MULTIUSE TABLE HAVING A VARIABLE CONFIGURATION

• US 20140117004A1
• Filed: 10/28/2013
• Published: 05/01/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LA Tavola S.r.l.
• Original Assignee: LA Tavola S.r.l.
• Inventors: SAMBONET, Sergio
• Granted Patent: US 9,468,289 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 219/218
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 13/088 Sectional table tops
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 13/16 Holders for glasses, ashtrays, lamps, candles or the like forming part of tables
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2200/0009 Plate and dish warming plates embedded in table top
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 39/006 for either storing and preparing or for preparing food on serving trays, e.g. heating, thawing, preserving

Abstract

The invention concerns a worktop suitable for being associated with hollows obtained both in tables and in fixed structures, said worktop having a variable configuration for supporting and inserting removable accessories and a plurality of the elements in mutual lateral contact in a plurality of openings; said worktop comprising a perimetrical frame shaped complementarily to the hollows of the table or fixed structure, the perimetrical frame having portions protruding towards the inside of the table which are provided with means for variably positioning rods into the perimetrical frame, which define the openings.

Claims

1. ) Worktop suitable for being associated with hollows obtained both in tables and in fixed structures, said worktop having a variable configuration for supporting and inserting removable accessories and a plurality of the elements in mutual lateral contact in a plurality of openings;

said worktop comprising a perimetrical frame shaped in complementarily to the hollows of said table or fixed structure, said perimetrical frame comprising portions protruding towards the inside of the table which are provided with means for variably positioning rods into the perimetrical frame, rods which define said openings.

2. ) Worktop according to claim 1 wherein said means for variably positioning said rods comprise a plurality of holes obtained on the portions of said perimetrical frame.

3. ) Worktop according to claim 2 wherein said rods are also provided with protruding portions bearing a plurality of holes for variably positioning other rods.

4. ) Worktop according to claim 1 wherein said means for variably positioning said rods into the table comprise tracks obtained on the portions of said perimetrical frame and constraining elements associated with the rods.

5. ) Multiuse table of the type provided with a worktop according to claim 1, said frame table defining a hollow for receiving said perimetrical frame of said worktop.

6. ) Multiuse table according to claim 5 wherein it comprises external angular elements for removably connecting to angular covering elements or extension elements of said worktop.

7. ) Multiuse table according to claim 6 wherein it comprises at least one heating plate current supplied by means of electric cables foldaway housed in said table.

8. ) Multiuse table according to claim 7 wherein it comprises a supply current primary cable connected on one side to an external current source and on another side to a plug element, or to a multiple adaptor-socket from which a plurality of secondary cables derives for current supplying a plurality of heating plates.

9. ) Multiuse table according to claim 8 wherein said the elements comprise a the of ceramic material covered on one face by a layer of steel coating, said coating also at least partially covering the lateral edges of said the of ceramic material.

10. ) Multiuse table according to claim 9 wherein said the elements comprise an opening for receiving said accessories by support.