US 10,194,749 B1 · Portable chair and methods of forming a portable chair

Abstract

A portable chair may include a first front leg and a second front leg connected by a front sled and a first back leg and a second back leg connected by a back sled. The front sled may include a first front foot and a second front foot and the back sled may include a first back foot and a second back foot. Each of the feet attached to the front and back sleds may include retention feature holes configured to allow water to drain from the sled/foot interface. The portable chair may further include a seat including a seat frame border including a plurality of protrusions. The seat frame border may be rigidly attached to the seat via an injection molding process. The portable chair may also include a seat frame to which the plurality of protrusions of the seat frame border is configured to be removably attached.

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Dependent claims

A portable chair comprising:

a first front leg and a second front leg connected by a front sled;
a first back leg and a second back leg connected by a back sled;
a seat including a seat frame border, wherein the seat is of a highly-permeable, weave-type construction, and wherein the seat frame border is a rigid over-mold that is rigidly attached to the seat by an injection molding process;
wherein the injection molding process forms a plurality of protrusions on an underside portion of the seat frame border;
and
a seat frame including a first terminal end, a second terminal end, and a seat attachment rail, wherein the plurality of protrusions on the underside portion of the seat frame border are configured to removably engage with the seat attachment rail.

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A method comprising:

inserting a rearmost side attachment screw interface on a first side of a seat frame border attached to a seat by an injection molding process into a rearmost side attachment hole of a first side attachment rail attached to a seat frame and a rearmost side attachment screw interface on a second side of the seat frame border into a rearmost side attachment hole of a second side attachment rail attached to the seat frame;
inserting a first middle side attachment screw interface and a second middle side attachment screw interface on the first side of the seat frame border into a first middle side attachment hole and a second middle side attachment hole of the first side attachment rail and a first middle side attachment screw interface and a second middle side attachment screw interface on the second side of the seat frame border into a first middle side attachment hole and a second middle side attachment hole of the second side attachment rail;
inserting a frontmost side attachment screw interface on the first side of the seat frame border into a frontmost side attachment hole of the first side attachment rail and a frontmost side attachment clip on the second side of the seat frame border into a frontmost side attachment hole of the second side attachment rail;
aligning a front attachment clip on a third side of the seat frame border with a front attachment hole of on a first end portion of a carrying handle attached to the seat frame and a front attachment clip on the third side of the seat frame border with a front attachment hole on a second end portion of the carrying handle;
and
inserting the front attachment clip on the first side of the seat frame border into the front attachment hole on the first end portion of the carrying handle and the front attachment clip on the second side of the seat frame border into the front attachment hole on the second end portion of the carrying handle.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Portable chair and methods of forming a portable chair

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Portable chair and methods of forming a portable chair

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Abstract

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