Patent ID: 8172317
Filing Date: 2012-05-08
Classification: A47C

Abstract:
1. A stackable chair system, comprising: a plurality of chairs, each chair having a back, four legs, a seat, and first and second armrests all integral with one another in an injection-molded thermal plastic construction; each first armrest having an integral molded first round non-movable cup-holder positioned in a region of an outer end of the first armrest; each second armrest having an integral molded non-movable plate-holder or an integral molded second round non-movable cup-holder positioned in a region of an outer end of the second armrest; the back, seat, four legs, first and second armrests, first cup-holder, and plate-holder or second cup-holder all being an integral single molded piece; each seat portion being contoured downwardly forming a seat depression; each chair being shaped and dimensioned so that the chairs can be stacked on top of one another in nested fashion; the first cup-holder being located at an end of the first armrest and outwardly of an upper portion of a respective front leg of said four legs joining to the first armrest at the end of the first armrest and wherein the upper portion has an angled smoothly rounded concave cross-section, and wherein said smoothly rounded concave cross-section substantially conforms to a portion of an outer diameter of the first round cup-holder; and the plate-holder or the second cup-holder being located at an end of the second arm rest and outwardly of an upper portion of a respective front leg joining to the second arm rest at the end of the second arm rest and wherein the upper portion has an angled smoothly rounded concave cross-section.