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US 4,397,500 AGranted
Portable outdoorsman's seat
OwnerRichard D. Moffittinventor
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Abstract
A portable, folding, outdoorsman's seat designed to be hung from the trunk of a tree. The seat is adjustable for height, tilt, and girth of the tree, and comprises a sling-type seat suspended from an integral rope harness. The ropes attach to the seat through a pierced sleeve arrangement allowing for tilt adjustment, and to each other through metal plates such as tent-rope adjusters or the like. The seat may be carried in a jacket pocket and easily erected without assembly.
Claims3
A portable seat intended to be hung from the trunk of a tree, comprising:
- a. sling seat means for supporting an occupant having at each of its ends a portion folded back upon itself defining a pocket;
- b. two rigid sleeves, one for fitting within each pocket;
- c. each of said sleeves having two holes perpendicular to the long axis thereof, and spaced along the length thereof, dividing the sleeve into three segments;
- d. rope means passing through each of the sleeves, for hanging the seat from a support located above;
- e. the rope of each of said rope means passing into each of said sleeves, out of the interior of said sleeve throiugh one of the holes, back into the interior of the sleeve through the other hole, and exiting through the opposite end of the sleeve from which it entered;
- f. said arrangement of the rope means and the sleeves being usable to adjust the tilt of the seat relative to the support.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.