PORTABLE TRAY SUPPORT

• US 3,813,714 A
• Filed: 02/16/1972
• Issued: 06/04/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: A.D. Morton
• Original Assignee: Robert R. Sater
• Inventors: Sater, Robert R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nunberg, Casmir A.
• Application Number:
  US05/226,821
• Time in Patent Office: 839 Days
• Field of Search: 5/317,332 297/148,149,153,194
• US Class Current: 108/49
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 23/02 releasably mounted on the bedstead or another item of furniture
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 5/10 Parts, details or accessories
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 5/1094 Tables, working plates or trays

Abstract

This disclosure is of a portable supporting construction primarily devised for use on or in connection with beds or wheel chairs, which construction includes a single support member having a mounting device at each end, which devices include means to facilitate rotative movement of the support member into various positions, in which positions the member may be locked, the member having adjustable means thereon which will engage a tray or the like, whereby the tray may be pivoted with the member and removed when desired, the tray or the like thus being angularly positioned with respect to the area over which it is supported when in use.

Claims

1. In portable construction of the class described, in combination, a support member, a tray-like means carried thereby, a mounting device at each end of the member, said devices including means providing for rotative movement of the member, instrumentalities to lock said member in various rotative positions and means connecting the tray-like means to said member, said connecting means being adjustable transversely along the support member and interengaged therewith for rotation thereby, whereby the means will be rotated simultaneously with the support member.

2. Construction as claimed in claim 1, wherein the support member is a rectangular bar, and the instrumentalities to lock the member comprise a socket in one of the devices to receive an end of said member and to lock the same in various rotative positions around said bar, means being provided to selectively maintain said member in one of said positions.

3. Construction as claimed in claim 2, wherein the other of said devices includes spring means to maintain the end of tHe member in a selected position in the said socket.

4. Construction as claimed in claim 1, wherein the mounting devices are adapted to engage rails at opposite sides of a bed and the lock instrumentalities maintain said devices in engagement with such rails.

5. Construction as claimed in claim 4, wherein the mounting devices include U-shaped parts to engage such rails, and the lock instrumentalities exert outward pressure to maintain such parts in releasable supporting engagement with such rails.

6. Construction as claimed in claim 4, wherein each of the devices includes inwardly directed sockets at the upper extremity to receive one end of the support member, the lower extremity of each having an outwardly directed U-shaped part to engage a rail at one side of a bed.

7. Construction as claimed in claim 2, wherein the support member is adjustable in length to accommodate different spacings of bed or like rails.