatives a un meuble - Google Patents

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WO2005102113A1
WO2005102113A1 PCT/AU2005/000512 AU2005000512W WO2005102113A1 WO 2005102113 A1 WO2005102113 A1 WO 2005102113A1 AU 2005000512 W AU2005000512 W AU 2005000512W WO 2005102113 A1 WO2005102113 A1 WO 2005102113A1
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tubes
seat
platen
swing chair
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Mark Snyders
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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
    • 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
    • A47C3/0255—Rocking chairs with seat, or seat and back-rest unit elastically or pivotally mounted in a rigid base frame pivotally mounted in the base frame, e.g. swings
    • 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
    • A47C7/02—Seat parts
    • A47C7/16—Seats made of wooden, plastics, or metal sheet material; Panel seats

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  • THIS INVENTION relates to furniture and is more specifically concerned with the means to enhance the functionality of a swing chair.
  • the swing chair provides seat-support members threaded to the lower ends of ropes or cords, which extend vertically upwards through vertically moveable armrests to upper platen-support members.
  • the seat of the chair, its flexible, back, and a shade which extend over the seat are all formed by a single platen constructed from elements such as tubes, rods or slats, which are flexibly-connected, and which is draped over the platen support members and the seat support members.
  • the platen is held in place by portions of the ropes.
  • the members providing the support for the shade and the seat are placed together and the platen is then wrapped around them to form a compact assemblage.
  • the ropes or cords can be used to hold the assemblage together.
  • the length of the assemblage is determined by the length of the elements of the platen. Normally the seat's length is designed to support two people sitting side-by-side. If the length of the seat is made too large, the swing chair becomes somewhat unwieldy, the structural strength of the platen may be impaired and the assemblage becomes difficult to manage.
  • An object of this invention is to temporarily increase the length of a swing chair seat at times when this is felt to be desirable.
  • a swing chair has its seat formed by a platen of substantially parallel elements connected flexibly to one another to enable the platen to flex in a direction perpendicular to the lengths of the elements which maintain it rigid in the direction of their lengths, the platen seat being supported by rigid or semi-rigid members which extend beneath marginal end-portions of the elements of the platen providing the seat, and, a pair of parallel rigid telescopic assemblies extending beneath the seat platen and held against its support members by return loops of respective ropes used to carry the weight of the swing chair; each telescopic assembly comprising a first tube having a length which is not greater than the lengths of the elements of the platen, a second tube or rod which can be telescopically retracted with respect to the first tube, and, a length of flexible fabric spanning between the two second tubes or rods which are arranged at one end of the seat; the arrangement of the telescopic assemblies being such that the two second tubes or rods together with their length of flexible
  • each of the first tubes are open and each tube is designed to receive telescopically a portion of the length of a second tube or rod.
  • Means may be provided to limit the extent to which the second tubes or rods can be drawn out of their e respective first tubes when the seat extensions are to be utilised.
  • the flexible fabric portion extending between the two second tubes or rods provides a soft surface on which cushions or other objects can be placed and effectively increases the length of the seat at each side by as much as an additional 300cm or thereabout.
  • the second tubes or rods when extended, may either be physically removed from the first tubes. Alternatively they may be designed to be telescopically retracted inside them.
  • the flexible fabric extending between the second tubes or rods is then gathered together into folds which may be accommodated beneath the marginal edge-portions of the platen seat.
  • the exposed ends of the second tubes or rods are covered by soft rubber caps and these may be used to hold in place and conceal one pair of ends of two wire strands which are conveniently arranged to extend through the interiors of the first tubes and to be fixed at respectively intermediate positions to the first tubes.
  • the strands then effectively limit the extent to which the second tubes or rods can be telescopically withdrawn from the first tubes.
  • FIGURE 1 is an end view of an extended swing chair of the type illustrated in my abovementioned United States patent specification, but provided at each end with a telescopically-retractable extension used to increase, when required, the length of the seat of the swing chair;
  • FIGURE 2 is a front view of the swing chair of figure 1, and shows the seat extension at one end of the swing chair in full outline in its extended position, and in its telescopically retracted position at the other end of the swing chair; and,
  • FIGURE 3 is an enlarged vertical section, partly broken away, through a telescopically retractable assembly used to support one side of the seat extension at each end of the seat.
  • Figures 1 and 2 show a swing chair of the same basic construction as shown in figure 5 of my United States Patent No. 6,623,081 B2.
  • the swing chair provides a seat 4 designed to enable two people to sit side-by-side on a portion of a platen 1 composed of parallel inflexible bamboo elements 2 which extend between opposite ends of the seat. Elements of other material may be used in place of bamboo.
  • the elements are interconnected by flexible connections as described in the above patent, and which run between the elements to ensure that the platen is rigid in a plane containing the axes of the elements 2 but flexible in all other planes.
  • bamboo is a particularly attractive material for making the elements as it is visually pleasing, it has great strength to withstand compression and bending, and it is relatively cheap and durable.
  • the seat 4 of the chair is formed by a lower portion of the platen 1 resting on two, similar, spaced rigid or semi-rigid support members 5 respectively disposed beneath opposite marginal edge-portions of the platen as shown in figure 2.
  • the platen 1 is prevented from sliding along the support members 5 by sections of two support ropes 6 arranged parallel to one another at each side margin of the platen and which respectively pass through gaps between the portions of the elements 2 of the platen as shown in figure 1.
  • the ropes 6 are normally tensioned by the weight of a person sitting on the seat 4.
  • the ropes are threaded through holes in the seat support members 5 and are then looped around respective first tubes 7 as shown in figure 2.
  • the tubes 7 extend parallel to one another beneath each marginal side-edge of the platen and engage the undersides of the seat-support members.
  • the tubes 7 are held in position by the looped sections 8 of the ropes 6 which extends through the seat-support members 5.
  • the end portion of each rope 6 is suitably threaded through a set of holes in the associated support member 5 and then, if desired, may be knotted as illustrated at 9 to hold it more securely in position although in most cases such knots are unnecessary as the tension and friction of the rope section in each return bend is sufficient to hold the adjacent portion of the first tube 7 firmly against the underside of the associated seat-support member 5.
  • the first tube 7 has its ends terminating short of the marginal side- edges of the platen 1 so that they do not project beyond the side-edges.
  • Portions of the ropes 6 extend upward from the seat 4 and pass through a pair of arm rests 10 adjustably positioned above the seat 4 as shown in figure 1.
  • the chair's weight is thus supported by the four ropes 6 which extend upwards from the respective corner portions of the seat 4 and carry the arm rests 10.
  • the arm rests 10 are provided by rigid members which are suitably shaped and have obliquely inclined holes 11 through which the ropes 6 and its friction, respectively pass. As these holes are obliquely inclined, the tension in each rope 6 when someone is seated on the seat 4, causes the associated arm rest 10 to be held firmly in its selected position. However, if there is no weight on the seat 4, the tension in the ropes is relaxed and this enables the arm rests 10 to be adjusted vertically to new positions, if desired.
  • each of, the first tubes 7 has a central hole 17 into which is pressed a plastics stud 12 of the kind used to secure trim panels in place in a motor car.
  • a strand of thin inextensible flexible wire 16 has its central portion twisted around the plastics stud 12 to anchor it in position, and its respective end portions pass outwardly ⁇ towards its ends by way of the bore of the tube 7.
  • first tubes At each end of the seat the first tubes have telescopically retractable extensions provided by second tubes 13 of smaller diameter.
  • the tubes 13 have rubber cups 14 fitted over their exposed ends and these hold in place respective end-portions of the wire 16. The opposite end-portions of the wire thus limit the extent to which the second5 tubes 13 can be telescopically extended from the first tubes 7.
  • the two parallel second tubes 13 at each end of the seat 4 have spanning between them a flexible length of fabric 15.
  • the fabric 15 provides an extension of about 300 millimetres in length at each side of the seat of the swing chair.
  • the fabric 15 lies in a plane slightly beneath the upper surface of the platen providing the seat 4. This difference in height and length providing extra space for items such as books or cushions to be placed conveniently on the seat extensions.
  • the extensions increase the length of the seat for a person to recline fully on it, possibly with cushions placed on the extensions.
  • the adjacent arm5 rest 10 can be lifted along the ropes 6 to a position well above the seat 4 so that it is out of the way. With both extensions in use and the arm rests 10 raised, there is sufficient space for a person to lie full length along the seat 4 with the head supported by the cushions on the extension at one end, and the persons' feet resting on the fabric 13 spanning between the second tubes 15 of the extension at the other end of the seat 4.
  • the extensions to the swing chair seat When the extensions to the swing chair seat are not required, they can be telescopically inserted by hand pressure into the two first tubes 7 (as shown on the right hand side of figure 3).
  • the second tubes 13 are naturally a comfortable sliding fit in the first tubes 7.
  • the fabric 15 of the extension then gathers into a folded condition beneath the adjacent portion of the platen as illustrated on the right of figure 3.
  • a compact assemblage is provided as the two tubes 13 can be telescopically inserted into the first tubes 7 which can then be placed alongside one another.
  • the flexible fabric 15 of the extension can then be wrapped around them so that the dimensions of the seat extensions can be accommodated within overall dimensions of the rolled-up platen.
  • the first tubes are shorter in length than the elements 2 of the platen they can be accommodated within the rolled-up platen, which facilitates compactness of storage and transportation.

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L'invention concerne une balancelle dont la longueur de siège est étendue par des ensembles télescopiques parallèles (7,13,15) fixés aux côtés inférieurs d'éléments (5) supportant le siège (5) par des segments en boucles (8) de cordes correspondantes (6) qui supportent le poids de la balancelle. Chaque ensemble télescopique a un premier tube central (7) à extrémités ouvertes, à partir des extrémités opposées duquel deux seconds tubes (13) coulissant indépendamment peuvent être ouverts de manière télescopique. Un tissu souple (15) s'étend entre ces deux tubes (13) et, lorsque les tubes sont ouverts de manière télescopique, ils fournissent une extension à chaque extrémité de la balancelle, comme le montre la partie gauche de la figure 2. La rétraction des seconds tubes (13) dans le premier tubes (7) provoque le pliage du tissu (15), comme le montre la partie droite de la figure 2.
PCT/AU2005/000512 2004-04-27 2005-04-11 Ameliorations apportees ou relatives a un meuble WO2005102113A1 (fr)

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FR2961675A1 (fr) * 2010-06-28 2011-12-30 Be Paceo Mobilier de jardin du type balancelle

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EP0695525A1 (fr) * 1994-08-02 1996-02-07 Daniel Revelut Dispositif de réglage de l'inclinaison d'un dossier pour siège à bascule du type "balancelle"
US5538324A (en) * 1994-09-06 1996-07-23 Haber-Shomaker; Cindy A. Baby swing leg extension
WO2001082752A1 (fr) * 2000-05-01 2001-11-08 Mark Snyders Element de mobilier

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP0695525A1 (fr) * 1994-08-02 1996-02-07 Daniel Revelut Dispositif de réglage de l'inclinaison d'un dossier pour siège à bascule du type "balancelle"
US5538324A (en) * 1994-09-06 1996-07-23 Haber-Shomaker; Cindy A. Baby swing leg extension
WO2001082752A1 (fr) * 2000-05-01 2001-11-08 Mark Snyders Element de mobilier

Cited By (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR2961675A1 (fr) * 2010-06-28 2011-12-30 Be Paceo Mobilier de jardin du type balancelle

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