Foldable chair with rocking means

In a foldable chair of the type including a pair of frameworks, each comprised of pipes and provided with an angular U-shaped leg having front and rear leg sections and a bottom leg section therebetween, pivot pins connecting said U-shaped legs together to permit relative pivotal movement therebetween about said pivot pins for permitting said U-shaped legs to be put into an X-like configuration and to also permit the frameworks to be folded, a flexible seat member stretched on said frameworks, and two rocking means attached to said U-shaped legs, respectively, for rocking the chair,

• the improvements wherein:
• each of said rocking means includes a pipe type rocker member which comprises front and rear portions pivotally connected by pivot pins to the front and rear leg sections of the corresponding U-shaped leg, respectively, and an arcuate portion between said front and rear portions, said rocker members being swingable inwardly of the chair relative to said U-shaped legs between upward and downward positions, said rocking means including means engageable with at least inside portions of the bottom leg sections of the U-shaped legs when they are in said downward position so as to be stopped and retained in said downward position;
• said rocker members being pivotally swingable from an upward housed position where said arcuate portion is remote from said bottom leg sections and said chair rests on said bottom leg sections in a non-rocking condition, to a fully swung downward position where said rocker members are engaged with at least inside portions of the bottom leg sections of the U-shaped legs and are stopped and retained in said fully swung downward position with the arcuate portions of said rocker members protruding downwardly from the bottom leg sections, respectively, so that said chair rests on said arcuate portions and is in a rocking condition.