Patent ID: 8038221

Claim:
A folding chair, comprising: a) a seat and a backrest carried between opposite frame sides each with a backrest support, a front leg and a rear leg, and having an unfolded seating position in which the seat pivots to extend from the frame sides and bottoms of the front and rear legs move apart, and a folded position in which the seat pivots toward the frame sides and the front and rear legs move together; b) one or both of the seat and the backrest having a continuous sheet of flexible and elastic mesh held taut across and substantially covering an opening in an all-plastic hoop coupled between the frame sides; c) the hoop including inner and outer plastic mating hoops with the mesh extending over an outer perimeter of the inner hoop and into an interface between the inner and outer hoops; d) the inner hoop forming substantially an entire inner circumference of the opening in the all-plastic hoop; and e) the outer hoop including lateral hooks extending inward with respect to the outer hoop and engaging the inner circumference of the inner hoop to retain the inner hoop from pulling inward under tension placed on the sheet of mesh.