Chairs and seats – Supplemental seat
Reexamination Certificate
2001-02-02
2002-05-21
Nelson, Jr., Milton (Department: 3636)
Chairs and seats
Supplemental seat
C297S188080
Reexamination Certificate
active
06390551
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to storage and chair combination devices and more particularly pertains to a new storage and chair combination device for storing, transporting and accessing various items while providing a seat which is positionable over and on a bleacher seat or stadium chair.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of storage and chair combination devices is known in the prior art. More specifically, storage and chair combination devices heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art includes U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,556,250; 2,865,433; 5,100,198; 5,573,288; 5,722,717; and 356,250.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new storage and chair combination device. The inventive device includes a housing having a bottom wall, a top wall, a back wall, and a pair of lateral side walls. A front side of the housing is open for accessing an interior of the housing. An interior of the housing has a plurality of intermediate horizontal and vertical walls such that a plurality of compartments are defined within the housing. A chair portion includes a seat panel comprising a resiliently flexible material. The seat panel has a size such that the seat panel substantially covers the front side of the housing when the seat panel is positioned over the front side of the housing. A securing member removably secures the chair to each of the lateral side walls. A coupling member rotatably couples a front edge of the seat panel to the housing such that the seat panel may be rotated away from the front side of the housing and positioned over a bleacher such that the housing is positioned below the bleacher.
In these respects, the storage and chair combination device according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of storing, transporting and accessing various items while providing a seat which is positionable over and on a bleacher seat or stadium chair.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of storage and chair combination devices now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new storage and chair combination device construction wherein the same can be utilized for storing, transporting and accessing various items while providing a seat which is positionable over and on a bleacher seat or stadium chair.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new storage and chair combination device apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the storage and chair combination devices mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new storage and chair combination device which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art storage and chair combination devices, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a housing having a bottom wall, a top wall, a back wall, and a pair of lateral side walls. A front side of the housing is open for accessing an interior of the housing. An interior of the housing has a plurality of intermediate horizontal and vertical walls such that a plurality of compartments are defined within the housing. A chair portion includes a seat panel comprising a resiliently flexible material. The seat panel has a size such that the seat panel substantially covers the front side of the housing when the seat panel is positioned over the front side of the housing. A securing member removably secures the chair to each of the lateral side walls. A coupling member rotatably couples a front edge of the seat panel to the housing such that the seat panel may be rotated away from the front side of the housing and positioned over a bleacher such that the housing is positioned below the bleacher.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new storage and chair combination device apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the storage and chair combination devices mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new storage and chair combination device which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art storage and chair combination devices, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new storage and chair combination device which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new storage and chair combination device which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new storage and chair combination device which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such storage and chair combination device economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new storage and chair combination device which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new storage and chair combination device for storing, transporting and accessing various items while providing a seat which is positionable over and on a bleacher seat or stadium chair.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new
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