Patent ID: 8668265

Claim:
A chair comprising: a supporting frame; a back portion; a seat portion operatively supported from the supporting frame and having a central zone defining a primary supporting region for a seated occupant and a peripheral edge region projecting outwardly from at least a side or a front of the central zone, wherein the peripheral edge region is resiliently flexible and is substantially unsupported to enable the peripheral edge region to deform downwardly from the central zone under the weight of an occupant's legs; and an actuator articulated to the underside of the peripheral edge region such that the actuator is supported by and moves with the peripheral edge region as that deforms under the weight of the occupant's legs and which can be reached and manually moved relative to the peripheral edge region by a seated occupant reaching under the peripheral edge region of the seat portion, the actuator operatively connected to a mechanism that enables the chair to be reconfigured, and the actuator configured such that when the actuator is manually moved relative to the peripheral edge region by the seated occupant the mechanism is actuated to reconfigure the chair.