Patent ID: 6481797
Filing Date: 2002-11-19
Classification: A47C

Abstract:
An armchair (10) comprising a spport frame (11,12) having mounted thereon power-driven movement means (21), and a base seat (14) and a back (16) movable between a first and second positions by said power-driven movement Beans (21), and characterized in that the base seat (14) is pivotally mounted adjacent a front end thereof to the support frame to rotate about a first transverse axis (15), the back (16) being pivotally mounted to the base seat (14) adjacent the rear thereof to rotate about a second transverse axis (17), the back (16) having extensions (18) extending at lower ends thereof downwardly past said second axis (17) and having said lower ends constrained to slide in elongate slots in said frame, so that on rotation of the back about said second axis (17), the base seat is caused to rotate in the same way about said first axis (15).