1223results about "Rocking chairs" patented technology

A portable ventilator uses a Roots-type blower as a compressor to reduce both the size and power consumption of the ventilator. Various functional aspects of the ventilator are delegated to multiple subassemblies having dedicated controllers and software that interact with a ventilator processor to provide user interface functions, exhalation control and flow control servos, and monitoring of patient status. The ventilator overcomes noise problems through the use of noise reducing pressure compensating orifices on the Roots blower housing and multiple baffling chambers. The ventilator is configured with a highly portable form factor, and may be used as a stand-alone device or as a docked device having a docking cradle with enhanced interface and monitoring capabilities.

A reclining apparatus is provided between a post and a seat of a chair. The reclining apparatus includes a first joint for attachment to the post, a second joint pivotally connected with the first joint for supporting the seat and a locking device for locking the second joint in one of several reclined positions relative to the casing.

A seating unit includes a base, a seat, a back, and a control operably supporting the seat and the back on the base for movement between upright and recline positions. The control includes a spring providing a biasing supporting force to the back during recline, and further includes a booster mechanism for increasing the supporting force, and still further includes a stop member and a selector device for activating and deactivating the booster mechanism. The selector device is easily movable with a low effort that is independent from friction generated by internal components of the booster mechanism. The stop member is linearly slidably mounted atop a control housing for selectively engaging the booster mechanism and the link for movement between a disengaged position, a booster-engaged position, a partial-recline position, and a recline-prevented position.

A seating unit includes a seat, a back, a base, and a motion control having a plurality of flexible supports for operably supporting the seat and back on the base. The flexible supports are movable in a generally fore-to-aft direction but stiff in a generally vertical direction, and further the flexible supports have end sections projecting generally outward from said base for operably engaging the seat and / or back, so that when the flexible supports flex in the fore-to-aft direction, they provide for directed movement of the seat and / or the back. In one form, the flexible supports form leaf-spring-like beams with resiliently bendable ends that flex in a slightly angled fore-aft direction to provide a predetermined synchronized path of movement of the seat and back.

The invention relates to furniture, in particular to sitting devices and can be used as a work chair or therapeutic furniture.The aim of said invention is to develop a sitting device which would make it possible to efficiently relieve the backbone in a sitting posture taking into consideration individual morphological and functional asymmetries, thereby normalizing the work of other organs and systems of an organism, first and foremost the organs of the small pelvis, optimizing the “turtuosity” of the backbone associated with constitutional and geophysical factors.The sitting device comprises a support provided with a base in a top part thereof, on which a seat is mounted; said seat consists of two parts pivotally arranged on a horizontal axis which lies on a frontal plane and is fixed to the base, each part of the seat being provided with adjusters of the rotational motion thereof with respect to the horizontal axis; the device can be provided with a back and a bracket bearing a backrest, comprising two supporting elements pivotally arranged on the horizontal axis which lies on the frontal plane and fixed to the bracket, each supporting element of the backrest being provided with adjusters of the rotational motion thereof with respect to the horizontal axis.

A chair wherein a backrest frame 5 located rearwardly of a seat frame 4 is divided into a backrest upper frame 55 and a backrest lower frame 50, at least the backrest upper frame 55 being capable of inclining rearwardly, is of a construction that shafts 8 and 71 for rearwardly inclining the backrest upper frame 55 are provided to allow the backrest upper frame 55 to incline rearwardly about one of the shafts 8 and 71. The chair of this construction is made more comfortable to sit.

A spine support is provided in particular for the use in a seat of a vehicle with at least one bending element (20) and at least two independent operating elements (41a, 42a, 41b, 42b) to bend the bending element (20), wherein the first operating element (41a, 42a) engages a first part of the bending element (20) to cause first curvature of the spine support and the second bending element (41b, 42b) engages a second part of the bending element (20) to cause a second curvature of the spine support so that the overall curved shape of the spine support is a superposition of the first and second curvature. According to a further aspect, the present invention relates to a spine support, in particular for the use in the seat of a vehicle with at least one bending element (20) and at least one supporting element (30'), wherein the at least one supporting element (30') is flexibly attached to the at least one bending element (20).