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Dining Table Having Integral Dishwasher
A space-saving dishwasher, which may be installed within a counter top or table, having a dish-carrying rack that is vertically shiftable through the open top of the dishwasher for facilitating loading and unloading of the dishes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7959229 | Adjustable seat including operating members A seat may be obtained with good operability of plural operating members for operating plural adjustable units. A vehicle seat is provided with: a seat lifter, provided to a seat body for sitting on and adjustable by operation force transmitted from a first operatin... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7938490 | Seat A seat may be obtained with improved operability of plural adjustable units. A vehicle seat 10 is provided with: a seat lifter 22 provided to a seat body for sitting on, adjustable by transmitted operation force; a reclining mechanism 20 ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7419216 | Seat back unit for a chair, in particular for a wheelchair or a stand-up wheelchair The seat back unit has a seat back frame which can be tilted around the tilting axis (11) of the support (21). Movable on the seat back frame (13) is the seat back (25). A linear motor (33) serves to incline the seat back frame ( | 09/02/2008 |
| 7296856 | Reclining seat with movable back support A reclining seat includes a base, a back frame and back support connected to the back frame for translation relative to the back frame. In a first embodiment, a mechanism is provided to couple the back frame to the back support such that rotation of the back frame r... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7243935 | Wheelchair having a pivot provision adjacent the knee of a user Wheelchair of which a sitting support is pivotable about a virtual or non-virtual pivot axis, extending substantially horizontally, substantially at right angles to a main driving direction of the wheelchair, wherein the upper part of the body of the user, at least ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7100988 | Child's highchair with a reclining back A child's highchair for receiving a child in a seated orientation includes a supporting frame, a seat supported by the frame, and a back connected to the frame wherein the back is movable between a substantially vertical orientation and a rearwardly tilted or reclin... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7032975 | Medical or dental treatment chair The invention relates to a medical or dental treatment chair (1) having a seat part (2), a back part (4), a carrier part (16) arranged on the back part (4), an intermediate lever (23) which with its one end is pivotably conn... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6979059 | Rocking chair construction A rocking chair has a flexible joint between a chair base and a chair component permitting rocking action. The flexible joint includes a housing with a plurality of internal surfaces. A plurality of compressible rods are disposed within the housing and a rigid membe... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6015189 | Adjustable chair The present assembly relates to a link assembly for a chair. The assembly includes a frame link for connecting to a frame of the chair and a back support link for connecting to a back support of the chair. The frame link and the back support link are pivo... | 01/18/2000 |
| 5823621 | Reduced shear assembly for recline seat back of a wheelchair A reduced shear reclining seat back assembly employs a single rotary actuator for reclining a seat back relative to a seat portion and controlling movement of a seat back member in response to the reclining operation. A rotary actuator includes a first ar... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5634688 | Reclining chair A reclining chair that avoids skin shear. The reclining chair has a seat, a backrest, and a backrest surface. The backrest is pivotably attached to the seat. The backrest surface is slidably mounted with respect to the backrest. Pivoting of the backrest w... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5582464 | Chair primarily for use by persons with spinal chord injury A chair primarily for use by persons with spinal chord injury, comprises a universally positioned chair back and a universally positioned front support. Users sit upright and are held between the chair back and front support. Both the chair back and front... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5524969 | Angularly adjustable backrest mounting assembly for a seat An angularly adjustable backrest mounting assembly for a seat, has an upper transverse member securable at opposite ends to transversely spaced uprights of a seat so as to be angularly movable about a horizontal axis, and a lower transverse member is secu... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5181762 | Biomechanical body support with tilting leg rest tilting seat and tilting and lowering backrest The apparatus is a biomechanical body support including a substructure, a seat which is supported by said substructure and is tiltable relative to said substructure, a backrest which is coupled to said seat and is tiltable relative to said seat, the tilti... | 01/26/1993 |
| 4875734 | Automotive seat An automotive seat is disclosed which comprises a vertically movable seat cushion and a fixed seat back and which is capable of closing a spacing produced between the seat cushion and seat back when the seat cushion is lowered. In the automotive seat, an ... | 10/24/1989 |
| 4655471 | Wheelchair having adjustable backrest A wheelchair having a backrest assembly that is pivotally connected adjacent the rear end of its seat frame. The back assembly has a rear panel fixedly attached thereto and there is structure on the front surface of the rear panel which connects to struct... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4494792 | Transformable seat A seat, which is transformable into a berth for a vehicle comprises a horizontal seat member and a seat back connected to the support of the seat member by an articulated linkage. The linkage maintains the lower portion of the seat back in permanent conta... | 01/22/1985 |
| 4475770 | Adjustable backrest for cycle type seat A backrest for use with devices having cycle-type seats mounted on support posts, such as exercise machines, bicycles, tricycles, stools and the like, in which the back support is pivotally attached to a support frame and the support frame is selectably a... | 10/09/1984 |
| 4372609 | Vehicle seats comprising a shell-shaped frame The invention relates to a vehicle seat whose frame is formed by a shell made from moulded plastic material. This shell is formed from two half-shells, one for the sitting portion 1 and one for the seat back 4 and these two half-shells comprise complement... | 02/08/1983 |
| 4181357 | Seat backrest tilt and height adjustment means A vehicle seat comprises a seat assembly including a seat pan, a backrest assembly including a backrest pan, a backrest height adjustment mechanism connected between the seat pan and the backrest pan and including a height adjustment knob, and a backrest ... | 01/01/1980 |
