Patent ID: 8438786

Claim:
A flexible venue system comprising: a telescopic platform system including multiple usable tiers movable to an extended configuration, a retracted configuration, and at least one partially retracted configuration, the tiers each including an associated nose beam on a front edge thereof; a plurality of seats on the tiers with backs movable to a use position when the platform system is extended and movable to a storage position for dense storage when the tiers of the platform system are retracted; and each back being pivotally supported by an associated seating standard of an associated one of the tiers and having a program support bearing mounted along the front edge of the associated one tier that engages a bottom surface of the nose beam that is immediately above the seating standard when the backs are pivoted to the storage position and when the telescopic platform system is in the partially retracted configuration, with a load of the front edge of a first usable one of the tiers being transmitted vertically downwardly along the front edges of all tiers underlying the first usable one tier.