Patent Application
20170027329
1. Technical Field
The invention relates to chairs, particularly to armrests of chairs.
2. Related Art
Office chairs with an elevation mechanism and/or flexible back have been very popular. However, armrests of few chairs provide an adjustment mechanism. Even if an adjustment mechanism is provided to armrests of a chair, it offers a single function of height adjustment. In fact, an armrest interval adjustment mechanism is needed by some users. However, there is no chair with an armrest interval adjustment mechanism in the market. Complexity, adjustability and reliability are very difficult to achieve a compromise.
An object of the invention is to provide an armrest interval adjustment structure for a chair, which can offer an armrest to be horizontally adjustable. Thus seat width can be adjusted.
To accomplish the above object, the armrest interval adjustment structure of the invention includes a base, an armrest support and a handle set. The base is a hollow body with a channel and has an elastic block with a central through hole. The armrest support has a connecting section slidably penetrating the channel. The connecting section is formed with a longitudinal through hole corresponding to the central through hole in position. The handle set is fixed under the base and includes a handle with a fixing bar and an opening; a presser received in the opening and has a fixing hole corresponding to the central through hole in position and an engagement trench for engaging with the fixing bar; and a bolt passing through the fixing hole, longitudinal hole and central through hole, and screwed with a nut to fasten the handle to the base.
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The armrest support 2 is connected to the base 1. The armrest support 2 has a connecting section 21 penetrating the channel 11. An upper side and a lower side of the connecting section 21 are separately formed with two troughs 211. Each of the troughs 211 is formed with a round through hole 212. The connecting section is formed with a longitudinal through hole 213 between the two troughs 211. The longitudinal hole 213 corresponds to the central through hole 141 in position
The handle set 3 is fastened onto the bottom of the base 1. The handle set 3 includes a handle 31 and a presser 32. An end of the handle 31 is formed with a fixing bar 311. The handle 31 is further formed with an opening 312. The other end of the handle 31 is a handling end 313. In this embodiment, the handling end 313 is of an L-shape. The presser 32 is assembled with the handle 31 and is formed with an engagement trench 321. The presser 32 is received in the opening 312 with engaging the engagement trench 321 onto the fixing bar 311 so as to make the handle 31 rotatable. The presser 32 is formed with a fixing hole 322 corresponding to the central through hole 411 in position.
A bolt 4 passes through the fixing hole 322, the longitudinal hole 213 and the central through hole 141 and is screwed with a nut 5 to fasten the handle set 3 to the base 1. The elastic block 14 is pressed by the connecting section 21 by means of tightening the bolt 4 and the nut 5.
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It will be appreciated by persons skilled in the art that the above embodiment has been described by way of example only and not in any limitative sense, and that various alterations and modifications are possible without departure from the scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.
