This invention relates to portable seats, particularly to those designed for use in stadiums while watching sporting events with provisions for holding food and drink.
The current standard stadium seat consists either of an aluminum bench attached to concrete or just concrete itself, without any back support. Such stadium seats are very uncomfortable to sit in while watching sporting events such as football, baseball and soccer, which often last for several hours. As a result, spectators usually leave the sporting events with sore buttocks and aching backs. In addition to the standard stadium seat having no back support, such seats also have no place to hold food or drink purchased at the event. Furthermore, there is usually little or no room to place the food or drink in a crowded stadium itself. Therefore, spectators must hold their food and drink or invite spillage.
Prior inventions have attempted to solve the aforementioned problems but none have done it all, particularly in the same or similar fashion as the instant invention. For instance, U.S. Pat. No. 4,474,407 by Nazar shows a portable seat with provision for storage only. Thus, the Nazar invention lacks a tray and also, the means of attaching the seat to the stadium seat to prevent tipping or sliding. U.S. Pat. No. 2,865,433 by Warner, discloses a stadium seat with article carrier, but the article carrier is designed for storage, and cannot be used as a tray. Furthermore, the Warner patent has no back support for the spectator. Another patent, U.S. Pat. No. 3,120,404 by Bramming shows a stadium seat that has a fold down lunch box rather than a tray. Contrary to the instant invention, the lunch box in this case must always be out even when not in use and is not useable as a tray. Thus, none of the prior art as represented by these patents contain devices that solve all the problems as does the instant invention.
The instant invention resolves the aforementioned problems by providing a comfortable seat comprised of a seat bottom portion consisting of a cushion made of foam or other material covered by vinyl or cloth, a connecting back support with a foam cushion covered by vinyl, a slidably removable tray to hold drinks and food and a spring loaded retractable metal latch to hold the seat onto the stadium seat so that the occupant will not fall over backwards while using it.