Hanging chair having a spreading stick

Abstract

A hanging chair having a spreading stick and drawstring tunnels on the hanging chair surface for receiving suspension strings. The base section of the hanging chair surface of the hanging chair has at least one approximately rectangular seat surface and a trapezoidal back surface attached to the seat surface. The seat surface and back surface have common continuously connected drawstring tunnels on the lateral edges. The lateral drawstring tunnels of the seat surface and back surface bring about, by suspension strings guided therein, a lateral gathering of the entire hanging chair surface. The gathering on the suspended hanging chair forms a steeper profile of the back surface with respect to the flatter extending seat surface.

Claims

1. A hanging chair, comprising: a spreading stick, a hanging chair surface, suspension strings, and drawstring tunnels on the hanging chair surface for receiving the suspension strings, wherein a base section of the hanging chair surface of the hanging chair has at least one approximately rectangular seat surface and a trapezoidal back surface attached to the seat surface, a trapezoidally widening extension portion is attached to an edge of the seat surface that is opposite to a connection of the seat surface with the back surface, the extension portion, on account of the trapezoidal widening in a suspended laterally gathered state of the hanging chair, continues the seat surface approximately horizontally and adapted to support stretched-out legs of a person using the hanging chair, the seat surface, back surface and extension portion have common lateral drawstring tunnels on each lateral edge of the hanging chair surface for string guidance and fastening to the spreading stick, these lateral drawstring tunnels bring out, by the suspension strings guided therein, a gathering of an entire length of each lateral edge of the hanging chair surface, and these gatherings on the hanging chair, when suspended, form a steeper profile of the back surface with respect to a flatter extending profile of the seat surface.

2. The hanging chair having a spreading stick as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least one approximately rectangular seat surface is connected to the approximately trapezoidal back surface via a connection seam, and the gathering occurring during the suspension of the hanging chair on the spreading stick forms a transitioning of the flat seat surface into the steeper extending back surface, in particular in the region of the connecting seam between the seat and back surfaces.

3. The hanging chair having a spreading stick as claimed in claim 1, wherein the extension portion is also joined to the seat surface via a connecting seam as a distinct element.

4. The hanging chair having a spreading stick as claimed in claim 1, wherein textile materials which differ in at least one of their elasticity, structure, material thickness, surface nature, or color are used to form the seat surface, the back surface, and the extension portion.

5. The hanging chair having a spreading stick as claimed in claim 1, wherein the hanging chair surface of the hanging chair is designed to be completely removable from the spreading stick and can thus be easily cleaned or replaced.

Description

(1) The hanging chair according to the invention will be described in more detail below with reference to drawings, in which

(2) FIG. 1 shows a base section of the hanging chair surface 1 consisting of seat and back surfaces 2, 3 of the hanging chair 1,

(3) FIG. 2 shows a base section of the hanging chair surface 1 comprising seat surface 2, back surface 3 and extension portion 8 of the hanging chair 1,

(4) FIG. 3 shows the hanging chair surface 1 consisting of seat surface 2 and back surface 3 with lateral gatherings 11 of the drawstring tunnels 5,

(5) FIG. 4 shows the hanging chair 1 according to the invention arranged on a spreading stick 7, comprising a seat surface 2 and back surface 3 in the suspended state,

(6) FIG. 5 shows a hanging chair surface 1 comprising the seat surface 2, back surface 3 and the extension portion 8 with lateral gatherings 11 at the drawstring tunnels 5,

(7) FIG. 6 shows the hanging chair comprising a seat surface 2, back surface 3 and an extension portion 8, with unused extension portion 8, and

(8) FIG. 7 shows a hanging chair with a hanging chair surface 1 comprising the seat surface 2, back surface 3 and the extension portion 8, with the extension portion 8 used in the stretched-out state.

(9) The figures illustrated in more detail below show advantageous embodiments of the invention in different variations. FIGS. 1 and 2 each show a plan view of the base section of the hanging chair surface 1. It should be emphasized here that FIG. 2 in particular illustrates a flatly laid-out base section and not for instance a step-like folding as the impression given by the perceived perspective profile of the lateral edges could lead one to believe.

(10) It is rather the case that, as can be seen in FIG. 1, the back surface 3 extends as a trapezoidal attachment from the rectangular seat surface 2 while being arranged on the longitudinal edge. Extending on the lateral edges of the two surfaces 2 and 3 is a continuous drawstring tunnel 5 on which the holding string 6 is subsequently guided and leads to a gathering 11 of the hanging chair.

(11) FIG. 2 illustrates the alternative with an extension portion 8. Here, too, there is a flatly laid-out base section with the above-explained surfaces 2 and 3, and also the extension portion 8 which is attached to the longitudinal edge of the seat surface 2 that is opposite to the back surface 3. By contrast with the back surface 3, said extension portion 8 widens toward its free longitudinal edge and thus likewise has a trapezoidal cross section.

(12) The widening toward the free longitudinal edge 12 ensures that, when the holding string 6 is guided through the continuously arranged drawstring tunnels 5 on all lateral edges of the interconnected surfaces, the extension portion 8 does not, like the back surface 3, extend angled at an inclination toward the vertical but, by contrast, has a tendency to remain in the horizontal by virtue of the widening toward the longitudinal edge 12. This is, moreover, illustrated in more detail in FIG. 7.

(13) In addition, this base section has the effect that this profile of the surfaces 2, 3 and 8 is achieved without additional lateral suspension cords. The increased safety of the hanging chair thus achieved also becomes clear in FIGS. 3 to 7, since the risk of injuries on suspension cords, for example during use by children, is reduced.

(14) FIGS. 3 to 7 reveal what shaping is achieved by the base section according to the invention of the hanging chair surface 1 in the suspension according to the use. Here, FIG. 3 illustrates the first embodiment with a seat surface 2 and back surface 3, with suspension strings 6 (not shown), guided through the drawstring tunnels 5, which can likewise no longer be seen in these drawings, being gathered there, resulting in the gathering 11 according to the invention on both transverse sides of the hanging chair. As illustrated in FIG. 3, this means that, by virtue of the gathering 11, the trapezoidal back surface 3 which tapers toward its upper free end facing the head has a steeper profile inclined toward the vertical by comparison with the approximately horizontally extending seat surface 2.

(15) There can also be seen in all figures the connecting seam 4 between the different surface portions of the hanging chair surface 1. In all figures, this connecting seam 4 connects the seat surface 2 and back surface 3. As can be readily seen in FIG. 4, this means that is precisely at this connecting seam 4 that there occurs the deflection of the back surface 3 of the hanging chair surface 1 from the approximately horizontal seat surface 2 to a more vertical position.

(16) It can additionally be observed from FIGS. 1 and 2 that the connecting seams 4 and 4 can be present in different combinations, and also design forms without connecting seams 4 and 4 are intended to be disclosed. In addition to the illustrated design form in FIG. 1 consisting of seat and back surfaces 2, 3 with connecting seam 4, a design form which is not graphically illustrated is correspondingly also covered in which the seat and back surfaces 2, 3 are produced in one part and thus without connecting seam 4.

(17) With regard to FIG. 2, the alternative design form which is not graphically illustrated is also covered in which the seat surface 2, back surface 3 and extension portion 8 of the hanging chair 1 are produced in one part and thus without connecting seams 4 and 4. Moreover, the design forms which are not graphically illustrated in which the seat surface 2, back surface 3 and extension portion 8 have only either the connecting seam 4 between the seat and back surfaces 2, 3 or the connecting seam 4 between the seat surface 2 and extension portion 8 are intended to be covered.

(18) Also not illustrated graphically, there is the possibility here of using this combination of a plurality of surfaces also to employ different textile materials to produce the hanging chair and thus combining desired material properties with one another here, for example using textiles of different thickness or elasticity.

(19) In FIGS. 5 to 7, then, there can be seen the expanded design form with extension portion 8. In the design form illustrated, the construction involved here is one in which the hanging chair surface 1 is obtained from two interconnected portions without the extension portion 8 being connected to the seat surface 2 by a separate connecting seam. Rather, what is concerned here is a continuous base section between the extension portion 8 and the seat surface 2.

(20) By virtue of the widening of the extension portion 8 toward its free longitudinal edge 12, which, during the use of the hanging chair, faces the feet of the person sitting in the hanging chair, this extension portion results approximately in a horizontally extending continuation of the seat surface 2, as can readily be seen in FIG. 7.

(21) As an alternative to this, FIG. 6 shows that a hanging chair with an extension portion 8 can also be used in a similar manner to what is illustrated in FIG. 4 for the hanging chair without extension portion 8. In other words, if the legs of the person using the hanging chair are not placed in the extension portion 8, the latter, as illustrated here, gathers for example in the region of the backs of the knees of the person using the hanging chair. Corresponding gathering folds 13 can be seen here in FIG. 6 and reproduce the rucking-up of the extension portion in this region. It is only when the calves and feet of the person using the hanging chair are placed in the extension portion 8 that one arrives at illustration 7 in which the stretched-out extension portion 8 leads in a pleasant manner to an approximately horizontally extending support of the legs of the person using the hanging chair.

(22) As can be seen in FIGS. 4, 6 and 7, the spreading stick 7 results in the hanging chair being held open between the gatherings 11, thus making it easily possible to enter and exit the hanging chair.

(23) In addition, the suspension strings 6 are guided through the drawstring tunnels 5 and then brought together through the spreading stick 7 to a common suspension point 14. There is provision here that a removal of the hanging chair from the spreading stick is also envisioned in order for example to allow a cleaning or washing, a repair or a replacement of the hanging chair surface.