Portable seat

• US 6,848,746 B2
• Filed: 02/06/2003
• Issued: 02/01/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/06/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Inno-Labs, LP
• Original Assignee: Inno-Labs, LP
• Inventors: Gentry, Todd R.
• Primary Examiner(s): WHITE, RODNEY BARNETT
• Application Number:
  US10/360,047
• Publication Number:
  US 20040155506A1
• Time in Patent Office: 726 Days
• Field of Search: 297/188.01, 297/188.04, 297/188.06, 297/188.08, 297/188.12, 297/188.2, 297/228.1, 297/228.11, 297/228.12, 297/229, 297/380, 297/180.11
• US Class Current: 297/380
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 7/021 Detachable or loose seat cushions
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 7/748 for heating

Abstract

A portable seat is provided. The seat comprises a cushion device inside a pocket formed by an outer casing. A heat transfer device is carried by the cushion device and is inside the outer casing. The cushion may be reversed permitting the heat transfer device to be immediately adjacent the user or to provide at least a portion of the cushion between the heat transfer device and the user.

Claims

1. A portable seat comprising:

a bottom portion including;

an exterior casing forming an interior pocket and having an elongate opening providing access to the pocket;

a cushion member contained within the pocket;

a cover in the interior pocket and at least partly surrounding the cushion member and selectively removable therewith from the interior pocket and adapted to removably retain a heat transfer device adjacent to the cushion member and in heat transfer relation to an exterior surface of the exterior casing, said cover at least partly defining a receptacle adapted to contain a heat transfer device therein and positioned between an exterior portion of the cover and an open weave member secured to and overlying a portion of the cover on a major face thereof with the receptacle being between the cover and the member, where said receptacle is reversible in position whereby the receptacle is selectively position at a location adjacent to the sitting surface or remote from the sitting surface with a portion of the cushion member between the heat transfer device and the sitting surface;

a second opening providing access to the receptacle for installation and removal of a heat transfer device; and

a back support portion connected to the bottom portion and the bottom portion has a sitting surface.

2. A seat as forth in claim 1 wherein the bottom portion and back support portion each include a resiliently deformable generally rigid member therein and said back support portion is connected to said bottom portion by a hinge mounted on each side of the seat and secured to said rigid members.

3. A cushion device selectively usable as a seat, the cushion device including:

a seat portion having an exterior first casing with a first receptacle therein;

a back portion having a second exterior casing with a second receptacle therein;

a cushion member in each of the first and second receptacles;

an opening providing access to at least one of the first and second receptacles;

a retainer device in one of said first and second receptacles adapted to receive a heat transfer device far selectively retention therein;

at least one member connected to the seat and back portions to selectively retain the seat and back portions in a chair forming orientation and selectively allowing the seat and back portions to lie in a generally common plane to form a mattress; and

an extension portion comprising a third exterior casing with a third receptacle therein and a cushion member in the third receptacle, said extension portion being selectively movable to lie in said generally common plane.

4. A device as set forth in claim 3 wherein there is a said retainer device in each of at least two of said seat portion, back portion and said extension portion and a plurality of heat transfer devices each selectively positionable in a respective one of said seat, back and extension portions to provide a plurality of heat transfer zones.