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Claim 1

IN COMBINATION, A FOLDING CHAIR OF THE TYPE COMPRISING A SEAT AND FRONT AND REAR DOWNWARDLY EXTENDING LEGS, SAID FRONT LEGS BEING DISPOSED ALONG THE SIDE MARGINS OF SAID SEAT IN A FORWARDLY INCLINED POSITION, SO THAT THE RIGHT FRONT LEG OF ONE CHAIR WILL LIE ADJACENT THE LEFT FRONT LEG OF THE ADJACENT CHAIR WHEN TWO OF SAID CHAIRS ARE PLACED TOGETHER SIDE-BY-SIDE, SAID FRONT AND REAR LEGS BEING CROSSED AND PIVOTALLY INTERCONNECTED INTERMEDIATE THEIR ENDS, A PAIR OF LONGITUDINAL BRACKETS HAVING PLATE PORTIONS FIXED TO THE OUTER FACE OF EACH OF SAID FRONT LEGS AND EXTENDING GENERALLY IN THE FORWARDLY INCLINED DIRECTION OF SAID LEGS, SAID BRACKET PLATE PORTIONS BEING SPACED APART ALONG SAID LEGS SO AS TO BE SPACED BOTH HORIZONTALLY AND VERTICALLY FROM EACH OTHER AND WITH ONE BRACKET PLATE PORTION BELOW AND ONE BRACKET PLATE PORTION ABOVE THE PIVOTAL CONNECTION BETWEEN THE FRONT AND REAR LEGS AND EACH PAIR OF SAID BRACKET PLATE PORTIONS BEING SIMILARLY LOCATED ON EACH OF SAID FRONT LEGS SO AS TO CONTACT A SIMILAR PAIR OF BRACKET PLATE PORTIONS WHEN A PAIR OF SAID CHAIRS ARE PLACED SIDE-BY-SIDE, AND INTERLOCKING MEANS ON SAID BRACKET PLATES COMPRISING A STUD EXTENDING OUTWARDLY FROM ONE BRACKET PLATE AND HAVING AN ENLARGED HEAD PORTION, AND MEANS DEFINING AN ELONGATED SLOT FORMED IN THE OTHER BRACKET PLATE HAVING AN ENLARGED UPPER PORTION FOR RECEIVING SAID ENLARGED HEAD PORTION OF SAID STUD AND A REDUCED WIDTH LOWER PORTION, WHEREBY RELATIVE VERTICAL MOVEMENT OF ADJOINING CHAIRS IN THE DIRECTION OF SAID LEGS IS EFFECTIVE TO MOVE SAID STUDS ON ONE PAIR OF BRACKET PLATE PORTIONS INTO THE ENLARGED UPPER PORTION OF SAID ELONGATED SLOTS IN THE ADJOINING BRACKET PLATE PORTIONS AND THEN INTO INTERLOCKING RELATION WITH SAID REDUCED WIDTH LOWER PORTION OF THE SLOTS.