Chairs and seats – Bottom or back – Rigid or semirigid hollow shell
Patent
1998-09-29
2000-07-18
Barfield, Anthony D.
Chairs and seats
Bottom or back
Rigid or semirigid hollow shell
2973781, 297DIG2, A47C 702
Patent
active
060896698
ABSTRACT:
A two-piece folding outdoor seat for recreational boats and the like includes a hollow molded seat member and a hollow molded back member. The seat member has an upper surface shaped to abuttingly support a seated user thereon, and a raised rearward portion elevated above the upper surface and shaped to abut the lower back area of the seated user for improved comfort. The raised rearward portion of the seat member includes a plurality of integrally formed hinge fingers extending along an upper portion thereof. The back member has a plurality of integrally formed hinge fingers extending along a lower portion thereof. The hinge fingers on the raised rearward portion of the seat member and the back member are meshed with one another and pivotally interconnected to define a horizontally oriented hinge therealong which permits the back member to be shifted between a lowered storage position and a raised use position.
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Begin Jason E.
Ratza Clifton J.
Wilcox Jeffrey S.
Attwood Corporation
Barfield Anthony D.
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