Chairs and seats – With table – desk – or easel – Chair-secured standard supports table
Reexamination Certificate
1999-08-03
2001-02-27
Nelson, Jr., Milton (Department: 3636)
Chairs and seats
With table, desk, or easel
Chair-secured standard supports table
Reexamination Certificate
active
06193308
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates, in general, to a collapsible chair with a table and, more particularly, to a collapsible chair having a table and designed to be selectively used as a chair, a leisure table with chairs, or an indoor simple table with chairs, thereby being conveniently used for a variety of purposes, the collapsible chair, with the table, also being designed to be convenient to users while carrying or storing it, and requiring only a small area while being used or stored.
2. Description of the Prior Art
A collapsible chair, comprising a plurality of legs, or front, rear, left and right legs, has been proposed and used. In the conventional collapsible chair, the front, rear, left, or right legs cross each other into a front, rear, left or right X-shaped collapsible leg frame. The above leg frames are also coupled to each other at their upper and lower ends using a plurality of front and rear supports and a plurality of front and rear connectors, thus forming a collapsible chair framework. Two back support columns are mounted to the two rear support and the two rear connectors provided at the rear leg frame and supports a back support member. In addition, a seat member is supported by the four connectors of the collapsible framework.
While designing such conventional collapsible chairs, the most important objective is to allow a chair to be easily foldable, thereby being easily and conveniently carried by users and being effectively stored within a limited area. Several types of collapsible chairs, individually having a structure capable of accomplishing the above-mentioned objective, have been proposed and used.
However, such conventional collapsible chairs are problematic in that they are designed to be only used as collapsible and portable chairs, thus being limited in their use.
When it is necessary to use such a collapsible chair with a table, a user has to purchase and carry a separate table in addition to the collapsible chair. This is inconvenient to the user while carrying or storing the table along with the collapsible chair.
In an effort to overcome such a problem experienced in the conventional collapsible chairs, a collapsible leisure table, made of a plastic material and integrated with a plurality of collapsible plastic chairs, has been proposed and somewhat widely used. However, such a collapsible leisure table is problematic in that it is very difficult to carry the table because the table is very heavy and has a large size and volume even when the table is fully collapsed. Due to the large size and volume of the fully collapsed table, it is also difficult to store the table within a limited area. Another problem, experienced in the above collapsible leisure table, resides in that the table is somewhat expensive, thus failing to be generally used.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Accordingly, the present invention has been made keeping in mind the above problems occurring in the prior art, and an object of the present invention is to provide a collapsible chair, which has a table and is designed to be selectively used as a chair, a leisure table with chairs, or an indoor simple table with chairs, thereby being conveniently used for a variety of purposes.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a collapsible chair, which has a table and is designed to be easily collapsible, thus being convenient to users while carrying or storing it, and requiring only a small area while being used or stored.
In order to accomplish the above objects, the present invention provides a collapsible chair, comprising: two or more collapsible chair units arranged abreast on the chair with a gap being defined between the chair units; a rear vertical guide column positioned in the back of the inside back support column of each collapsible chair unit while extending in parallel to the back support column, the guide column being fixed to the inside one of two rear supports, with the collapsible chair units being coupled to each other into the collapsible single body by two auxiliary connectors, the two auxiliary connectors being individually mounted to the top portion of both the inside back support column and an associated vertical guide column of each of the collapsible chair units; a movable guide member received in each of the guide columns in a way such that the guide member is movable in a vertical direction under the guide of the guide column, with a table being movably coupled to the outside end of the guide members of two collapsible chair units in a way such that the table is rotatable around the two guide members forwardly or backwardly; two front vertical columns individually provided at the inside corner of the front portion of each collapsible chair unit, thus supporting the front portion of the table when the table is positioned horizontally; and an extension provided at each of the two auxiliary connectors so as to allow the two auxiliary connectors to have the same height as that of the two front vertical columns, thus supporting the rear portion of the table when the table is positioned horizontally.
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Jr. Milton Nelson
Nawrocki, Rooney & Sivertson P.A.
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