TABLE STRUCTURE FOR USE IN MOTOR VEHICLES

• US 3,643,606 A
• Filed: 06/25/1970
• Issued: 02/22/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/1969
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Mathias Joseph Vise
• Original Assignee: Mathias Joseph Vise
• Inventors: Vise, Mathias Joseph
• Primary Examiner(s): Gay, Bobby R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Finch, Glenn O.
• Application Number:
  US05/049,850
• Time in Patent Office: 607 Days
• Field of Search: 108/42,49,50
• US Class Current: 108/44
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 3/005 mounted on the steering wheel

Abstract

A table structure, especially for suspension on a steering wheel of a motor vehicle, which comprises two table sections hinged together and foldable selectively toward and away from each other into a plurality of positions in which they are arrestable while the back of the table structure is provided with a plurality of bearing means each being adapted selectively to receive suspension means for suspending the table structure at different heights over a steering wheel so as to accommodate the height of suspension of said table structure to the convenience of the user of said table structure.

Claims

1. A table structure for use in motor vehicles, which includes in combination:

a table having two sections of unequal size, hinge means associated with said sections and hinging the same together along a longitudinal edge of each of said two sections, said two sections being foldable selectively from a position in which both sections are in a common plane to any one of a plurality of positions in which said two sections form with each other an obtuse angle of less than 180*, means for holding said two sections in their respective adjusted relative position, a plurality of bearing means provided on the back side of at least one of said two sections and respectively arranged along two substantially parallel planes extending in the direction substantially at a right angle to said hinged together edges and spaced from each other in the longitudinal direction of said hinged together edges, and suspending means selectively insertable in any of said bearing means for adjusting the level of suspending said table to the convenience of not only size of steering wheel diameter but also size and thickness of the user of said table.

2. A table structure in combination according to claim 1, in which the free longitudinal edges of said two table sections are provided with strips protruding from the front surface of said table sections.

3. A table structure in combination according to claim 1, in which said suspending means has a U-shaped contour with the end portions of the legs thereof detachably insertable in said bearing means, the distance between said legs being less than the maximum diameter of a steering wheel on which said table structure is to be suspended.

4. A table structure in combination according to claim 1, in which said bearing means include pairs of axially aligned bores on opposite sides of at least one table section, and in which said suspending means includes a U-shaped round resilient wire having the end portions of its legs extending outwardly in the longitudinal direction of said suspending means for detachable insertion in any of said pairs of axially aligned bores.

5. A table structure in combination according to claim 1, in which said hinge means include pairs of hinge eyes with the eyes of each pair respectively connected to said table sections and having one end face of one eye facing one end face of the other eye, said two end faces which face each other being provided with intermeshing teeth, and yieldable spring means continuously urging said teeth-equipped end faces against each other.

6. A table structure in combination according to claim 5, in which said teeth are ratchet teeth.

7. A table structure in combination according to claim 5, in which said teeth are selectively disengageable from each other against the thrust of said spring means.

8. A table structure in combination according to claim 1, in which said two table sections have different widths.