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US 4,062,586 AGranted
Hanging chair
OwnerEileen S. Ortizeinventor
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Abstract
A hanging chair for use in conjunction with an overhead support wherein the chair includes at least one flexible seat having a substantially trapezoidal configuration with the shorter parallel side forming the back portion of the chair, the longer parallel side forming the front portion of the chair and the two non-parallel sides forming the side portions of the chair. Frame members maintain the side portions of the chair in a stretched condition so that an occupant may easily enter and leave the chair from the front portion thereof.
Claims10
A chair for hanging from an overhead support, which chair comprises:
- a. a pair of flexible seats, with each seat having a substantially trapezoidal configuration and formed substantially of loosely woven material which permits the seats to individually expand in all directions, wherein:
- 1. the back portion of the chair is defined by the shorter parallel sides of the seats,
- 2. the front portion of the chair is defined by the longer parallel sides of the seats,
- 3. the mid-section of the chair is defined by two adjacent non-parallel sides of the seats, and
- 4. the outer sides of the chair are defined by the remaining two non-parallel sides of the seats;
- b. a frame member carried by the mid-section for joining the two non-parallel sides adjacent each other and maintaining the mid-section in a stretched condition,
- c. a frame member carried by each of the outer sides for maintaining the outer sides in a stretched condition;
- and
- d. means carried by the seats for hanging the chair from the overhead support.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.