Patent ID: 6709050
Filing Date: 2004-03-23
Classification: A47C

Abstract:
A folding chair comprising:a front chair leg, a rear chair leg, a back, and a seat, wherein; said front chair leg is pivotally connected to said rear chair leg at a pivot point, an elongated slide is formed in an inner side of said front chair leg above said pivot point, a slide washer is laid on the opening of the slide, a back of said slide washer being inserted in an upper end of said front chair leg, said slide washer receiving therein a metal tube, two sides of said metal tube having downward extending insertion legs that are received in top openings of two sides of said front chair leg, a slide magazine is movably disposed in said slide of said front chair leg, a main body of said slide magazine having a U-shaped cross-section, said slide magazine having an opening facing an interior of said front chair leg, a bottom end of said slide magazine including a fitting hole to receive a rear pivot shaft of said seat, an upper end of the slide magazine including a C-shaped hooking notch, said rear chair leg is pivotally connected to said front chair leg at said pivot point, an inner wall of said rear chair leg including a pivot hole at a top end thereof to receive a front pivot shaft of said seat, said pivot hole extends through only said inner wall of said rear chair leg, said front pivot shaft of said seat extending into said rear chair leg and being secured therein by a retainer ring, a cap being fitted on a top end of said rear chair leg, and a periphery of said seat encloses a metal tube with a mesh seat face being fixed therein, said rear pivot shaft that is received in said front chair leg and said front pivot shaft that is received in said rear chair leg being disposed on lateral sides of said seat, said front and rear pivot shafts passing through said metal tube and being integral members of said seat, an outward extending length of said rear pivot shaft being longer than a length of said front pivot shaft, said rear pivot shaft being inserted in said fitting hole of said slide magazine in said slide of said front chair leg, said front pivot shaft passing through said inner wall of said rear chair leg and secured therein by said retainer ring.