Patent ID: 6027169
Filing Date: 2000-02-22
Classification: A47C,Y10T

Abstract:
In an office-type chair having a base provided with an upwardly-projecting pedestal assembly, a housing mounted on said pedestal assembly adjacent an upper end thereof, and a seat-back arrangement supported on and interconnected to said housing, said seat-back arrangement including a seat assembly which is disposed above said housing, and means interconnecting said seat assembly to said housing for permitting sliding positional adjustment of the seat assembly relative to the housing in a front-to-back direction of the chair, the improvement comprising a seat support means mounted on said housing and including a pair of generally parallel and elongated support rods positioned under said seat assembly adjacent opposite sides thereof and projecting generally parallel to said direction, said seat assembly including a seat member having a plurality of slide bearings mounted on an underside thereof and disposed in supportive and sliding engagement with said support rods, and a plurality of resilient retainers disposed in stationary and releasable engagement with an underside of said seat member by means of a resilient snap-type fit, each said retainer having a body portion which extends generally around an underside of a respective said support rod for vertically securing said seat member to said support rods.