Table assembly with adjustable storage accessories

• US 20030005863A1
• Filed: 07/09/2001
• Published: 01/09/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 07/09/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sanmaw Lumber & Wood Mfg Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Sanmaw Lumber & Wood Mfg Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Chen, Kao-Ming
• Application Number:
  US09/901,347
• Publication Number:
  US 20030005863A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 108/96
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 17/033 with parts added to the original furniture to enlarge its surface
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2037/005 Tables specially adapted for laboratories

Abstract

A table assembly includes a table unit, a support grating, and a storage accessory in the form of a shelf member. The support grating includes a parallel pair of upright support rods mounted on the table unit, and a plurality of horizontal bars interconnecting the upright support rods and vertically spaced apart from each other. The shelf member includes a shelf board with a major shelf surface, a bracket unit mounted on the shelf board and having a retaining part that is transverse to the major shelf surface, and a hook unit mounted on the retaining part of the bracket unit for hooking removably with selected ones of the horizontal bars of the support grating.

Claims

1. A table assembly comprising:

a table unit having a table top and a plurality of leg members with lower ends adapted to be placed on a ground surface, and upper ends connected to said table top;

a support grating including a parallel pair of upright support rods mounted on said table unit, and a plurality of horizontal bars interconnecting said upright support rods and vertically spaced apart from each other; and

a shelf member including

a shelf board with a major shelf surface,

a bracket unit mounted on said shelf board and having a retaining part that is transverse to said major shelf surface, and

a hook unit mounted on said retaining part of said bracket unit for hooking removably with selected ones of said horizontal bars of said support grating.

2. The table assembly of claim 1, wherein said table top has a rear side, and said upright support rods have lower portions mounted on a pair of said leg members at said rear side of said table top.

3. The table assembly of claim 1, wherein said shelf board has opposite lateral sides, and said bracket unit includes a pair of L-shaped brackets, each of which has a first portion mounted on a respective one of said lateral sides of said shelf board, and a second portion that is transverse to said first portion, said second portions of said L-shaped brackets forming said retaining part of said bracket unit.

4. The table assembly of claim 3, wherein said hook unit includes two pairs of generally C-shaped hook members, each of said hook members including a downwardly curving upper hook part, an upwardly curving lower hook part, and a connecting part interconnecting said upper and lower hook parts, said connecting parts of said hook members in each of said pairs of said hook members being mounted on said second portion of a respective one of said L-shaped brackets such that said hook members in each of said pairs of said hook members are spaced apart vertically from each other.

5. The table assembly of claim 1, wherein said hook unit includes two pairs of generally C-shaped hook members, each of said hook members including a downwardly curving upper hook part, an upwardly curving lower hook part, and a connecting part interconnecting said upper and lower hook parts, said connecting parts of said hook members being mounted on said retaining part of said bracket unit such that said hook members in each of said pairs of said hook members are spaced apart vertically from each other.

6. The table assembly of claim 1, further comprising a basket provided with a hanger for hanging removably said basket on a selected one of said horizontal bars of said support grating.

7. The table assembly of claim 1, further comprising a plurality of connecting bars that extend horizontally and that interconnect an adjacent pair of said leg members, said hook unit of said shelf member hooking removably with selected ones of said connecting bars.