Chair having retractable ganging apparatus and cooperating stack

Details Chair having retractable ganging apparatus and cooperating stack Chair having retractable ganging apparatus and cooperating stack

1990-04-09

1990-12-18

Aschenbrenner, Peter A.

Chairs and seats

Plural related seats

Coupled side-by-side

297239, 108 64, 108 91, A47C 1500

Patent

active

049781685

ABSTRACT:
A chair having ganging apparatus for interconnecting a number of such chairs together and a stacking pad is attached to the underside of the chair seat, the bottom surface of which conforms closely to the top surface of the seat. The ganging apparatus includes first and second ganging members, each connected to the seat underside, and swingable between a retracted position beneath the chair seat and an extended position extended out from under the chair seat. Both of the ganging members are wire-like members formed in a generally U-shape and are interlinked with corresponding members of an adjacent chair. The stacking pad accommodates the attachment of a frame, to which the legs and ganging members are attached. The pad includes recesses for accommodating the ganging members when in their retracted position. A spring is provided for biasing the ganging members toward the retracted position, and a catch is provided for locking the ganging members in the extended position. The leg portions of one ganging member are formed in an S-shape at the end of the leg portions nearest the cross portion. The S-shaped legs of the first ganging member thus interlink with the substantially straight cross portion of the second ganging member of the adjacent chair to secure the chairs in ganged relation. The S-shape thus permits the ganging of the chairs at a plurality of different ganging spacings.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3095237 (1963-06-01), Desnoyers et al.
patent: 3614158 (1971-10-01), Mohr

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