Patent ID: 7347496
Filing Date: 2008-03-25
Classification: A47C

Abstract:
1. A chair backrest adjusting mechanism mounted to and between a chair seat and a chair backrest, comprising a seat supporting frame, a backrest supporting arm, a mount, a supporting arm cover, and a ball-shaped handle; the seat supporting frame being connected at a front end to a base below the chair seat, and having a rear end formed into a hollow opening having two sidewalls, on which two sets of two shaft holes are correspondingly provided near upper edges thereof; and one of the two sidewalls of the hollow opening being provided with a curved long slot located lower than the two shaft holes on that sidewall; the backrest supporting arm having an upper end provided with a transverse tubular joint for engaging with the mount, which is connected to a rear side of the chair backrest, and a lower end formed into a slightly bent section having a predetermined shape; two pivot brackets being correspondingly connected to and forward extended from two lateral sides of the bent section, and being provided with a shaft hole and an oblong hole each; a long shaft being extended through the shaft holes on the bent section and one of the two sets of shaft holes on the two sidewalls of the hollow opening of the seat supporting frame to pivotally connect the two pivot brackets to the two sidewalls of the hollow opening of the seat supporting frame; and, two short pins being extended through the oblong holes into two ends of a pivot shaft, so that the pivot shaft is mounted to and between the two pivot brackets; wherein the pivot shaft is provided at a middle point with an internally threaded hole; the mount being connected at an inner end to a rear side of the chair backrest, and having an outer end formed with a recess, two sidewalls of which being correspondingly provided with a through hole and a shaft hole each; the shaft holes being located behind the through holes for a long shaft to extend therethrough into the tubular joint at the upper end of the backrest supporting arm; the supporting arm cover being configured to fitly cover the backrest supporting arm, and being correspondingly provided at two lateral sides of an upper end with a shaft hole each, via which a long shaft is extended to engage with the two through holes at the two sidewalls of the recess on the mount to thereby connect the supporting arm cover to the mount; a lower end of the supporting arm cover being a slightly curved section with two sidewalls thereof correspondingly provided with a shaft hole, via which a long shaft is extended to engage with another set of shaft holes on the two sidewalls of the hollow opening of the seat supporting frame, so as to connect the supporting arm cover to the seat supporting frame; and the ball-shaped handle being used to control the forward and backward adjustment of the chair backrest, and being provided along an axis thereof with a central bore, in which an externally threaded rod is mounted; a screw being externally screwed into a rear end of the threaded rod to hold the threaded rod in the central bore; a front end of the threaded rod being extended through a ring member to mesh with the internally threaded hole on the pivot shaft mounted between the two pivot brackets at the lower end of the backrest supporting arm; whereby when the chair backrest is adjusted to a forward position, the chair seat has a reduced depth suitable for a child to sit thereon; and when the chair backrest is adjusted from the forward position to a rearward non-adjusted position, the chair seat has an increased depth suitable for an adult to sit thereon.