NESTING AND FOLDING TABLE

• US 20080196635A1
• Filed: 02/19/2008
• Published: 08/21/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pro-Cord SpA
• Original Assignee: Pro-Cord SpA
• Inventors: Piretti, Alessandro
• Granted Patent: US 7,765,938 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 108/118
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 3/08 with legs pivoted to top or underframe
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 7/02 Stackable tables; Nesting tables

Abstract

Nesting and folding table, comprising a supporting structure including two pairs of legs, a top articulated to the supporting structure about a horizontal axis and mobile between a position of use and a position of storage, and a pair of supporting devices each including an arched guide fixed with respect to the top, a rotatable arm, and a supporting member, carried by the rotatable arm and slidably engaging said arched guide. The first and the second pairs of legs are both fixed to one another and are staggered with respect to one another in a direction parallel to the axis of rotation of the surface. Said arm has a first end that rotatably engages an end of a respective leg and a second end that is connected to said supporting member by means of a joint, designed to enable a movement of rotation of the supporting member with respect to said second end of the arm about at least two mutually orthogonal axes.

Claims

1. A nesting and folding table, comprising:

a supporting structure including two pairs of legs;

a top articulated to the supporting structure about a horizontal axis and mobile between a position of use and a position of storage; and

a pair of supporting devices, each including an arched guide fixed with respect to the top, a rotatable arm and a supporting member, carried by the rotatable arm and slidably engaging said arched guide,

wherein the first and second pairs of legs are both fixed to one another and are staggered with respect to one another in a direction parallel to the axis of rotation of the surface, and wherein said arm has a first end that rotatably engages an end of a respective leg and a second end that is connected to said supporting member by means of a joint, which is designed to enable a movement of rotation of the supporting member with respect to said second end of the arm about at least two axes that are mutually orthogonal.

2. The table according to claim 1, wherein two external legs have respective central stretches inclined by an acute angle with respect to a vertical plane.

3. The table according to claim 2, wherein two internal legs each have a top portion and a bottom portion, in which the top portion of the legs is parallel to the inclined portion of the external legs, and wherein the bottom portion of the internal legs is inclined with respect to a horizontal plane.

4. The table according to claim 3, wherein the external legs are fixed to one another by means of a horizontal beam.

5. The table according to claim 3, wherein the inclined portions parallel to one another of the internal and external legs are fixed to one another by means of fixing elements.

6. The table according to claim 1, wherein said supporting member comprises a circular flange that slidably engages said arched guide.

7. The table according to claim 1, wherein said joint comprises a body that rotatably engages, about a first axis, an end of said arm, said body being articulated to the supporting member about a second axis orthogonal to said first axis.

8. The table according to claim 1, wherein each of said supporting members comprises a locking pin that in the position of use of the top engages a hole that is fixed with respect to said arched guide.

9. The table according to claim 8, wherein said locking pins are pushed elastically towards a position of engagement and wherein there is provided a releasing device that can be actuated manually for disengaging said locking pins.

10. The table according to claim 9, wherein said releasing device is connected to said locking pins by means of two flexible transmission members of a Bowden-cable type.

11. The table according to claim 9, wherein said releasing device is fixed on an underside of said top.