Pawl and ratchet assembly
CA 2088101 C · Owner: Komorowski, Karl J. · Inventors: Komorowski, Karl J.; Lapointe, Larry P.; Saul, Jonathan R.
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An improved latching mechanism for a rocking chair having an extensible leg rest assembly is disclosed. The latching mechanism is operable to releasably lock the chair frame in a rearwardly tilted position upon extension of the leg rest assembly while permitting unrestricted rocking action when the leg rest assembly is protracted. The improved latching mechanism is a pawl and ratchet latching mechanism having a spring-biased pawl member operable to lockingly engage a toothed ratchet sector for retaining the chair frame in its rearwardly tilted position. A unique actuation arrangement is disclosed having a release member that functions to pull the spring-biased pawl member to a released …
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- Filed January 26, 1993 and granted December 6, 1994. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 26, 2013.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by January 26, 2015.
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