Infant seat for tables

Claim 1

A portable folding baby seat for cantilevered mounting on the edge of a table when in a position of use and for folding into a single plane when in a position of storage, said portable folding baby seat comprising: a flexible seat portion hung from a frame, said flexible seat portion having a generally horizontal bottom and a generally vertical back and sides when said baby seat is in said position of use, and said flexible seat portion being collapsable into a single plane when said baby seat is in said position of storage; said frame comprising: a generally U-shaped member from which said flexible seat portion hangs, said U-shaped member lying in a first plane, said U-shaped member including end portions extending forwardly from the top of each side of said flexible seat portion for engagement with the top of said table, and a pair of lower support arms for engagement with the underside of said table at points that are forward from the most forward points at which said end portions of the U-shaped member engage with the top of said table, each of said lower support arms including: an upper sleeve telescopingly mounted on a respective end portion of said U-shaped member for rotation about the axis of said member, and a curved member having: a downwardly extending arm portion having one end connected to said sleeve and having a length less than one-half of the distance between said sleeves, said downwardly extending arm portion extending in a direction away from said axis of rotation of said sleeve, a forwardly extending arm portion connected to said downwardly extending arm portion, and an upwardly extending end portion connected to said forwardly extending arm portion, said upwardly extending arm portion extending in a direction towards said axis of rotation of said sleeve; whereby said downwardly and forwardly extending arm portions and said upwardly extending end portion of each lower support arm lie in a second plane that is rotated so as to be generally perpendicular to the plane of said U-shaped member when said baby seat is in its position of use, and further whereby said second plane is rotated so as to lie in said first plane when said baby seat is in its position of storage, and stops, made from a resilient material such as rubber, detachably secured to the end portions of said U-shaped member preventing the sleeves which are telescopingly mounted for rotation about said end portions from being removed therefrom, and allowing disassembly of the lower support arms from the U-shaped member as well as removal of the flexible seat portion when detached.