Seating structure having a knitted suspension material

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 12070132
APP PUB NO 20240081537A1
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18463140

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An article of furniture includes a frame defining an opening, and a suspension material spanning over the opening and having a weft knit construction. The suspension material is configured to support a user, and the suspension material includes at least one multifilament forming a jersey knit structure which has a plurality of courses extending in a course direction and a plurality of wales extending in a wale direction, and at least one monofilament corresponding to and being inlaid in a respective one of the courses. The suspension material has, in the course direction, a ratio of machine gauge, in needles per mm, to course stiffness, in N per mm, between 0.02 and 0.2 and has, in the wale direction, a ratio of machine gauge, in needles per mm, to wale stiffness, in N per mm, between 0.07 and 1.4.

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MILLERKNOLL INC855 EAST MAIN AVENUE ZEELAND MI 49464

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McGraw, Ethan Holland, US 9 39

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