Patent ID: 6036148
Filing Date: 2000-03-14
Classification: A47C

Abstract:
An improvement in a folding outdoor chair of the type having four legs that extend downwardly from a seat portion of the chair when the chair is unfolded to its working condition in which the chair is capable of having a person sit in said chair, said improvement comprisingfour elongate tubular members;means for attaching each of said tubular members to a respective leg of said chair so that a lower end of each tubular member is positioned near a lower end of a respective leg of said chair;four elongate, telescoping members, each telescoping member being received within a respective tubular member so that a distal end of the telescoping member extends from a lower end of the respective tubular member and the telescoping member can slide into and out of said tubular member in telescopic fashion; andmeans for independently locking each of said telescoping members in any desired position in the telescopic movement of said telescoping member relative to a respective tubular member, so that the lower end of each of said telescoping members can be set at various selected distances from the lower end of a respective tubular member, wherein said means for independently locking each of said telescopic members to a respective tubular member comprisesa relatively narrow, longitudinal slot cut inwardly in each of said tubular members from the lower end of each said tubular member;a constricting band position around the lower end of each of said tubular members and the slot cut in the lower end of each said tubular members; andmeans for independently tightening each of the constricting bands so that each said constricting band squeezes the portion of the lower end of a respective tubular member that has said slot therein and forces said portion of the lower end of each respective tubular member into tight engagement with a respective telescopic member so that said respective telescopic member is locked against movement with respect to said respective tubular member,whereby the lower ends of said four telescoping members can be independently adjusted so that the seat of the chair can be positioned substantially level even when the chair is used on unlevel ground.