Platform rocker structure

Claim 1

A platform type rocking seat, comprising (a) a floor engaging base for supporting a seat, (b) an angled structural member mounted on said base in a direction transverse to the central vertical plane through the front and rear of said seat, said member having two intersecting surfaces forming an upwardly directed apex, (c) a second angled structural member mounted across the underside of said seat above, rearwardly, and in parallel to said first-mentioned member, said second member also having two intersecting surfaces forming a downwardly directed apex, with the rearward surface of the latter disposed in a plane parallel to the forward surface of said first member and displaced forwardly therefrom a slight distance, (d) straight coplanar flexure members of epoxy glass laminate material of a thickness corresponding to said distance extending between said rearward surface of the second structural member and the forward surface of said first member, and (e) means for affixing the opposite ends of said flexure members to the said rearward and forward surfaces of said respective structural members.