Portable chair
AssigneeYETI Coolers, LLC
InventorsAndrew J. Winterhalter, Michael Cieszko, Evan Goldberg, Derek Sullivan, Donald Edward Desroches
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Abstract
A chair may include a frame, a seat pan, a backrest, a pair of arm rests, and a plurality of legs wherein at least two legs may each provided with an inner leg and an outer leg and the inner leg is configured to telescope out of the outer leg, wherein the at least two legs may include a leg locking system for locking the outer leg to the inner leg when the chair is in an unfolded position, wherein the leg locking system may include a trigger housing, a trigger, and a latch, and wherein the latch may be configured to engage a bushing on the inner leg.
Claims20
A chair comprising:
- a frame;
- a seat pan;
- a backrest;
- a pair of arm rests;
- and
- a plurality of legs;
- wherein at least two legs are each provided with an inner leg and an outer leg and the inner leg is configured to telescope out of the outer leg,
- wherein the at least two legs include a leg locking system for locking the outer leg to the inner leg,
- wherein the leg locking system includes a trigger housing, a trigger, and a latch, and
- wherein the latch is configured to engage a bushing on the inner leg.
A method of forming a chair comprising:
- forming a seat pan comprising at least one pair of seat bars;
- forming a plurality of legs wherein the seat pan is tensionable by at least two of the plurality of legs;
- forming a locking system engaged with at least two legs of the plurality of legs;
- forming a backrest comprising a pair of backrest bars, wherein the pair of backrest bars are affixed to the at least one pair of seat bars;
- wherein the seat pan and the backrest are formed of a suspension fabric having an overlap and a core placed into a hollow section created by the overlap,
- wherein the core in the hollow section is secured in a notch asymmetrically located in a top portion of the pair of backrest bars,
- wherein the at least two legs further comprise an inner leg and an outer leg,
- wherein the inner leg is configured to telescope out of the outer leg, and
- wherein each of the at least two legs includes the leg locking system configured to lock the outer leg to the inner leg.
A folding chair comprising:
- a frame;
- a seat pan;
- a backrest;
- a pair of arm rests;
- a pair of legs;
- and
- a tensioner;
- wherein the legs are each provided with an inner leg and an outer leg and the inner leg is configured to telescope out of the outer leg,
- wherein each of the legs include a leg locking system for locking the outer leg to the inner leg, and
- wherein the tensioner is configured to maintain the backrest in a tensioned position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.