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Encyclopedia > Recliner
A recliner
A recliner

A recliner is an armchair that reclines when the sitter lowers the chair's back and raises its front. It has a backrest that can be tilted back, causing a footrest to extend from the front. Image File history File linksMetadata Recliner. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Recliner. ... Look up chair in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...


History

  • 1928 Cousins hortocolture and Randy Shoemaker create the first recliner in Monroe, Michigan.

They started the Floral City Furniture Company. Monroe is a city located in Monroe County, Michigan. ...

  • 1931 Knabusch and Shoemaker received a patent for the first automatic recliner. Changed Floral City Furniture Company the now famous La-Z-Boy

1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ... La-Z-Boy is an American furniture manufacturer based in Monroe, Michigan. ... Image File history File links Chair_icon. ... A Shaker rocker, or rocking chair. ... Furnishings (aka art objects, decorative arts, knick-knacks, bric-a-brac) are the objects, other than furniture, that occupy an interior space. ...

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Suspended recliner - Patent 4221429 (4149 words)
When an individual enters the recliner, the leg support may be left in its depending position, thereby providing a chair-like support for the occupant, or the weight of the occupant may be used to provide a force to position the footrest in an aligned configuration with the main body of the recliner.
The suspended recliner of claim 1 wherein at least one of said ropes is connected to a cap means which forms a slidable engagement with the bar to allow disengagement of the cap and rope for compact storage of the suspended recliner.
Recliner material 22 is attached to foot brace 28 by stitching 38 which attaches the free end of the recliner material to the body of the recliner material after the free end has passed around foot brace 28.
recliner: Definition and Much More from Answers.com (1721 words)
A reclining chair is an upholstered chair with a metal mechanism activated by the user so that the back is pushed out and a foot rest rises up to accommodate the user's lower legs.
Mechanisms that transformed this chair to a recliner varied; however, most were quite simple, consisting of a rod or series of pegs that permit the back of the armchair to recline and rest against the pegs or metal.
Recliner are a Glasgow based band who have been gigging regularly in and around Scotland for the last 3 years.
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