IP Library Granted Patent US 9,901,179
Granted Patent B2
US 9,901,179 · App. 14/961,157 · Granted Feb 27, 2018

Piece of seating furniture having a pivotable functional part

Inventor: Christian Buchholz (Gutersloh, DE)
Assignee: Ferdinand Lusch GmbH & Co. KG
A47C7/00A47C1/02A47C1/027A47C1/03A47C7/38A47C7/506
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Patent No.
US 9,901,179
App. No.
14/961,157
Granted
Feb 27, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

A piece of seating furniture having at least one base body, at least one adjustable functional part, at least one pivot fitting for adjusting the functional part relative to the base body and a separate, lift setting mechanism for locking the functional part in relation to the base body. The lift setting mechanism has a guide and a slender bar which can be moved in relation to the guide. The lift setting mechanism can be moved from a set position, blocking the adjustment of the functional part, to a reset position, unblocking the adjustment of the functional part. The pivoted lever is pivotably connected to the base body separately via two adjusting levers, the two adjusting levers are jointly connected to the base body via a control lever and one adjusting lever is pivotably connected to the base body via a guide lever.

Claims (24)

1. A piece of seating furniture comprising:

at least one base body,

at least one adjustable functional part,

at least one pivot fitting for adjusting the functional part relative to the base body and

a lift setting mechanism for locking the functional part in relation to the base body,

wherein the lift setting mechanism has a guide and a slender bar which can be moved in relation to the guide, each of the guide and the slender bar pivotally connected to the pivot fitting,

wherein the lift setting mechanism is configured to be moved from one of a plurality of set positions, each set position comprising an at least partially retracted position of the guide relative to the slender bar, each set position blocking the adjustment of the functional part relative to the base body in a load direction in a form-fit or wedging manner by at least one wedge element engaging an inner wall of the guide at any of the plurality of set positions, to a reset position comprising a protracted position of the guide relative to the slender bar, the reset position unblocking the adjustment of the functional part relative to the base body in the load direction,

wherein the functional part is supported by a pivoted lever of the pivot fitting, wherein the pivoted lever is pivotably connected to the base body separately via two adjusting levers, wherein the two adjusting levers are jointly connected to the base body via a control lever, and

wherein at least one of the adjusting levers is pivotably connected to the base body via a guide lever.

2. The piece of seating furniture according to claim 1 , wherein the lift setting mechanism has a latching element which is spring-loaded, and wherein the latching element forms a latching connection with at least one receiving slot of the guide, the latching connection blocking the adjustment of the functional part in the load direction in a form-fit manner.

3. The piece of seating furniture according to claim 2 , wherein the latching element can be deactivated by moving the slender bar in relation to the guide into one end position and can be activated by moving the slender bar in relation to the guide into a separate end position.

4. The piece of seating furniture according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one wedge element is movable between a wedging position and at least one adjustment position in relation to the slender bar, and wherein in the wedging position the at least one wedge element is held wedged in a wedge gap between the slender bar and the guide in such a way that movement of the slender bar in relation to the guide in a retracting direction is prevented.

5. The piece of seating furniture according to claim 4 , wherein the wedge gap tapers in the retracting direction and that the wedge element is wedged in the wedging position between one tapered end of the slender bar and the guide.

6. The piece of seating furniture according to claim 4 , wherein a wedge carriage is provided comprising the at least one wedge element, the wedge carriage movable in relation to the slender bar and held by engagement of at least a portion of the wedge carriage in an elongated hole of the slender bar.

7. The piece of seating furniture according to claim 4 , wherein a detachable connection between the slender bar and the wedge element or the wedge carriage is provided in such a way that the detachable connection can be locked, preferably in a latching or wedging manner, by moving the slender bar in relation to the guide into a connection position.

8. The piece of seating furniture according to claim 4 , wherein a detachable connection between the slender bar and the wedge element or the wedge carriage is provided in such a way that the detachable connection can be detached by moving the slender bar in relation to the guide into fully retracted position, by abutting the wedge element or the wedge carriage on a start stop.

9. The piece of seating furniture according to claim 4 , wherein the lift setting mechanism further comprises a plurality of wedge elements, including the at least one wedge element, wherein at least one of the wedge elements or the wedge carriage abut at least in sections in a frictionally engaged manner on the guide.

10. The piece of seating furniture according to claim 1 , wherein the slender bar is continuously adjustable along the guide.

11. The piece of seating furniture according to claim 1 , wherein the pivoted lever can be pivoted about a pivot axis, and wherein the pivot axis is located essentially centrally between the contact points of the adjusting levers on the pivoted lever.

12. The piece of seating furniture according to claim 1 , wherein the guide lever, the control lever, the adjusting lever, which is connected to the guide lever, and the support plate form a four-link chain, or wherein the two adjusting levers, the control lever and the pivoted lever form a four-link chain, and wherein the lift setting mechanism comes into contact with at least one of the adjusting levers.

13. The piece of seating furniture according to claim 1 , wherein at least the adjusting levers, the pivoted lever, the guide lever and the control lever form a pivot fitting, and wherein the pivot fitting has a degree of freedom of 1.

14. The piece of seating furniture according to claim 1 , wherein one of the adjusting levers is connected to at least one of the pivoted lever, the control lever and the guide lever in each case via a pivot joint, and

wherein the other of the adjusting levers is connected to at least one of the pivoted lever and the control lever in each case via a pivot joint, and

wherein the guide lever and the control lever are jointly held on the base body by a support plate.

Assignments (4)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Aug 11, 2022
From: FERDINAND LUSCH GMBH
To: FERDINAND LUSCH GMBH
Reel/Frame 061144/0742 →
MERGER AND CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Aug 11, 2022
From: BT2 HOLDING GMBH; FERDINAND LUSCH GMBH
To: FERDINAND LUSCH GMBH
Reel/Frame 061385/0983 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 8, 2022
From: FERDINAND LUSCH GMBH & CO. KG
To: BT2 HOLDING GMBH
Reel/Frame 061102/0308 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 4, 2016
From: BUCHHOLZ, CHRISTIAN
To: FERDINAND LUSCH GMBH & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 038181/0944 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2014 118 163 · Dec 8, 2014 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20160157613A1 · Jun 9, 2016