Ganging device for chair

Details Ganging device for chair Ganging device for chair

2008-05-08

2010-10-12

Dunn, David (Department: 3636)

Chairs and seats

Plural related seats

Coupled side-by-side

C297S239000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07810882

ABSTRACT:
A connectable chair has a frame for supporting a seat and a back support. The frame including a pair of spaced apart leg members. A female ganging device and a corresponding male ganging device both have a mounting portion and an engagement portion. The engagement portion interconnects like chairs in a side-by-side relationship. The mounting portion secures the female and male ganging device to opposite sides of the frame. The female ganging further includes a receiving slot extending across the engagement portion. The male ganging device further includes an elongated flange extending across the engagement portion. The flange of the male ganging device may be received by the receiving slot of the female ganging device of a like chair thereby providing for the interconnection of a plurality of connectable chairs in a side-by-side relationship.

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Photograph of stacked chairs with ganging devices (believed to have been offered for sale, publicly used, and/or published prior to the filing date of this application).
Photograph of ganging devices (believed to have been offered for sale, publicly used, and/or published prior to the filing date of this application).
Photograph of chair and ganging device (believed to have been offered for sale, publicly used, and/or published prior to the filing date of this application).

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