Patent ID: 8499388

Claim:
A folding chair pad comprising: a resilient foam cushion including a cushion upper surface, a cushion bottom surface a cushion left side surface, a cushion right side surface, a cushion front end surface and a cushion rear end surface and wherein the cushion left side surface is generally parallel to the cushion right side surface and spaced from the cushion right side surface a distance substantially the width of a folding chair seat, the cushion front end surface is generally parallel to the cushion rear end surface and spaced from the cushion rear end surface a distance substantially the fore and aft length of the folding chair seat; a fabric top panel that covers the cushion upper surface entirely, a fabric bottom panel that covers the cushion bottom surface entirely, a fabric side band sewn to the fabric top panel and sewn to the fabric bottom panel, covering the cushion left side surface, the cushion right side surface, the cushion front end surface, the cushion rear end surface and thereby encasing the resilient foam cushion and forming a cushion assembly; an envelope of fabric including a lower fabric panel with a lower panel left side, a lower panel front end, a lower panel right side, a lower panel rear edge generally parallel to the lower panel front end, a partial fabric band having a partial band lower edge sewn to the lower panel left side, sewn to the lower panel front end, sewn to the lower panel right side, having a partial band upper edge sewn to the fabric bottom panel, covering the cushion bottom surface, adjacent to the cushion front end surface, sewn to a portion of the bottom panel adjacent to the cushion left side surface, sewn to a portion of the bottom panel adjacent to the cushion right side surface and wherein the lower panel rear edge is between the cushion rear end surface and the cushion front end surface and the lower panel cooperates with the fabric bottom panel and the partial fabric band to form an envelope opening, that receives a folding chair front seat end, which is substantially the same as a width of the resilient foam cushion from the cushion left side surface to the cushion right side surface and an envelope opening height from the fabric bottom panel to the lower fabric panel that is substantially the same height as a vertical height of the folding chair front seat end and wherein the envelope extends from the envelope opening to the lower panel front end and from the cushion left side surface to the cushion right side surface; and a single fabric retainer flap sewn to the flexible fabric bottom panel adjacent to the cushion rear end surface, extending substantially the width of the fabric bottom panel a retainer holding the fabric retainer flap adjacent to a seat rear end of a folding chair seat that is pivotal about a “transverse horizontal folding axis.