Portable seat with storage compartment
OwnerRandy C. Rettenbergerinventor
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Abstract
A portable seat includes a storage compartment located beneath a seat cover of the seat. The seat cover of the seat normally extends between the legs of the seat to provide a seat surface. The seat cover, however, can be moved from this position to expose an access opening into the storage compartment. A user of the seat thus can access the storage compartment from the top side of the seat, easing access to the storage compartment.
Claims26
A portable seat comprising a collapsible frame which is movable between a collapsed position and an open position, said frame including a first support and a second support which define a seat plane with the frame in the open position, a container being supported by said first and second supports and depending into a space below said seat plane, said container having an upper opening accessible from above said seat plane, the opening being generally coextensive with a peripheral shape of the container just below the seat plane, and a seat cover attached to each support and positioned to lie generally within said seat plane and to cover at least a portion of said upper opening of said container, said seat cover being able to fold between and below the supports with the frame in the collapsed position and being releasably attached to at least one of the supports so as to be detached from the one support and moved toward the other support to expose generally the entire upper opening of the container.
A portable seat comprising a first leg assembly and a second leg assembly, said first and second leg assemblies being movable from a folded position, in which said first and second leg assemblies lie generally adjacent to each other, to an opened position, in which at least corresponding portions of said first and second leg assemblies are spaced apart from each other and define a seat plane when in said opened position, a bag positioned between said leg assemblies and including an opening defined generally within said seat plane, the opening being sized to generally match the peripheral shape of the bag as defined within a plane parallel to and directly below the seat plane, first and second side links, each side link connecting together corresponding sides of the first and second leg assemblies, and a seat cover being movable from a closed position, in which said seat cover extends between corresponding portions of said first and second leg assemblies and covers said opening to said bag and at least a portion of each of the side links, to a raised position, in which said opening of said bag is fully exposed, said seat cover and said side links being able to fold between the leg assemblies when in said folded position.
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