High chair attachment for chairs
OwnerRaymond H. Staggs, Tony A. Clappinventors
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Abstract
A temporary high chair conversion for an adult chair includes a child's eating tray horizontally disposed above an adult chair seat by a pair of U-shaped frame members removably supporting the tray and overlying the chair seat. The rearward end portions of the U-shaped frame members are connected with a pair of opposed chair back supporting standards by a telescoping tube and spring arrangement urging the semicircular chair back standard engaging members into frictional contact with the respective chair back standard.
Claims1
In an adult chair having a leg supported seat defined by front, rear and opposing side portions and having a backrest supported above the horizontal plane of the seat by back leg extended standards, the improvement comprising:
- a high chair feeding tray horizontally overlying the forward portion of said seat;
- rearwardly projecting bracket means underlying and removably supporting opposing end portions of said tray above said seat;
- said bracket means comprising an elongated tube doubled back upon itself to define a U-shape having a bight portion projecting forwardly of the chair seat and rearwardly projecting legs;
- a spring clip depending from the respective end portion of said tray and releasably gripping said tray underlying bracket means;
- back rest standard grip means secured to the rearward portion of said bracket means,
- said grip means including a pair of chair standard leg grips secured to the rearward end portion of said bracket legs,
- each grip of said pair of grips having a vertical recess cooperatively nesting an intermediate portion of a chair standard;
- resilient means maintaining said grip means in frictional gripping contact with said back rest standards,
- said resilient means comprising telescoping members interposed between and connected with the respective grip of said pair of grips;
- and,
- an expansion spring normally biasing said telescoping members toward a telescopically extended position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.