Wall-Mounted Stud-Supported Folding Seat

Abstract

This wall mounted folding chair design is exceptionally low-profile when the chair is folded against the wall yet it is able to hold an exceptionally large load when open and cantilevered off a single wood or metal wall stud. The chair has no contact with the ground and is only attached to the wall. The design also allows for uniquely easy installation on pre-existing wood or metal stud walls because no modification of the wood stud walls are required and only a minor reinforcement is needed for the metal studs. It can be attached to masonry walls as well. For metal stud walls, a simple reinforcing bracket is required that can be slipped into the metal stud through a hole in the drywall. This design also allows the chair to remain in the folded position without the need for any extra latch or holding mechanisms.

This patent claims the following: 
     
         1 . The ability of a wall mounted folding chair to be screwed directly to a pre-fabricated stud wall, requiring attachment to only one stud and using a reinforcing bracket in the case of metal stud walls. (See Section 2A of Specification). 
     
     
         2 . That no other wall mounted folding chairs shall have the characteristics of all the sections described in Section A of Specification, combined. 
     
     
         3 . That no other wall mounted chair shall utilize all the combined aspects of the mechanism described in Section C of Specification but only including section C3 of Specification if it is used in combination with the rest of the aspects described in Section C of Specification.