Chair mounted tray

• US 4,003,598 A
• Filed: 06/06/1975
• Issued: 01/18/1977
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/1975
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Grace M. Masiello
• Original Assignee: Grace M. Masiello
• Inventors: Glaze, Thurman A.
• Primary Examiner(s): McCall, James T.
• Application Number:
  US05/584,280
• Time in Patent Office: 592 Days
• Field of Search: 297/194, 297/145, 297/185, 297/188, 297/161, 297/160, 297/162, 297/170, 297/171, 297/173, 297/174, 211/131, 108/140, 108/6, 108/31, 248/119 R, 248/307, 248/425, 248/429
• US Class Current: 297/161
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 7/70 of foldable type

Abstract

An assembly for mounting a tray on a chair may be an integral part of a chair arm or may be releasably attached to a chair, and includes a cooperating slide and track, one on the chair and the other on a tray. The tray may be swung about a vertical axis and moved lengthwise of the track from a position alongside a person seated in the chair to a position in front of the person seated in the chair.

Claims

1. An assembly for mounting a tray alongside a chair, or the like, comprising means for mounting the tray for free generally horizontal sliding movement to and fro along a side of the chair and for generally horizontal swinging movement between positions generally alongside the chair and generally in front of the chair, and said means comprising cooperating parts including a track and a slide releasably interlocked for relative rotation and for relative sliding movement in the direction of the track, said track including a body having a groove defined by an inner face and a pair of opposed flanges spaced apart to define a gap therebetween, said pair of flanges being spaced outwardly from said inner face, said slide including a first generally cylindrical portion extending through said gap, and a second generally cylindrical portion larger than said first portion and said gap and received in said groove, when the slide and track are operatively assembled, and opposite faces of said second portion of said slide being in engagement with adjacent ones of said inner face and said flanges of said groove and cooperatively sized for retaining said tray substantially horizontally disposed during such generally horizontal sliding and swinging movement of the tray, means for operatively connecting one of said parts to the chair, and means for operatively connecting the other of said parts to the tray.

2. An assembly as set forth in claim 1 in which one of the attaching means releasably attaches the associated one of said parts to the chair.

3. An assembly as set forth in claim 2, in which the last said attaching means releasably clamps the associated part to an arm of the chair.

4. An assembly as set forth in claim 3 in which the part is said track.

5. An assembly as set forth in claim 3 in which the part is said slide.

6. An assembly as set forth in claim 1 in which one of the attaching means fixedly secures the associated one of said parts to the chair.

7. An assembly as set forth in claim 6 in combination with a chair, and in which the last said one of said parts is said track and said track is an arm of the chair.

8. An assembly as set forth in claim 6 in combination with a chair, and in which the last said one of said parts is said slide and is an integral part of an arm of the chair.

9. An assembly as set forth in claim 1 in which said track has a stop at one end portion preventing removal of the slide from said end portion, and provision at an opposite end portion for insertion and removal of the slide from the track.