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US 7,017,990 B2Granted
Stackable chair with chair ganger apparatus
AssigneeCosco Management, Inc.
InventorsAndrew B. Mendenhall, Jason S. Andrews, Dennis M. Turner
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Abstract
A chair ganger apparatus includes a first cross bar included in a first chair, a second cross bar included in a second chair, and a gang flange coupled to the first and second cross bars to retain the first and second chairs in “ganged” relation to one another.
Claims17
A chair ganger apparatus comprising
- a gang flange including a first side wall, a second side wall, and a top wall arranged to interconnect the first and second side walls and support the second side wall in spaced-apart relation to the first side wall to define a cross bar retainer channel therebetween and
- a flange mount adapted to be coupled to two chairs arranged to lie adjacent to one another in side-by-side relation, wherein the flange mount includes a fixed plate coupled to the first side wall of the gang flange and arranged to extend into the cross bar retainer channel and a removable plate arranged to extend into the cross bar retainer channel in a space provided between the second side wall of the gang flange and the fixed plate, the flange mount also includes a first cross bar formed to include the fixed plate and adapted to be coupled to two legs of a first chair and a second cross bar formed to include the removable plate and adapted to be coupled to two legs of a second chair, each of the first and second cross bars is formed to include a gang-flange receiver channel, and the top wall of the gang flange is positioned to lie in the gang-flange receiver channel formed in each of the first and second cross bars.
A chair ganger apparatus comprising
- a first chair including a first cross bar including a top edge interrupted by a gang flange receiver channel formed in the first cross bar,
- a second chair including a second cross bar arranged to abut the first cross bar and a gang flange having a U-shaped cross section and including a first side wall abutting the first cross bar, a second side wall abutting the second cross bar to retain the first and second cross bars in a space formed between the first and second side walls, and a top wall arranged to interconnect the first and second side walls and extend into the gang flange receiver channel formed in the first cross bar.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.