Patent ID: 7111902

Claim:
A pair of chairs configured to be ganged together such that said chairs are releasably held together in a side-by-side manner, said chairs comprising: a first chair having a first leg at a side of said first chair; a second chair having a second leg at a side of said second chair, said first and second legs being generally opposed when said first and second chairs are side-by-side and facing in generally the same direction; a lower ganging element attached at a lower end of said first leg and protruding laterally outwardly therefrom, said lower ganging element being configured to receive a lower end of said second leg at least partially therein when said second leg of said second chair is positioned next to said first leg of said first chair; and an upper ganging element attached along a portion of one of said first leg and said second leg, said upper ganging element being configured to receive a corresponding portion of the other of said first leg and said second leg, said second chair being substantially secured to said first chair via said upper and lower ganging elements such that said second leg is substantially limited in moving laterally and vertically relative to said first leg.