Chair structure for the assemblage of chair rows

• US 5,129,703 A
• Filed: 12/27/1990
• Issued: 07/14/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Weisner-Hager KG
• Original Assignee: Wiesner-Hager KG
• Inventors: Ballendat, Martin, Reinthaler, Georg
• Primary Examiner(s): SILBERMANN, JOANNE
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bonifanti, J.
• Application Number:
  US07/634,231
• Time in Patent Office: 565 Days
• Field of Search: 297/248, 297/444, 297/440, 297/421, 403/353, 403/384, 403/444, 248/188, 248/222.3, 248/225.1, 248/220.2
• US Class Current: 297/248
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 1/124 Separate chairs, connectible together into a row

Abstract

The expense required for the assemblage of chair rows consisting of individual chairs is considerably reduced in that legless intermediate members are inserted between chairs with legs, specifically legless seat shells or legless trays. Versatility is additionally increased by means of serial connectors which permit the identical fastening members to be covered or to be directly connected.

Claims

1. Chair structure for the assemblage of chair rows of interlinked chairs, where the lateral outside boundary of a chair is formed by two screw heads placed in succession at a given distance each head having a groove about the periphery adapted to engage with snap-in openings of a serial connector similarly engaged to an adjacent chair, wherein each chair has a seat shell, chair legs and a crossbeam positioned beneath said seat shell and is provided on either side with said two screw heads outwardly projecting with said peripheral groove, said chair being arrangeable in rows by means of an intermediate member which can be inserted between two chairs, the intermediate member having on either side an insert lock with front and rear snap-in openings, said front snap-in opening is open from the front and said rear snap-in opening is open from below, said serial connector having snap-in openings on either side for the screw heads to laterally cover the projecting screw heads and to connect adjacent chairs with legs, the snap-in openings of said serial connector are both open from below on one side and on the other side one snap-in opening is open from below and the other snap-in opening is open from behind.

2. The chair structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein the two screw heads are pat of fastening screw which serve to secure the chair legs to the crossbeam.

3. The chair structure as claimed in claim 2, wherein said chair legs have connection heads on their upper ends, said connection heads having throughholes for the two fastening screws.

4. The chair structure as claimed in claim 2, wherein the fastening screws also hold together the seat shell and the crossbeam.

5. The chair structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein the intermediate member is a legless seat shell.

6. The chair structure as claimed in claim 5, wherein said insert lock is attached with a screw to a legless seat crossbeam positioned beneath a front edge of said legless seat shell.

7. The chair structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein the intermediate member is a tray.

8. The chair structure as claimed in claim 7, wherein the tray displays two insert rails on its lower side, each of which has two snap in openings, the foremost of which is open from the front and backmost of which is open from below.