READING TABLES

• US 3,698,328 A
• Filed: 10/21/1968
• Issued: 10/17/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 10/21/1968
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Stanley M. Weir
• Original Assignee: Stanley M. Weir
• Inventors: Weir, Stanley M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Gay, Bobby R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Finch, Glenn O.
• Application Number:
  US04/769,347
• Time in Patent Office: 1,457 Days
• Field of Search: 108/4-8,43-50 297/135,144,138 248/441,444,226,445
• US Class Current: 108/6
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 23/025 mounted on the bedstead

Abstract

A reading table arranged for support on a bed, chair or the floor including a table top mounted for lateral shifting motion as well as changed inclination relative to upright legs and supporting feet, each of the latter being arranged for adjustment to vary the disposition of the table top and to enable collapse into a storage position wherein the top, legs and feet reside in adjacent parallel planes.

Claims

1. A reading table which comprises a table top, a support plate carrying said table top for slidable adjustment thereon, a pair of legs, means including a support tube interconnecting said support plate and said legs for relative pivotal adjustment about the axis of said support tube to enable variation of the dispositions of said legs and said table top between an inoperative storage disposition with said legs and said table top in adjacent substantially parallel planes and an operative disposition with said legs projecting away from the plane of said table top, and feet pivotally mounted at the remote ends of said legs for adjustment into a plane parallel to the plane of said table top.

2. A reading table according to claim 1 which comprises a pair of edge molding pieces, each molding piece having parallel-extending spaced upper and lower grooves, said table top having opposed parallel extending edges secured fixedly in said upper grooves, said support plate having opposed parallel extending edges slidably received in said lower grooves.

3. A reading table according to claim 1 which comprises means for releasably locking said support tube in adjusted disposition.

4. A reading table according to claim 3 wherein said locking means also releasably locks said legs in adjusted disposition.

5. A reading table according to claim 1 wherein said legs include telescopic upper and lower members arranged for axial and rotative adjustment.

6. A reading table according to claim 5 which comprises means for releasably locking said leg members in adjusted positions.