Cloth seat

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Cloth seat on a folding chair
Folding wheelchair with a cloth seat
Rescue cloth seat

Cloth seat refers to a device for sitting , the essential part of which consists of a cloth .

Cloth seats are used on seating furniture, for example, in folding field and camping chairs . They are usually attached to the edges around the parallel seat and backrest side tubes.

Cloth seats are also used in light vehicles such as folding wheelchairs , bicycle child trailers , toboggan sleds and also in particularly simple and inexpensive vehicles, such as. B. in the first versions of the car model Citroën 2CV . The cloth seat is here often attached to the sides or circumferentially with several attachment points on a rigid frame and / or stretched.

Flexible holding devices on personal lifters or lifting aids for care are also referred to as cloth seats . In the simplest case, they can consist of a rectangular piece of fabric that is hung on the sides with two chains on a support bracket, possibly with stiffeners. In addition, a similarly shaped backrest can be attached to the chain of the seat piece. More elaborately shaped cloth seats for person lifts enclose the person sitting in them up to head height and often have four hanging loops on both sides at the upper end of the back and at the lower edge on which the hollows of the knees rest. The suspension is also carried out here on a support bracket or on a support frame with four mounting points.