Foldable table-chair assembly

• US 20090140557A1
• Filed: 12/04/2007
• Published: 06/04/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/04/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Libin Chen
• Original Assignee: Libin Chen
• Inventors: Chen, Libin
• Granted Patent: US 7,604,289 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 297/142
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 3/14 Foldable table and seat units
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 9/022 movably mounted on a working-table or the like for hairdressers A47C1/08

Abstract

A foldable table-chair assembly and the frame thereof. The frame has a table frame and four integral chair frames. A table panel is able to be detachably attached on the table frame. The table panel has a plurality of hard sub-panels which are foldably connected together and a covering containing said sub-panels. A chair panel is able to be detachably attached on each chair frame. The invention is able to lower the attention needed to deal with each chair and the table and be folded up and opened by a simple operation thus saving the time of storing and preparing for using.

Claims

1. A frame of a foldable table-chair assembly comprising:

a table frame having four identical legs each having a top end and a bottom end, a first link fixed to the top end of each leg, a pair of cross bar pivotally connected together with a second link at one end thereof and pivotally connected to the first link at a free end thereof, a third link fixed to the bottom end of each leg, four first tilted bars with a lower end of each of them being pivotally connected to each third link, a fourth link pivotally connected to free ends of the four first tilted bars, a middle bar pivotally linking each second link to the fourth link, and, a fifth link slidably covering on each leg and pivotally linking a second tilted bar to a sixth link, with each of the first tilted bars being rotatably riveted together with one of the six second tilted bars at the middles thereof;

four chair frames each having a first, a second and a third pairs of identical chair bars, each pair of which are rotatably riveted together at the middles thereof, one end of the first and the second pairs being pivotally connected to the fifth link and one end of the chair bar of the same pair being pivotally connected to the third link, each free end of the chair bars of the first pair and the second pair being pivotally connected to one end of a chair bar of the third pair with a seventh link, each free end of the chair bars of the first pair and the second pair being pivotally one end of a chair bar of the third pair with an eighth link; and

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a table panel detachably attached on the table frame.

2. The frame as claimed in claim 1, wherein said table panel has a plurality of hard sub-panels which are foldably connected together and a covering containing said sub-panels.

3. The frame as claimed in claim 1, wherein a chair panel is detachably attached on each chair frame.

4. The frame as claimed in claim 2, wherein a chair panel is detachably attached on each chair frame.