Patent ID: 7413254

Claim:
A three-legged stool comprising: a seat oriented in a horizontal plane, the seat having a top and a bottom; a quick-release leg-fastening assembly on the bottom of the seat; three non-intersecting legs each having width, thickness, and length dimensions, and whose width dimension is at least two times its thickness dimension, each leg also having upper and lower sections; the three legs being connected to the seat, by the quick-release leg-fastening assembly, at three symmetrically-spaced places on the seat; and a substantially planar leg bracket oriented below the seat and parallel with the horizontal plane, the leg bracket having three symmetrically-oriented elongated slots operable to receive and orient the legs; wherein each leg extends downwardly and diagonally from the seat at an angle of between 45 and 75 degrees below the horizontal plane, through one of the leg bracket slots, and into terminating contact with a support surface; wherein each leg has two leg bracket notches at the intersection of its upper and lower sections, the leg bracket notches defining an abutment surface on the upper section of the leg that rests upon portions of the top surface of the leg bracket adjacent the elongated slot through which the leg is inserted; wherein each leg has a terminal top edge for contacting the bottom of the seat at an acute angle with respect to the length dimension of the leg, and wherein the terminal top edge is parallel with the abutment surface; wherein the terminal top edge of each leg has a keyhole slot for engaging a locking pin on the quick-release leg-fastening assembly, the locking pin having open and closed positions, the keyhole slot comprising a base shaped to partially encircle the locking pin and a passageway connecting the base to the terminal top edge, wherein the passageway is wide enough to allow passage of the locking pin therethrough in the locking pin's open position but too narrow to permit passage of the locking pin therethrough in the locking pin's closed position.