Foldable stool

• US 3,224,389 A
• Filed: 03/11/1964
• Issued: 12/21/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Jay H. Kent
• Original Assignee: Jay H. Kent
• Inventors: Kent, Jay H.
• Application Number:
  US04/350,961
• Time in Patent Office: 650 Days
• US Class Current: 108/119
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 4/14 with cross legs

Claims

1. A FOLDABLE STOOL COMPRISING TWO PAIRS OF LEGS, EACH LEG OF EACH PAIR HAVING A SEAT END AND A FOOT END OPPOSITE TO SAID SEAT END, THE LEGS OF AN INNER PAIR BEING RESPECTIVELY PIVOTED TO THE LEGS OF THE OTHER AND OUTER PAIR INTERMEDIATE THEIR LENGTHS FOR SCISSORS-LIKE MOVEMENT TO AND FROM FOLDED CONDITION IN WHICH SAID LEGS ARE IN SUBSTANTIAL ALIGNMENT AND REGISTER WITH THE FOOT ENDS OF ONE PAIR OF LEGS ADJACENT THE SEAT ENDS OF THE OTHER PAIR OF LEGS, FROM AND TO EXTENDED CONDITION IN WHICH THE SEAT ENDS OF SAID LEG PAIRS ARE SEPARATED TO SUPPORT A SEAT STRUCTURE, A SEAT STRUCTURE COMPRISING A PAIR OF SPACED APART SEAT SUPPORTS, A PLURALITY OF PARALLEL SLATS SPANNING BETWEEN AND FIXED TO SAID SEAT SUPPORTS PROVIDING A SEATING SURFACE MOUNTED UPON AND CARRIED BY SAID SUPPORTS, SAID SUPPORTS BEING PIVOTED ADJACENT ONE OF THEIR ENDS TO ONE OF SAID PAIRS OF LEGS SUBSTANTIALLY AT THE SEAT ENDS OF SAID ONE PAIR OF LEGS, SAID SUPPORTS ADJACENT BUT SPACED FROM THEIR OTHER ENDS HAVING DIAGONALLY DISPOSED NOTCHES, A LATCH BAR FIXED TO AND SPANNING BETWEEN THE LEGS OF THE OTHER PAIR OF LEGS ADJACENT THEIR SEAT ENDS, SAID LATCH BAR REMOVABLY ENGAGED ON SAID SUPPORT NOTCHES SECURING SAID STOOL IN SAID EXTENDED CONDITION, SAID LATCH BAR ADJACENT THE ENGAGEMENTS WITH SAID NOTCHES BEING CUT OUT PROVIDING LIMIT MEANS SUBSTANTIALLY ABUTTING AGAINST SAID SEAT SUPPORTS AND LIMITING SIDEWISE SLIPPAGE OF SAID SEAT STRUCTURE RELATIVE TO SAID LEGS, THE DISTAL FOOT ENDS OF THE RESPECTIVE PAIRS OF SAID LEGS BEING RIGIDLY INTERCONNECTED BY TRANSVERSELY EXTENDING FOOT BARS STABILIZING SAID STOOL IN USE AGAINST TIPPING AND TWISTING, SAID LATCH BAR IN SAID FOLDED CONDITION BEING REMOTE FROM SAID SEAT STRUCTURE AND ADJACENT THE FOOT ENDS OF THE OTHER PAIR OF LEGS COMPRISING HANDLE MEANS FOR MOVEMENT OF THE FOLDED STOOL FROM PLACE TO PLACE, SAID FOOT BARS BLOCKING LEG PENETRATION INTO A SUPPORTING SURFACE.