Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7552970 | Furniture mechanism with tilt cam for multiple position tilt A furniture mechanism includes first and second side plates. First and second support members are rotatably pinned to the side plates. First and second pantograph linkage sets are each linked to one of the side plates and each extend from a stowed position to a full... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7156456 | Foldable chair A foldable chair has a supporting shaft assembly, a frame assembly, a connecting shaft assembly and a cushion mounted on the frame. The supporting shaft assembly has two parallel rockers connected by multiple transverse shafts and four curved shafts rotatably mounte... | 01/02/2007 |
| 6918632 | Rocker mechanism for rocker recliner In preferred embodiments of the invention, rocker cams are positioned intermediate an upper plate assembly and a lower base with a plurality of biasing springs under tension extending between the upper plate assembly and the lower base. Spring retention means are in... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6676206 | Rocking, reclining, folding chair A rocking, reclining, foldable chair is disclosed. The invention comprises a curved rocker or rockers having a limiting extension; a leg or legs pivotally attached to said rocker; a seat pivotally attached to said leg or legs; a releasable support pivotal... | 01/13/2004 |
| 5104181 | Contour lounger with floor-contacting landing gear A contour lounger with floor-contacting landing gear is disclosed which provides rocking and reclining capability. The contour lounger is constructed of a standard legless rocking chair and has added thereto a footrest, footrest linkage, a landing gear, a... | 04/14/1992 |
| 4519647 | Rocker-recliner chair A rocker-recliner chair including a base, rocker cams mounted on the base, a unitary seat and armrest assembly mounted on the rocker cams by a novel linkage system for movement between a closed or generally upright position with the associated footrest cl... | 05/28/1985 |
| 4477118 | Reclining and rocking office chair An office chair has a mobile pedestal carriage with a cross span beam on which relatively movable chair frame, seat frame, and leg rest frame assemblies are mounted for rocking motion under the control of an adjustable spring mechanism and a ratchet mecha... | 10/16/1984 |
| 4319780 | Rocker-recliner chair A three-way, handle-operated, rocker-recliner chair includes a base, a rocker frame mounted on the base, a carrier link pivotally mounted on the rocker frame, a seat and armrest unit pivotally mounted on the carrier link through a linkage which includes a... | 03/16/1982 |
| 4212495 | Reclining chair A reclining chair adapted to be positioned in close adjacency to a wall, the chair having a frame and a body supporting unit which is movable relative to the frame between an upright sitting position and a variety of reclining positions. The frame is supp... | 07/15/1980 |
| 4154475 | Wall reclining rocking chair A reclinable chair is rockable on a frame which is movable forwardly on a base. The chair and frame are supported on the base on a pair of facing channels which slope downwardly from the rear to the front of the base. The frame and base are locked togethe... | 05/15/1979 |
| 4092041 | Chair universally adjustable by occupant reclining therein, and method A reclining chair having seatrest, footrest, and backrest which are adjustable to either a sit-up or a lie-down position or any selected intermediate position, with the entire chair being also adjustable to recline rearwardly at a selected angle. All of t... | 05/30/1978 |
| 4071276 | Recliner chairs Improvements in a rocker recliner chair which permit the backrest to be moved to an initial, relatively slight reclining position without having to first extend the footrest from retracted to extended position, however, in order to continue to move the ba... | 01/31/1978 |
| 4028749 | Sanitary chairs A sanitary chair has a frame comprising a seat frame portion and a base frame portion. The seat portion is supported on the base portion by telescopic support means, whereby to allow adjustment of the supported height of an apertured seat of the chair. Th... | 06/14/1977 |
| 4025113 | Linkage mechanism for handle operated recliner chair In a recliner chair having a handle operated footrest including footrest mechanisms on opposite sides of the chair, an improved linkage is provided for connecting the handle on one side of the chair with the footrest mechanism on that side of the chair to... | 05/24/1977 |
