Patent ID: 11871851
Assignee: ROBERT W. SMITH, JR.
Field: Furniture, games (Other fields)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A collapsible seat comprising:
a seat base member; and
a seating surface member collapsible between an open, extended position configured to provide a seating surface, and a collapsed, closed position, the seat surface member including:
a central seating surface member fixed to the seat base member and defining an outer perimeter, and
a pair of oppositely disposed and generally u-shaped seating surface members pivotally secured to the seat base member,

wherein each of the generally u-shaped seating surface members include a pair of leg portions extending from a base portion thereof, each of the u-shaped seating surface members having an inward directed perimeter thereof, a portion of each inward directed perimeter having a shape that substantially complementarily corresponds to a shape of a portion of the outer perimeter of the central seating surface member;
wherein each of the leg portions include a hinge assembly secured proximate terminal ends thereof and to the seat base member such that each oppositely disposed and generally u-shaped seating surface member is pivotal between the open, extended position, and the collapsed, closed position;
wherein when pivoted to the open, extended position, the inward directed perimeter of each of the pair of generally u-shaped seating surface members define a recess that substantially complementarily bounds and receives the outer perimeter of the central seating surface member therein; and,
wherein the seat base member is configured to fixedly secure the central seating surface member and pivotally secure each of the pair of generally u-shaped seating surface members on an upper side thereof, the upper surface of the seat base member describing a perimeter larger than the perimeter of the central seating surface member, the central seating surface member fixedly secured proximate a center of the upper side of the seat base member and the pair of generally u-shaped seating members pivotally secured to the upper surface of the seat base member at positions not corresponding to the central seating surface member.