ADJUSTABLE STOW-AWAY TABLE

• US 3,717,375 A
• Filed: 03/18/1971
• Issued: 02/20/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ilich Slobodan
• Original Assignee: Ilich Slobodan
• Inventors: Slobodan, Ilich
• Primary Examiner(s): McCall, James T.
• Application Number:
  US05/125,599
• Time in Patent Office: 705 Days
• Field of Search: 297/174,170,173,150,154,162,192,135 5/332 108/49
• US Class Current: 297/162
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2200/0031 Table with knee type tubular leg
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2200/05 Service tables resting on the floor and also being fixed or related to an item of furniture
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 83/02 Tables combined with seats folding or stowable tables with separable parts combined with seats A47B3/063; foldable table and seat units A47B3/14
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 7/70 of foldable type

Abstract

A stow-away table comprising a tabletop hinged for vertical swinging movement to the top end of a vertical supporting post. The bottom end of the post is bent horizontally and received within a tubular member mounted on a carriage that slides along tracks in a frame fixed to the under side of a chair or the like. The horizontal portion of the post is rotatable within the tubular member, and locks with respect thereto when the post is vertical. The top end of the supporting post is extendable upwardly to raise or lower the tabletop, and is swiveled to allow the tabletop to swing horizontally. A releasable lock in the post permits locking the tabletop in either of two horizontal positions, 180* apart. The vertical post is slidable on the carriage toward and away from the chair for a limited distance. The vertical post is pring-loaded toward the locked position, and is released by pulling the post forwardly against the pressure of a spring, to unseat a pin from its locking notches. The post is then laid down horizontally, and is pushed rearwardly to stow the tabletop under the chair.

Claims

1. A stow-away table for use with a chair or other piece of furniture, said table comprising:

a supporting frame structure mounted on the underside of said chair, said structure including a pair of laterally spaced, parallel tracks extending from front to rear with respect to said chair;

carriage means mounted on said tracks for sliding movement with respect thereto between a retracted position and an extended position;

a tubular member mounted on said carriage closely adjacent one side thereof, with its axis parallel to the tracks;

an L-shaped supporting post mounted on said carriage and movable therewith, said supporting post having one leg telescoped within said tubular member and rotatable therein, and another leg extending perpendicular to said one leg, said other leg being swingable between a stowed position extending horizontally toward the other side of said carriage, and an erected position extending vertically upwardly from the carriage;

means for releasably locking saiD one leg with respect to said tubular member when said other leg is in said erected position;

a flat tabletop swingably mounted on the outer end of said other leg of said supporting post for movement between a first position flat against and parallel to said post, and a second position perpendicular thereto;

means for releasably locking said tabletop with respect to said post when in said second position;

said tabletop being swiveled on said post for horizontal swinging movement; and

means for releasably locking said tabletop in at least one position in its range of horizontal swinging movement.

2. A stow-away table as in claim 1, wherein said track means on said frame comprises a pair of laterally spaced parallel channels extending from front to rear;

said channels facing inwardly toward one another; and

said carriage means includes members extending into each of said channels, said carriage members having groups of cavities formed therein near the front and back ends of said carriage means, each of said groups including a pair of opposed cavities facing toward the upper and lower flanges of said channels, and ball bearings seated within said cavities and bearing against the bottoms of the cavities and against the facing flange of the associated channel.