Chairs and seats – Bottom or back – Contoured back
Reexamination Certificate
2010-01-26
2011-10-11
Brown, Peter R. (Department: 3636)
Chairs and seats
Bottom or back
Contoured back
C297S452330
Reexamination Certificate
active
08033613
ABSTRACT:
A chair back has a shell and a cushion overlying the shell for a patient chair configured to move from a generally upright sitting position to a generally supine position. A patient contact surface is bounded in part by a top edge and an opposing bottom edge, and has resiliently deflectable opposed wing sections extending between the top edge and the bottom edge. A stiff support region is centrally positioned relative to and at least partially recessed from the outer wing sections. The support region is configured to support a patient's spine when the patient chair is positioned in a generally supine position. The opposed wing sections extend laterally outwardly of the support region and are configured to support the arms of the patient when the patient chair is positioned in the generally supine position.
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Beard Craig J.
Jacobs Edward R.
Mattocks Kenneth E.
Nordstrom Carl G.
Parlier Mathew H.
A-dec, Inc.
Brown Peter R.
Klarquist & Sparkman, LLP
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