Patent ID: 7699388

Claim:
A seat installation comprising: a plurality of vertical, fixed pillars mountable on a horizontal base floor in an array of horizontal rows and horizontal columns; a plurality of folding seats, one of each of the seats rotatable mounted to one of each of the pillars, each one of the seats movable between a raised position directly above the one of the pillars on which the one of the seats is mounted and a lowered position where the one of the seats is folded and positioned horizontally between the one of the pillars on which the one of the seats is mounted and another of the pillars which is adjacent in the horizontal column; and a plurality of flaps, one of each of the flaps rotatable mounted to one of each of the pillars, each one of the flaps movable between a vertical raised position where the one of the seats moves between the raised and lowered position and a horizontally lowered position where the one of the flaps spans between the one of the pillars on which the one of the flaps is mounted and another of the pillars which is adjacent in the horizontal column thereby forming a raised floor, the raised floor adapted to be vertically above the base floor.