Hassocks

Claim 1

AN INCLINABLE-TOP HASSOCK FOR USE AS A LEG RECLINER COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION, A TOP SUPPORTING STRUCTURE INCLUDING SPACED SIDE PAIRS OF FRONT AND REAR LEGS CONNECTED BY SIDE RUNGS JOINED TO THE LEGS AT APPROXIMATELY THEIR MIDPOINTS, THE UPPER EDGES OF THE SIDE RUNGS AND THE APPROXIMATELY VERTICAL FORWARD EDGES OF THE REAR LEGS OF SAID PAIRS THEREOF DEFINING FORWARDLY FACING CORNERS, A TOP NORMALLY RESTING ON THE UPPER ENDS OF SAID LEGS AND BEING HINGEDLY CONNECTED TO THE FRONT LEGS OF SAID LEG PAIRS FOR MOVEMENT TO INCLINED POSITION WITH RESPERCT TO SAID SUPPORTING STRUCTURE, AND PROP MEANS FOR SUPPORTING THE TOP IN AT LEAST ONE POSITION OF INCLINATION COMPRISING A SUBSTANTIALLY U-SHAPED PROP MEMBER DEPENDING THEREFROM AND WHOSE CROSS PART IS PIVOTALLY CONNECTED TO THE UNDER SIDE OF THE TOP FOR SWINGING MOVEMENT ABOUT A HORIZONTAL AXIS EXTENDING TRANSVERSELY ACROSS SAID TOP AND WHOSE SIDE ARMS DEPEND THEREFROM AND TERMINATE IN OFFSET ENDS OPERATIVE IN THE SPACE DEFINED BY SAID UPPER EDGES OF THE SIDE RUNGS, SAID LEGS OF THE SIDE PAIRS AND THE UNDER FACE OF THE TOP, THE LENGTH OF SAID SIDE ARMS BEING SUBSTANTIALLY GREATER THAN THE VERTICAL DIMENSION OF SAID SPACE WHEREBY SAID OFFSET ENDS NORMALLY REST ON SAID UPPER EDGES OF THE SIDE RUNGS AND THE POSITIONING OF THE AXIS BEING CLOSE TO THE REAR EDGE OF SAID TOP, THE CONSTRUCTION AND ARRANGEMENT BEING SUCH THAT WHEN THE TOP IS IN ITS NORMAL HORIZONTAL POSITION THE ARMS OF THE PROP DEPEND DOWNWARDLYFORWARDLY AND THEIR OFFSET ENDS REST FREELY ON THE UPPER EDGES OF THE SIDE RUNGS WHEREAS WHEN THE TOP IS RAISED AND THE PROP SIDE ARMS ARE MANUALLY SWUNG REARWARDLY TO OPPOSITE INCLINATION THE OFFSET ENDS OF THE PROP ARMS MOVE INTO SAID CORNERS AND HOLD THE PROP ARMS SUBSTANTIALLY VERTICAL, IN WHICH POSITION SAID ARMS SUPPORT THE TOP IN SAID ONE INCLINED POSITION.