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Gala Systems' Clever Spiralift Design Turns Columns Flat to Create Disappearing Auditorium Seating
Lifts that assemble and disassemble as needed, fascinating!
The mechanism is cool. The seating is ludicrously overengineered.
Spiralift: Utterly freaking awesome. Brain-rattlingly clever. OMFG.
I see that they patented the spiralift idea in 1989, so it's been around for a while. But I'd never even heard of it. Thanks Rain.
I also see that "rigid chain," including zippered rigid chain (!) is used in the same way, for the same purposes. Fascinating. Again, something I'd never heard of.
Hey Rain