Knockdown seat

A seat for supporting an individual relative to a ground surface. The inventive device includes a back panel having a receiving aperture directed therethrough. A seat panel is shaped so as to define a rear support leg positionable through the back panel receiving aperture to support the back panel in an inclined orientation such that an individual can sit on a seat bottom of the seat panel and lean against a back rest of the back panel.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
1. Field of the Invention 
The present invention relates to seating structures and more particularly 
pertains to a knockdown seat for supporting an individual relative to a 
ground surface. 
2. Description of the Prior Art 
The use of seating structures is known in the prior art. More specifically, 
seating structures heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist 
basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, 
notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art 
which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and 
requirements. 
Known prior art seating structures include U.S. Pat. No. 5,168,825; U.S. 
Pat. No. 4,077,668; U.S. Pat. 4,341,417; U.S. Pat. 3,861,746; U.S. Pat. 
4,745,262; and U.S. Pat. No. 5,177,737. 
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and 
requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a knockdown seat 
for supporting an individual relative to a ground surface which includes a 
back panel having a receiving aperture directed therethrough, and a seat 
panel shaped so as to define a rear support leg positionable through the 
back panel receiving aperture to support the back panel in an inclined 
orientation. 
In these respects, the knockdown seat according to the present invention 
substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the 
prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for 
the purpose of supporting an individual relative to a ground surface. 
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of 
seating structures now present in the prior art, the present invention 
provides a new knockdown seat construction wherein the same can be 
utilized for supporting an individual relative to a ground surface. As 
such, the general purpose of the present invention, which will be 
described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new knockdown 
seat apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the seating 
structures mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a 
knockdown seat which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or 
even implied by any of the prior art seating structures, either alone or 
in any combination thereof. 
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a seat for 
supporting an individual relative to a ground surface. The inventive 
device includes a back panel having a receiving aperture directed 
therethrough. A seat panel is shaped so as to define a rear support leg 
positionable through the back panel receiving aperture to support the back 
panel in an inclined orientation such that an individual can sit on a seat 
bottom of the seat panel and lean against a back rest of the back panel. 
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features 
of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that 
follows may be better understood, and in order that the present 
contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional 
features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which 
will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto. 
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention 
in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its 
application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the 
components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the 
drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being 
practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood 
that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose 
of description and should not be regarded as limiting. 
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon 
which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the 
designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the 
several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, 
that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions 
insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present 
invention. 
Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent 
and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the 
scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar 
with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a 
cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of 
the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention 
of the application, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to 
be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way. 
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new 
knockdown seat apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of 
the seating structures mentioned heretofore and many novel features that 
result in a knockdown seat which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, 
suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art seating structures, 
either alone or in any combination thereof. 
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new knockdown 
seat which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed. 
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new knockdown 
seat which is of a durable and reliable construction. 
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new 
knockdown seat which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with 
regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then 
susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making 
such knockdown seats economically available to the buying public. 
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new 
knockdown seat which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior 
art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some 
of the disadvantages normally associated therewith. 
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new knockdown 
seat for supporting an individual relative to a ground surface. 
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new knockdown 
seat which includes a back panel having a receiving aperture directed 
therethrough, and a seat panel shaped so as to define a rear support leg 
positionable through the back panel receiving aperture to support the back 
panel in an inclined orientation. 
These together with other objects of the invention, along with the various 
features of novelty which characterize the invention, are pointed out with 
particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this 
disclosure. For a better understanding of the invention, its operating 
advantages and the specific objects attained by its uses, reference should 
be had to the accompanying drawings and descriptive matter in which there 
is illustrated preferred embodiments of the invention.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT 
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to FIGS. 1--6 
thereof, a new knockdown seat embodying the principles and concepts of the 
present invention and generally designated by the reference numeral 10 
will be described. 
More specifically, it will be noted that the knockdown seat 10 comprises a 
back panel 12 of substantially elongated planar configuration which is 
shaped so as to define a receiving aperture 14 directed therethrough. The 
receiving aperture 14 separates the back panel 12 into a back rest 16 
extending in a first direction from the receiving aperture, and a front 
support leg 18 extending in an opposite second direction from the 
receiving aperture 14. A seat panel 20 is shaped so as to define a rear 
support leg 22 which extends through the receiving aperture 14 of the back 
panel 12. The seat panel 20 is further shaped so as to define a seat 
bottom 24 which resides adjacent to a front face of the back panel 12, 
with the rear support leg 22 projecting through the receiving aperture 14 
and extending from a rear face of the back panel. By this structure, an 
individual can selectively position the rear support leg 22 through the 
receiving aperture 14 to assemble the device into the orientation 
illustrated in FIG. 1, whereby the individual may then reside upon the 
seat bottom 24 and lean against the back rest 16 of the respective seat 
panel 20 and back panel 12. 
Referring now to FIGS. 2 through 4 wherein the present invention 10 is 
illustrated in detail, it can be shown that the back panel 12 is shaped so 
as to define longitudinal edges 26 extending in a substantially spaced and 
parallel orientation along a length of the back panel. The front support 
leg 18 of the back panel 12 is shaped so as to define a bevelled engaging 
end 28 extending substantially orthogonally between the longitudinal edges 
26 of the back panel which is oriented so as to flatly engage a ground 
surface beneath the device such as is illustrated in FIG. 4 of the 
drawings. Further, the back rest 16 is shaped so as to define an upper 
edge 30 extending substantially orthogonally with respect to the 
longitudinal edges 26 of the back panel 12, with angled corner edges 32 
extending at an oblique angle between the upper edge 30 and the respective 
longitudinal edges 26. The angled corner edges 32 provide a degree of 
comfort to an individual residing upon the device 10 as shoulder blades of 
an individual may project beyond the angled corner edges 32 so as to 
permit rearward and lateral leaning relative to the back panel 12 by the 
individual when seated in the device 10. 
With continuing reference to FIGS. 2 through 4, it can be shown that the 
seat bottom 24 of the seat panel 20 is shaped so as to define spaced and 
parallel longitudinal edges oriented a first transverse distance apart. 
The seat bottom 24 further defines a forward edge 34 extending 
substantially orthogonally relative to the longitudinal edges of the seat 
bottom 24, with angled corner edges 36 extending at an oblique angle 
between opposed ends of the forward edge 34 and the respective 
longitudinal edges of the seat bottom 24. The angled corner edges 36 
provide a degree of comfort to an individual seated on the device 10 as 
the individual's leg can be angled laterally outward so as to project 
substantially orthogonally from the angled corner edges 36. 
With continuing reference to FIGS. 2 through 4, it can be shown that the 
rear support leg 22 of the seat panel 20 also includes substantially 
spaced and parallel longitudinal edges which are spaced a second 
transverse distance apart, wherein the first transverse distance is 
substantially greater than the second transverse distance so as to define 
a reduced transverse dimension of the rear support leg 22 relative to the 
seat bottom 24. Accordingly, the seat panel 20 includes abutment edges 38 
extending substantially orthogonally between the longitudinal edges of the 
seat bottom 24 and the longitudinal edges of the rear support leg 22. The 
abutment edges 38 are operable to engage a front face of the back panel 12 
when the rear support leg 22 of the seat panel 20 is positioned through 
the receiving aperture 14 of the back panel. As shown in FIG. 4, the rear 
support leg 22 can include a bevelled engaging end 40 extending 
substantially orthogonally between the longitudinal edges thereof and 
angled so as to flatly engage a ground surface when the device is 
assembled as shown in FIG. 4. 
Preferably, and as shown in FIG. 2, the receiving aperture 14 is 
substantially rectangular in shape so as to accommodate the 
correspondingly shaped rear support leg 22. To ensure proper orientation 
of the rear support leg 22 relative to the back panel 12 such that the 
bevelled engaging end 40 of the rear support leg is properly oriented 
relative to a ground surface positioned beneath the device 10, the 
receiving aperture 14 can be desirably shaped as shown in FIG. 5 of the 
drawings. In this configuration of the invention 10, the rear support leg 
22 of the seat panel 20 is correspondingly shaped to fit the receiving 
aperture 14 and includes a planar upper surface 42 oriented in a 
substantially spaced and parallel orientation relative to a planar lower 
surface. Orthogonal longitudinal edges 46 extend substantially 
orthogonally in a spaced and parallel orientation from the upper surface 
42. The orthogonal longitudinal edges 46 intersect bevelled longitudinal 
edges 48 of planar configuration extending at an oblique angle between the 
respective orthogonal longitudinal edges 46 and the lower surface 44. By 
this structure, the rear support leg 22 can only be positioned through the 
receiving aperture 14 such that the bevelled engaging end 40 of the rear 
support leg is positioned for flat engagement with a ground surface. 
In use, the knockdown seat 10 of the present invention can be easily 
utilized for supporting an individual relative to a ground surface. The 
ability of the seat panel 20 to be separated from the back panel 12 as 
defined by the structure of the present invention 10 permits the device 10 
to be easily compacted for storage and/or transportation purposes. 
As to a further discussion of the manner of usage and operation of the 
present invention, the same should be apparent from the above description. 
Accordingly, no further discussion relating to the manner of usage and 
operation will be provided. 
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the 
optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of the invention, to 
include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of 
operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to 
one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those 
illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are 
intended to be encompassed by the present invention. 
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the 
principles of the invention. Further, since numerous modifications and 
changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired 
to limit the invention to the exact construction and operation shown and 
described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may 
be resorted to, falling within the scope of the invention.