Ganging mechanism and stacking bar assembly for stacking chairs

摘要

A combination ganging and stacking bar assembly for chairs. The bar assembly comprises a pair of substantially identical bar members each adapted to be secured between a pair of front and rear legs of the chair. The bar members each have integral offset medial segments extending outwardly of the plane of the outwardly facing surfaces of the legs of the chair. The offset medial portions of a pair of said bar members having cooperating male and female connecting structure for releasable ganging together a pair of such chairs in side-by-side relationship. Each bar member having bumper pads secured thereon on opposite sides of the medial segment constructed and arranged to engage leg portions of the chair below it in a stacked formation of like chairs.