Folding chair
OwnerRonald E. Koehminventor
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Abstract
A unique folding chair having a frame which permits said chair to be easily and conveniently folded into a compact configuration that facilitates both the storage and transport thereof. The frame of the instant folding chair includes a triangular-shaped seat support structure and an arrangement of legs that are spaced relative to one another in positions that correspond to the vertices of a triangle. By virtue of particular coupling assemblies, the structural members of the folding chair of the present invention are adapted to be moved in one or both of two perpendicular directions. Accordingly, the chair may be folded so that the structural members thereof can be arranged in substantially parallel alignment with one another and generally in a single plane.
Claims17
A folding chair comprising:
- first and second seat support members,
- leg means pivotably connected to said seat support members,
- back support means pivotably connected to said seat support members,
- first coupling means to pivotably interconnect said first and second seat support members,
- said first and second seat support members adapted for movement in a horizontal plane and in directions toward one another, whereby to correspondingly cause said leg means and said back support means to be moved in directions respectively towards one another, and
- a third seat support member pivotably connected between said first and second seat members and adapted for movement in the horizontal plane of said first and second seat support members,
- said leg means and said back support means adapted to be pivoted through respective vertical planes and into the horizontal plane of said first, second, and third seat support members, so that in a folded configuration, each of said seat support members, said leg means, and said back support means is compactly arranged in substantially parallel alignment with one another in said horizontal plane.
A folding chair having at least front legs and a plurality of at least three seat support members, all of which being pivotably interconnected with one another, said folding chair further including:
- first coupling means for pivotably interconnecting first ends of a first and second of said seat support members,
- second coupling means for pivotably interconnecting the second end of the first of said seat support members to one front leg,
- third coupling means for pivotably interconnecting the second end of the second of said seat support members to another front leg, and
- fourth coupling means for pivotably interconnecting one end of a third of said seat support members to the second end of one of said first or second seat support members, said third seat support member extending between the second ends of said first and second seat support members,
- each of said front legs and said first, second and third seat support members being movable in one or both of two generally perpendicular directions so as to be compactly positioned in substantially parallel alignment with one another.
A folding chair having a compact folded configuration and comprising a plurality of leg means and at least first, second and third seat support members for forming a seat upon which to support the weight of a user thereupon, said leg means and seat support members being pivotably interconnected with one another,
- the second of said seat support members being pivotably connected between the first and third of said seat support members, each of said first, second, and third seat support members being rotatable through a horizontal plane, so as to be located in generally parallel alignment with and adjacent one another, and
- each of said plurality of leg means being pivotably connected to said seat support members, so as to be rotatable through respective vertical planes and located in generally parallel alignment with and adjacent said seat support members.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.