Foldable Chair with a Metal Seat
AssigneeSpec Seats Technologies Inc.
InventorMei Chuen Lin
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Abstract
A foldable chair includes a chair body having two rear legs, a metal seat movable upward and foldable on the rear legs so as to occupy little storage room. When the seat is moved to a seated position and when the rear legs are moved to a stretch-out position, the seat has a bottom edge seated on the top end of the rear legs and defines a straight line aligned with a middle line of the top end of the rear leg. An integrally formed strengthening structure extends across a bottom side of the seat so that gravity center of the seat is concentrated on the top ends of the rear legs, thereby strengthening the supporting ability of the rear legs relative to the seat so that even sitting of an overweight person on the seat does not deform and damage the seat and the rear legs.
Claims10
A foldable chair with a metal seat, comprising:
- a chair body including a first frame having an inverted U-shaped frame part and two front legs extending from two ends of said inverted U-shaped frame part, and a second frame having two rear legs connected pivotally to inner sides of said two front legs such that said rear legs are foldable relative to said front legs between a stretch-out position, where the front and rear legs are stretched out and a folded position, where the front and rear legs are folded on each other;
- a backrest installed to inner sides of said inverted U-shaped frame part;
- a seat, made from metal, connected pivotally to said inner sides of said front legs and movable relative to said first frame between a seated position, where a person can sit thereon, and a storage position, where the seat is folded on the first frame, wherein said top end of said rear leg defines an imaginary middle line extending in the front and rear direction and wherein said seat has a bottom edge with a width (thickness) smaller than that of said top end of a respective one of said rear legs such that when said seat is moved to said seated position and once said rear legs are at said stretch-out position, said bottom edge of said seat is seated on said top ends of said rear legs and defines a straight line aligned with said imaginary middle line of said top end of said rear leg.
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