TABLE CONSTRUCTION

• US 3,565,019 A
• Filed: 12/30/1968
• Issued: 02/23/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/1968
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Marshall T. Bedol
• Original Assignee: Marshall T. Bedol
• Inventors: Bedol, Marshall T.
• Application Number:
  US04/787,777
• Time in Patent Office: 785 Days
• US Class Current: 108/120
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2003/025 pivoting to a position underneath the tabletop
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 3/02 with foldable cross legs adjustable for varying height of tops A47B9/16

Abstract

A table having two foldable leg elements, one of which frictionally slides against the underside of the table top on spaced glide-straps, between folded and erect positions.

Claims

1. A table construction, comprising in combination;

a. a rigid sheet material table top, having b. a flat undersurface extending in a single plane;

c. two spaced and parallel, slightly resilient, sheet material glide-straps mounted crosswise of the top undersurface;

d. each glide-strap having a flat central portion and first and second terminal sockets at the opposite ends thereof, formed integral therewith;

e. a pair of '"'"''"'"''"'"''"'"'U'"'"''"'"''"'"''"'"' -shaped tubular support members, having their respective sides pivotally connected, intermediate their ends, with their horizontal top portions slidably mounted across the glide-straps, immediately beneath the table top undersurface;

f. the flat central portion of each glide-strap being spaced downwardly of the undersurface of the table top a distance less than the diameters of the engaged horizontal top portions of the support members;

g. the first and second glide-strap sockets being spaced downwardly of the undersurface of the table top a distance not less than the diameters of the support member horizontal top portions;

h. retaining means struck upwardly of the glide-strap first sockets, engaged with one of the support members at its horizontal top portion, to retain said first support member in the first socket for swinging movement about an axis fixed with respect to the glide-straps central portions;

i. the horizontal top portion of the second support member being pivotable about an axis slidable lengthwise of the glidestraps, in simultaneous frictional contact with both the glidestrap central portions and the undersurface of the table top, between a first position, nested in the second sockets, to lock the table in its erect condition; and

a second position, nested in the first sockets, adjacent the horizontal top portion of the first support em member, wherein the table is in its folded condition, with the sides of both support members in a plane parallel to the undersurface of the table top.