Foldable chair pad

Abstract

A chair pad that can have foldable panels for ease of movement and shipment. A hard wood chair pad formed from multiple elongated rigid planks that have been processed like hardwood flooring or other process depending on the material. The chair pad provides a substantially rigid surface but the pad can be folded up for ease of transport and shipping. The rigid planks utilized to construct the chair pad are similar to planks in hardwood flooring and have sufficient thickness such that when they are bonded in an adjacent side by side abutting manner along the longer lengthwise edges similar to some hardwood flooring and further bonded to a backing in an adjacent side by side manner, the planks form a substantially rigid surface is provided. The planks can be adjacently connected lengthwise along their long side edges, and further adjacently connected end to end along the short side edges.

1 . A chair pad comprising: 
 at least two hinged foldable side by side panels;    at least one recessed hinge pivotally attaching said at least two foldable panels where said at least one recessed hinge having first and second mounting members pivotally hinged with respect to each other and each opposingly mounted and counter sunk in opposing recesses extending inwardly into opposing facing adjacent side edges of the at least two hinged foldable side by side adjacent panels, where said first and second mounting members each have a central cavity area; and    at least one cross-link support arm pivotally attaching the first and second mounting members, where said cross-link support arm members are substantially retractable into the central cavity when the foldable panels are pivotally extended to an abutting side edge by side edge relationship such that the at least one recessed hinged is substantially hidden from view.    
   
   
       2 . A foldable chair pad comprising; 
 a center panel;    a left side panel pivotally attached to the center panel at a left side edge of the center panel and an adjacent side edge of the left side panel;    a right side panel pivotally attached to the center panel at a right side edge of the center panel opposite the left side edge and an adjacent edge of the right side panel; and    where said left side panel and said right side panel are pivotally attached to the center panel by left and right recessed hinges respectively where said left recessed hinge having first and second mounting members pivotally hinged with respect to each other and said right recessed hinge having third and fourth mounting members pivotally hinged with respect to each other and each first and second mounting member opposingly mounted and counter sunk in opposing recesses extending inwardly into opposing facing adjacent side edges of left side panel an the center panel, and where each third and fourth mounting member opposingly mounted and counter sunk in opposing recesses extending inwardly into opposing facing adjacent side edges of the right side panel an the center panel.