I once worked for a deeply dysfunctional company that spent a fortune on Aeron chairs and then installed them in a meeting room with a wooden floor which was still covered in builders’ dust.
The effect was that all chair movement ground to a halt and all those bearings got damaged.
Even in well managed and cleaned offices, wheeled furniture tends to get gummed up. It’s hard to have smoothly running meetings when half the participants are literally bogged down.
Today’s invention is a simple system that connects the shock absorber in the base to a set of small jets (one directed at each wheel bearing).
As you sit down, a fraction of the energy applied by your descent to the chair, that would be wasted as heat in the damper, is used to propel clean air over the casters. This tends to keep dust/ hair/ cannabis shreds away from the moving parts.
