Patent ID: 8622473

Claim:
A chair that facilitates entry and exit for a user, the chair comprising: a seat; a backrest; and an underlying support structure supporting the seat and the backrest, wherein the support structure comprises a first elongated spring member that: has an open-loop configuration, in an unloaded state of the chair, defined by a substantially continuous convex curvature between a first free and a second free end thereof; has an upper run terminating at the first free end, and a lower run terminating at the second free end, with the upper run of the first elongated spring member carrying the seat and the backrest; is biased into a configuration in which, in the unloaded state of the chair, the first and second free ends are spaced apart vertically from one another while overlapping horizontally with each other, with the first free end located above the second free end, and with the seat in a forwardly tilted disposition to facilitate the user to more easily sit on the chair; and is resiliently yieldable under user weight into a configuration, in a loaded state of the chair, so that when the user sits on the chair, the first free end approaches or comes into engagement with the second free end and moves the seat out of the forwardly tilted disposition.