Conventional frame back pack chairs typically have fixed and rigid back supports and rigid seat members which double as members of a frame for a backpack. These conventional frame back pack chairs are akin to large bulky lawn chairs and are heavy and limited in adaptability for other purposes. Traditional frame back pack chairs therefore have not enjoyed widespread success in the marketplace.
With the advent and rising popularity and proliferation of collapsible suspension type outdoor chairs, conventional frame back pack chairs have become antiquated garage sale fodder. However, a collapsible suspension type outdoor chair is made from a gusseted tent like fabric with a collapsible frame that is dead weight to a hiker and not adaptable to a backpack frame.
There is therefore a long felt need in the market for a functional, light-weight and convenient backpack that is also able to transform into a camping chair and transform into other camping gear.
A disclosed backpack chair includes a bag comprising a top piece, a back piece, two symmetric side pieces, an apron and a bottom piece sewn together like a hooded vest and zippered together up a front center thereof with a perimeter of the bottom piece to form the bag. The backpack chair also includes tri zipper track and a penta slide pull at least one zipper configured to seam a perimeter of the two equal side pieces to a perimeter of the head piece and to perimeter of the bottom piece to form the bag. The zipper 35 brings together edge seams of the two side pieces. The backpack chair also includes a plurality of suspension pockets disposed at reinforced corners of the bag, the suspension pockets configured to receive members of a suspending structure. The backpack chair further includes at least one strap detachably connected to the bag, the at least one strap configured to allow the bag to be carried on a user's back, a user's shoulder and in a user's hand or crook of a user's arm or around a user's waist.
A method of transforming a backpack into a furnishing for a body at rest includes providing a bag comprising a top hood piece, a back piece, two equal side pieces and a bottom piece sewn together like a hooded vest and zippered together up a front center thereof to form the bag. The method also includes flaying the bag open to form a canvas for a suspended chair via at least one zipper configured to seam a perimeter of the two equal side pieces to a perimeter of the head piece and to a perimeter of the bottom piece. The method further includes inserting rigid pole members into a plurality of suspension pockets disposed at corners of the bag to interconnect the rigid members into a suspending understructure.
Other aspects and advantages of embodiments of the disclosure will become apparent from the following detailed description, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, illustrated by way of example of the principles of the disclosure herein.
Throughout the description, similar and same reference numbers may be used to identify similar and same elements in the several embodiments and drawings. Although specific embodiments of the invention have been illustrated, the invention is not to be limited to the specific forms or arrangements of parts so described and illustrated. The scope of the invention is to be defined by the claims appended hereto and their equivalents.
Reference will now be made to exemplary embodiments illustrated in the drawings and specific language will be used herein to describe the same. It will nevertheless be understood that no limitation of the scope of the disclosure is thereby intended. Alterations and further modifications of the inventive features illustrated herein and additional applications of the principles of the inventions as illustrated herein, which would occur to a person of ordinary skill in the relevant art and having possession of this disclosure, are to be considered within the scope of the invention.
Throughout the present disclosure, the term ‘bivy shelter’ refers to a small, lightweight and waterproof bivouac shelter as an alternative to a traditional or full tent system used for mountain climbers, hikers, soldiers and recreational campers. The term ‘transform’ used throughout the present specification and claims refers to an ability to adapt the present backpack and chair components into other structures including partial and full bivouac shelters, sleeping matts and hammocks and vest insulated clothing. The term ‘dart,’ refers to a reinforced fabric or canvas area including or adjacent a ‘suspension pocket,’ designed and constructed for receiving an end of an understructure member. The term ‘inside out,’ refers to an inner surface of the backpack turned outward for sitting.
An embodiment of the disclosure includes a tri zipper track comprises a top zipper track configured to seam the top hood piece to the two equal side pieces, a bottom zipper track to seam the bottom piece to the two equal side pieces and a center zipper track to seam the two equal side pieces together. Also a penta slider pull comprises a first slider pull on a first portion of the top zipper track, a second slider pull on another section of the top zipper track, a third slider pull on a first portion of the bottom zipper track, a fourth slider pull on another section of the bottom zipper track and a fifth slider pull on the center zipper track.
In some embodiments, the two equal side pieces may include detachable rolls or duffels (cylindrical bags) attached and detached at zippers 13 and 17 without emptying content of the backpack or of the two equal side pieces 15 and 20 to the respective side piece edge seams 12 and 16 and rolled inside the bag when it is zipped up. These side bags, also known as switch bags may be used independently of the composite backpack.
An embodiment of the disclosed backpack chair includes a plurality of lightweight aluminum poles configured to interconnect into a suspending understructure. A pocket in the hood piece is adapted to receive and to store the strap(s) detached from the bottom piece. A plurality of grommets are disposed adjacent the darts for straps, ropes, cords etc attached between the grommets and a supporting structure to form a hammock.
Another embodiment of the disclosure is adapted for the bag to be flayed open and multiple pads or an inflatable bladder on the back piece, and optionally on the top hood piece, the side pieces and the bottom piece transforms the backpack into a sleeping pad for a user. The bag is also flayed open to transform into a hooded vest where the top piece 5 acts as the hood, back piece 10 acts as the vest back and side pieces 15 and 20 act as sides of the hooded vest, zipperable up the sides via seams 13 and 17 to be worn by a user. A plurality of chest straps are adapted to be turned backwards to strap the bag to the interconnected suspending understructure.
In yet another embodiment of the disclosure, the two equal side pieces comprise pockets configured both for backpack use and for chair accessories. The equal side pieces are entirely detachable from the bag by zippered seams. A plurality of webbing straps sewn onto an outside of the two equal sides.
The disclosed backpack chair therefore includes a bag comprising a top hood piece, a back piece, two equal side pieces and a bottom piece seamed together like a hooded vest and zippered together up a front center thereof with a perimeter of the bottom piece to form the bag. The backpack chair also includes a first zipper configured to seam a perimeter of a left side piece to a left perimeter of the head piece and to a left perimeter of the bottom piece to form a left half of the bag. The backpack chair additionally includes a second zipper configured to seam a perimeter of a right side piece to a right perimeter of the head piece and to a right perimeter of the bottom piece to form a right half of the bag. The backpack chair further includes a plurality of suspension darts disposed at corners of the bag including two each disposed at two bottom corners thereof for rigid members to be inserted therein to interconnect into a suspending understructure. The disclosed backpack chair yet includes two shoulder straps attached to the bag that allow it to be carried on one's back, the shoulder straps securely attached to a top of the back piece and detachably connected to a back of the bottom piece.
An embodiment of the backpack chair includes a third zipper configured to zip together matching outer perimeters of the left side piece and the right side piece. The back pack chair also includes a plurality of lightweight aluminum poles configured to interconnect into a suspending understructure.
Therefore, the present disclosure satisfies the long felt need for an economical, secure and convenient backpack chair that is also able to easily transform into other camping equipment. The disclosed backpack chair may also be used as a bivy, a hammock, a matt and a vest. An inflating roll, attachable to an inside of the backpack chair rolls out to provide the matt and the bivy canopy as needed. The suspension members or collapsible poles may also be used to rig the bivy using the same suspension pockets, gussets and components provided for the backpack and the transformed chair thereof. The present disclosure therefore is poised to become the transformer product of choice for hunters, fisherman and the survivalist hereafter to be known as the Chameleon™ backpack series.
Although the operations of the method(s) herein are shown and described in a particular order, the order of the operations of each method may be altered so that certain operations may be performed in an inverse order or so that certain operations may be performed, at least in part, concurrently with other operations. In another embodiment, instructions or sub-operations of distinct operations may be implemented in an intermittent and/or alternating manner.
Notwithstanding specific embodiments of the invention have been described and illustrated, the invention is not to be limited to the specific forms or arrangements of parts so described and illustrated. The scope of the invention is to be defined by the claims and their equivalents included herein or by reference to a related application.
This application claims the benefit of the priority date of earlier filed U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 62/413,303, titled ‘A Flayed Backpack Collapsible Suspension Chair,’ filed Oct. 26, 2016 by Peter Ackerman, and is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
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