Patent ID: 8029059
Filing Date: 2011-10-04
Classification: A47C

Abstract:
1. A folding and stacking chair system comprising a plurality of folding and stacking chairs having an unfolded seating position in which the chairs are configured for sitting upon, and a folded and stacked position in which the chairs are folded and stacked together, each chair comprising: a) a seat and a backrest carried between opposite frame sides each with a backrest support, a front leg and a rear leg, with the seat extending from the frame sides and the front and rear legs moved apart in the unfolded seating position, and with the seat pivoted towards the frame sides and the front and rear legs moved together in the folded and stacked position; b) the backrest having a continuous sheet of flexible and elastic mesh or patterned open texture plastic held between the backrest supports of the frame sides; c) the seat having a continuous sheet of flexible and elastic mesh or patterned open texture plastic held between a seat frame fixed between the frame sides; d) the rear legs of the frame sides have a tubular configuration with an open top end; e) a pair of top stops each one disposed in a different one of the open top ends of the rear legs; and f) each top stop having an abutment surface to abut the front leg of an adjacent stacked chair and an outer fin and an inner fin forming a stacking channel to receive the front leg of the adjacent stacked chair.