Portable personal seating barrier
AssigneeSensory Shield LLC
InventorLisa Margaret Daly
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Abstract
A portable personal seating barrier comprising of at least three poles and at least one panel, the barrier being capable of demarcating an individual seating space while also blocking out sensory stimuli from other people in close proximity and affording additional privacy to the user thereof. In certain embodiments, the panel retracts and expands telescopically, while in other embodiments the panel may be pleated or rolled around a core. This arrangement creates a portable device that can be used in a variety of settings, such as public buses, trains, airplanes, classrooms, and testing centers. The device can be free-standing and may not need to be physically attached to any structure, and thus provides a seat and a privacy/sensory barrier from others.
Claims20
A personal barrier comprising:
- a rear horizontal support pole;
- a side horizontal support pole, the side horizontal support pole being hingedly attached to the rear horizontal support pole, the hinged attachment of the side horizontal support pole and the rear horizontal support pole allowing the rear horizontal support pole to rotate with respect to the side horizontal support pole and define a first plane, the first plane comprising a bottom of a space to be occupied by a user of the personal barrier;
- a vertical support pole, the vertical support pole being hingedly attached to the side horizontal support pole, the hinged attachment of the vertical support pole to the side horizontal support pole allowing the vertical support pole to rotate with respect to the side horizontal support pole to define a second plane, the second plane defining a first side of the space to be occupied by a user of the personal barrier;
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- a barrier comprising a fabric, the barrier being attached to the vertical support pole and the side horizontal support pole, the barrier occupying at least a portion of the first side,
- wherein the rear horizontal support pole is positioned proximate to the rear of a seat occupied by the user and the side horizontal support pole is positioned proximate to the side of the seat.
A personal barrier comprising:
- a rear horizontal support pole, the rear horizontal support pole being between fourteen and twenty inches long, between one half of an inch and two inches wide and between one quarter and one inch thick;
- a side horizontal support pole, the side horizontal support pole being between eighteen and twenty-four inches long, between one half of an inch and two inches wide and between one quarter and one inch thick;
- a first hinge, the first hinge being positioned near a first end of the rear horizontal support pole and a first end of the side horizontal support pole, the hinge allowing the rear horizontal support pole to rotate and define a first plane;
- a vertical support pole, the vertical support pole being between twenty-four and thirty-six inches long, between one half of an inch and two inches wide, and between one quarter of an inch and one inch thick;
- a second hinge, a first end of the second hinge being attached to the side horizontal support pole between two and six inches from the first hinge, a second end of the second hinge being attached to the vertical support pole, the hinge allowing the vertical support pole to rotate and define a second plane;
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- a fabric, a first end of the fabric being attached to the vertical support pole, and a second end of the fabric being attached to the side horizontal support pole, the fabric being pleated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.