Patent ID: 7527331

Claim:
A collapsible tent seat, being a seat with a cover wherein both the seat and its cover can be collapsed for compact storage; the seat having sides comprising laterally opposed left and right sides, and longitudinally opposed front and back sides, plus a seating surface between the sides; the collapsible tent seat comprising: construction such that the tent seat is deployed for use by uncollapsing the seat to form a seating surface between spaced apart left and right sides and spaced apart front and back sides, at least the laterally opposed seat sides being “drawn-together seat sides”, and the tent seat is collapsed by drawing at least the left and right drawn-together seat sides closer together; a flexible elongated cover support bow comprising a first bow end that is attached to the left seat side, a second bow end that is attached to the right seat side, and an elongated portion flexed as an arch from the first bow end to the second bow end, wherein the bow ends are attached to the seat such that both the seat and its cover are collapsed for compact storage while attached together; and a covering comprising a flexible sheet supported by the cover support bow.