Patent Application
20190090639
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The present disclosure generally relates to a furniture accessory, and, more particularly, to a lounge chair elevator to elevate the height of a lounge chair above a deck railing to provide obstacle-free sight from the deck.
Houses or hotels with beautiful sights from their decks are quite popular. More often than not, lounge chairs are place on the deck of the houses or hotels to seat and enjoy the sight form the deck. However, peripheries of the decks are generally covered with the railings from safety point of view to avoid any accidents from the decks. In such decks with railings, there may always be obstacle in the sight to viewers while seating on the lounge chair as lounge chairs may generally be of lower heights. Such obstacles due to the railings may irritate the viewers and results unpleasant stay at the house or hotels. Alternative may be to stand on the decks of the house or hotels and have the proper sight without obstacles, but that may be possible only for very shorter duration of the time otherwise for longer durations of the time such an exercise may be quite tiring, which viewers may ends up with unpleasant experience.
Further, various chairs may be available in the market that may be used as an alternative to lounge chairs and have mechanism to extend the heights of the legs. However, users of such chairs may find such task of adjusting the heights of the legs cumbersome. Furthermore, such chairs may also be very costly due such adjusting mechanism installed on the legs of the chairs. Such chairs may also be complex in structure, and risky from the point of failure of such height adjusting mechanism.
Accordingly, there exists a need for viewers to have obstacle-free sights from the decks of the house or hotels from the lounge chairs, without having to tire themselves by standing on the decks for the sight from the decks. Furthermore, there also exits a need to have a completely independent, simple and economical and risk-free system that may accommodate conventional lounge chairs to provide viewers obstacle-free sights from the decks of the house or hotels while seating on such conventional lounge chairs.
This Summary is provided to introduce a selection of concepts in a simplified form that are further described below in the Detailed Description. This Summary is not intended to identify key features or essential features of the claimed subject matter, nor it is intended to be used to limit the scope of the claimed subject matter.
In view of the stated drawbacks, the present disclosure discloses a lounge chair elevator that will be presented in the following simplified summary to provide a basic understanding of one or more aspects of the disclosure that are intended to overcome the discussed drawbacks, but to include all advantages thereof, along with providing some additional advantages. This summary is not an extensive overview of the disclosure. It is intended to neither identify key or critical elements of the disclosure, nor to delineate the scope of the present disclosure. Rather, the sole purpose of this summary is to present some concepts of the disclosure, its aspects and advantages in a simplified form as a prelude to the more Detailed Description that is presented hereinafter.
A general object of the present disclosure is to describe a lounge chair elevator for viewers to have obstacle-free sights from the decks of houses or hotels from conventional lounge chairs, without having to tire themselves by standing on the decks for the sight from the decks. Further object is to describe a lounge chair elevator that may be completely independent, simple and economical and risk-free and capable of accommodating conventional lounge chairs to provide viewers with obstacle-free sights from the decks of the house or hotels while seating on such conventional lounge chairs.
In one aspect of the present disclosure a lounge chair elevator for elevating the height of a lounge chair is provided. The lounge chair includes horizontally elongated leg supports. The lounge chair elevator includes a support frame and a utility platform structure coupled thereto. The lounge chair elevator includes a predefined height from the ground level to accommodate the lounge chair. The support frame includes an engaging arrangement to receive the horizontally elongated legs supports of the lounge chair to elevate the height of the lounge chair as per the height of the support frame from the ground level. The utility platform structure may adjustably be coupled to the support frame to be adjusted at varying distances from the support frame.
In an embodiment, the support frame may include a pair of panel structure spaced from each other in horizontal and vertical planes, and arranged to define left and right sides of the support frame. As such, the pair of panel structure and the engaging arrangement in one example form may be configured to each other. Furthermore, front and back panel structures are provided in spaced-apart manner and coupled to proximal ends of the pair of panel structure forming the support frame.
In an embodiment, each panel structure may include a pair of engaging modules and a pair of elongated body. Each of the engaging modules includes upper end portions and opposite lower end portions. Further, the pair of elongated body may be coupled to the pair of engaging modules.
In an embodiment, the engaging arrangement may include a recessed area formed along upper end portions of each of the pair of engaging modules to receive the horizontally elongated legs supports of the lounge chair at the predetermined heights.
Further, in an example embodiment, the pair of elongated body may be spaced from each other in a vertical plane to define a space ‘S’ therebetween. The upper spaced elongated body from distal end portions thereof may be coupled with the pair of engaging modules along the upper end portions. Further, the lower spaced elongated body from distal end portions thereof may be coupled with the pair of engaging modules along the lower end portions.
In an embodiment, the utility platform structure may include a slidable engagement having a bracket and a complementary bracket. The bracket may extend along the support frame and be supported along the upper spaced elongated body of the pair of panel structures. Further, the complementary bracket may slidably be engaged with the bracket to be slid thereupon to be adjusted at varying distances from the support frame. The slidable engagement may further include a supporting log disposed below and parallel to the complementary bracket at a distance therefrom. The supporting log is slidable along the space ‘S’ of the elongated body upon sliding of the complementary bracket over the bracket.
In an embodiment, the utility platform structure may further include a platform arrangement. The platform arrangement may be engaged with the slidable engagement. The platform arrangement may further include a vertical elongated pole releasably engaged with the slidable engagement holes coaxially configured along the complementary bracket and the supporting log. Further, a platform may be disposed over the vertical elongated pole.
In an embodiment, the platform arrangement further comprises a utility holder coupled to or formed along the platform.
In an embodiment, the lounge chair elevator may further include a supporting protrusion coupled to the support frame to support the lounge chair's front extended leg.
These together with the other aspects of the present disclosure, along with the various features of novelty that characterize the present disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the present disclosure. For a better understanding of the present disclosure, its operating advantages, and its uses, reference should be made to the accompanying drawings and descriptive matter in which there are illustrated exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure.
The foregoing summary, as well as the following Detailed Description of preferred embodiments, is better understood when read in conjunction with the appended drawings. For the purposes of illustration, there is shown in the drawings exemplary embodiments; however, the present disclosure is not limited to the specific methods and instrumentalities disclosed. In the drawings:
Like reference numerals refer to like parts throughout the description of several views of the drawings.
The following description and drawings are illustrative and are not to be construed as limiting. Numerous specific details are described to provide a thorough understanding. However, in certain instances, well known or conventional details are not described in order to avoid obscuring the description. References to one or an embodiment in the present disclosure are not necessarily references to the same embodiment; and, such references mean at least one.
Reference in this specification to “one embodiment” or “an embodiment” means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment is included in at least one embodiment of the disclosure. The appearances of the phrase “in one embodiment” in various places in the specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment, nor are separate or alternative embodiments mutually exclusive of other embodiments. Moreover, various features are described which may be exhibited by some embodiments and not by others. Similarly, various requirements are described which may be requirements for some embodiments but no other embodiments.
Reference throughout this specification to “a select embodiment,” “one embodiment,” or “an embodiment” means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment is included in at least one embodiment of the disclosed subject matter. Thus, appearances of the phrases “a select embodiment,” “in one embodiment,” or “in an embodiment” in various places throughout this specification are not necessarily referring to the same embodiment.
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The support frame 100, for example, may include a pair of panel structure 110, 120 spaced from each other in horizontal and vertical planes, and arranged to define left ‘L’ and right ‘B’ sides of the support frame 100. Furthermore, front 130 and back 140 panel structures are provided in spaced-apart manner and coupled to proximal ends of the pair of panel structure 110, 120 forming the support frame 100.
In an example, each panel structure 110, 120 may include a pair of engaging modules 112, 122 and a pair of elongated body 116, 126. Each of the engaging modules 112, 122 includes upper end portions 112a, 122a and opposite lower end portions 112b, 124b. Further, the pair of elongated body 116, 126 may be coupled to the pair of engaging modules 112, 122.
In an example, as such, the pair of panel structure 110, 120 and the engaging arrangement 200 may be configured to each other. In such configuration, the engaging arrangement 200 may include a recessed area 210 formed along upper end portions 112a, 122a, of each of the pair of engaging modules 112, 122 to receive the horizontally elongated legs supports 12 of the lounge chair 10 at the predetermined heights.
Further, in an example, the pair of elongated body 116, 126 may be spaced from each other in a vertical plane to define a space ‘S’ therebetween, as can be seen in
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In an embodiment, the utility platform structure 300 may further include a platform arrangement 320 having a platform 316 coupled thereto. The platform arrangement 320 may be engaged with the slidable engagement 310. The platform arrangement 320 may further includes a vertical elongated pole 322 releasably engaged with the slidable engagement holes 324, as seen in example
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The lounge chair elevator 1000 may be advantageous in various ways. The lounge chair elevator provides viewers to have obstacle-free sights from the decks of houses or hotels from conventional lounge chairs. The lounge chair elevator may be independent and simple as well as economical and risk-free. The lounge chair elevator may be capable of accommodating conventional lounge chairs to provide viewers with obstacle-free sights from the decks of the house or hotels while seating on such conventional lounge chairs without have need of extending the height of the lounges chairs having height extending arrangement.
The foregoing descriptions of specific embodiments of the present disclosure have been presented for purposes of illustration and description. They are not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the present disclosure to the precise forms disclosed, and obviously many modifications and variations are possible in light of the above teaching. The embodiments were chosen and described in order to best explain the principles of the present disclosure and its practical application, to thereby enable others skilled in the art to best utilize the present disclosure and various embodiments with various modifications as are suited to the particular use contemplated. It is understood that various omission and substitutions of equivalents are contemplated as circumstance may suggest or render expedient, but such are intended to cover the application or implementation without departing from the spirit or scope of the claims of the present disclosure.
