Patent ID: 7731277

Claim:
A seating implement, comprising: a base frame, a sitting surface mounted to said base frame and defining a forward direction, and a back rest mounted to said base frame; a support element mounted laterally to a side of said base frame, said support element being integrated with said base frame in a permanently fixed position relative to said base frame, said support element including a skewed section running in a substantially horizontal plane and being skewed at a permanently fixed angle relative to the forward direction of said sitting surface; a tablet pivotally mounted by way of a linkage mechanism to said support element between a substantially horizontal position of use and a position of non-use; said tablet being dimensioned to support a notebook computer, and said tablet being fastened, by way of said linkage mechanism, to said skewed section of said support element, and said tablet being pivotable about an axis substantially parallel to said skewed section.