The Prima auditorium chair combines luxury, comfort, and refined design. Ideal for corporate facilities, museums, and intimate theaters, it features a lumbar cushion for support, customizable upholstery, and durable finishes. Backed by a lifetime warranty.
Summary:
The Prima auditorium chair is the obvious choice when luxury and attention to detail are factors during the selection process. Ideal for the corporate training facility, museum, or an intimate theatre, the Prima offers a refined look, clean lines, and a feeling of stability and superior comfort.
The Prima back is constructed with two inner back panels. The lower panel incorporates a lumbar cushion for extra back support. The solid leg panels give the chair a more substantial feel and the availability of a wider seat allow this chair to accommodate a greater range of users.
Features:
The Prima seat tip-up action is attained by the use of a gravity counterweight mechanism. The advantages of a gravity mechanism over a spring or cylinder mechanism are as follows:
Consistent and automatic return to the upright position. Spring mechanisms can have inconsistent tip-up action due to the variation of the strength or fatigue of the steel springs. This affects the aesthetics of the room and may affect compliance with egress codes since the seats may not return to a consistent upright position.
Silent action. Spring mechanisms are likely to develop squeaks and normally produce several loud hits before coming to a stop.
Seat tip-up will never fail. Because the Prima mechanism relies on gravity, it will never fail to return the seat to its upright position. In contrast, as a spring mechanism fatigues, the seat tip-up action will get slower. Eventually, the spring mechanism may fail to return the seat to the upright position, producing a possible violation of egress codes.
The Prima seat construction is patterned after office chairs for long-term comfort and durability. Flexible polyurethane foam is glued directly to the structure of the seat. The advantages of this type of construction are as follows:
Silence, durability, comfort. Seats constructed with serpentine springs often fatigue, sag and fail. This creates an uncomfortable and noisy seat, which may require replacement. TSI’s flexible polyurethane foam construction offers significant user comfort over long seating periods. Additionally, the absence of steel springs insures completely silent compression during use.
Upholstered options. Unlike metal seat pans with serpentine springs, Prima’s all-wood construction allows for custom upholstery detailing. The fully-upholstered seat has a zippered slip-on fabric cover for easier on-site replacement.
Prima legs are laminated assemblies of furniture grade particle board with steel hinge assemblies. The advantages of this type of construction are listed below:
Flexibility – The Prima’s laminated wood assembly allows for simple and cost efficient design modifications for conformance to unique building conditions.
Due to the obvious product advantages of Prima seating as mentioned above, and the superior service and warranty levels offered by TSI, purchasing Prima seating is a better long-term value. The initial savings associated with the purchase of a less expensive chair is likely to be lost through ongoing maintenance and replacement during the lifetime of the product.
Prima A1-U
Equipped with inner upholstered seat and back cushions, and outer wood veneer panels with a finished plywood edge for acoustical quality and refined appearance. The Prima A1-U includes upholstered leg panels. Customized detailing on the backrest upholstery of the outer wood panels is optional.
Prima A1-W
Equipped with inner upholstered seat and back cushions, and outer wood veneer panels with a finished plywood edge for acoustical quality and refined appearance. The Prima A1-W includes veneer leg panels. Customized detailing on the backrest upholstery of the outer wood panels is optional.
Prima C1-W
Combines the beauty of a wood veneer outer back panel with the economy and warmth of a fully-upholstered seat. The Prima C1-W includes veneer leg panels. The seat is equipped with a zippered slip-on fabric cover.
Prima C1-U
Combines the beauty of a wood veneer outer back panel with the economy and warmth of a fully-upholstered seat. The Prima C1-U includes upholstered leg panels. The seat is equipped with a zippered slip-on fabric cover.
Prima C3-U
Features fully-upholstered seat and back cushions for an elegant and warm appearance. The Prima C3-U includes upholstered leg panels. Fabric slip-on covers are equipped with a zipper for easier on-site replacement.
Prima C3-W
Features fully-upholstered seat and back cushions for an elegant and warm appearance. The Prima C3-W includes veneer leg panels. Fabric slip-on covers are equipped with a zipper for easier on-site replacement.
Theatre Solutions, Inc. (TSI) warrants its’ products against failures and manufacturing defects for the life of the product. This warranty applies only to the original purchaser and is non-transferable. TSI will provide parts and labor to replace defective parts for the first two years after installation. Thereafter, TSI will provide replacement parts for the life of the product. This warranty does not cover damage from abuse, misuse, neglect or act of God. Damage caused by modifications to the product by anyone other than an authorized TSI technician will void this warranty. This warranty does not apply to fabrics or products not installed by authorized TSI technicians.
Use the Planar Floor Mounting Details drawing as reference for the following instructions.
