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Now that the sun has come out in the UK, the deckchairs have followed. I love deckchairs, and for me they are the source of many ideas (most not posted yet). They do come with some problems though. One of these is the amount of space they occupy on the beach.
The solution to this is to learn some
lessons from the makers of double-deck buses, and make each chair capable of having an extra upper level.
Of course the Double-Deckchair, still folds down for easy storage, but it is by necessity a much more complex arrangement of struts and angled supports, with a built in ladder for access to the upper level.
Once erected, the lower region benefits from a degree of shade, which many people like, whilst the upper level has better views and uninterrupted baking opportunities.
Naturally Double-Deckchair comes with some health and safety warnings - ie not suitable for single use of upper level only; larger folk should remain on lower level; not suitable for use in windy conditions without deploying guy ropes; certified training given in erection process.
Deckchair Health Warning
http://www.thenewsv...m/cgi/news.pl?t=542
treat your deckchair with respect [xenzag, May 31 2012]
Triple Deck Deck Chair illustration
https://sodabred.tu...515121547/xenzag-19
[xenzag, Sep 05 2019]
[link]
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I once applied for a technical writing job, and one of the tests was to write a description of a deckchair and how to erect it, without the use of any diagrams.
This would have made the application process doubly hard.
(I didn't get the job) |
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Was it with the flat pack product lifestyle management department of Ikea by chance? |
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>Now that the sun has come out in the UK |
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Really? That's first time since 1497..you're quite sure it wasn't swamp gas reflected off Venus? That would be a more plausible explanation. |
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//certified training given in erection process// |
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In the interests of packing as many people onto the beach as possible, use a reinforced single deckchair, and simply double (or triple, or...) stack the people onto it. |
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You could stabilize it with augers on each of the
corners, creating essentially no added footprint for the
stabilization mechanism. Make 'em as long as the chair
is tall, and it might not need any additional support. |
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I like [neutrinos shadow]'s idea much better. It would
look very comical. But I wouldn't want to be on the
bottom. |
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// How much space would this actually save with the
widened support base and addition of the ladder? // |
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[21Q] posited such an uncharacteristically sensible and
practical challenge that I took it down to the Infeasible
Engineering Department in the 2nd sub-basement of the
Heathen Institute for Inadvisably Applied Science &
Weaponized Staple Removal. The somewhat disturbingly
muscular ladies who run the department whacked together
a mock-up and determined that a well-designed Double-
Decker Deckchair with anti-tip buttresses, integral ladder,
and optional parasol canopy could have a footprint only
30% wider than that of a standard deckchair. |
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I should warn you, however, that the prototype has not yet
been sent to the Rhinoceros Room for destructive testing. |
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Although it is purportedly doubled, because it is only half-baked, it still comes out to a single. |
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Tell that to the girls down at the Institute. |
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See illustration for triple deck deckchair. (a recent variation) |
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The problem with the illustrated structure is that the top
person's feet will dangle down onto the chest of the second
person, etc. Admittedly, this would not be a problem for very
short people or for those who lack legs (or, alternatively, a
chest). |
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// first time since 1497 // |
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There was the so-called Great Flicker of 1791, but most people blinked and missed it. Then the 8/8 overcast closed in again ... |
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//top person's feet will dangle down onto the chest// The second person gets to suck the toes of the person on the upper level or use them to warm their armpits if the weather gets a bit fresh. |
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It's true, and I have infected many. Ha |
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