Foldable child booster seat
AssigneeStudio Gooris Ltd
InventorFrederic Frans Petrus Gooris
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Abstract
A foldable child booster seat based on the origami and popup technique. The booster seat is light and easy to be folded flat into a compact form for storage and transport. The foldable booster seat, comprising: a plurality of rigid substrates, each rigid substrate is interconnected to another by one or more integrated hinges or flexible parts allowing the rigid substrate to fold either inward or outward when folding up; wherein when the foldable booster seat is folded flat, the rigid substrates are stacked together; and wherein when the foldable booster seat is folded up, the rigid substrates are arranged to form the shape of a chair or stool.
Claims20
A collapsible, load-bearing structure for self-assembling, pop-up furniture that assembles from a folded, collapsed configuration to an assembled, three-dimensional configuration comprising:
- a first collapsible structure having a collapsible quadrilateral shape in cross-section with four quadrilateral sides, each quadrilateral side rotatably connected to an adjacent quadrilateral side, the length of the quadrilateral sides configured such that the quadrilateral is reconfigurable into a structure having an approximately triangular shape in cross-section, with two adjacent quadrilateral sides being rotated to form a single side of the approximately triangular shape, the single side forming a load-bearing surface;
- a support structure for the load-bearing surface including two foldable supports sharing a common side rotatably connected, each of the two foldable supports rotatably attached to one quadrilateral side such that folding of the collapsible quadrilateral to a collapsed state causes the two foldable supports to fold together facing each other;
- wherein configuring the quadrilateral into the triangle shape causes the load bearing surface to be upheld by unfolded foldable supports.
A collapsible, load-bearing structure for self-assembling, pop-up furniture that assembles from a folded, collapsed configuration to an assembled, three-dimensional configuration comprising:
- a first foldable structure comprising first and second load-bearing surfaces rotatably connected along a hinge such that the first and second load-bearing surfaces fold together in a first, substantially flat configuration, and open to form a single load-bearing surface;
- each of the first and second load-bearing surfaces respectively connected by a hinge to first and second support quadrilaterals;
- each support quadrilateral being rotatably connected by a hinge on two quadrilateral sides to one or more linking panels;
- at least one of the linking panels being rotatably connected by a hinge to a respective side support for the first and second load-bearing surfaces.
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