Seat construction

Claim 1

A SEAT CONSTRUCTION COMPRISING A RELATIVELY RIGID AND THIN METAL BASE MEMBER HAVING A PLURALITY OF SPACED APERTURES FORMED THERETHROUGH; A RESILIENTLY COMPRESSIBLE, RUBBER-LIKE CUSHION HAVING ONE SURFACE THEREOF ABUTTING SAID BASE MEMBER SO AS TO BE SUPPORTED THEREBY, SAID CUSHION HAVING A PLURALITY OF SPACED OPENINGS FORMED THEREIN AND OPENING INTO A SURFACE THEREOF SPACED FROM SAID CUSHION SURFACE ABUTTING SAID BASE MEMBER, SAID CUSHION FURTHER HAVING A PLURALITY OF ELONGATED CYLINDRICAL RECESSES FORMED THEREIN EXTENDING FROM SAID CUSHION SURFACE ABUTTING SAID BASE MEMBER TO SAID OPENINGS, EACH OF SAID CYLINDRICAL RECESSES BEING ASSOCIATED AND IN AXIAL ALIGNMENT WITH A RESPECTIVE ONE OF SAID OPENINGS SO AS TO PROVIDE FLUID COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE EXTERIOR OF SAID CUSHION AND THE INTERIOR SPACES DEFINED BY THE CYLINDRICAL RECESS, EACH OF SAID INTERIOR SPACES DEFINED BY A RESPECTIVE CYLINDRICAL RECESS ALSO BEING IN FLUID COMMUNICATION WITH THE EXTERIOR OF SAID BASE MEMBER THROUGH CERTAIN OF SAID APERTURES, EACH OF SAID CYLINDRICAL RECESSES DECREASING IN VOLUMETRIC CAPACITY AS SAID CUSHION IS BEING COMPRESSED WHEREBY AIR UNDER PRESSURE IS EMITTED FROM SAID CUSHION THROUGH SAID OPENINGS DURING COMPRESSION OF SAID CUSHION. SAID APERTURES SERVING AS AIR INLET MEANS FOR SAID CYLINDRICAL RECESSES UPON EXPANSION OF SAID CUSHION, THE DIAMETER OF EACH OF SAID CYLINDRICAL RECESSES BEING SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORM THROUGHOUT ITS LENGTH WHEN SAID CUSHION IS IN ITS FULLY UNCOMPRESSED STATE, AND THE AREA OF THE OPENING ASSOCIATED WITH EACH CYLINDRICAL RECESS BEING GREATER THAN THE TOTAL AREA AFFORDED BY THE APERTURES ASSOCIATED WITH SUCH CYLINDRICAL RECESS.