Car seat hide-a-way table

• US 4,341,418 A
• Filed: 09/02/1980
• Issued: 07/27/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 09/02/1980
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Austin Chappell
• Original Assignee: Austin Chappell
• Inventors: Chappell, Austin
• Primary Examiner(s): McCall, James T.
• Application Number:
  US06/183,024
• Time in Patent Office: 693 Days
• Field of Search: 108/44, 108/45, 108/46, 312/235 A, 5/507, 5/503, 297/162, 297/192, 297/135, 224/275
• US Class Current: 297/144
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 7/70 of foldable type
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 3/001 of tables or trays
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 3/002 of trays

Abstract

A car seat table capable of being stored and removed from under a car seat for use as a table or resting shelf consisting of three sections divided from one another by hinges. The table is held in an upsidedown storage position by guide runners which are centrally positioned in alignment on each table section and which slides along a track mounted on the bottom of said car seat for storage. To erect the table for use, the first or tray section, pulls out and bends up at a hinge, followed by the second section which is divided into a riser and cup portion. The second section is folded to a vertical position causing the tray section to become horizontally extended over the car seat. The riser is connected to a third section which remains on the track and the cup section is rotated to and supported in a forwardly extending portion in the same plane as the tray section.

Claims

1. A foldable car seat table assembly capable of being stored under the seat of a car when not in use comprising:

(a) a track mountable under a car seat,

(b) a three sectioned table unit, each section of which is foldable at right angles to an adjacent section and is attached to an adjacent section by hinge means, with each section being in the same plane when unfolded comprising;

(1) a tray section

(2) an intermediate section divided into a cup portion having apertures therein and a riser portion and

(3) a support end section said tray section and cup portion being connected to said riser portion at the same end thereof by separate hinge means such that when said tray section and cup portion are rotated about said hinge means to be at 90°

angles from said riser they will project in opposite directions and be aligned in substantially the same plane, said support end section being connected to the opposite end of said riser portion by hinge means such that when said tray and support sections are folded at right angles to said riser they will extend in the same direction from said riser in a parallel relationship;

(c) guide runner means adapted to mate with and slide along said track attached to one surface of each section of said multisectioned table, in an aligned position, and

(d) supporting means to retain said cup portion at right angles to said riser portion when said car seat table is in as assembled position.

2. A car seat table according to claim 1, wherein the tray section is rectangular in shape.

3. A car seat table according to claim 2, wherein the guide runner means are angled at the ends thereof at 45°

angles and are of sufficient length that when adjacent table sections are folded at right angles, the angled ends of the guide runner means will meet and support such adjacent table sections.

4. A car seat table according to claim 2, wherein the tray section is divided into additional sections which are hinged to fold in the same direction as the tray section folds from the riser.

5. A car seat table according to claim 4 wherein the divided tray sections contain means to lock them in a common horizontal plane when the table is assembled.

6. A car seat table according to claim 2, wherein the supporting means is a foldable brace which locks in an extended position.

7. A car seat table according to claim 2, wherein the supporting means is a vertical support which folds down from the front end of said cup portion.