Chair having an operational guide

Details Chair having an operational guide Chair having an operational guide

1999-08-17

2001-05-08

Brown, Peter R. (Department: 3624)

Chairs and seats

With holder or receptacle for disparate article

Directly under occupant seating portion

C297S188080, C297S217100, C297S463200, C040S320000, C040S649000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06227615

ABSTRACT:

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to furniture. More specifically, the invention relates to an operational guide for use with an adjustable chair.
Currently, many chairs used in an office setting are adjustable in one or more ways. Because the nature of the adjustments and the mechanisms for making them vary from chair to chair, an information card with instructions for the user is often provided. Typically, such information cards are loosely fastened to the chair with a string or the like. Unfortunately, such loosely fastened information cards are unsightly and easily removable. Thus, these cards are often removed from the chair during installation so the actual chair user never sees the information card.
Another problem with some chair information cards is that they are not easily understood. In particular, since the adjustment mechanisms are often located on the bottom of the seat where they cannot be seen by the user sitting in the chair, it can be difficult for the user to understand the instructions for making adjustments.
For the foregoing reasons, there is a need for a chair having an information card that is attached to the chair in such a way so as to better insure that the chair user will have access to it, and that the instructions on the card will be easier to understand. Moreover, even if the original chair user sees the instruction card, office chairs are frequently moved from one work station to another. Subsequent chair users are even less likely to see the information card.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The invention is an operational guide mounted to an adjustable chair as well as a chair including an operational guide. The operational guide includes a card having a pictorial guide for operating the adjustable chair located on the top side of the card. The operational guide also includes a device for mounting the card to the bottom of the seat of the chair. The mounting device is adapted to allow the card to move between an extended position wherein the pictorial guide is visible to an occupant of the chair and a retracted position wherein the pictorial guide is not visible to the occupant of the chair. Also, the mounting device holds the card so that the orientation of the pictorial guide corresponds to the orientation of the controls for adjusting the chair when the card is in the extended position.
An advantage of the preferred embodiment is that a user, while seated in the chair, may conveniently move the information card into the extended position to view the chair operating information. When the card is in the extended position, the orientation of the pictorial guide on the top of the card corresponds to the orientation of the controls for adjusting the chair, thus providing easier to understand instruction.
Another advantage of the preferred embodiment is that an information card holder is mounted to the chair so that the holder may not be easily removed from the chair. Moreover, the preferred embodiment avoids use of unsightly tags or the like dangling from the chair.


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Copier Specs, p. 77 (date unknown).
Canon Model NP 7550 Copier.

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