Claims
- 1. Portable furniture including at least one generally planar support member,
- said planar support member comprising integral main, tab, arm and leg portions resiliently disposable in angular and curvilinear relationship to each other,
- said tab portion comprising a seating surface for supporting an individual therein,
- said main portion being connected to said tab portion and to said leg portions at the upper end of said tab portion,
- said arm portions being connected to the opposite end of said tab portion,
- said portable furniture having integral interlocking means releasably engaging said, arm, leg and main portions for maintaining said angular relationship,
- said portable furniture returnable by means of its resilience to its original planar configuration when said interlocking means are disengaged.
- 2. The portable furniture in claim 1 wherein the tab portion and the upper part of the leg portions are comprised to be relatively more flexible than said other portions.
- 3. The portable furniture of claim 2 wherein said relatively more flexible portions are comprised of curvilinear loops.
- 4. Collapsible furniture comprised of a generally planar support member having integral portions resiliently disposable in angular relationship comprising,
- a main portion shaped substantially like an inverted "U",
- said main portion being resiliently connected to leg portions and to a tab portion at its upper end,
- said tab portion joined to a substantially "U"-shaped arm portion at its opposite end,
- said collapsible furniture having interlocking means for releasably engaging said arm, leg and main portions for maintaining said angular relationship,
- said collapsible furniture returnable by means of its resilience to its original planar configuration when disengaged.
- 5. The collapsible furniture in claim 4 where the main portion substantially circumscribes all other portions in its originally planar configuration.
- 6. The collapsible furniture in claim 4 where the rear of said arm portion is constructed and arranged to be between said main and leg portions in its originally planar configuration.
- 7. The collapsible furniture in claim 4 wherein the leg portion is constructed and arranged to be between said arm and tab portions.
- 8. The collapsible furniture in claim 4 where said interlocking means engage the outside edge of said arm portion to the inside edge of said main portion and wherein said arm portions are also engeged to the outside edge of said leg portions.
- 9. The collapsible furniture of claim 4 where the tab and upper portion of the leg members are more flexible than other portions.
- 10. The portable furniture in claim 1 wherein the rear of the main portion is integral with and supported by the top of the leg portions and supports the rear of the tab portion, the front of the chair assembly and has means to interlock with said arm portions,
- said arm portions supporting the front of said tab portion, and interlocking with interlocking means of said main portion and interlocking means on said leg portions,
- said leg portions supporting and being integral with the rear of said main portion and interlocking with said arm portions.
- 11. A collapsible chair comprising:
- a generally planar one-piece support assembly made of flexible material having a main member, a tab member, leg members, and arm members;
- said tab and leg members adapted to be unfolded away from the plane of said main member to define a bifurcated structure,
- said tab member comprised of a plurality of curvilinear ribs therein for flexibility,
- said tab member forming a curvilinear seating surface for support of the occupant seated therein,
- said arm members having mounting means to releasably engage with securing means on said main and leg members to maintain said main and leg members in a spaced configuration;
- said main and leg members having securing means mating with the mounting means in said arm members to releasably connect and support said tab member therebetween,
- said support assembly being collapsable into a generally planar configuration when said mounting means are disengaged.
RELATED APPLICATION
This application is a continuation-in-part of my earlier filed United States Patent Application, Ser. No. 866,837 L filed Jan. 4, 1978 now U.S. Pat. No. 4,202,581, entitled "Support Means for Furniture".
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