Collapsed Components Form Self-contained Carrying Case Patents (Class 297/17)
  • Patent number: 4025107
    Abstract: A collapsible spoon-bottom chair includes a bowl-shaped bottom, a guide rail attached thereto, scissor-type levers which have two pairs of opposite ends, where one pair of the ends is slidable in the guide rail and an extensible seat which is hingeably attached to the other pair of ends. The seat is movable from a seating position outside the bowl to a collapsed position within the bowl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1977
    Inventor: Charles Chippa
  • Patent number: 3947903
    Abstract: There is disclosed an ingenious chair having multiple folding parts including leg portions. The chair has a centrally located portion comprising the seat portion of the chair. U-shaped leg members depend from the ends of the seat portion. Additionally, the ends of the seat portion carrying the leg portions have pivoted therefrom web support means which in effect acts as convenient extensions of the seat portion. The said extensions when folded over the seat portion cover the seat portion which may have placed thereon a plurality of objects. The seat portion having the free ends has extending therefrom additional web material, each of which may be joined together as by a zipper or the like under the seat portion to provide a sling like support means. On the other hand, the two sections of web material may be joined above the top of the seat portion when the two extensions have been folded over the seat. Prior to accomplishing this the seat portion may have placed thereon various articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1974
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1976
    Inventor: Hans Reinhard Menke